Well I am working on getting things finalized for R&R.  Today I booked our hotel and our rental van.  Vince will be absolutely thrilled that I have gotten all that done today.  He's kinda been chompin' at the bit lately.  Oh, and I got his driver's license renewed online as well (as it expires in a couple of days ( Read more... )

My daughter is with my mom for a few hours, and my son is asleep.  I have no idea what to do with myself.  It's weird.

Anyway, R&R is creeping closer and closer, the more I forget about it and let the days pass (how can they not pass quickly with two little kids), the closer we get.  Although I'm not great about forgetting about it.

I'm trying to ( Read more... )

 Will people stop talking about R&R?  I realize that we are 90% done, but we still have 10 dang percent left, so let's just keeep our mouths shut about this for now, can we ( Read more... )

So I've been accused now of not being a "real" Photographer because of the camera I use.  I'm sorry, but I am a small woman with small hands and I actually PREFER a camera that is a bit smaller and fits my hands better.  Let alone the sheer weight of it.

If you don't like my work.  Fine.  But don't accuse me of not being good because I use a small ( Read more... )

Dude, do some women get their panties in a bunch over everything?

This is what I said to her:

We could we have different ideas of what a "deployment" is, but days remaining on a deployment, whether to Iraq or Afgainstan, on a ship, on a training "deployment", anywhere away is considered info to protect.

Anything else is PERSEC (personal security), ( Read more... )

 It's a beautiful morning and I'm sitting outside on the new back porch watching our children play.  Kaylyn is running around from the swingset to her new playhouse to her car that she got for her 2nd birthday.  Mason is sitting on the concrete eating fruit loops out of a bowl with a sippy cup of milk.  Okay now he's standing.  Every little bit I ( Read more... )

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So we got home from the family reunion a couple of hours ago.  It was a 3 day event with meals and activities and all that jazz.  It was nice to spend time with family, but weird to spend time with those that I've never met before ( Read more... )

Okay, I was playing with my camera tonight.  And took some self portraits.  I thought I looked halfway decent, otherwise I wouldn't be posting them.  I have lost some fat and  toned up because a month ago there is no way in Hades that I could have gotten into either of the shirts that I was wearing in these pictures.  I haven't lost much weight, ( Read more... )

So after I posted about not hearing from Vince, I got an email from him this morning.  It was very sweet, explaining how the internet is up and down a lot and how he went and stood in line to get on a  MWR computer so he could let me know that he was okay and that he'd try his hardest to contact me as soon as possible.  Oh, and then he had to go ( Read more... )