What We've Been Up To: What were YOU doing on New Years Eve?

Sunday, January 2, 2011

What were YOU doing on New Years Eve?

Here's a couple shots of what each of us were doing as the new year rang in on 2011. We spent the evening with friends and family in Moorpark, CA. Here's my little girl. She had fallen asleep at about 10:30, while lying in bed with some snacks, a piece of birthday
cake and watching Toy Story 3.

Here's her brother. He didn't even last as long as she did. He was out, lying in my arms, around 9PM. Hey, he's THREE, and his bedtime is 8PM cut him some slack already...

Daddy and I, on the other hand, stayed up well past midnight and rang in the new year as the new, reigning royalty. Thanks Jarrod, for the crowns. Better luck next year to all of you other competitors...

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
-Theodore Roosevelt

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Sunday, January 2, 2011

What were YOU doing on New Years Eve?