HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I win!!

:P


hope you all enjoy it!

Family Christmas!

I was so glad to see everyone! Apples to Apples was lots of fun and so was snowmobilin'- even if I only went around the loop once! I miss you all lots already and I can't wait for our next family gathering!

Who do they look better on? :)

Remember the kid from A Christmas Story?

New Years

ok im gonna be the first this time. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I will see you all within a 4 days

0ne week

No not the song. i mean i got one week until i come home. just counting down the days until i can rest and relax, and see family, and friends, and all that other stuff

The First One to say....

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

i hope you all enjoy your day!
can't wait to see you guys this weekend!!

wellll...

I haven't posted in a while....because there hasn't been much going on. I donated blood last week....I saved THREE lives doing so...makes me feel oh so good. Here's a picture of my battle wounds afterwards.

I lost a whole pound of blood....but gained it back. lol. ANyways....here's some pictures of friday night when Aunt Kathy, Karen, Grandma, and Kyle came over to bake cookies and eat pizza! Thats all.... Merry Christmas EvE to everyone!

Our tree adventure!

the final product
Ruth decorating
kinda blurry but the tree lit up
a different angle

So we got our tree on friday. we set it up on friday. this took hours...

the trunk was too small for the stand so we had to make adaptations. We ended up with some wierd mixture of boards, newspaper, and fastfood cups. We thought we were done...

So Saturday morning we decorated the tree. As Mom was putting the final touches on it, the tree tipped and almost came out of the stand!

So..... she had to go pick up Nana for her birthday lunch and left Dad, Brian and I to deal with the tree (nice right). Anyhoo, we fill the stand with sand which meant going outside, digging throught the snow and the frozen ground until we found usable sand. The tree still isn't perfect but it's either we leave it or we all give up on it.

so This year we have a tilting tree but that's okay because Christmas isn't about having a perfect tree is it?

So... um.....

HI!!!

2 weeks

alright boils and ghouls, i figure that i should say to have a merry christmas. if i do not call you, it is not intentional, i just wont have time. i also wanna say i got two weeks until i come home.....

now for some more serious things. yesterday i went to see my command career counsler because i am up for orders. when he showed me what i have available, i figured i would turn to you guys and tell you. there were, orders for me to stay in japan for another 2-3 years, i could go to guam and be deployed to iraq, i could also go to san diego and be deployed to iraq, or i could go to norfolk(and be deployed to iraq). now comes the dilema, what do i do. i seethose and i could be either away from family for a long time, go to iraq and possibly be killed due to me most likly being in a convoy as a .50 cal gunner(we all have heard the stories about convoys, or i could wait and see what orders are availible for me next month, which could very well be the same as this months. just figured i would let you all know.

Karen's lucky day

As you all probably know, Karen had surgery yesterday to "reduce her assets". She is doing fine! Today I took this photo and had to share it! If I haven't called or e-mailed you, it hasn't been intentional. Just busy!

Since this is a family blog and well, we are in "mixed company", I'll just say that what has always been a dream for Karen, is now a dream come true.