6 Hard Truths

Oh my... I so SO wish everyone in the world was forced to read this article. It very clearly outlines the difference between winners and losers. I wish more people would quit bitching about how "life is so unfair" and actually do something with their lives. Get inspired :)

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/

Vote Nobody 2012

On this election day in 2012 I will be voting for nobody. The picture below quite eloquently explains my reasons why:

It is rather insulting that our established government acts as though it is giving us a choice by choosing between mass murderers A and B. Yes, I personally believe Mitt Romney would be the lesser of two evils, however since when is "less evil" good enough? Have our standards gotten that low? Ron Paul was the only even remotely legitimate candidate running for office, and we shouldn't settle for anything less. Lets let the system know we will vote for principle by voting for no one at all. So long as we are willing to accept evil nothing will ever change.

Both candidates support indefinite detention, both support their own forms of socialism and obamacare, both support the patriot act, both perpetuate war, both have supported the killing of innocent human life through the process of abortion, and its time we say enough is enough, given the choice between two evil men IS NO CHOICE AT ALL. Let us not play along and act as though we believe it is.

Scarlett's "Alice in Wonderland Teaparty" baby shower: Beautiful baby girl is almost here

My cousin Kelly and I at my baby shower. I am almost 8 months pregnant here!

This past weekend was Scarlett's baby shower! It was hosted by one of my best friends since high school who was absolutely the most magnificent hostess anyone could imagine. Basically all I did was make the invitations and think up the theme and she ran with everything else. There was not a detail Dawn overlooked. It just goes to show how very thoughtful and brilliant she is! It could not have been better and I am so thankful to have such a creative and generous person in my life. She is one of the most selfless people I have ever known and I am so thankful to her for making this day so special. I do have pictures from the event some are blurry and i will add the rest to this blog once my grandmother develops them. In the meantime these blurry photos will have to do.

These are the invitations I made, the theme was "Alice in Wonderland" teaparty. Guests were encouraged to come in dresses, hats, gloves and other "teaparty" attire.

The cute greeting table

guests were to sign the book when they walked in what a cute idea!

The cute "clothes pin game" guests were to take a clothes pin and if they said "baby" the person next to them is able to take their pin, the person at the end of the shower with the most pins wins!

Me all dressed up and ready for the shower

Cute pic of my mom and dear friend Lindsey

Don't worry it is only a candy bar! Dawn thought up a game where melted candy bars are put into diapers. Then the diapers are passed around for people to guess what kind of candy bar is in each diaper. The person who guesses all the candy bars correctly wins! ( Haley was taking a bite of the "doodoo" in order to help her figure out what kind of candy bar it was LOL.)

My mom and my sister Haley

hanging out with my grandad at my family's house after my shower "Thats a baby!" cutest grandad ever.

Couple update pics on the pregnancy...entering the 8th month!

6 months Pregnant!

Believe it or not I have entered my 6th month of pregnancy. It doesn't even sound real to say. I have been swamped, with church, and taking intensive spanish courses (I want Scarlett to be multilingual, so trying to become fluent in spanish within the next year or two so we can teach it to her) but now that I finally have a day off, I can catch up on my blogging.

Ok, first trimester (january - March) was HORRIBLE. I had always heard women talk about "morning sickness" and when I found out I was pregnant in January, I just figured, it would be a little nausea, but no big deal. But month 1 through month 3 (ALL of January, February, and March) I literally could barely move. I was vomiting anywhere from 2 to 8 times a day, every. single. day. I could barely get out of bed to do even the most basic of things like clean the house, take a shower, or cook a meal. Even the smallest of tasks took a herculean effort. Some women say they dont get morning sickness at all and I suppose that every woman is different but for me, I can say I was probably much worse off than most.

2nd trimester bliss (months 4, 5, and 6!) (April - June!)
The doctors told me that once I hit my second trimester, my nausea and fatigue should subside, and boy were they right. It came almost as a miracle, literally overnight I felt great.  Since the end of March I have literally only thrown up once.... I went from vomiting 5 times a day to feeling absolutely fantastic! I had no idea what to do with this new found energy. I took a quick trip to Dallas to show off my belly to friends and family, then the second I returned to Arizona  I enrolled in very intensive spanish courses so as to be able to teach my daughter multiple languages. The doctors told me exercise was imperative to ensure a speedy deliver with fewer complications, So i joined the local walking club and do several miles with them every week. and i recently signed up to work in the church nursery so that I can get used to working around children before Scarlett gets here. Also I have had a blast decorating the house and planning for the baby shower. It is sooooo fun planning for a girl. I have so many ideas for her room. This is the mural I am currently painting on her wall except instead of disney princesses I am going to be painting my own characters, and I am painting a night sky above her crib.

