A New Start

 It has been ages since I have  written,.  To those  who have wondered where I went. I have  just been working really hard. We as a family have change a lot in the past several months.
 One thing before I forget our show came one again. I am getting Married and I am a polygamist. For those who have seen is  it was great and for those who missed it hopefully it will be one again. It turned out a lot better then I thought it would.
 Groups have sprung up and died as we have many false and deceitful people out there. The Society of Polygamist leaders led by the fraud and conman Dale Gill was a welcomed death. It seemed his idea of making it rich  off of the online community was a flop when there wasn't enough  contributors to keep it open. It brings me to the thought. I have seen many websites that the  owners often try to solicit money.  some are genuine in there efforts to keep there pages open but their are some that have no business in these efforts. they like to cause drama with people that are not supporting their cause.
 In on group Polygamy  HQ run by Miguel Marie  who has a face book page as well as web site caused a lot of Drama for our family in his  efforts. He  seemed to not like my  third wife Julie and tried to slander her on his Facebook page claiming that she was a person who goes by the online persona of Sunny Day. That was the first attack  when he posted  a fake web site claiming that Julie had sold land to Mark Henkel and that  her alias was Sunny Day. Well it turns out he and Dale Gill we  trying to merge their too sites,... go figure talk about crawling in bed with the Devil.
 With all that and Julie was pregnant and birth our son Rowen we  stepped back a little bit. You have to at time with all the drama that other throw at you.
 Oh yes Julie was pregnant and we added Rowen Malachi Austin to the family.  Big change we are fast  out growing our house.
 Ange works Full time so that is always helpfule.
 Another thing that has happened was that Moroni and some elders from his community came up and seal the wives to me during May. For those that are non-Mormon that is   making an eternal marriage. there is more to it but not sure if I can repeat it here. It was wonderful to have these great men come up.
It is my promise to start blogging more and keep everyone abreast of  what is going on with the family.

I haven't blogged in a while. I hope  to catch you all up  what been happening.  New Baby... will post pictures, some run in with groups and problems.  I have been busy with work and of course family

The Austin's in the Shadow of persecution

 Wow it has been a while since I last bloged. Time flies when you  busy I guess.  Or perhaps time just got away from me. It isn't  because all of a sudden we got boring. There is tons of stuff always going on  in our little part of the world and online in others.

 Lately what we have been dealing with is  an enemy whom we don't know whether someone that we have angered or  an Angry and nosy neighbor.
 This  person or persons sent  an anonymous letter to the police and social service about our family and it's composition.  This cause a Detective to  come to our house and also visits from social workers. 
 I think they were hoping that the kids would  be taken away from us and or arrested.  So far nothing has happened but interviews and the Detective.
 The Wives already had there's and today I had mine. It went OK. I think everything will be fine.  Under Wisconsin law we can not be prosecuted for  Bigamy  as there is not marriage licenses other then the one I have with the legal first wife. So the likely hood that this will go anywhere is almost Nil.
 The social workers  seems to be prepared to work with us and not remove the children, Which is good they are doing a detailed instigation to make sure the children are fine and that we are a functioning family.
 Si we are intending the Lord to  shield us and protect us through all of this.

Somthing new

 Well the new job is going great.  I work alot of hours. I enjoy the money but importantly I enjoy the work.
 Today we are adressing another important topic in our family. A bigger place. By Nature polygamy families are big. you out grow houseing real fast.
 I would like to get a farm but not sure if I can find one cheap enough but might have to settle living in town. Ihave a credit limit of what the VA will guantee me.
 We will See. Today Julie and I are going to look at a house in Kenosha. So praying for God's will in all this.

 It's been  like five weeks since I last post. So time for updates.

 Work is going great and we are  working at  getting bills caught up.  Family really misses me at work so much. Kids are getting antsy about being at home so much. Victoria is out of school or the summer.

