Christmas Greetings

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
This year has brought many blessings to our family. Emilee turned 4 in May. Forrest turned 2 in December. Sean has embarked on a journey through law school while working full time. Darcy is still holding down the fort keeping everyone fed and clothed and making peace during disputes of toys and possessions between Emilee and Forrest. Cody is still chirping as much as possible and occasionally visits us when he is allowed outside his bird cage. Most of the fish are still alive and we have added a new species to our fish tank, an African dwarf frog. I think his name is Froggy. Riley is doing well and asking for attention as usual with begging to play fetch. As for Peanut she has left our family in search for a new one that can better suit her needs. She ate through 3 door moldings and 2 fences. We had put our house on the market to move closer to Sean’s law school and we were having a hard time with Peanut because she didn’t like to be put outside for any period of time for showings. She ate through the fence. We fixed it, and then she did it again. Inside she didn’t like to be left alone for more than an hour. She ate the front door frame twice and the garage door frame once. Nor did she like staying in her crate while I was out of the house. That was enough for us. It was very sad but Peanut had to go back to the SPCA to find a new family.
We found out that we will be adding a new member to our family. We are expecting baby (girl) Forbush on June 24th, 2009.
For Thanksgiving we visited family in Las Vegas and Utah. Emilee and Forrest had a blast playing with cousins both in Las Vegas and Utah.
Emilee played with her cousin Heston and went for nature walks collecting rocks and hunting for bunnies at great grandma Forbush’s house in Monroe. Forrest and Emilee enjoyed going on 4 wheeler rides with Daddy and with Grandpa Craig. After Thanksgiving we drove back to Las Vegas. Sean flew back to Texas to study for his final exams. Darcy and the kids stayed for an additional 2 weeks to visit more with family and let Daddy have the much needed quit time for studying. Sean finished his first semester of law school in December.
Christmas time was wonderful. The kids were spoiled heavily by Grandparents. They were so excited to open up presents. We had to help Forrest find his own presents to open up. He wanted to help open everyone’s presents. Emilee loves unwrapping presents so much she was trying to help Forrest with his. He wouldn’t have that at all. Emilee kept the presents flowing so everyone was happy. What a helper! Forrest received tons of cars and some books. Emilee received a new bike, V-Smile game system, and a few Barbie dolls, and some other toys along with a few books.
The kids play with their new toys almost every day. Darcy is trying to teach them to remember to put the toys away when they are done. Emilee loves riding her bike. She can ride “super fast”. Forrest tries to catch up but he still hasn’t been convinced that using the pedals will help. He is all about using the Flintstone method.
Sean’s boss had a Christmas party at his house. We had all kinds of yummy burritos, tacos, and tamales. The kids played games and earned prizes. They loved it. Sean is really fortunate to work for such a wonderful boss. Good people! We have been extremely blessed to be around so many wonderful people.
For Christmas dinner we had turkey and stuffing because the turkey wasn’t as thawed out as we had hoped. So Christmas lunch changed to Christmas Dinner. By the time it was done we forgot about all the yummy sides we wanted to make. But the turkey and stuffing were absolutely yummy.
For New Years Eve we put the kids to bed and said good night. I think we missed the countdown by 15 minutes. Our latest challenge has been trying to keep the kids in their own beds. We are almost convinced that we will have to get a bigger bed. When the new baby comes someone is not going to be happy. Emilee is usually pretty good at starting in her own bed but finds her way into our bedroom some time in the night. Forrest stays in his bed for about 45 seconds then finds his way to our room with no problem. We try to pretend we are sleeping. After several attempts at my side he wonders over to Sean’s. Then he returns back to me to insist that he is allowed on our bed. Sean and I can’t help but laugh. He is too cute. We sure are lucky to have such loving kids.
We have been blessed this whole year. We are thankful for a loving Heavenly Father who sent His only begotten Son to us. We know that through the sacrifice that Jesus made that we will be able to return to our Father in Heaven. We pray that you and your family are blessed the whole year through. We are certainly thankful to have you in our lives.

