Hey everyone!

Sorry I haven't shared much on here lately. I guess I haven't felt there was much to share. It's tax season now, so Casey spends the majority of his time at work. He works really hard and I'm proud of him. I have been spending my free time after I get out of work at the gym and doing a scrapbooking project. Not much exciting to share with the family there. Haha. We've also been going to Mason basketball games, but there haven't been very many lately- although they did kick the butt of the number one team in our division the other night and it was AWESOME. And last weekend we went to a Professional Bull Riding event. It was pretty cool to see it live, although it didn't last nearly as long as we would have thought or liked. I guess the one cool, exciting (at least to me) thing I have to share is an experience I had yesterday. It's something I have been wanting to do for YEARS and thanks to my new job, I finally got to do it.

This is my target from my first time shooting a handgun. I've been wanting to learn for a long, long time and finally I got the opportunity to take a "field trip" to the PD training center with a few of the guys I work with. It made me even more excited to get knowledgeable and learn as much as I can about the components of a handgun, the safety, and how to shoot one- and shoot it well. I guess I didn't do too bad for my first try. They expressed again how much they want me to put in my application to be an officer. Haha. Anyways, this was just really exciting for me so I thought I'd share. I miss everyone lots and hope you are all doing wonderfully! Love love, Christie

Induction..

Well, it's official, I'm and Enfield/Canaan Lioness. I was inducted last Thursday evening. For those who don't know what this means, it's a group of women who do things in the community for those in need. Part of the fundraisers they do are the Enfield Family Fair and the Town Wide yard sale for Enfield. They donate money to good causes ($500 to project grad for example) and I hope to be a big part of that.

Me Again

I know I said I was done, but I figured out how to post my pictures from my phone.
This is the Frozen Hot Chocolate at Serendipity.

This is at a place called the Automat where they serve food like burgers and chicken fingers out of little coin operated vending machines. It was all bright pink and kind of futuristic. The boys had a blast. This would be a sweet album cover if we were a band. This was right across from Kyber Pass.

Remember Me

Hey, it's Karen. I know I've been a stranger lately, but I've been super busy. I have a crazy semester, but it's the last one, so YAY! Well, I am mainly here to post about my trip to New York. The last weekend of break before I had to come back to school I went to NYC to visit some friends from the circus and I had a BLAST. I was there from Sunday night to Wednesday and fit about as much as I could have possibly imagined. I went to some cool places (usually involving food) like Serendipity, which is a famous cafe that serves the famous Frozen Hot Chocolate, which was delicious. We also went to the Magnolia Cafe which is also famous (for yummy cup cakes). Other places we went were a cool Japanese barbecue restaurant, Burritoville and Khyber Pass which is an afghan restaurant with hookahs, which is basically flavored tobacco. It was my first time, and it was really fun. We ended up being there for like four hours, it was great. Unfortunately, a lot of the pictures I took were from my cell phone and I'm not sure I can upload pictures from there, but I will if I figure out how. Here are a few.

This is from the Guggenheim museum, which was just ok, but we figured out this is where Will Smith chases the alien in the first scene of Men in Black, which is pretty sweet.

This is Washington Square Park, just something I thought everyone would recognize.

This is my artsy picture at Khyber Pass, the Afghan place. I had a Red Mimosa (Champagne with cranberry) which was yummy and a slice of cheesecake (we had just eaten at the Japanese place, so I was pretty full)

A good story of my trip involved being accosted by an angry Italian guy. My post is pretty long already, so I'll give the condensed version. We were walking along the street and this guy was talking to the girl in Italian. The girl said "I'm telling you, I don't speak Italian!" My friend (Toy Store, whom I adore) decides, jokingly, to say in a loud voice the only Italian word he knows, which I can't spell, but in english is the F word. Well, we keep walking and I hear the guy yelling at us in Italian behind us and next thing I know, we're at the corner of the street and he is right behind us and goes up to my friend who uttered the expletive, right in his face and starts yelling at him in his strong accent "You got something to say to me? You want to say something to me, you say it to my face!" And on and on and my other friend had to separate them, saying it was just a joke, he was joking. Finally the guy backed off because Toy Store (a nickname given at the circus, in case you were wondering) backed away. The best part was that he was SO italian. He had the black slicked back hair, with the first couple of buttons undone on his shirt, revealing his chest hair and a cross necklace. I found the whole incident very entertaining. There is one other wonderful story, which I will tell at a later time because I've so far written a novel, and I shall give you all a break, but I just wanted to check in and touch base with everyone about my life. More to come later!

just so everyone knows, I have cervical cancer and I'm going to do radiation so I wont die.





ok, it's not cancer. but it could be if I dont get it fixed. It's actually called high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions. me and mom checked it out online (if you decide to also, don't look at the images, they are disgusting). But I'll be ok I suppose. That's it.

MORE ON ME!!

Just cause theres not much going on on here and I'm pretty excited about this...
I got together with George and Luke ( vox/guitar and drummer for the band) on Monday, and we kicked our bassist out of the band. I will now play bass, and will be using one of our friends' bass until I can get one of my own. We have about 25 songs written and will be going through them to decide which ones we will use and which ones we won't. Some are from the first time around, but most of them are new. hopefully we will be practicing soon and will be able to record some so I can share with those who may be interested.

There isn't much news on the landscaping bussiness, we haven't been able to get together about that, but hopefully soon!

and well seeing how I'm eighteen now, I figured i'd say I didn't realize how big of a pain it is... I get constantly asked to buy cigarettes for people, or lottery tickets (i do neither) but It's starting to get old...

Anyhoo... That's what's going on at this point...

Are You There??

How about saying hello?

GODPARENTS!!!!!!!

Finally justin and i have come to an agreement on who is going to be our babys godparents. now honestly it was easy for the godmother who is going to be jenn. we think that she will take it seriously and i have always wanted her to be it so there was no hard decisions for either of us because i was already settled and justin agreed. as for the godfather man was that hard to choose the only reason was because justin wanted to pick but i knew that if it was either of the two he chose it wouldnt of been taken seriously they would just think it was a name and thats it. well then i threw a couple of people out to him and he choose one of them so our babys godfather is going to be kyle. i am very excited and when i asked him and jenn they both were very excited kyle even called people on his fathers side to tell them. i think that justin and i have made really good decisions and now i have to do more baby planning. oh geez so much to think about. so much planning but i say just take it one step at a time. love all of you and miss everyone!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday, DJ!

Remember when he was small?

Now he's not, he's 18 after all!

I just want to say that I love you and Happy 18th!

Love, Mumsie

home

hey guys made it back safe and sound. i was just looking at the orders the have available to me and saw 4 chances to be in virginia and 1 being in bahrain. i am gonna ask for the bahrain first, then pc crew kilo, lima,and india(all three of those are little creek virginia), then to norfolk as a last resort to CG 55 the Leyte Gulf. yes this means there is a 75% chance of me staying in the military. just figured i would let you all know.