On the Road

Well, I thought I would blog that we made it to wonderful Texas. It was a very long trip was it was good. Lucky we were so blessed to have good weather on the trip. We were scared because when we were packing the car it began lighting all across the sky, then while we were locking up the house it began pouring raining. So we said a prayer and by the time we stopped for gas and snacks and went to Jeremy's unit to sign out he had stopped raining. Then from then on we never saw another lighting strike or any more rain. It is amazing that the Lord listens and answers our questions. I am thankful for that.

Well, here are some things I learned from the trip:

1) I will never try to leave for an 16 hours trip at midnight. It does not matter if you slept the day before, you are still going to be tired.
2) 909 Miles is WAY to far to go in one day. We will always take 2 days from now on. The last 8 hours was really hard. So we are leaving a day earlier to take 2 days to get back.
3) I can't sleep in a car. We keep trading off drivers but when it was my turn to sleep I was never able to actually sleep. Jeremy would be asleep in 10 minutes after I got behind the wheel.
4) Outside of Baton Rouge, LA there is an long bridge that goes over a marsh area. Well, at the beginning of it is a really cool rest stop. They had a little 4 minute video with talking animal dolls about the animals in the marsh. It was nice to be out of the car for awhile.
5) Louisiana is a very boring and long state to go straight though on I-10.


So, here are some of our pictures from our trip here. I will post posting some more of here and then when we head back. Enjoy!

Jeremy and Sweet Pea at the Mississippi Sign!

The tunnel you go though in Mobile, Alabama


The Alabama Sign.

Us at the Alabama Sign Rest Stop. We were just in the parking lot not in front of the sign.

7 Wonderful Years

Okay, today was our Anniversary and it kinda slip by. We went out to eat for it then so today it was just a day trying to get things done around the house. I mean today we had people working on our AC for hours and then working on the ceiling and walls to cover the holes back up.

So now I decide to sit down and make this video and write this out for Jeremy.

I just want to say Happy 7th Anniversary. I could not believe that it has been 7 years, time is flying by. LOL! Anyways, It has been great years, yeah we have had our rough times but with faith things always worked out. I am so blessed. We have been many places and been able to do many things and I wished to be able to see more places together with the many years we have together. I love you Jeremy and am so happy withyou.

Happy Anniversary!
PS) The song is a Disney song, but if you know us we love Disney and this song fits up.

Hard at Work

Okay so now that I feel like a big goof ball. I never realized that my laptop had a place just to stick the memory card. Now I feel stupid but anyways here are the pictures I promised. Also a video of him at work.



This is a picture of the convoy he was in.

Jeremy He looks tired because they were just wrestling around

This is the Iraq city that they train in. Pretty cool!


Okay this is a before and the next one is after.

This is the Humvee stuck in the sand. Yes, all the way to the door.

I could not belive how far the tires were up to sand.

Now this is the picture after Jeremy pulled the Humvee out of the sand.



Okay this is the video of Jeremy pulling the Humvee out of the sand.
That is Jeremy that you see in the vehicle.

Stepping Up the Ladder

Well, I guess I have not updated laterly. Jeremy finally got home from the field for good now. Jeremy took the camera out to the field to take some pictures of him at work, but when he got back home the camera would not work. So they are on the memory card, I just need a way to put them on the computer, so once I figure that out they will be posted. I did get another cheap camera off Craigslist. I can't figure out how to get the pictures off the card using this camera. But, I will figure it out.

Anyways, on better news today Jeremy was official pinned (or velcro) as a Specialist in his unit. He is now an E-4 just one step higher. Now, the next thing is Segrent which will take a while to get. He got to get the points and then go in front of the board so we have a long way to go, but he plans on starting to work on it. So Jeremy is excited. His SGTs and other guys congratulated him in their "army" ways. They made him get down and do push-ups and then dumped about three 5 gallon buckets on him. Wow, Guys, what can I say?! At least they took his cell phone out of his pocket.

Oh, and other words the leave was approved so we are leaving August 30 at midnight for Buna, Texas and have to be back to check in by Midnight on September 13. So Texas here we come!

