Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving Day, I watched some of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Later I went to John & Katie's house. We had salad (put together by yours truly), smoked turkey, sweet potatoes, green beans with pieces of bacon, sweet carrots, and stuffing. We watched some football and later had some pumpkin & apple pie and played Appletters.

I had to work 9-5 on Black Friday. However since it was slow, I got off at 3:30. So I decided that on my way home I'd stop by Kohl's to see the deals they had going on. They had some good deals, but I surprisingly did not buy anything.

Yesterday morning I got to skype with Kevin!!! First time seeing his face live, since he left. It was great talking to him!! I can't wait for him to come home!!! Thankfully this deployment is half way over!!!!

Last night I had Elaine & Will over for dinner, a couple from my church.  Elaine & Will are my adopted parents. Even our last names are similar. Elaine is in the Women's Bible Study I go to on Tuesdays.

Random thoughts

*I can't believe Thanksgiving is next week!

*I now understand the saying "Being a Military Wife is one of the hardest jobs in the world." I definitely agree.

*I've been having trouble falling asleep at night. My mind runs a mile a minute with all sorts of things.

*At Bible Study this week, after class we filled two boxes with things for Operation Christmas Child. 1 box for a boy and the other for a girl. We pray God's blessings on the children who receive these boxes, that they will come to know about the love of Jesus.

*I've listened to the radio station that's playing Christmas music already, just in the car though.

*One reason I'm not putting up a Christmas tree this year:

Tomorrow

I'm so happy for my friend Wendy. Tomorrow her husband comes home from a 6 month deployment. They have 2 daughters.

I use to work with Wendy in Delaware. Her husband recruited Kevin to join the Navy. They got stationed in FL before we did. So we at least knew 1 couple before we moved here. After I got my license transferred, I started working with Wendy again. So I'm very happy that she'll be reunited with her husband TOMORROW!!!! :)  
This means that Kevin's deployment is almost half way over!!!! Hurray!!!! :)

Phone call

I got a phone call from Kevin today!!! It was the best hour 8 minutes & 16 seconds, saying "What?" "Huh?" and "You're gonna have to repeat that."  It was great hearing his voice again!!! :)  Yeah, I'm gonna be on cloud 9 the rest of the day!! :)  :)  :) 

The best family picture we can get for now.

Happy Veterans Day!!

Thank you to all the service men and women who have, who are currently and who will in the future serve our country for our freedom!!! Thank you to all the Veterans!! I'm so thankful and proud of MY Veteran!!

Another month

DONE!!! 3 MONTHS DONE WITH THIS DEPLOYMENT!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Tuesday the USS Roosevelt came home from a 7 month deployment. A family on my street has their Daddy back!! I can't help to think about Kevin returning home too!! :)



"May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other." - Genesis 31:49

If you're interested....

In seeing some of Jeff (my brother) & Holly's engagement pictures check out this link:

http://blog.katieriversphoto.com/2011/10/engaged-holly-jeff/

1 year ago

It's hard to believe that 1 year ago Buddy was only a 4 week old kitten.

Don't mind the boxes, we had just moved.