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Wow! Here I am again. See I can write more than once a month or so. Tomorrow Mark will be ordained an elder. I can't believe I am old enough for my baby to be getting the Melchizedek Priesthood. I am very impressed with Mark and his desire to do and be good. He is a great kid, even though he doesn't know it. He adds a lot to our family. We would be pretty boring without him. He is a great uncle to both Allie and Preston. He is a good student and should be able to get a scholarship for college. We need to start the college application process even though he won't go until after his mission. Luckily many Utah colleges will hold scholarships for those two years.

We went shopping last night for preschool books for Preston. We found the greatest book. It is file folder games that come all colored and ready to go. We need to mount the pieces on card stock and get them laminated and that is about all. When I did the games for Mark I had to do all the coloring myself, so his aren't very pretty. Allie loves to get out the ones I did for Mark so I hope Preston will love his as well.

One note on Mark's election blog. We had an interesting third party this year. We have one called personal choice and it has a smiley face as a logo. Apparently many people thought that it meant they didn't want to vote straight party, but wanted their own choice so they chose it. In many places more people voted that straight party than democratic. Luckily, the way the voting goes any votes you put in after straight party are counted the way you put them in. Does that make sense? It means if you vote straight Republican but want a democrat for senate, you just vote for the demo and the computer will override the party on that one vote. Anyway, it didn't change election results here, but it was interesting. Did you also hear that in Florida many districts (at least 3) voted on the wrong ballots? Only in Florida.