The park from our house!
Starbucks on base! I got a cold drink it was so hot that day.
Our McDonald's play area
Park by our hotel!
Yep we play a lot, not much to do in our hotel room.
- From my iPhone
Friday, January 27, 2012
Day 2 and 3
Our house from the park!
The park from our house!
Starbucks on base! I got a cold drink it was so hot that day.
Our McDonald's play area
Park by our hotel!
Yep we play a lot, not much to do in our hotel room.
- From my iPhone
The park from our house!
Starbucks on base! I got a cold drink it was so hot that day.
Our McDonald's play area
Park by our hotel!
Yep we play a lot, not much to do in our hotel room.
- From my iPhone
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Flying to North Carolina
I am doing this all from my phone so forgive that spacing, it tends to look messy.
Anyway, we are here!
We were in a flight at 6 am Sea-Tac to Texas then Texas to Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Everyone along the way was super nice and helpful. The security people thought I was crazy to be going with two kids and two cats.
This is only the rental car for two days but I love that the kids were so far apart they could not reach each other.
More to come as I have good pictures.
Ps. Jeff met us at the airport and all of us are thrilled to be together! :)
- From my iPhone
Anyway, we are here!
We were in a flight at 6 am Sea-Tac to Texas then Texas to Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Everyone along the way was super nice and helpful. The security people thought I was crazy to be going with two kids and two cats.
This is only the rental car for two days but I love that the kids were so far apart they could not reach each other.
More to come as I have good pictures.
Ps. Jeff met us at the airport and all of us are thrilled to be together! :)
- From my iPhone
Friday, November 25, 2011
The ride ain't over yet
Well gee golly gosh, its been a while since I put up a post on here, and I can't even entirely blame the army for my lack of blogging.
Well it has been a roller coaster of of ride these past few months, I think space mountain would be the best analogy for the roller coaster metaphor. Because the army loves to keep you in the dark and guessing at when the next turn might hit you.
Well lets see what can I say about the past 8 months, yikes has it really been that long. Here is a quick run down of the timeline.
April 18 - July 1 I ship out to basic training Fort Sill Oklahoma, my first taste of the army life taught to me by a Nigerian drill Sgt. I am taught the basics of being a soldier, shooting, marching, push ups, and most importantly actively waiting (its just like passively waiting but with an army twist). Doing all this in about 110 degree temp. For this segment of the ride we had some decent twist and turns but nothing too extreme.
July 8 - July 24 I am transferred to Golf Company at Fort Sam Houston in the middle of San Antonio TX. For this part the roller coast has come to a complete stop and the announcer is apologizing about technical difficulties. Golf is a reception company where the rest of the battalion comes for their manual labor needs. Very few kind words are spoken of this company, ok no one has a kind work for it. Time passes slowly and the days somehow added a few extra hours to the clock just to spite us.
July 25 - Nov 18 We move up the hill a few buildings to our new home, alpha company. Here the ride starts back up again. Our next 16 weeks will be spent here honing our drinkin..... i mean medical skills. The coarse is divide up into two sections. The first half is the civilian EMT basic certification. Unknown to us, we were selected to try out a new version of the chapter test. It didn't go very well the majority of the company was placed in mandatory study hall. Worked out great for me, much easier to do laundry when 60+% of the soldiers are gone. Overall one might call this the mandatory sobrity half of the coarse since so many folks were struggling very few were allowed to go out on the weekends. After a stessful nailbiting day, most people past the national registery test and become EMT's. In otherwords commence with the mass intoxication.
We now transition to the second half of the coarse, the army medic side. This is where we get to learn nifty little things like how to place a tube down your throat and other methods of hydration that don't require your mouth. Our class time is split between the classroom and the outdoors where we practice our new skills on eachother. It is here I learn something else about TX, flashflood. We didn't have one while i was here but i did notice during a down pour how it could very easily occur and how quickly. It also made me aware that our outdoor practice area was the low point in the drainage of the area and that you never saw the air force or navy practice anywhere close to the area.
As the weeks come and go we come to the end of our medic side of the training, culminating in 10 days spent in the field at the off site training groups called Camp Bullis. Here we rough it in climiate controled tents and hot chow shipped in to us. Here we both froze and sizzled all in the same day, wake up to 30 degree mornings and train in 80 degree afternoons. My favortie part was waving bye as we drove off in our bus.
At this point we are all but done, just waiting for the formality of graduation. Which turns out to be an over-hypte lack luster event. The ride comes to a halt and we unload just to get in line for the next one. And now here i sit waiting (a common theme in military life) for my next trasition, jumping out of perfectly good airplanes just to see if gravity still works. Sorry for the lack of pictures but everything is in camo so it all blends together anyways.
Well it has been a roller coaster of of ride these past few months, I think space mountain would be the best analogy for the roller coaster metaphor. Because the army loves to keep you in the dark and guessing at when the next turn might hit you.
Well lets see what can I say about the past 8 months, yikes has it really been that long. Here is a quick run down of the timeline.
April 18 - July 1 I ship out to basic training Fort Sill Oklahoma, my first taste of the army life taught to me by a Nigerian drill Sgt. I am taught the basics of being a soldier, shooting, marching, push ups, and most importantly actively waiting (its just like passively waiting but with an army twist). Doing all this in about 110 degree temp. For this segment of the ride we had some decent twist and turns but nothing too extreme.