 The reason that the kids are and wives are going stare crazy is that  we don't have our van. The white one is wrecked and not worth the $700 the mechanic wants to charge to fix the front end. Not to mention it needs a front alignment and tires. Our blue van is still in the shop. a year and a half since I paid $1500 in advance to get the engine replaced. It had to have body work so the Mechanic can hoist the body up so he can pull the engine. very frustrating in that he is dragging his feet. What I get for  feeling sorry for the man and paying him in advance will part in advance.

 The  long story short about this is that he was a member of the Church of latter day saints Kettle Moraine ward. I felt sorry for him cause  several low income families in the church were  stiffing him  out of labor cost to keep their cars running. I did the guy a favor and now I get crap cause we have Zoo passes and museum passes  for us and the kids and we can't go. I thought I could expect better behavior out of an LDS member but I was wrong.

 Not saying that I took it laying down, I made him rid up with me to fix the White Ford Van when it threw a pulley and the family was a couple of cities away. I also had him tow the White van when it was wrecked. When he offered to fix it for $700 I told him I wanted the blue van back. That was like 5 weeks ago.

 I have decided that in  four weeks I will have the money to pay another Mechanic. to fix it. Then I will give him an ultimatum. Finish it or I pull it out of his shop and take him to court.

 On the good side I am really happy about work. I work hard as anyone knows it takes money to run a plural family.  running a house hold with  three wives and 5 children is pretty rough at times. none of us were born into this and we learn as we go.

A Day of Mixed Blessings

 At  6:40 am this morning, driving  west bound on I94 and preparing to  turn on the exit to  highway 45 north the car came toa  halt and not realizing that the car in front of me actually cam to a stop and not slowed down, I rearended him  at low speeds. I was driving the families 1997white Ford Areostar. well to put a long story short it was a three care accident and I don't know if he hit the car in front of him before I hit him. The Guy didn't have insurance and the police officer had his car towed. the impact  damaged my radiator and the grill was  knock in. Radiator fluid  spilled out. Well that ended the trip to work with the  Areostare I called my wife Angela to take me  in to work and  had my mechanic  deal with  getting the van to his shop. Not sure what the blue book is on the van but if it cost more then $300 to fix then it isn't worth it.
 So that is how my day started. I was  30 mins late to  work when I am usally 15 mins early. Now I was sore and working and  down one vehicle in a family of nine soon to be ten. because  I was the one that rear ended the car I  got the  ticket. that's another $200.
 Well  Now that the bad stuff got out of the way, I suppose we can get to  the good stuff.
 For the last two weeks I have been courting a maintenance position at a  food plant in  southern Wisconsin.  Yesterday Afternoon I went down to their plant for an interview and the HR called at 1:05 pm offering me a position on their maintenance team. hat is a $3 more an hour where I  am currently working at Briggs and Stratton. Well of course I accepted and since Briggs was only through a temp service I told them I would be able to start Monday.
  With the new wage and lots of overtime the Austin family will be able to  move forward  and bring our planes to fruitation.
 I give the glory to  our father in Heaven for allowing me to have this and many  other wonderful opportunities.......

Days and Days

 Well here I am  on unempoloyment again. Talgo's maintenance contract was canceled by the State of Wisconsin so that ment Layoffs. Whats been on the families mind is  that we may need to relocat to find work so the family can survive, We are  good for now, but time will tell.
 Brandy's pregancy is doing well. The  wives are starting to look at baby clouthes. For Julie and Brandy that is a big step for them. Ange is worried that her baby makeing days might be over and julie had a miscarriage last year. So Brandy being pregant does effect them  to a degree. So there is tension in the house over Brandy being pregant and Ange and Julie are working though it. I am proud of the fact that they are  working through it.
 overall  we as a family is excited about baby #6 due to arrive in September. we have some adusting to go through, Willow. Julie's duaghter,  says the baby is hers  Brandy is just carrying it. We think it's cute.
 We put Victoria back in public school last fall. I am very disapointed in her chioce of friends and her acting out at home. I think  next year we are going to  do home school with her again.