Not to mention, this was the trimester I began to show. and it was so much fun. It is really nice because you finally go from looking as though you might be pregnant, to definately looking pregnant, and people are so nice to me. Everywhere I go people open doors, greet me, ask me how the pregnancy is going. Its so fun to share such a special experience with the world. Also other moms have been really helpful, at work and school other moms are there giving me a plethora of tips and tricks about pregnancy, childcare, and birth. People let me cut in lines, offer me free food at restaurants, and I have even had strangers offer to buy my lunch! Who knew pregnancy had so many perks? lol.

This is me Pre-Pregnancy, weighing in at about 110

Definately got a baby bump at 3.5 months

4 months pregnant, at about 120 at this point.

5 months pregnant

6 months pregnant. Weighing in at a whopping 126!

Well, thats about it for now.  hope everyone has a great week!

Arts N Crafts

Cute butter dish I made and painted!

Have always been a big Lucille Ball fan

Charges Dropped! Lemonade Anyone??

Hey guys!! I have been so busy with life and love that I completely forgot to give any updates regarding my legal situation!

Just to let everyone know all charges against the "lemonade liberators" were dropped!!!! We fought the state and we won WE DID IT!! For further detail the associated free press did a pretty damn good article about the whole situation and it was by far my favorite interview of them all so please check it out!!!! http://americanfreepress.net/?p=1281

Ms. Dill added, “We felt that if the police were going to come onto people’s property and shut down their lemonade stands, then we were going to take it to them and set up a lemonade stand right in front of the Capitol.” After their arrest and interrogation for nearly five hours while handcuffed to a wall, the three activists were given the option of urinating in cups and undergoing drug tests in order to avoid trial. Recognizing these constitutional violations, they refused, which added an additional charge of contempt of court. Additionally, the court granted a “stay away” order that barred them from the U.S. Capitol. Duffield explained his views. “Even though we haven’t yet been proven guilty of any crime, we’re banned from Capitol Hill, which in my estimation is a violation of my First Amendment right to petition government for [redress of] grievances as I can no longer access the offices of my congressional representatives.” The original charges—unlawful conduct, failure to obey a police officer and vending without a permit—were all dropped and replaced by the federal charge of illegally selling goods and services. Each facing up to a year in jail, the lemonistas were surprised that the government dropped its case.

They have no plans for future protests, but Duffield commented, “I’m of the opinion that if you don’t stand up for your future and the future of your country and your children, then you might not have one.” Commenting on how friends had stated that having a record could ruin her future, Ms. Dill explained, “I don’t see how my life would be more ruined than if I didn’t stick up for what I believe in.”

Lemonade Liberators October 4th Court Appearance: Did Not Go Well

1st and foremost Meg Mclain Will Duffield and I will need a very good liberty minded lawyer. Please if at all possible one that can work pro bono or at a discount. If anyone knows of one please please please let one of us know. To sum things up: things DID NOT go well today in court, and we are facing very severe charges given our crime as well as extended jail time. So here is what went down today. At 8:30 a.m. we had our first court appearance, and it was told to us that the charge "vending without a permit" was dismissed. Due to "failure to provide proper paperwork" by the Capitol police. In response to that they said that we could have the charge "esponged" from our record. This set up the first red flag that things would not go well today. Why should someone have to put forth effort to have "esponged" from their record a charge for a crime they were not convicted of. But since the charge of "vending without a permit" was dropped we assumed the other two charges would be dropped as well. Boy were we wrong.

At 10:30 a.m. we appeared in the federal court room to find that the charge of "vending without a permit" was only dismissed at the local level, and that The federal charge of "vending without a permit" or selling goods/begging as they put, was not removed at all at the federal level. Our name was called "the united states vs Kathryn Dill, Will Duffield, Meg Mclain" for us to appear before the judge and three men walked up infront of us claiming to be our lawyers. MEN WE HAD NEVER SEEN OR SPOKEN TO BEFORE IN OUR ENTIRE LIVES. We were legitimately confused because 1. we did not ask for lawyers 2. we did not tell these men our plea 3. we were under the impression our charge had been dropped (apparently that was only at the local level but everything against us still stands federally). The judge carried on and our lawyers told the judge our plea was "not guilty". Then the judge said that our conditions of release were the following:

1. We are banned from the US Capitol and its grounds. (Yes the US Capitol literally has a restraining order against me LOL )

