Fun and busy weekend!

Our weekend started early on Thursday when we had a church girl's volleyball game (which we WON!) followed by a Twilight party here at our house...followed by appetizers at Applebee's and the midnight showing of New Moon. We were also able to celebrate a friend's birthday that night! After our all nighter; Friday morning was a little tough getting the kids off to school. After school Jensen and Kylee had basketball practice and Kylee also had another church volleyball tournament. ( I have the pleasure of coaching these young ladies!) After the Friday night WIN the teenagers came back to our house for movie night. The following morning (today) Kylee had baskeball again at 7:30 am, followed by a full day of volleyball. We played 6 games! Unfortunately we didn't advance, but we sure had fun! While I and the girls were doing volleyball, Jeff organized and helped with a sandbag service project to prepare for the flooding we are expecting in Auburn. A very full weekend and we are still only on Saturday. We are heading out to a mandatory basketball meeting and dinner for Jensen's team tonight, and Jensen will be spending the night at the high school. ( should I be concerned?) Then church tomorrow. Whew! We also just found out Jensen has to practice on Thanksgiving. Is nothing sacred? Enjoy the pics! Volleyball pre game huddle!
Francisco blowing out his candle!
Ummm, is someone excited for the cake?

Just finished eating treats and watching Twilight!

Next party at Applebee's!

This is our entire group:)

Our ward volunteers!

Wordless Wednesday!

Spencer has been transfered and made a trainer! 6th area Wilmington, CA

"haha I forgot to tell you my new area is almost all spanish! So that should be fun with my greenie haha."

Hi Mom,
Alright well this week has been full of changes! Wednesday I got my training to be a trainer (haha) and, after much await the trainees have arrived! I got Elder Weir as my trainee. He is pretty awesome. Reminds me a lot of when I was first coming out on the mission: scared to talk to people, but determined to do the whole mission thing right haha. Its been stressful and great to train. Now I have to watch EVERY little move I make because if I do anything wrong, he's sees that example, so Ive been on my toes for the past couple of days now. As well, I have to get him talking now! haha I can now feel the pain of my trainer as he had to talk to every single person and dominate the lessons until I could get my feet wet. The new area I'm in is called Wilmington. Its just a little east actually of my first area! I actually cover some of the wards I covered in my first area and its pretty neat. I see all these people I knew in my first area and yeah its definitely a different experience. Its almost ironic that I kinda know where I'm at, but it just feels so different. haha. When we came in we had just about no work left for us... I don't know what the missionaries did before us, but we have a lot of catching up to do. On top of that my companion and I have not really had a normal day. Friday I got caught by Diarrhea bad haha... the whole morning i just sat basically on the toilet. It stunk, but then I asked my greenie for a blessing and miraculously right after the blessing I was healed. I thought that was an amazing experience. Then after that our shower broke! It has been gushing out water for the past 24 hours until a plumber came (today actually) and fixed it haha... yeah its been a crazy first couple of days for my greenie. However despite all the crazy things that have been happening we have been seeing miracles here too. We've actually been working so hard that we haven't eaten a real dinner yet haha. Its been great to work as hard as I can. We have already in this area set a baptismal date with someone, we found some good investigators, and we have a couple part-member families that were working with too. Its great! Really, everything is going well and I'm loving it! It really seems like this area has been somewhat neglected (no baptisms for the past 5 months) and Satan has some grip here, but were gonna kick him out and get some baptisms here. that's for sure!

Alright mom well i love you and miss you! take care and ill hear from you soon.

Elder Flitton

ps i haven't had too many threatening experiences haha no worries :)

I just Adore his positive attitude!

Say Thanks to our troops!

A wonderful gift from an old friend!

I have reconnected with some childhood friends on Facebook. One of them is a talented artist and offered to draw Kylee. Check it out! I am so excited to have this!

{Original picture}
{The drawing!}

My friends are fantastic!!! Faith won't need {or want} for anything!!!

Some of my best friends had me a baby shower/toddler shower last night. I can't begin to express how amazed I was at the outpouring of support I and my family received! Our cup truly runneth over. I am humbled beyond words. Thanks you so very much. It is such a blessing to have a ward family and close friends when our extended family cannot be here.

The below picture shows donated clothes and handmade hats for the orphanage! I can't wait to deliver them!!!

New health bill being presented by Pelosi...

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail
Friday, November 06, 2009


Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.


“H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax.” [page 1]

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“If the government determines that the taxpayer’s unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the following penalties could apply…” [page 2]

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“Criminal penalties

Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses. Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:

• Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.

• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]

When confronted with this same issue during its consideration of a similar individual mandate tax, the Senate Finance Committee worked on a bipartisan basis to include language in its bill that shielded Americans from civil and criminal penalties. The Pelosi bill, however, contains no similar language protecting American citizens from civil and criminal tax penalties that could include a $250,000 fine and five years in jail.

“The Senate Finance Committee had the good sense to eliminate the extreme penalty of incarceration. Speaker Pelosi’s decision to leave in the jail time provision is a threat to every family who cannot afford the $15,000 premium her plan creates. Fortunately, Republicans have an alternative that will lower health insurance costs without raising taxes or cutting Medicare,” said Camp.

According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker’s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016.

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So glad I pay tithing! What a blessing to witness how our offerings are helping others.

Halloween part II - Kylee goes to Homecoming part II

We have 3 high schools in our city, and Kylee had the privilage to go to two homecomings this year. One of the dances was on Halloween night. Here are the pics.