Whats Happening now

 Ok  it's been a while since I have posted. sorry for the delay. Well Talgo didn't work out as far a jobs go as they stated cutting back because  Wisconsin is backing out of the train deal  for maintenance and there isn't anymore contracts to build trains. Which is a shame because I really liked the job I was doing there.

 The other thing in the news is that Brandy is pregnant. one thing about polygamy is that it all about making and raising a family. It's going to be a girl and her Name will be River Marie. this will my second child with Brandy.  Julie hasn't got pregnant yet. Still trying but also waiting on the lords timing. Ange is doing great but she is having some issues.....

 We got four sugar gliders for Ange. One died  due to sickness and problems with her joey.  Ange has got me working on building them a bigger cage.

Julie's Calling

 Well we are going into November.  some friends of ours  has gotten into a pickle. The husband was involved in a car wreck  He is alive but with some broken bones and out one work van and some tools.  Since he is the worker in the family that leaves a family really hard up just when they had a newborn get out of NICU.
 Julie my third wife has spear headed working on getting a fund to help her and others that we encounter. Tough times leave some in dire circumstances. We are looking into setting up  an organization for those kind of people. Julie is toying around with the idea of a non-profit organization that could be set up. I like her idea of setting up something like this and helping people. She would really be good at it. She already set up a page on Facebook called Healing Hands and is currently working on the Paypal  account so donations.
 She needs a project to work on the kids are driving her crazy.  She is a great  for the stay at home mom and run the house.That and home school is frustrating for here at times. we all chip in and do our share.  I run the laundry. I don't fold the clothes though Angela and Julie  are good at that.
 Ange has started working  two jobs. a couple of days  we don't see her  because she has both jobs back to back. She sleeps as much as she can.  when she can. I am very proud of her.
 Right now I am again on the unemployed list. Not happy  because the worst thing in the world I hate is looking for a Job. I love it when they look for me  but this economy that isn't happening. seems like the good days when people wanted you to come work for them are over.
 It looks like some thing might get worse before they get better.  Why we are  looking at our long range family strategy. Our goal is to not only help ourselves but to help others as well. .

Updates For October

Well here is the updates for this month. I have been working a lot.  Trying to get the bill caught up nothing new there I think most of America is doing the same thing. Ange has started her second job.  she like staying busy. Julie been adapting to being the stay at home mom. I am very proud of Ange and Brandy in the hard work they do... I am also very proud of  Julie for handling all the childern.  We are starting to get costumes together for Halloween. Halloween and Christmas is always a big adventure around here.
 if my readers have any questions feel free to ask away

Another new post

It's been  real busy around here. kinda Chaos. yesterday we went to Ange's Family reunions out at Fireman's park in Columbus WI. it was rather interesting cause Ange introduced Julie and Brandy as sisters. Ange's Father and Stepmother know what kind of family we are and was surprised that things went well without incident. Ange's step mother even talked to us and kissed the kids goodby when we left.
 I had last been to Columbus's Fireman's park in 1994 when they held their Columbus days. interesting to reflect back to that time and the fact that made me feel old lol.
We also went to Aztalan state park. The site of a Mississippian mound building  culture. Interesting through when you look at it and realize that Life in America  was very organized and complex. they find that the Mississippian mound culture  just vanished around 1200AD for an unknown reason. While in school they teach that the American Indian was a primitive people that migrated from Asia. The archeological evidence supports something entirely different. there was a copper age in America. We know this because copper tools and weapons have been found and the mounds extending through out the eastern United states holds to this as well. As whit man pushed west  Thousands of important archeological sites were destroyed by progress of  whit settlers.  While  the Government in the 1800's and early 1900's had a policy to destroy what evidence that the Indians were anything other then ignorant savages that were were bring culture to while we stole their lands and destroyed their heritage. One only has to ask anyone involved with native American groups to verifies this.
 So what does that really mean? Well it means while the opponents of the book of Mormon continue to take shots at it, American archeology it supporting many of the facts of the book of Mormon. 
 While  I  use Mormon to describe my faith  we have been getting  more into the scripture. It's interesting that  I find more Men using the Torah to show that polygamy is not a sin but they  don't read about the other laws of the Torah or pay attention on the regulations that the bible placed on it. I think that  those  laws are extremely important.
 9/11 we spent  lots of time watching videos about 9/11 and how the Government mislead and continues to misleads us, no big surprise there. While I have a hard time believing that the Government  staged 9/11 but the evidence is convincingly clear that they had an knowledge of what was about to happen and contributed to the events. I find it pretty fascinating and we most likely never know the whole truth.
 I know   this is a lot of Randomness and hope that I haven't confused anyone.  I guess I have lots of random thoughts  today. The main thing that we are being more  Torah observing Mormons and that  While I am Mormon by Faith the Torah and Christ is my identity. I don't have to prove the book of Mormon  right, but we do need to resurrect the Torah and see how the laws are prevalent today as they were over 2000 years ago. After all Christ came to earth, The son of God, to fulfill the law not replace it.