Wishing you the Happiest of Holidays,
Sean, Darcy, Emilee, Forrest, and Baby Girl Forbush

Carter and Obama

Here is a copy of an e-mail I received from my Dad.
It's quite eye opening!
Please Read on.


Sadly, in those years I was naïve too and voted for Carter. He is a religious man, an honest man but never got the “People are friggin evil” memo. I believed what Carter believed until I learned differently. The way to negotiate with those with different interests from yours is from a position of undisputed strength, not appeasement, and certainly not weakness. Obama comes from the same strain. I am certain that he means well, but is genetically or otherwise predisposed to fantasy. Carter still hasn’t learned either.
I hope that we miss the opportunity to learn these lessons again. Obama will get us all killed. He cannot win this election.



By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILYSeptember 10, 2008 4:20 PM PT Jimmy Carter became our 39th president at the young age of 52. He was a one-term governor from Plains, Ga., where he managed the family peanut farm and taught Sunday school. He was also a graduate of the NavalAcademy and served seven years in the Navy, leaving as a lieutenant. He came to power in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the resignation of President Nixon. The public wanted change and someone new, and Carter was an ambitious, hand s-on politician who promised better days. As good as his intentions were, however, the things he tried were not successful. In fact, he created far more serious problems than he ever solved. The centerpiece of Carter's foreign policy was human rights, and he did achieve one noble success a peace treaty between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. Unfortunately, that later led to Sadat's assassination at the hands of Muslim radicals. Many people felt Carter was a good man who worked hard and meant well. But he was naive and incompetent in handling the enormous burdens and complex challenges of being president. He wrongly believed Americans had an "inordinate fear of communism," so he lifted travel bans to Cuba, North Vietnam and Cambodia and pardoned draft evaders. He also stopped B-1 bomber production and gave away our strategically located Panama Canal.
His most damaging miscalculation was the withdrawal of U.S. support for the Shah of Iran, a strong and longtime military ally. Carter objected to the Shah's alleged mistreatment of imprisoned Soviet spies who were working to overthrow Iran's government. He thought the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, being a religious man, would make a fairer leader. Having lost U.S. support, the Shah was overthrown, the Ayatollah returned, Iran was declared an Islamic nation and Palestinian hit men were hired to eliminate opposition.
The Ayatollah then introduced the idea of suicide bombers to the Palestine Liberation Organization, paying $35,000 to PLO families whose young people were brainwashed to kill as many Israelis as possible by blowing themselves up in crowded shopping areas. Next, the Ayatollah used Iran's oil wealth to create, train and finance a new terrorist organization, Hezbollah, which later would attack Israel in 2006. In November 1979, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranians stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Not until six months into the ordeal did Carter attempt a rescue. But the mission, using just six Navy helicopters, was poorly executed. Three of the copters were disabled or lost in sandstorms. (Pilots weren't allowed to meet with weather forecasters because someone in authority worried about security.) Five airmen and three Marines lost their lives. So, due to overconfidence, inexperience and poor judgment, Carter undermined and lost a strong ally, Iran, that today aggressively threatens the U.S., Israel and the rest of the world with nuclear weapons.But that's not all. After Carter met for the first time with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the USSR promptly invaded Afghanistan. Carter, ever the naive appeaser, was shocked. "I can't believe the Russians lied to me," he said. The invasion attracted a 23-year-old Saudi named Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan to recruit Muslim fighters and raise money for an anti-Soviet jihad. Part of that group eventually became al-Qaida, a terrorist organization that would declare war on America several times between 1996 and 1998 before attacking us on 9/11, killing more Americans than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. On Carter's watch, the Soviet Union went on an unrestrained rampage in which it took over not only Afghanistan, but also Ethiopia, South Yemen, Angola, Cambodia, Mozambique, Grenada and Nicaragua.
In spite of this, Carter's last defense budget proposed spending 45% below pre-Vietnam levels for fighter aircraft, 75% for ships, 83% for attack submarines and 90% for helicopters. Years later, as a civilian, Carter negotiated a peace agreement with North Korea to keep that communist country from developing nuclear weapons. He also convinced President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to go along with it. But the signed piece of paper proved worthless. The North Koreans deceived Carter and instead used our money, incentives and technical equipment to build nuclear weapons and pose the threat we face today. Thus did Carter unwittingly become our Neville Chamberlain, creating with his well-intended but inept, unrealistic and gullible actions the very conditions that led to the three most dangerous security threats we face today: Iran, al-Qaida and North Korea. On the domestic side, Carter gave us inflation of 15%, the highest in 34 years; interest rates of 21%, the highest in 115 years; and a severe energy crisis with lines around the block at gas stations nationwide. In 1977, Carter, along with a Democrat Congress, created a worthy project with noble intentions the Community Reinvestment Act. Over strong industry objections, it mandated that all banks meet the credit needs of their entire communities. In 1995, President Clinton imposed even stronger regulations and performance tests that coerced banks to substantially increase loans to low-income, poverty-area borrowers or face fines or possible restrictions on expansion. These revisions allowed for securitization of CRA loans containing sub-prime mortgages. By 1997, good loans were bundled with poor ones and sold as prime packages to institutions here and abroad. That shifted risk from the loan originators, freeing banks to begin pyramiding and make more of these profitable sub-prime products. Under two young, well-intended presidents, therefore, big-government plans and mandates played a significant role in the current sub-prime mortgage mess and its catastrophic consequences for the U.S. and international economies. Hardest-hit by the mortgage foreclosures have been the citizens that Democrats always claim to help most inner-city residents who fell victim to low or no down payment schemes, unexpected adjustable rates, deceptive loan applications and commission-hungry salespeople. Now we're having to bail out at huge cost Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the very agencies that were supposed to stabilize the system. In time, this should improve the situation. But the party of Carter and Clinton that midwifed our mortgage mess now wants to be trusted to take over and have the government run our entire system of health care! Do I see a pattern emerging? Is not the Democrat supported candidate for the office of President also offering the same things as Carter? Have we not learned our lessons? What more needs to happen for us to learn? Think about it.