July 8 - July 24 I am transferred to Golf Company at Fort Sam Houston in the middle of San Antonio TX. For this part the roller coast has come to a complete stop and the announcer is apologizing about technical difficulties. Golf is a reception company where the rest of the battalion comes for their manual labor needs. Very few kind words are spoken of this company, ok no one has a kind work for it. Time passes slowly and the days somehow added a few extra hours to the clock just to spite us.
July 25 - Nov 18 We move up the hill a few buildings to our new home, alpha company. Here the ride starts back up again. Our next 16 weeks will be spent here honing our drinkin..... i mean medical skills. The coarse is divide up into two sections. The first half is the civilian EMT basic certification. Unknown to us, we were selected to try out a new version of the chapter test. It didn't go very well the majority of the company was placed in mandatory study hall. Worked out great for me, much easier to do laundry when 60+% of the soldiers are gone. Overall one might call this the mandatory sobrity half of the coarse since so many folks were struggling very few were allowed to go out on the weekends. After a stessful nailbiting day, most people past the national registery test and become EMT's. In otherwords commence with the mass intoxication.
We now transition to the second half of the coarse, the army medic side. This is where we get to learn nifty little things like how to place a tube down your throat and other methods of hydration that don't require your mouth. Our class time is split between the classroom and the outdoors where we practice our new skills on eachother. It is here I learn something else about TX, flashflood. We didn't have one while i was here but i did notice during a down pour how it could very easily occur and how quickly. It also made me aware that our outdoor practice area was the low point in the drainage of the area and that you never saw the air force or navy practice anywhere close to the area.
As the weeks come and go we come to the end of our medic side of the training, culminating in 10 days spent in the field at the off site training groups called Camp Bullis. Here we rough it in climiate controled tents and hot chow shipped in to us. Here we both froze and sizzled all in the same day, wake up to 30 degree mornings and train in 80 degree afternoons. My favortie part was waving bye as we drove off in our bus.
At this point we are all but done, just waiting for the formality of graduation. Which turns out to be an over-hypte lack luster event. The ride comes to a halt and we unload just to get in line for the next one. And now here i sit waiting (a common theme in military life) for my next trasition, jumping out of perfectly good airplanes just to see if gravity still works. Sorry for the lack of pictures but everything is in camo so it all blends together anyways.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Otter Crest
Our trip to Otter Crest (a picture is worth a thousand words so I will use very few)
Max and Gwen love the river.
Ice-cream for lunch
A baby show for little Cleatus Rash
More sand
The big party
Max can name all the chess pieces
Gwen rocks ladder golf
More sand
Costume party where Max and Gwen were my evil minions.
We are so tired now!
~ This blog comes to you from iDea (my iPad)
Max and Gwen love the river.
Ice-cream for lunch
A baby show for little Cleatus Rash
More sand
The big party
Max can name all the chess pieces
Gwen rocks ladder golf
More sand
Costume party where Max and Gwen were my evil minions.
We are so tired now!
~ This blog comes to you from iDea (my iPad)
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Ill es Finis
Ok it has been a long time since I took any language class but that is what I exclaimed happily so that is the title of the blog.
It is finished.
Max and Gwen's room is actually finally done.
Today I went through the room ruthlessly removing anything which they no longer use or really should have been stored elsewhere.
Now I just have to get all the crap out of the computer room!
Any way here it is...
The art is going to come down, I am hoping to find two bold Dr. Seuss type prints. The mirror is staying on the floor unless it seems unstable then I will create some sort of mounting for it but still keep it low on the wall.
And, the curtains have got to go. Yeah way to baby and not working in the color scheme. Anyway that is all after thoughts.
It is finished.
Max and Gwen's room is actually finally done.
Today I went through the room ruthlessly removing anything which they no longer use or really should have been stored elsewhere.
Now I just have to get all the crap out of the computer room!
Any way here it is...
The art is going to come down, I am hoping to find two bold Dr. Seuss type prints. The mirror is staying on the floor unless it seems unstable then I will create some sort of mounting for it but still keep it low on the wall.
And, the curtains have got to go. Yeah way to baby and not working in the color scheme. Anyway that is all after thoughts.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Beaching it Up
Max, Gwen and I went to the beach today and it was beautiful. Almost hot, slight breeze, tide way out and even a nifty new spout on the stream.
- From my iPhone
- From my iPhone
Monday, August 1, 2011
Actually Done for Real!
Now the furniture is actually really done. The dresser has all the knobs (two were defective and had to be returned). The bed has all its screws (umm oops forgot those but they are in now :)
I did enjoy redoing the furniture. It just took lots of patience and the babies got to watch lots of movies.
Love the red dresser! The original thought was to stain it dark but I had an inspiring moment and chose the color in less then 2 minutes at Lowe's (with two grumpy babies in the cart).
The crib will move out after Otter Crest and there might be some shifting once the change table is gone but the work is done!
Ok I might make some more dignified curtains too.
The mirror is going to live on the floor. How could they see themselves if I put it back on the dresser?
- From my iPhone
I did enjoy redoing the furniture. It just took lots of patience and the babies got to watch lots of movies.
Love the red dresser! The original thought was to stain it dark but I had an inspiring moment and chose the color in less then 2 minutes at Lowe's (with two grumpy babies in the cart).
The crib will move out after Otter Crest and there might be some shifting once the change table is gone but the work is done!
Ok I might make some more dignified curtains too.
The mirror is going to live on the floor. How could they see themselves if I put it back on the dresser?
- From my iPhone
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