Help Pass the PROTECT Our Children Act Bill 1738

I know some of you watch Oprah & might have seen this. I seldom watch her but it was my bad timing to see this show. I almost lost my dinner at the evil darkness that is invading our country & children. Please use this to beg our U.S Senators to demand a vote on the PROTECT Our Children Act, Senate Bill 1738. You can copy & paste the letter at the bottom, to e-mail to our Senators. It's that simple, but they will see that this is an issuse that has attention. Please.

Here is the information below. I have already included in Senator information for the state of AZ.
Kyl, Jon- (R - AZ)
Class I
730 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4521
Web Form: kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm

McCain, John- (R - AZ)
Class III
241 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2235
Web Form: mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Con...

Help Pass Senate Bill 1738—The PROTECT Our Children Act

Hundreds of thousands of children are victims of sexual abuse each year. Due to the sheer lack of resources, law enforcement is unable to follow up on the majority of leads they have.The PROTECT Our Children Act will:
Authorize over $320 million over the next five years in desperately needed funding for law enforcement to investigate child exploitation.
Mandate that child rescue be a top priority for law enforcement receiving federal funding.
Allocate funds for high-tech computer software that can track down Internet predators. Act Now!Your U.S. senators will be voting on the bill soon, so it is crucial you contact them immediately.Go to www.senate.gov to find contact information for the senators in your state. Search for your senator by name or state by clicking on the arrow from either dropdown menu. Contact information is provided here. To send an e-mail, click on "Web Form" below his or her name, and e-mail your letter to make a difference! Call Your SenatorsIf you choose to contact your senators by phone, be sure to tell them, "Vote yes on Senate Bill 1738—The PROTECT Our Children Act."Write to Your Senators If you choose to write a letter, fax, telegram or e-mail, you may use the following sample letter—and modify it how you see fit.

Dear Senator:
I know that you believe, like I do, that we must do everything possible to protect children from sexual predators. That is why I am asking for your help.Last year alone, U.S. law enforcement identified over 300,000 criminals who were trafficking in movies and pictures of young children being raped and tortured. Experts say that one in every three of these criminals has local child victims. Child pornography trafficking over the Internet has given us a trail of evidence that leads straight to their doorsteps, but the vast majority of these children will never be rescued because investigators are overwhelmed, outnumbered and underfunded.As your constituent, I urge you to do everything in your power to pass the PROTECT Our Children Act (S. 1738, Biden-Hatch). This bipartisan legislation passed the House 415-2, but it is now the victim of petty partisan politics.Now that we know where these children are and how to protect them, there is no excuse for the Senate to fail to take action this session.(Your name here)

Aprons Cont'd

If you are interested in sewing this apron with us, please purchase this pattern at:

http://sewliberated.com/patterns.html

or any other site if you wish. It is the emmaline apron.

How about we get together in October to sew it? What works for you? Should we do a Friday evening or something and make it a girls night? What do you think? I also need to know if you are seriously interested. Email me or post if you are... and purchase your pattern and Fabric.
I think I might purchase my fabric online (they have some cool vintage fabrics that you can't get at Hancocks). Or maybe I will wait until I can get to Phoenix.
No need to worry if you aren't an expert sewer. We'll figure it out together!

Girls Night Out for October

Hi everybody!! It’s time to start thinking about Girls Night Out for October already. Robyn Nogales will be offering 3 different crafts that you can choose from. Girls Night Out for October is scheduled for Tuesday, October 7 at 6:30 p.m. We will be having Girls Night Out at the Continental Ranch Community Center.

The crafts that Robyn will be doing are:
Letter Wall Hanging: $10.00 each if painting that night (Robyn will have 6-7 different paint colors to choose from). They are $8.00 each if painting at home with own paints.

Santa: $7.00 each (this one takes a little bit longer to paint, but not too difficult)

Snowmen Melt Hearts: $5.00 each (Does not include arm twigs). Anyone who orders this needs to find and bring 2 small twigs for the arms. Robyn found hers in her neighbor's yard.

