And then there were

 four!

 

 

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April 30th, 2009

        Here is where I would normally post a photo, but at the present moment I haven't got one! Not of all four of us leastways- and anyway, one of us, I won't name any names, is the shy sort and always manages to hide whenever a photograph is being taken.
        A small update on our lives since I last posted on March 31st of last year. Nate is now a recruiter in Redding, a job for which he holds no affection in the slightest. It does however mean that we're not in Kansas with Nate deploying which is what would have happened had he not been going recruiting at the time the orders were received. There is a very strong possibility that we'll be moving to Fort Lewis at the end of next year- a move which holds both good and bad possibilities. One of the good sides to being in Lewis is that Nate would be back on a line unit and therefore once more around guns, something that would delight his heart. Going back to getting up at 5:30 every morning would not however. Good side number two is that it would also mean us living near an Army base! Something I have very sorely missed. I loved my PX and Commissary and would have them back again- not to mention going back to the land of the in-shape; Redding's landscape on that score is nothing short of dismal. Good side number three is that we would be OUT of California! I cannot express just how much I loath the socialist state of California. Someday far into the future perhaps they'll discover something in California that is not illegal to do, but the longer I live here the more doubts I have of that ever happening. Good side four is that we'd be closer to home and the thought delights my heart!
         Alright, now for the downside and it's such a major downside too; the chances of Nate deploying at Lewis is very, very high. I hate the thought of him deploying so much!! Words cannot express how much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 31st, 2008

I just posted some photos from this past month. :D Hopefully I'll get some videos up soon, as well. Check them out!

 

February 11th, 2008

Ultrasound photo's have been posted! Click here.


 

   October 30th, 2007

      Wow, I guess it's been over a month since I've posted! I would say shame on me, but I don't actually feel all that guilty about it :P You would think I would, being a female as I am, with an overdeveloped guilt complex (which I blame almost in its entirety on you mom! It's certainly like mother, like all of her daughters in this case) and a tiny bit on Eve, because it's fu to blame things on Eve.
    Ok, now for the "what's new" department. Nate was informed last Friday by the guy he will be going to Sniper school with, that he is indeed going to Sniper school. The Army, being the Army, hadn't bothered to inform Nate through the conventional methods, nor even through his AKO email which would have been the civil thing to do. Instead 'It' let Nate find out through word of mouth that he was going to be leaving, which Nate was able to confirm by actively searching through some database which I guess had been updated to him going. You really do have to love the Army, they teach so many good values! The will to search out and discover things of vital interest on your own time and initiative being one of them. Many, many thanks by the way to the guy who bothered to inform Nate; he's made it possible for Nate to actually have some time to prepare rather than having it just sprung on him days before he had to leave. Speaking of leaving, it would appear, (unless our great fighting force changes its mind on a whim, which is possible) that he'll be leaving February 24th and getting back April something. Please pray that God does what He wants with that whole situation.
      About the whole Corporal Recruiting deal, Nate talked to Sergeant Mabee about it, and was pretty much told that the reason Sarg. Mabee hated it so much is because he'd been ordered about a great deal. The hours I guess didn't faze him all that much. Neither Nate nor I know for sure yet if he's going to try for it, the long hours being a huge factor, although if you get right down to it he won't be gone much more than he is now! Awful I know but depressingly true.
    Many thank by the way to Miriam, Ruth, Susie, Tammy, Sean and Abe for writing us! We both love getting your letters, and appreciate it so much. I'm sorry I haven't been better with writing you back, but I did want you all to know that we do love your letters and look forward to getting them.
    Also thank you so much for the recipes mom! I also received your letter a few days ago-thank you so much for writing it, it was very, very nice to get. :D
   

"And when he gets to Heaven, To Saint Peter he will tell: "Another soldier reporting Sir, I’ve served my time in hell."

^ Nate appreciates this line for the staggering volume of truth it holds for those stationed at Fort Irwin, California; especially those lucky enough, as he, to serve with men of such loyalty, courage, integrity and honor. ;-)
 

 

 

 

 

    September 18th, 2007 

      Well, for all of you morbid curiosity driven seekers, I've actually listed three of my dresses! Startling I know, but I've actually done it. There seems to be alot of interest in them already, so Lord willing they'll sell.
       I'd like to take this opportunity to make a remark about the average cow that seems to populate this lovely area and it's surrounding vicinity. These cows, also referred to laughingly as Army Wives, have an irritating propensity towards lumbering, which they practice with a vengeance everytime an ordinary mortal happens to be unlucky enough to fall behind one in the commissary, PX, or any other building for that matter where it is at all possible to block the aisle. Of course, luckily for the Army Wife (AW) they don't have to worry unless the width of the aisle exceeds twelve feet or so (I dare anyone whose ever come in contact with an AW to clam that as an exaggeration.), in which case they then take their cart and thrust it in the way; if they don't have a cart, a small (ha!) child works as well. I recall mom giving a bitter recital of the horrors she had been made to pass through on her trip to get Shannon's reception dinner last time we were there, all involving bovines of varying degrees who considered it their sworn duty to all the other bovines of the world to block the aisle with their hideously large selves, while either staring blankly before them at the vegetables (what are those strange looking things anyway?) or reaching in slow motion for a box of Little Debbie's with their huge arms, fat swaying in the wind.
       I'm not trying to claim that all AW are fat, mind you. I know there are some out there that aren't.. I've even met one! But finding an AW without extra padding is about as common as finding one who doesn't act like a fishwife of the vulgerist sort. Their charming tendency towards horsely screaming at their ill-behaved children in public gives them that extra refined quality, while the language they enjoy using has made my ears tingle more than once.
      The men here are bad, that's for certain, but at least they try on the rare occasion, the women don't even make a pretense. If these then, these degraded, common, trashy, overweight bits of womanhood are what's standing behind 'America's strongest', we're in trouble.

 

On a lighter note I talked with Lind's wife again; she's certainly the nicest one I've met yet :)
 


 

 

 Hum... I think the background needs a little bit of work... I'll try and figure it out later :P
Anyway, I've put up a photo and a video; it's not much but it's a start! Just click on the link below
to look at them :D

    The above photo is of us in Washington D.C. A tell tell giveaway might be the green foliage
behind us, the likes of which is nowhere to be found at Irwin, with the exception of the luxurious
greenery they plant in abundance about the officer's housing. (that was not a bitter remark!)

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