Weekend Adventures Part 1

It has been such a nice two weeks. Hubby’s unit, after yet ANOTHER change by the “Big Army”, ended up giving them a suprise block of leave. So if soldiers had leave time left in the year, they were allowed to use it. This was great, since he has had almost an overabundance of allowed leave time since he deployed last. It would have all gone to waste really.  So he jumped at it. We spent the majority of it staying up late, sleeping in, and loafing around the house. The girls started summer vacation at the same time, and I felt it was only fair to let THEM also cut loose and relax as well, rather than fill the entire two weeks with plans.

I know alot of families in our position (pending deployment) make a point of going out and “making memories”. And that’s great. But we’ve been married for 16 years. We HAVE memories. Tons of them. The priority for me right now is seeing him relaxed before he heads “over there”. No stress, no schedules.  Just down time. And that’s what we had until the holiday weekend. That’s when we got off our asses and got out.

Saturday was Freedom Fest. A fairly large Fourth of July celebration on post.  We spent the whole day there, took in a reptile demo, a concert given by Broken Trail (these guys were really good, definitely would see them again), ate the yummy carnival food, and got myself seriously sunburnt. Apparently sunblock quits working after it sits for a year.  Who knew? Following the jump are the pictures from Saturday. Click to enlarge.

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Tags: Family, Holidays, Photos

Picture Pages

I don’t have any rambling to do today, but I did promise pictures from the Ball. So…here they are, along with a shot I grabbed at the firing range as hubby and I drove around the back roads last weekend.

Let’s Hear It For The Boy

I’m a bit late in reporting this bit of good news, but better late than never. The Hubby has been OFFICIALLY promoted to e6 (Staff Sgt). Which, gives me my photo for the day!

Enough Already!!

Let’s start with why I shouldn’t answer the phone while battling my fall/winter allergies AND a cold.

1. The call for hubby that includes the message 6:30 Formation in ACU’s, becomes 634 Mason in ACU’s.

Ooops. In my defense, I’m stuffy, my ears are congested, and I didn’t enlist, he did. I was drafted.

Now the good news. After almost two years of jerking him around, hubby went to the promotion board. This would be for e6. and…

HE PASSED!!!!