{Our New Journey}

Seven and a half years.....two tours in Iraq.....and the long process of a med board....The Mr is finally medically retired from the Army.  It was a hard decision to make.....but we are happy to start down this path of our life.
Long story short.....I don't want to go into the past and tell all the decisions that we had to make....rather what's going on now.  :-)  WE MOVED TO SPOKANE WASHINGTON!!!  It was a hard decision to move away from family and friends and even the school.....but we are also excited to be here with family and friends.
We have moved in with our sister and her husband and family.  We are renting the upstairs of their house.  It's really nice and it's working out great for all of us.  :-)  The Mr is enrolled at SFCC for summer quarter and I am looking for a job.  The Mr's Dad, Big C has offered to watch the boys when our schedules over lap and that is a huge blessing to us.
We have been busy busy with unpacking and organizing things.....lots of things to get into small places lol Even with all the stuff that we purged before we moved I'm finding myself purge even more....which is a good thing!  :-D
So far this is the journey that we are traveling.......And I'm going to do my best to keep up with this blog again.  :-D

Luvs!

{My Stinky Camera}

I'm really not too sure why.....but my camera has been acting really weird and this has been going on for months and months now.  It's been really really frustrating.  Now, I have JUST realized two things.....

1. I haven't been taking as many pictures I would like to....or should be.  I thought it was because of the whole camera thing...then I thought that maybe it was becasue I was fat (but I was usually behind the camera so it couldn't have been that).....I realized that I had really only been taking pictures because The Mr had been in Iraq and I hadn't wanted HIM to miss out on the kids growing up!  UGH EYE OPENER.....I don't want me or  him or THE KIDS to miss out on them growing up either! DUH!
2. AND the stinky camera has been acting up....I'm able to get a couple pictures here and there, but not many and it's never a sure thing that it will even turn on.  I am able to use the camera on my phone, but come on that doesn't really take very good pictures and you have to wait FOREVER to take another picture.....and then you can't take very many of them.....and then you have to send them individually to your email only to download them to your computer to download them to blogger.....UGGGHHHH!!!

Yupp......that's how it's been going.....uh huh......so I have these rechargable batteries that I have been using FOREVER with my camera.....like since I got them.....and my loverly sister reminded me that sometimes those things die too.....ummm....yah so I'm going to hopefully replace those soon and see if that works.....because I'm getting really sick and tired of not having a camera.

SOOOOOO on to my other reason for this post......well I've also realized that I've had it stuck in my head that I need pictures to update our family blog......I'm not too sure why.....I'm sure that pictures ARE nice to be able to see how the kiddos are growing up and how they look, but I'm sure ya'll would also like to just hear how they are doing....atleast while we'r figuring out this whole camera thing right??  Ummm kay....well since I actually have no clue if anyone even reads this I'll just pretend that ya'll do....kay.... :-)
So, I'm going to try harder to:

1. Post more often even though I won't have pictures to go along with them.....or if I do they will be lame ones from my phone lol
2. And when we do get everything figured out with the camera I will start taking pictures more often even though The Mr is no longer in Iraq :-D (which we are all SOO ever greatful for!!!)

Much Luvs for now!!!  :-D

{Update Dates}

So I have a question for those of you that read this.....I have quite a few posts that I need to get up here from this past month. :-) Would you simply like them as they come & have the dates on there that I actually write them.....or should I past date them so they go with the events?? Please leave comments to let me know which ya'll prefer. :-)
Thank you for your help!!!
Luvs!

{Arg...Computers...}

Well, it's not really the computer's fault.....it's the ridculous people that think it's 'fun' to write nasty virus and ruin people's computers...people they don't even know! ARG!
Somehow there was a nasty virus on our computer that I wasn't able to fix with our scans. :-S It was NOT fun! Thankfully we were blessed with a great deal with an external harddrive, so we didn't have to worry about our pictures....we have other things on our computer that would suck if we lost it, but NOTHING compared to the worry of lossing our pictures! So it took a while to get our computer into a shop, fix, & back up & working for us. Lame! But now I can update! lol So I'll be back blogging AGAIN! lol You'll get picutres though! & I have some pictures of Ace who also had his birthday that I'll blog. :-)
Thanks for hanging in there with me! :-)
Luvs!

{Updating in Progress...}

Okay, so I have been out of the loop lately....
I really want to be able to post things that have happened during our move and this summer...so as I have time and come across pictures I will be back dating....I know not fare, but it's better than not having them on here, and I can't stand for things to be out of order. :-) So that's that....please just bare with me as I get these things done. I am basically unpacking the house myself with not much help from the other five members...so I don't have too too much time.
Much Loves though to all of youse that are willing to wait it out for pics and information. :-)

Luvs!

{Our road trip is FINALLY over}

Well, we all made it here safe and sound. Each of us in one piece.....thankfully. :-)

Because of the time that we would have gotten there we opted not to go to Nauvoo, IL....we drove through the night and got to Salt Lake City area late July 3rd. We enjoyed the day with our brother Nicky and his really great girlfriend......then went on to visit with some friends of ours, the Powers. We left Mr E with them for a couple days as we went on to Butte, MT where the boys and I met The Mr's grandma from his father's side, for the first time.....and it had also been about 10 years since The Mr had seen his grandma and grandpa. It was really great being able to meet some more family. And we had a nice relaxing visit with them for a few days. Then it was on to Spokane, WA to visit with family there. We actually have quite a bit of family there and were able to see most of them, and even squeeze some wonderful friends in there too. :-) We stayed the night in Moses Lake, WA.....we missed some, but we're able to see others and hang out with them for a bit. This morning we headed out and made it to Puyallup, WA where we are now staying with my parents while we find a house. Wish us luck! :-)

{*sings*... On the Road Again, I just can't wait to get on the road again...}

Just wanted to let ya'll know that we are finally on the road. We are going to be making our way across the United States to Puyallup over the next week, stopping along the way to visit friends and family.

Our travels will take us from Fort Bragg, NC to Nauvoo, Ill. From there we will be heading to the Salt Lake City area and then on to Butte, MT. From Butte we will be heading across Idaho into Eastern Washington making stops in Spokane and Moses Lake. Finally we will make our way home to Puyallup.

If you are on our scheduled list of stops, we look forward to seeing you soon. If you are not, we are sorry we couldn't make it to everyone this time. Hopefully we will see ya'll eventually as things settle down.

As time and computer opportunities allow I will try and keep you updated!

{The Road has been Bumpy}

Here we are trying to PCSing back home to WA.......YEAH........this is our first PCS.....and we had no idea how long of an insane process this was going to be. We had such high hopes of making it to WA by mid-June.......what was I thinking......I'm not the one that plans things, the army does that for us! Arg! It has been one insane thing after another......at least we'll know these things next time. :-)
So we keep putting dates out there as to when we are going to be leaving from here......but we're still here......lol.....Fort Bragg doesn't want us to leave! :-)
I will write before we leave so that ya'll know what's going on.....really.....that's the best I can do. We won't have access to the internet while traveling, but as soon as we get to my parents' house I'll let everyone know how things are going.

{My First}

Okay, so I have heard about blogging....and I do have a myspace page, so does The Mr, and I also have one just for the boys......but I'm kinda getting bored with myspace, and I don't really write on there I do post pictures though. :-)
SoOoOo.....I thought I'd give this a try after seeing some friends on here.
Hope ya'll enjoy and we'll see how it goes updating it.......you know me! :-)