THANKSGIVING

For Thanksgiving we were going to go to a friends house with some ladies from our FRG but, her kids got sick the day before.  So, I ended up hosting it.  I had agreed to sub that day so all the cleaning and grocey shopping was done after school!  Boy, was I tired! Luckily I didnt have to make the turkey>  Carie was going to take it to Ronica's, so instead she just brought it here and it was a pot luck, so I didnt have to cook too much.  We had a packed house and it was a lot of fun.  I thought that I took pictures, but I can't seem to find them.

We had a pretty tough year, but there is a lot to be Thankful for despite it all!

#1 is that My God IS, WAS, and, WILL ALWAYS BE!  Just like the song says....no matter what life throws at us, HE is always there to hold us up!  I have been HELD BY GOD pretty much this whole year.

#2 Great Friends, or shall I just call them angels??  God has put some pretty awesome women in my path this year.  Some I have known for a while but have gotten much closer to over the deployment.  All of my friends have been like little angels all year long.  They were the arms of God!  I just hope that in some way I was their angel too.

#3 My kids and my Wonderful Husband - Nothing can keep you humble like a three year old!  haha, The kids have had a much harder time with this deployment.  I don't know why...maybe because they are older, or it could be having to deal with losing their baby brother too.  But, they have been my rock!  There has been a lot of fighting and refereeing that I had to do, lol.  But they keep me going all the time ;)  Jerome has been so far away, but thanks to technology we have been able to stay connected.  Skype is wonderful!  I love you Jerome, and I am so thankful to have you as my husband.  I am so excited to see what the coming years have in store for us.

I let my preggo Australian friend, Elesha, talk me into going shopping at 4AM the next day!  I didn't buy much, but it was a lot of fun!

Nevermind...

the pool is closed.  Maybe Hillberg to go tubin in a little while :)

More to come...

Right now the kids want to go to the gym to go swimming.  I don't really want to go, but maybe they will all take a much needed NAP afterwards.  Plus, I can use a little hot tub myself, hehe.

November

We finally got some snow!!

Jerome came home for R&R

Jadyn was Daddy's little helper at the bow simulator at Arctic Oasis.

We went bowling with Daddy.

Jerome helped Jared's class dissect salmon, YUCK!

We put up the Christmas Tree.

Daddy watched, then we just played around!

We went to the waterpark.

We had Christmas and Thanksgiving all inthe same day!

We got a new couch, YEA!

Jerome left right before Thanksgivng to go to Alabama on his way back to Afghanistan.  Hopefully he will be home sometime in February.  We had a good time together.  We can't wait for our family to be whole again :)

October

I know I haven't posted in a LONG time!  I hear ya!  So the next post are gonna be a month at a time, hehe.  October was pretty busy.  Let's see -

We ALL had the SWINE FLU!  That was a lot of fun...NOT! 

But then we all got better and my friend, Erin Fannin, came to visit from Alabama.  I don't think we had seen each other since my wedding in 1994!  She came down Halloween weekend after an invitation on Facebook, lol.  That is how we reconnected.  Love FB!!  The kids and I had a fun time showing her around town.  Anchorage had not gotten any snow yet, but she got to see a little bit in Girdwood and at the ER Nature Center.

Precious got her cast off, but had to wear a bandage for a while.  One of her pins had come loose and pushed through her skin...but even with all that she seemed to be much happier with a little bit of mobility!

We had an 80's themed program day at PWOC.

Jadyn and Jared passed out onthe couch was just too cute!

Jadyn got an Alaskan Kuspuk, too cute.

Jadyn was an AL cheerleader at the Halloween Town event, but it was too cold to go trick or treating in so she was her poodle again on Halloween.  But, I don't know how much warmer she was BECAUSE, she didnt wear any SHOES!!!!!  We were almost done when I realized she only had on socks!  But, it didnt slow her down one bit, lol.

Jared was the white ninja from GI Joe, but opted for the warmer dinosaur on Halloween :)

Justin was Obee Wan Kinobe (sp?)

That was pretty much October...