Robyn needs to have all orders placed and payments made no later than Wednesday, October 1. If you are going to place an order, please email me and let me know. I will be giving Robyn a final number to make sure she knows how many of each thing to cut out. Please send or drop off all payments to me (Vicki Susa, 7698 W. Desert Paintbrush Ct., Tucson, AZ, 85743) and I will get them to Robyn. If you are going to give your payment to Robyn directly, please let me know.

Thanks to Robyn for all the fun ideas and we look forward to a fun Girls Night Out!!

Vicki

P.S. I will be sending out a couple more reminders closer to time. One to remind you to sign up and one to give you more details about location, rides or anything else you need to know about that night. Take care of yourself until then!!

Cute Aprons!

I found this apron on someone's blog and they gave me the link to order the pattern. I am far from an expert sewer and though I might give it a shot. If anyone is interested in making a super cute apron... let me know... We will figure it out together! What do you think?
I think this makes me want to cook! ;)

Sneaky Zucchini

http://sneakyzucchini.blogspot.com/
I have started a new blog for, well sneaking veggies into food. I would LOVE it if I could get some tried & true recipes from you seasoned moms. (eventually I want to print them out to have in my kitchen) I will by posting my experiments, if you will, and other recipes that I find around town. Thanks so much! Renee

Support the Marana-Gladden Farms Market!

We went down to the Farmers Market in our neighbor hood-I am so excited that they are having one here it's so convenient for fresh veggies-grown right here! (without pesticides might I add!) We came home with sweet potatoes, garlic and eggplant. We were also able to try different types of veggies that I wasn't familiar with. We came home & made Egg Plant Parmesan which was very good!
If anyone has any produce to sell you are also welcome to set up a table! The Parks from our ward had tons of excellent squash & cucumbers! Please come & support this wonderful event!
Marana Farm Stand
Mondays 4-7pm At the Heritage River Park (Lon Adams to Gladden Farms Dr.)
Melons, summer squash, green beans, eggplant, garlic, sweet potatoes, herbs, corn, tomatoes, bell peppers, cumbers, chilies, okra, winter squash, figs & much more!!!

Good family dentist?

Does anyone have any good recommendations for a good family dentist? I really need one! Thanks

Home Show

I have three FREE admission tickets to the Home Show that is at the Tucson Expo Center. You can go on any of these three days, Sept 19, 20, and 21, 2008. Click here is visit the website. I am not going to use the tickets so if you want to go to the Home Show for free, let me know.

Katie Singley

Amazing Jakes

Sorry if you already know about this "Amazing" place, but for those that don't here ya go. For Labor Day we were in Mesa/Gilbert area and went with the fam to "Amazing Jakes" http://www.amazingjakes.com/mesa/ Chuckie Cheese's x's 3-- This place was HUGE! They had all you can eat pizza, salad, potato bar, desserts, ice cream etc... a cosmic bowling alley, go carts, bumper carts, mini rollercoaster, the "tea cups", every arcade game imagineable...you get the picture... I left out a lot.

They even have different themed rooms you can eat in. Kayden's choice was the movie mania room that was showing 3 different movies on a huge projector. Anyhow... reasonably priced for all you get and a special outing for the whole family. That is..., if you happen to be in the Mesa/Gilbert area.

www.Winkflash.com

If you go to www.winkflash.com and upload your pictures into a book, this is a great deal!

up to 100 page book, for $19.95

use the code   SUMMERBK88

If you need help, let me know, but the deadline is September 16th and best if you finish a day or two early because the site gets bogged down with last minute (day) loading.

enjoy!

Thursday, September 25th- Ice Cream for a donation to Make-a-Wish

Mark your Calendar!



September 25 The World's Largest Ice Cream Social - Nationwide From 5-8 p.m., visit your local Cold Stone Creamery for a free kid scoop. In exchange, the ice cream chain's hoping you'll donate to its Make-a-Wish Foundation Fundraiser!