The Latest in the Forbush Family

Hello! Life is good. Right now Emilee and Forrest are happily entertained with Blues Clues so I can update my blog.

I am still sorting out all the kinks but I am progressing none the less.

Sean is doing well in law school. I am kicking but and taking names with Scentsy. HAHA! The two sweet little angels, aka Emilee and Forrest, are keeping very busy. Forrest is starting to say words. Namely, 

• Car
• More
• No!!
• Doggie
• Daddy
• Mommy
• HI

Emilee is working on Alphabet letters and pre-school books at home. She begs to work on them. I am glad she's eager to learn. She memorized the alphabet quite a while ago, but now she is actually recognizing the letters and sounds. Yeah!! She also love to help out around the house.

And loves, LOVES to play with Forrest.

Forrest loves to run while on his tricycle. Talk about the Flinstones. Foot Power!! Emilee peddles so fast that he hast to try to keep up some way.

Only 3 more months until Forrest's 2nd birthday. Yes he's still only 1. I know he is huge!

Our house is still up for sale. Sean is commuting back and forth to work and college and home.

What a man! He's my superman. I am so lucky to have him in my life. Actually  luck has nothing to do with it. I am counting my blessings.

I am so excited for this coming Sunday. we are having a special stake conference for church. One of the appostles is coming to talk to us. Talk about blessings! Heavenly Father has truly blessed our lives.

Recently I was reading a talk given by Elder Russell M. Nelson called Salvation and Exaltation. What a wonderful talk. It gives hope and confirmation that we are on the right path. I love my family. And I really love being a mom. 

oops. Forrest just locked himself in the bathroom. I better go.