Bluebird waiting to exit the plane in manhattan!

Bluebird renting a car

Bluebird saying bye bye to chicago

Bluebird saying oh my gosh to the portal 2 billboard!

Bluebird warming up after being in the wind with only one layer of feathers and flying against chicago wind

Bluebird looking Ct genuine roman art at the chicago art institute

Bluebird at the bean in chicago

Bluebird Getting our car at alamo

Bluebird arriving at chicago at night

Sky line

bluebird riding the sky line around DFW to get to our plane. It goes fast! :)

Bluebird Leaving manhattan

At manhattan regional airport

Blue bird waiting for the plane

maybe i don't get the concept of rollback but...

giant hands!

he must really love me! He gave me one of his pieces of bacon!

Really guys?

I'm not opposed to outsourcing in all cases, but in this article, there are several very iconic American products that I really think could have benefited from staying in America and using that as part of their brand name. Especially Red Flyer, Mattel, Levi, and Etch a Sketch.

I am actually getting to the point where I really won't buy stuff made in China. I had 5 shirts from the 50% off rack at target. It probably was about $50.00 or more worth of clothes. I decided I needed to put something back, and I just happen to notice the "made in China" tag. That item went back...as did the other 4. Now I don't have any new shirts for work...but I don't care.

Now, I am not saying that I am the "conscious consumer" that people would like for everyone to be. I don't care much about other countries making our products, we can be friends with other countries , make deals with them, etc., and I don't check the label every time I buy something. BUT if there is a choice between 2 things I am going to get, I will not get the one that is made in China. And if I want something (as opposed to "need" it) and it is made in China, I won't buy it.

Why not buy from China?

("They" here refer to the Chinese government. I am sure the average citizens in china are lovely.)

-They limit childbirth to 1 child, encourage, and nearly mandate, abortions of second pregnancies, and families feel compelled to terminate pregnancies if the baby is a girl because it is important in their culture to have a male child...all of this has been leading to a culture of trafficking the small number of young women that their country does have.
-They sensor the internet for their entire country (I am SO glad google stopped working with them) because they don't trust their people with knowledge and they want to control them
-They have lied about making scientific breakthroughs on numerous occasions
-They openly persecute Christians
-They didn't let people who were mentally ill into their country for the Olympics.
-They, in addition to censoring the internet, purposefully withhold the history of the country if the government did something negative seeming.
-People just disappear there (like officials who speak out against the government)
-They allow massive human rights violations (no standards for workers or not enforcing the standards they have)


It goes on...

I just can't support that.

watching the k-state game at the chef

manhattanites all dressed up

Cassidy, dressed as an 80's break dancer, is watching the parade with daddy!

monkey hat!

we added carpet to half of Cassidy's room. Its great! We just got done playing in there for over an hour!

Cassidy deciding what to eat

baby bike trailer from the Wamego city wide garage sale

its so big!

really?!