2. we must submit to drug testing and if anything turns out positive must submit to weekly drug testing until trial

3. we must agree to appear before court on October 24th

Upon hearing that we must undergo drug testing as a condition of release, we "objected." Our case had absolutely NOTHING to do with drugs, even if it had, we are INNOCENT until proven guilty, where does the court get the authority to possess my urine, when i have been convicted of no crime! This is a gross violation of our 4th amendment right, the government cant just randomly drug test people without warrant. To this the judge took off her glasses started shaking her neck and screaming at us. She couldnt believe someone would object to her little "conditions" Then the judge told us to talk to our lawyers and come back after they had "talked some sense into us"....We were hustled out of the court room by our "lawyers" Apparently we had no choice in whether we had a lawyer or not, they were given to us by the court and mine SUCKED atleast Meg and Will's talked to them. Mine literally kept running away from me. Saying small mumbled sentences and then darting off. I finally caught up with Meg and Will and their lawyers so I could atleast find out what the hell was going on. We told them we felt like submitting to a drug test would be a violation of our constitutional and much more so BASIC HUMAN rights. We are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, why as an innocent person who is being charged with something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH DRUGS, do I have to submit my urine? - I think that was basically all our opinion, and we were notified by the lawyers that to fail to obey the conditions of release would put us in contempt of court, and make us liable to be held until our court date on October 24th up until our trial.

We re-entered the court room and our lawyers asked the judge if she could reconsider the restriction of us from the US capitol since it violates our right to our representatives and our right to redress grievances aka our free speech. They also asked that we not be required to take a drug test as a condition of release since the case has nothing to do with drugs. The judge went against our objections and overturned our requests. Our lawyers then told the judge that we understand what the consquences are and we still refuse to comply with conditions of release, and since our possible sentence is now a full year, they told the judge we demanded a trial by jury. Afterwords we were given papers to sign stating that we understand and agree to our conditions of release. Of course my flighty lawyer was nowhere to be found, and we were simply trying to READ what it was we were supposed to be signing. Apparently this was not ok to actually read something before signing it because the court aid snagged the papers out of Meg and I's hands for "taking too long" told us to "SHHHHHH" when we said we were reading it, and then scrabbled on "refused" where our signature was supposed to be. (which is fine by me because i was not signing that piece of garbage "terms of conditions" anyway. After appearing at the Pre-Trial services agency where we were given a review of our conditions, & told to appear in another room for drug testing. Instead we walked out of the courthouse.

We were reunited with Eddie Free after leaving the pretrial room and he told us the government prosecutor said "Just because they are white kids from suburbia doesnt mean they are above the law" In actuality it is HE who thinks he is "above the law" we were trying to get HIM to follow the rule of law (the consititution) and he said that our constitutional concerns were "not an issue"..HE is the one who thinks he is above the law! In addition to that, we were asked by the baliff to exit the courtroom while waiting for our case to be called. He said that we were talking too loud, and that it is putting the judge in a bad mood and that could effect our outcome....since when is "blind justice" liable to the whims of some moody woman's pms?

It is a racket! nothing more than another step to add in, and people just go along with it, and act as though it is perfectly normal that the government has a right to your urine when you have not even been convicted of a crime. The system knows probably half the people in the court room have some sort of drugs in their system and by adding on drug testing as a condition of release they know they can make money by adding on another charge, and by forcing that person to pay for whatever "drug testing" or "treatment" they must attend before court. Its all a racket, the law is SUPPOSED to protect our rights to protect our property, instead it steals our property through taxation, it violates our right to privacy at the point of a gun. It is absurd, it is violence, and I would rather die than submit to it.

In short, we face a maximum of 180 days (6 months) for each charge. The selling goods on capitol grounds as well as the new contempt of court charge for failing to allow our 4th amendment rights to be violated. I have been in contempt of court since 230pm when I failed to show up to my unconsitutional drug test that was a mandatory condition of my release. Our status hearing is October 24th at 9am in courtroom 314 500 indiana NW Washington DC, please please PLEASE if you can make it be there, and for our trial date (whenever that may be) we have to inform the jury of their rights and we honestly need all the support we can get, we are facing serious charges and more than likely jail time. Please let the prosecution know this is intolerable. We are peaceful people, we have commited NO CRIME, have NOT violated the consitution and are simply asking the court to follow the CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF LAW. They do not have the right to make laws that go against our basic human rights as peaceful people. as Eddie asked them "How do you feel about persecuting peaceful people?"