Julie's interview on NPR radio

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139784963/polygamists-share-their-faith-and-family-lives My wife Julie's interview with NPR Radio. I am very proud of how she handled herself.

Some thoughts

 Well things are going tough here, But you know what they say when the going gets tough the tough the tough get going. I am into the second week of my new job. Keeping  pretty busy.  my son William is sick with an ear infection.  We have been talking about expanding our family  but  a guy on Facebook is accusing me of Harem building lol. he said some pretty nasty things to Julie in a message and she was pretty upset. I took her to lake Michigan so we could look out into the water and calm ourselves. watched a sailboat  hat was maneuvering to close to the shoreline hit  the rock twice.they stayed afloat but it make a big bang. Kinda like our family  we get run up on the rocks but with the grace of God we stay afloat.
 That was how we feel. But Heavenly father is our protector.
 The other thing been thinking about believes. While it would be easier to abandon the Mormon Doctrine but I choose to remain a Mormon because it defines my believes even though we are  not part of a church. I am a Christian. I believe in Christ  and that he is the son of God. I also believe the book of Mormon to be true. The BOM does not trump the bible. We  use the bible as our Number one source of gods law and commandments. I  personally feel that there is a difference between how I view my believes and thos of  other groups like the LDS or the major fundamental groups.
 While dealing with People on the internet I find that when I say Mormon it brings up association that people think that Mormon's are all the same. What funny is that christens online who are either wanting to be polygamous, some have this view on Mormons. One who calls  themselves a Christian there are many different types with their views on doctrine.
 The same People who have views like this on Mormonism, cry foul when they are groups with  the people that give polygamy a bad name like Warren Jeffs. They get frustrated when all polygamist or those that are interested are stereotype  but yet will stereotype Mormons.

