Keratitis?!

Looks fun huh? Nope. It took me two months to go to the doctor but now I have the answer. The Doc says we caught it just in time- if i had waited any longer it could have spread to my cornea and caused blindness. So for now I have to put steroids in my eye and wait 2 weeks for a vision check; but as of right now my vision is weak and did I mention the ulcer too?! yup I also waited just long enough to get an ulcer in my eye. Didn't know you could get one there!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMITTY!!

Robin Hood and Maid Marion
Ellie enjoying the party
We are so impressed about the amount of food and people we were able to fit in our house for Smitty's B-day. We had all of Smitty's favorite food- wings, haystacks, cheese & chocolate fondue and Italian sodas. I was going to make crepes but we did that for breakfast the next morning. Smitty spent his actual B-day watching football, which I didn't complain about because he has had to work every Saturday since June. On Saturday night we went to Preston and Breck's Halloween party which as become a annual tradition. This year I wanted to go as Alladin and Jasamine but because we thought the party was next week and not on Saturday we ended up trying for Robin Hood and Maid Marion.
I just wanted to wish my hot husband a happy birthday. We makes me laugh everyday and I love to be with him. Thanks for all your hard work and all the effort you put into making me happy everyday.

The Happenings

the living room after
The bathroom before- there is hunter & burgundy wallpaper with sunflowers
The list of med schools
The bathroom after


Pumpkin patch
Ambush's Halloween costume- everyone says it suits her
the living room before
My new car! She still needs a name

Proof Smitty knows how to use the vaccum
Dave helping

I have not posted anything for a while because our house has been turned upside down for the last couple of weeks and somewhere in the upside down-ness my camera cord was MIA. FOUND IT!
In September, we purchased my new car, a 2003 VW Passat. We love it! It is a V6 so no more hoping we can get up to freeway speed. Smitty took the MCAT again and got an awesome score.
We also spent a couple of Tuesdays in September putting in our new flooring. My father-in-law, Dave and my brother-in-law, Jeron came down and helped teach Smitty the tricks of the trade. I FINALLY was able to get everything put away today and it looks wonderful.
Somehow Smitty got lucky and has every Friday off in Sept & Oct so we had the chance to go pick pumpkins with the Jeppsons and Nelsons. We found blue and green pumpkins ( yes mom, blue!)
Smitty had the week off from school so he decided to surprise me so he and Dave (thanks again Dave) finished the bathroom. It had this green & burgundy striped wallpaper with sunflowers we decided had to go, and two years later it finally is.

Here I Go Again.....Thinking

The Speed of Light
The speed of light is 3*10^8 m/s. If we were able to able to accelerate an object up to the speed of light then we would see that the object’s length in contracted as seen by someone on the outside. The object would retain its proper length as viewed by the someone traveling at the same speed as the object. An equation that links these two views is Lc=Lp(1-v^2/c^2)^(1/2) Where Lc is the contracted length and Lp is its proper length. The symbols v and c represent the velocity traveled by the object and the speed of light respectively. Another very similar equation that connects time with this idea of proper vs contraction. t=t’/(1-v^2/c^2)^(1/2). t is contracted time and t’ is the proper time.
Now if we were to plug in values for the variable of this equation we can see how long it takes for something moving at the speed of light to go somewhere. First we will exam a photon. A photon is a light particle therefore it travels at the speed of light. If we plug the speed of the photon into the time equation we get t=t’/(1-(3*10^8)/(3*10^8))^(1/2) Now that simplifies to t=t’/(1-1)^(1/2) this is an undefined equation. However if we multiply the equation around a little we get 0t=t’. The idea is that it takes the photon not time to travel. If however that photon were less than the speed of light there would be time of travel. If we plug the same values into the length equation then the lengths become 0 as well. Which means that travel distance is also 0. If it takes no time for this photon to travel no distance, yet it has gone from one eon to another then there is something to be said of the speed of light.
Christ is light. From him emanates all light. D&C 88: 6-9, 11-13
6 He that ascended up on high, as also he descended below all things, in that he comprehended all things, that he might be in all and through all things, the light of truth;
7 Which truth shineth. This is the light of Christ. As also he is in the sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it was made.
8 As also he is in the moon, and is the light of the moon, and the power thereof by which it was made;
9 As also the light of the stars, and the power thereof by which they were made;
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11 And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings;
12 Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space—
13 The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of all things.

Therefore, if Christ is light and if it takes Light no time to travel any distance then He can travel from Kolob to Earth in no time.
Another physical matter to discuss is whether a photon is in one place or many at the same time. A photon emanates its energy (in the form of light) uniformly in all directions. This means that light seen in one spot can be seen at the exact same moment in another spot.
Christ will therefore be able to be seen in both Jerusalem and Zion (Missouri) at the same moment and time even though those two spots cannot see each other.