Every Thing is falling Apart

Okay so this post might be a little negative but I am kinda in a sour mood right now.... That might be because I am sitting here alone at 2:00 am in the morning sweating so bad that I cant sleep. So now you know why I am sour let me back up and beginning at the beginning.

Okay, This is to family and friends in Texas, we change the dates on going home. This is all still if it gets approved. But right now we will leave GA at midnight on August 30 and will stayed there the 11 or 12 of September. It is a 14th hour drive or so, so we are going to try to make it down there in one day but we are thinking of taking 2 days to come back due to we know we will be tired from visiting families in the area. I hope to see everyone... I know we are going to Buna Ward that Sunday but we got to get his family into the time frame too. Kim and Adam... That Friday we will be down. (September 4) Jeremy has made plans with his, mom, and Grandpa to go to the PNG game. Sorry, I have no reason or nor do I want to go to a PNG game. LOL! Sorry any PNG fans out there. So I think he will spent alot of the day with his mom and grandparents. So my question Adam and Kim I might come and spend some time with yall if you dont mind why he spents time with them that evening.....Just let me know if you mind!

So anyways about my house. Tuesday night Jeremy was making something in the kitchen and he opened the silverware drawer to find the tray filled with water.... Asking me why water was in the drawer so I jumped off the couch and run to the kitchen about this time we find out that the counter is covered in water. So we start looking to see if a cup or something leak but nothing. Then I looked up to see water running down the cabinet doors. Great. So I get on a chair and sure enough the wall above the cabinet is damp and the ceiling. So this is 9:00 pm so I have to call emergancy maintanice. Of course we though it was the upstairs neighbor's water heater might have busted or leak, and they have been gone a week. So they go get the MPs to go up there and found no sign of water, so now it is in the ceiling between my ceiling and my upstairs neighbor's floor. So he saids he stop the leak and he will send someone back Wednesday to make sure it was good and seal up the holes that he had to drill in the wall. Well, later that night I notice more water but it was too late to call now so I put a towel down. Jeremy got up and put another towel down. When he called to ask me the number for maintanice I work up to that towel soaked and water all over the floor. So we called and they came out. The guy spend forever trying to get it patch. Even the suprivers came out to see what was taking so long. So 5 hours later they said they got it patch to stop leaking but will have to get a plumber to come look at it. Well, I did not know a plumber was coming by this morning so I was not home so then he came by at 5:30 and just looked at the hole in the ceiling and said he will talk to maintance tomorrow and see what they did and what will happen. They might have to shut the water off. GREAT! So I will see tomorrow how that goes. Well, I dropped my husband back off today to head back off to the field.
I guess that is when everything goes wrong so I have to deal with it. Well my AC has not been working too well but I did not want to complain anyone knows me I hate to complain or ask for help, Well tonight a storm hit and the lights went off for maybe 30 seconds to an minute. Well since then I just notice I kept getting hotter and hotter so I got up and looked sure enough it is 80 degrees in here. And if anyone knows me knows I hate it above 65 in my house. So I can't sleep in this weather.....UGH!

Okay enough complain onto another subject. I been talking about Jeremy and resigning. Well, yesturday Jeremy happen to be in the battalion and walked past the resignment person and he stopped Jeremy to let him know a couple of other issues with his resignment other then waiting till October. First is he has to take and past anothe PT test. No big deal there Last time he was injury when they had one so he missed out so it has been awhile. The second problem is kinda a big problem is his MOS is too full. So that means they are not resigning people with his MOS, so if he wants to stay in the Army he has to chose a new MOS that they are taking. Well, he has been thinking of changing his MOS anyways, so I guess this is his answers to prayers. Anyone who knows my husband knows he LOVES to cook and has always wanted to go to culitary school. When he orginialy thought about the army he wanted to be a cook but his recuirted talked him out of it. Well, now he has been thinking about honestly doing it. He could get so much education in culitary arts and even take culitary school while in the army. So that might be what he switches too. Just more to think about.

Well I really need to try to get some sleep even in this heat! Hopefully tomorrow my day will get better. Please hope it does!