Texas

Ahhh, Texas. I will not miss you at all. That is the craziest place! The roads are totally backwards, they all go in circles so the only good part is that you can't really get lost because if you stay on the highway long enough eventually you will circle back to where you started. It was a good trip though overall and it was really great to finally be able to see Beth again. I missed my sis!

This was the morning of the graduation parade. The sun doesn't rise until like 0730 in Texas, it was weird. But Friday morning was freezing cold and super windy and we had been at the parade grounds since 0700 so that we could find a place to sit. All of us huddled on the bleachers and prayed for the sun to hurry and come out to warm us up. The little people in the picture are all of the female T.I.'s that marched the flights. March is apparently Women's month in the Air Force so the day of Beth's graduation was the day that the AF let the female TI's march the flights instead of the TI's that they had had for the past 9 weeks.

I took a ton of pictures but there's one of her sayin the oath. The other one is a picture of her after she got done in the ID office. She was very excited to have her ID, it was very stressful for her to get it.

We didn't do a whole lot while we were there. Hung out with Beth a lot. We drove by the Alamo but didn't stop, no one wanted to go see half of a brick wall. We did go down to the Riverwalk one night and it was packed, so busy! The AF let the grads have a few extra hours off base one night if they bought discounted tickets to the Spurs game so we saw our first NBA game. All in all, it was just really great to be able to see Beth again. She's in California now for school and was told that they'll maybe be able to come home sometime in October or November maybe, but for sure she'll be able to come home for Christmas! And she has her cell again so we get to talk to her a lot now.

How are your worlds? Love ya!

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Those darn faries are so stinkin unreliable! They never showed!!! LOL Saturday night I got the bathroom, laundry room, and my/Sierra's room cleaned. Scrubbed, swept, mopped, vacuumed, dusted. I don't know why I'm being so anal, I just don't want this girl to come to my house and think that we live like slobs. We don't, I promise! I have 2 dogs, 2 cats, 5 people living in the house and don't forget the toddler that we watch once a week. I could clean all day every day but I just don't have time. I've reseigned myself to the fact that the house is as clean as it's going to get and everyone is just going to have to live with it.

On the bright side, I was able to get some stuff done. I had a pedicure yesterday and I got my hair cut today. I packed the bag that Beth asked me to pack for her and I am almost conpletly packed. The only things that I have left to pack are the daily essentials that I can't pack until I get off work tomorrow. Our flight leaves tomorrow night at 1155pm. I'm so excited to go and see my sis!!! I'll try to post pictures and everything while I'm down in San Antonio but if I don't I'll post when I get back. Adios!!!

Where are my faries???

I am T-Minus 5 days and counting until I leave for Texas and I am so NOT ready. The floors are dirty, the bathrooms and bedrooms look like war zones (and I just did the bathroom 4 days ago). I was able to dust one, yes only one, room yesterday but the rest of the house still has to be done, the bedding needs to be washed, and there are a million loads of laundry that need to be washed. I'd like to know where my cleaning faries are? It's so hard to find good help these days, and the cleaning faries seem to be so unreliable. So, faries, if you're reading this, could you please stop by and clean for me!

The good news, the girl that will be staying at the house was finally able to come over last night and meet the animals. They really liked her so that's one less thing that I have to worry about. I forgot to tell her about a million things so I started a list, it's already 2 pages long.

I'm totally excited to go and see Beth, it's felt like forever since I saw her last. It's really only been 8 weeks but it feels like longer when I can't see or talk to my sis everyday.

Hopefully the faries will show and get some stuff done. If not, I have Sunday off so I'll be cleaning then. Yea!!!

Oops

So if this says anything about how often I check my camera lately......

I was uploading the pictures from my camera so that I had 2 clean memory cards for the trip next week and this is what I found. It's from October when I had Connor for the night!!! Jess took my camera that night and was playing with it at the hockey game. I think this was the only time that Connor was calm, he played with the pink glow in the dark bracelet for awhile, he loved it. He was so great the whole night. I think I laughed the entire time I had him because he yelled all through the hockey game and really got into it when the players fought! He's such a great kid. Thanks again Krista and Chris for letting me keep him for a few hours!