Ethics of the Polygny Man

 Today I learned something very important and scary,


 Over the years I have learned a code of ethics if you will. This defines me as a man and to me with a fundamental rule .It focuses  on courting.  In the years that I have been a polygamous married man I have learned to respect others in there own searches. I have three very wonderful wives wouldn't trad them for the world.
 I have over the years basically through the school of hard knocks  the in and out of dating on the internet in the polygamy cyber world. One of my hard fast rules is that if a woman is talking to a man or families then she is until the a time she is no longer courting a family or man. To me if as if she is courting then she is as married and off limits.
 I am not standing on a soap box preaching because in a world of sin I am not  sinless. These are rules that I have learned during my journey. Also if a woman is talking to another family/Man then she is most likely not that serious in you to begin with. Not saying that a woman can't talk to anyone else and most  women just like about all men flirt whether intentional or not. I guess it's how the human mind is wired.
 This rule seems not only to work real well for me but has also been a useful guideline as the modern American woman seems to thinks that if she stops talking to you it means she is no longer interested. But also gives me guild lines with respecting other families out there  searching as well. Respecting their potentials to me is as important to respecting them as a person. I have met several wonderful people this way and enjoy  being friend with them for fellowship sake. Always nice to meet families to share idea's with. Even those that have idea that I don't always agree with I have learned from.
 While I live by these hard fast rules there are other that don't. Today I ran across one who not only doesn't respect this rule but also went the extra length to  harass the woman I was courting. his goal was two fold.if he could not driver her to him, then he would make sure he drover her away from me.
 This had been brewing a bit and no fault of hers as the man was the predator of, this gentle and sweet woman, whose only issue is that at time she is to trusting. My pat in all this was when I checked my email after working a night shift and he had sent a message to me  starting with  that he believes as a Mormon that I by courting was unevenly yoking her and that I am a none-believer.  That not only doing a disservice to her but  also to the women that I am currently married to.
He also stated that the idea that I was courting her, he used the word supposedly even though it was in black and white on her page" in a relationship with." meant nothing to him ans that a woman was available until she was married.  He also wrote a bunch of stuff i guess trying to make him look like a great man and all but he ended the message that he was bowing out with the understanding that both of us will not be courting her.        I was very angry. First he was never courting her to begin with and the whole if I can't have her then you cant mentality.

Backyard Contruction

 Well I have been getting the back yard fencing put up.  the main Gate and the back is almost closed. What remains is the little section that have to get creative around a tree that divides the yards from the neighbors. Julie weeded the Garden today. it's looking great and the peas are really growing. we should have some good on that and lots of tomatoes as well as potatoes. I have two 55 gallon drums that trying a backyard experiment with them. according to what I read on growing potatoes in a drum is that suppose to yield like around 200lbs. so we will find out how correct that claim is.
 My idea is to start getting the family working on the Garden so that when we do get a house and land we can be more self reliable   I  believe that is important as we learn to build our family that we learn to reduce the financial overhead of supporting this kind of family.
 While we still live in the city, It's good to at least try to  work on this together as a family. Sometimes that is easier said then done.We have been married Ange:  going on five years, Brandy three years, and Julie one year. At time with three women it can be challenging as they each have their own personality. I think individuality is important. not sure how other families do it.

Memorail Day 2011

 After being off for a bit tomorrow I will be headed back to work. I am pretty excited. The wives hate it when i get this way cause I turn into a bundle of energy. They get upset. They wanted to go swimming and I was like it's a nice day lets hang out in the back yard... I had two reasons one  the family needs to get outside and the other is that I needed to mow the grass and get yard work down. ice day to relax in the backyard and get stuff down after it's been rainy. Our Garden is starting to come in and so  not only is that wonderful its time to start weeding.

The Vans.

The Venture is getting a new engine. Stage one take the  parts off the engine.

I will post more pictures as the work progresses. Last December I blew the engine. Instead of parking it I drove on an overheated Engine. Should have parked it and called for my mechanic to come get it but we live and learn and this is a costly lesson.

 But it did lead to a silver lining.  I bought the Ford Aero star thinking that it was  on it's last leg and just need a temporarily Van to haul the family. When my mechanic heard that I intended to junk it he looked at it and deduced that the problems were a relatively simple as it needed a tuneup bad. I call my Buddie the Car whisper. The white Ford Aero Star has almost no rust and the body is in good shape not to mention it's all wheel drive makes it ver desirable in the Wisconsin Winters. Above it the Areo Star  as it was being tuned up. it has a 4.0 and is AC so to do the tuneup we have to remove a lot of parts just to get to the components. It was misfiring on two cylinders and totally  missing on another one. The dealer sold my it for $700 just to get rid of it. They thought it was junk.

We call the Aero Star  our family A.P.C. Armored Personal Carrier. Haven't figered out a nickname for the Venture yet.The Aero Star is a tank. Drives nice now but before it drove like one and it's become our family work horse. I even used it to push a neighborer car uphill.

THE THREE HONEY DO LIST!

