Amazing Hug

Wow this video is awesome! Check out this video of the lion giving it’s rescuer a hug and a kiss

from www.youtube.com posted with vodpod

Spring Break

on our way to lubbock. Dani got this video

from stephdc.vodpod.com

Easter Video

I wanted to get a video of Shaye ‘pinning the tail on the rabbit’ but she was shy and didn’t want to do it. Here is my friend Julie’s little boy, Marc, pinning his tail.

 Here is the kids singing their Easter Bunny song, again Shaye didn’t feel like participating. She’s usually good at school, I think i should just quit going and making her nervous!

Easter 2008

Shaye’s school had their Easter party today and since I’ve taken a few days vacation I got to go. I’m posting the pictures below and check back in a little while and there should be some videos of the 3 and 4 year olds singing some songs for the parents.

  
 

 

Devin Gage

I took Cameron and Shaye over to see Britney, Adrian and Devin last inght. Got some wonderful pictures! here are a few. if you want to see the rest click here

  

           

Rabbits

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Originally uploaded by stephanie10_04

Shaye “talked” Jeff into getting her some rabbits. We took her to the local 4-H competition in February and she loved the rabbits. Jeff decided that she needed to get into 4-H. 4-H Is K-12 so Shaye still has a year but he thought that she needed them now to get “used to them”. uhuh.. sure.. Now Mom and Jeff have 3 grand champion rabbits at their house. I’m supposed to take Shaye over there every night so she can feed them but it hasn’t happened that way. Poor mom is taking care of them.. I’m working on it, I just sometimes forget oops

Devin Gage White

Devin Gage White

Originally uploaded by stephanie10_04

Devin was born today. I’m not sure the time but it was around 4 pm. he’s 7lbs 11 oz and has a head full of hair. Shaye and I will be going to the hospital tomorrow to see him and Britney

Yahoo! Reports

http://green.yahoo.com/news/nm/20080310/hl_nm/pope_sins_dc.html

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Thou shall not pollute the Earth. Thou shall beware genetic manipulation. Modern times bring with them modern sins. So the Vatican has told the faithful that they should be aware of "new" sins such as causing environmental blight.

The guidance came at the weekend when Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, the Vatican’s number two man in the sometimes murky area of sins and penance, spoke of modern evils.

Asked what he believed were today’s "new sins," he told the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that the greatest danger zone for the modern soul was the largely uncharted world of bioethics.

"(Within bioethics) there are areas where we absolutely must denounce some violations of the fundamental rights of human nature through experiments and genetic manipulation whose outcome is difficult to predict and control," he said.

The Vatican opposes stem cell research that involves destruction of embryos and has warned against the prospect of human cloning.

Girotti, in an interview headlined "New Forms of Social Sin," also listed "ecological" offences as modern evils.

In recent months, Pope Benedict has made several strong appeals for the protection of the environment, saying issues such as climate change had become gravely important for the entire human race.

Under Benedict and his predecessor John Paul, the Vatican has become progressively "green."

It has installed photovoltaic cells on buildings to produce electricity and hosted a scientific conference to discuss the ramifications of global warming and climate change, widely blamed on human use of fossil fuels.

Girotti, who is number two in the Vatican "Apostolic Penitentiary," which deals with matter of conscience, also listed drug trafficking and social and economic injustices as modern sins.

But Girotti also bemoaned that fewer and fewer Catholics go to confession at all.

He pointed to a study by Milan‘s Catholic University that showed that up to 60 percent of Catholic faithful in Italy stopped going to confession.

In the sacrament of Penance, Catholics confess their sins to a priest who absolves them in God’s name.

But the same study by the Catholic University showed that 30 percent of Italian Catholics believed that there was no need for a priest to be God’s intermediary and 20 percent felt uncomfortable talking about their sins to another person.

(Editing by Keith Weir)

Before and After

Dani’s before and after braces. so many people have told me how much she looks more grown up with the braces. Mac was telling me that these are a new type of braces. They don’t require bands to hold the wire in place. It’s kind of weird. They glue the brackets to her teeth like normal, but the brackets themselves hold the wire in. They open and close like little doors. And also she won’t ever have to get her braces tightened. The wires are molded to a certain degree and when you put them in the braces, it keeps trying to get back to it’s orginal mold. He said she has the thinnest wire right now but they get thicker the more wires you go through. Actually really cool. Anyway, enough w/ the talk here are the pictures:

Before

After

 

 

Brace Face

Dani got braces! Mac went over there today to be w/ her while she got her braces put on and now they are eating lunch at IHOP. He sent me this picture