Click on logo to find your closest Cold Stone!

Sept. 27th-Free Admission To International Wildlife Museum

Enjoy free general admission for you and a guest to our local International Wildlife Museum or participating museums around the country.
Saturday, September 27, 2008


Present the Museum Day admission card to receive free general admission at participating Museum Day locations. The admission card is available in the September 2008 issue of Smithsonian magazine or downloadable from their website. Click here for link.

Sweet Basil

I have so much basil. If any want to come and get some, you are welcome to it. Even better, dig up a plant and take home to your house. It is growing like a weed at mine and there is no way I could ever use it all.

Savvy Savings Tucson

I started a new blog to list good deals and grocery deals for the week. I'm looking for contributors to list deals they find online or in the Tucson area. If you are interested, let me know and I can add you as an author on the blog! Eventually the blog should be tied to the television station.

savvysavingstucson.blogspot.com

Check it out and let me know what you think!

"Mrs. 101"

To see the recipe and a few pictures from Stephanie's KOLD show today I found this online...I was hoping to find the video clip....if you have a link Stephanie, or anyone else, I'd love to see it!

Stephanie's article

Peaches

Hi everybody!! Heather Parris will be ordering peaches from Utah. The deadline for ordering is September 1. Her email address is hsparris@yahoo.com and her phone number is 744-6573. You have to have your money to her before she will place your order.

The peaches are going to be $28.00 for 35 lbs. They will come sometime in the middle of September (maybe sooner/later). If you know of anyone that wants to order any, please let them know. If she doesn't get very many orders, they won't deliver to Tucson. Then she will be forced to cancel the orders.

If you have any questions, please contact her.

Can't help Sharing a Great Deal

Get $10 off a purchase of $10 or more at Blockbuster.com using code augappreciation.

I just ordered 2 movies- The Ultimate Gift and The Inheritance for $5.35 which included the shipping! I'm not sure how long the code will work.

Hairdresser?

I'm in desperate need of a good hairdresser that can work some magic on my hair. Does anybody have anyone they use that they love? I really want to find someone that I can just tell to do something cute and I can trust that they will do something great.

Anyone??

Joy School - Preschool

I know a lot of you already have your children in the Marana Preschool, but this might be worth looking into for next semester as well.

For those of you who are interested in something for your kids now, I am looking for some more kids to join our joy school group starting September 2nd, or so. It is for 3 and 4 year olds, the kids we have so far were born the end of 2004 and beginning of 2005. But the website does say an age variety can be a good thing sometimes (just over 3 and not old enough for kindergarden)

This link says it all http://www.valuesparenting.com/joyschool/

I hear it is best to have 4-6 kids in the group and we have about 3 dedicated to join so far.

With Joy School, each Mom takes turns teaching in her home (weekly or monthly basis). The lessons are prepared already and are based on learning the "JOY" of things in life. Not just ABC's or 123's. It is Christian based, not just LDS. (anyone have neighbors that may be interested?)

There is a fee. The one time fee of $50 is to become a member of the website (has other benefits as well, if I am not mistaken). And then there is a $70 fee for each semester. Tracy Gates has done this before and she said that since 2005 they have made it so that you only have to pay for each semester once per family. So, instead of $140 a year (two yrs total) for Wesly, Travis, and Nathan. I can pay the money for Wesly and when I do this for my younger boys, they will be free. (can't beat free!)

We need to have some Mom meetings before hand and it starts in September, let me know if you are interested! call me, or email me at ckcarbon at msn dot com.

Thanks! Kati

Gigglin' Geckos - August

This Month Gigglin' Geckos will be Tuesday August 19th from 9 to 10 am at Foothills Mall, Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5th Courtyard.

The theme is: Socket to Me!

Don't miss the fun when Tucson Children's Museum Outreach comes to Foothills Mall for a special Gigglin' Geckos activity. Come make and decorate your very own Windsock to hang in your room or outside.

It's tons of fun and it's FREE. Hope to see you there. :)