 Well again on unemployment,.... Lots of guys think that a polygamist man with three wives  would spend the whole time in bed..... So not the case. Eventually the newlywed stage wears off and then you realize that you have a Marriage times the amount of wive you have. In my case everything is three times more then most conventional marriages. When I am home the wives pull out the Honey do list..
 The biggest author of the list is Julie. For her I  am getting the Garden ready to plant. She has some great idea's on Gardening and saving the family  money on the food bill. Not to mention it's healthier. Well our plot is rather small so  did the soil turning by hand. this time of year and due to the fact that most of the Garden last year was  our compost pile. What we planted the rabbits helped themselves. I  got one pumpkin and one raspberry.  last year we moved in Jun 1st. By the time we got to the Garden the growing season was almost done. This Year going to  make my own Topsy Turvy tomato plants. Going to be interesting.
 Well cleaning the back yard  was ans is also on my list. I have to build a fence and the wives want the turtle in the back yard in his own encloser.
 Thats just to start on the list.... I have been doing home repairs and so one as well.
 now the dryer isn't working properly so have to fix that. Also have to fix he toilet. it works at least but  it's works  it just leaking a bit.. The list goes on and on,...  But then again I don't know of a married man that doesn't have an unending honey do list.

Renewal

 Well spring is finally here. we have been doing Spring cleaning. I think the garbage man hates us this time of year as we find a lot of stuff we don't need and can get ride of. We also repainted the kitchen. Julie picked out a Carmel  Sunday for paint and it looks wonderful.
 I am working full time so money is again coming into the house. the show that we filmed for is still being in the editing stage,.  how the world will see our life is at the mercy of the production editor. It will be called "I am getting married and Polygamist. Brandy and Julie and I have our weeding on it.... Can't tell you more have to watch. I will post Air time when it is scheduled but it will be on lifetime so you can check on it for yourselves. I know those of you read my blog but  there is some surprises that you can only see on the show,...
 It's my intention to start Blogging more.  Those of you who have joined my site are here cause you like what I write and like to read on the progress of my family. So I owe you all the commitment to write.
 On other notes,.... I still miss Wendie. From time to time I dream about her. maybe she is watching me. I keep in contact with some of her family and try to keep up on what they are doing. In case those of you that are just starting to read Wendie was our potential wife that passed away in a car accident. you can  read up on it in the blog " Wife in passing"
 We did Pass over this year as well as the traditional Ham for the holiday. I will blog about it and post pictures.

New Horizons

 As the weather changes toward spring so is our family changing.We are looking toward the celebration of our Lord and Savior's conquest over death.
 We have struggled through a lot as a family  barely hanging in there, Our faith in our family tested. We Weathered it well. The Tax returns were a much needed financial recovery tool for our family. We paid off Bills that were being skipped and bought much need supplies. I even had enough to splurge a bit. Our savings is boosted up as well.Nice to have money in the bank for a buffer.
 The other new thing on our agenda is that I am now gainfully employed doing maintenance again. Work starts this week.it will be some adjustment for our family but we see ourselves getting closer to our goals. Brandy now works full time so  the bills are getting paid and the money is just poring in.
 Money isn't the important focuses. Money is nothing but a tool required at this point of our life to sustain our family and support our love for each other. I bought quicken so that we can track our spending and build our budget stronger.
 The Blue Chevy van is finally getting a new engine that it needs to get back on the road. I could have just  junked it and used the whit Ford van but the Chevy get better gas mileage and more comfortable. We haven't decided on the fate of the Ford yet.
 Getting back to work is going to be a great experience and can't wait. I don't want to use the reserve that we have manage to build up in the bank and personally I would rather work.
 Also I think that no one really realize the cost of these kind of families. all the bills go up.If the wives work that great but when their are children in the house one or two wives are required to stay home with the children. mini vans take more gas then other conventional compact cars. Finding room for all these people is on the interesting side we live in a five bedroom house and still short on space. We could  have differn't places but I believe that polygamy is best lived under the same roof with the family dealing with each other on a daily bases.Seems like a family when we are all together.