Philadelpia

On Monday of this week my parents, Marianne and I flew out to Philadelpia since Caralee had Carmen. And so we got to the airport and got on the first plane to Denver, which was running 15 minutes late since that plane had come in late from the previous flight. So we got on the plane to find out that Marianne and I were in the front, and our parents were clear in the back. Well, we flew into the Denver airport to find that we had like ten minutes, so Marianne and I ran off and just as we got there Marianne and I's number was being called and so we hurried onto the plane. Well after awhile of sitting there we realized that our parents were not on the plane and hadn't come on yet, but the flight attendant was kind of worried that if we were to get off the plane that we might miss the flight too. So we stayed on and at the very last second they came on and basically we found out later that we should have stopped and talked to them before running to the next plane, because they thought that we had an extra half hour and so they were out sitting there waiting. But confused about why we weren't there and so finally they went and asked the desk people what was going on? Since they were calling random names and hardly anyone was around, so luckily they asked or they wouldn't have been stuck in Denver. But after we got to Philadelpia we got lost in the airport and finally found where we were suppose to get our baggage at the last second. (because they were taking our baggage away just as we walked up)

But since we got to Philadelpia we've basically have been playing with Lilli, because Caralee has to keep taking Carmen to get shots and everything. It's been fun though, and sadly for Lilli she's not the only kiddo in the family now...!! I'm also messed up by the time change because I wake up at like 8:00ish and I'm always really tired still...but in Utah it's more like 6:00ish. (so that would be why)

There are also row houses, which Caralee and Eric live in...but they are completely ancient. Basically the idea of row houses was brought up to lower property taxes...if you have to walls sticking out it's less then four walls. So there are rows and rows of stuck together houses, it's wierd but a very ingenius idea.

Also Lilli is very smart, because she knows all of these song tunes, but not the words...so she's singing all of these tunes all the time. She also knows what we're saying too, because Marianne and I were reading our scriptures upstairs yesterday and Lilli kept running in and laughing really loud. So finally this one time I said "Lilli we're reading our scriptures and so we'll come down and play when we're done." Then Lilli turned around and did the same thing to Marianne and then Marianne said the same thing and then Lilli turned around and went down stairs...it was quite funny. (considering she's under two)

Revolutionary War

I found this nice little quote on Caralee's blog: "The success of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War came about through men who were raised up by God for this special purpose. You must read the Declaration of Independence to feel its inspiration. You merely need to study history to recognize that a group of fledgling colonies defeating the world’s most powerful nation stemmed from a force greater than man. Where else in the world do we find a group of men together in one place at one time who possessed greater capacity and wisdom than the founding fathers—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and others? But it was not to their own abilities that they gave the credit. They acknowledged Almighty God and were certain of the impossibility of their success without his help. Benjamin Franklin made an appeal for daily prayers in the Constitutional Convention. In that appeal he said, “If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I believe without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the building of Babel.” (Mark E. Petersen, The Great Prologue, Deseret Book Co., 1975, p. 88.)

So I randomly ran acrossed this fictional series about the revolutionary war at the library and it's crazy that the well trained England army couldn't overtake the colonies. Especially since they had like what 20,000 soldiers and the colonies had like 2,000 untrained soldiers and the funniest part is that King Henry 3 had to get Germany (or something like that involved after awhile also) So George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and all of them were quite inspired with how they handled things and won the war. Which is great for us because that would be no fun to have to be apart of England's controlling ways still.

I've become a workaholic!!

So as of recently I've been working 10 hour days, and it's going to be the same way for the next two weeks. Basically it is 7-5 p.m., but the funny thing is that I know of other people on other crews who run out of stuff to do and so they leave after like six hours. In a way it's annoying to be at work that long, but it's also good, because then it's less time to work during the fall semester I suppose.