Christmas day part 2

Here are more pics from through out the day..


Jenna showing us that she can pop the front of her skate board up.. she is such a cutie..
She was riding up and down the street.. AHHH look at the beautiful sun shine, palm trees, short sleeve shirts.. sure looks like a wonderful Christmas day :)

Here is JR taking a turn at the skateboarding. He was still pretty good for being 36 now..HAHAHA

This is Jenna playing the baseball game with Mycah. It was her turn to bat.

Mycah got the Simpson DVD's from my mom. He was very happy.. as you can tell by his smile :)

We all had a nice morning, the kids did not get a ton but they got enough. I think they are very happy with the stuff they got. We are all just glad to be together this year. We dont know what will be next year. JR will probably be over seas again. My dad would really like for me and the kids to come to AZ with my siblings and their families, but who knows what will be going on 365 days from now..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!

Christmas day

Well its almost 5pm, I am getting ready to start dinner.. alittle late I would say.. looks like we arent eating until like after 7..LOL.. oh well.. nothing else to do.

The kids have been playing Wii all morning.. Jr is included in "the kids". Every time someone else is playing.. he jumps around saying "let me play let me play".. he couldnt handle waiting his turn when Kendra and I were playing a game.. he's worse then the kids.

Jenna got a skate board.. she had never riden one before and after using it for awhile, she has become better. Of coarse as with the Wii.. she has to fight JR for the skate board too..LOL.. one of her best friends across the street got a skate board also.. and they have ramps (there are 4 kids in the family) so give it some times and I am sure she will be doing ramps.

Kendra got some hair extenstions in pink and black, and some ugg boots..

Christmas Eve

Well the night has finally arrived. Christmas Eve. Kids are laying down.. except Kendra who just walked up behind me. I worked this evening. They closed early, but I still didnt get out of there too early. But finally made it home. I am tired and ready for bed. Only afew more things to do!! Hope everyone is having a nice holiday season.

Kendra and I :)

Here is a picture of Kendra and I from yesterday. We went to the local pond and took some pictures. I will post more later but for now wanted to share this one :)

Christmas Break & update

The time is upon us. This is the last day I have to wake up this early to get the kids ready for school, until Jan 7th!! They are going to be out almost 3 weeks. Today is their last day. Jenna is taking some games with her, I guess they are having a game day. Yesterday was the last day of tests for Kendra and Mycah. Today is just a make up day for any students who missed a day of tests. Yesterday they could leave school at 1130 with a parents note.. so Kendra was like YES please.. so I picked her up early. Mycah wanted to stay.. Today Kendra is staying home since she has nothing to do at school.. Mycah is going, because he will be bored at home... LOL

Today is my day off, but I have to go in to work for at least an hour. My manager has a meeting and she needs someone to cover for her until she is done with her meeting. Tomorrow morning I have to go in at 5am, because the store opens early and I have to get the cashiers money ready for them. But I get off at 2pm.. so then I have the rest of Sat off and Sunday off.

And this weather.. OMG It is supposed to be 80 today. We are expected to break record highs today.. UGH whats up with this.. but by Sunday it is supposed to be back to like 55 as a high.

Hope everyone is having a great holidat season!!

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nice view of the walk way with wreaths laid on at the trees.

JR laying a wreath at a tree and cleaning up the area around the tree

This is the tree kendra picked to lay a wreath at. There was a nice red and white wreath there, but every tree got a fresh green one too.

this little boy was playing with the wind chimes that were at his fathers tree. He was very cute and I tried to get a pic without being all up in the families business.

this was the first family that broke my heart. This little girl and her mom, alone. THe poor little girl.. her mom trying to be strong yet she was crying too. There was another family that I did not get a picture of that brought Kendra and I to tears.. We will never forget this special memorable day.

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here are some more pictures from the Wreaths for Warriors Walk. This is the color guard who stood the whole time. They looked very nice.







This is the family members and soldier who were their specifically to go lay a wreath at a tree. I pray the day comes that this is never me!








The boy scouts were standing at the table with the wreaths. They handed them out to people as they came up to the table.








Jr and Kendra were looking cute in the stands







a beautiful picture in sepia tones!

Wreaths 4 Warriors Walk

Today is the day all around the country wreaths are laid on graves and memorials for our fallen soldiers. That includes placing wreaths at the memorial trees here on base. Mycah got to participate with JROTC and Jr Kendra and I went also to watch. We had the chance to lay a wreath also. I took lots of pics today. Some people I did not know I just liked the picture.

this is kendra and I.. well it was just supposed to be me in the car before we left, but as you can see Kendra found her way into my picture. Hard to beleive she was sitting on the OTHER side of the car!!

this is 2 rows of trees. There are over 400 trees. And a solier remember a fallen soldier.

Im dreaming of a white Christmas..!!

OK so I am learning the only white christmas I will have is if we go to the beach and I look at the sand!

The weather these last few days has been humid and in the middle 70's.. UGH whats up with that.. There was a little excitment last week when we got up to go to work and school and it was COLD outside and OMG there was actual frost on the ground.. I even had ice on my windshield and had to run my car for awhile before I left for work!

But here we are again.. another warm day. Yes yes I know everyone who is cold and has snow hates it.. I dont want to be somewhere where we get TONS of snow.. I just like alittle..kinda like in missouri, we never got a ton, but it was pretty.

Christmas Parade

Tonight was the local Christmas Parade in town. Mycah was in it with his high schools JROTC. He got to carry a state flag. Here are some pictures:

Low Iron

I didnt know if I mentioned this or not. I had my blood drawn back in Oct and a DR finally contacted me and left me a voice mail that my iron was really low. I tried calling them back but the nurse was not in the office. Well I got a letter in the mail with a Prescription. I have severely low iron. They have written me a prescription for a medicine to takeevery single day for 30 days. They I have to wait 2 months and have my blood drawn again to see what my levels are at.

I was shocked to see that my B12 levels were not low.. I hadnt had my shot since May.. and I was taking it every month. Well I was looking Anemia up online and found out that lack of B12 can cause low iron.. so I am guessing THAT is why..

Now I know. .and I have started my shots again..

Christmas Tree shopping

I was off ths weekend, so Jr the kids and I loaded up and drove to a place where you can cut down your own tree. When I was growing up I remember going every year and tagging our tree early and then going back at the beginning of Dec and cuttingit down ourselves.

Since JR and I have been married we have never been near a place where we could do that, until this year.. so we finally did it.. Took us awhile to pick a tree kids were fighting over which one to get.. finally I said I AM PICKING and I picked one.. Jr cut it, Jenna pushed it over so it would fall, and Mycah and Kendra carried it back to the car.. and I took pictures the whole time :)

this is Jenna standing by a tree she likedKendra asked, "what about this one?"

Jenna pushing over the tree as jr was cutting it (note the purse she could not put down while we were out and about even while pushing over a christmas tree)

Carrying the tree back to the car