Family Christmas Pictures

Everyone Look at the Camera..Smile!


Let's Try again...don't stick your tongues out this time..smile!

"A!!! DON"T EAT THE CANDY CANE!! M!!! STOP STICKING YOUR TONGUE OUT!! D, Please just look!!" Ok "SMILE"

UGH!!! Dancing Queen, Please stand still! SMILE!


Ok let's try something different. Mom and the Girls!


Dad and D



Atleast next time we will just start out separating the kids! We finally got one of them acting "unusual"!

OH NO!! The Cooking skills run in the family!!

"M" came to me and said, "Look Mom I made Daddy dinner" Here is what she made! Diced Green Peppers!! Lucky Daddy!



Dad responded with "Do I really have to eat it?" I told him of course he did! So he took a bite gave "M" some well deserved credit and threw the rest away! He is such a sport!!

I miss You! I want you right now!!

Today before I could even get my bed made "D" came in and this is what he said:

• D: "I miss my Grandma and Grandpa"
• Me: "Do you want to call them?" (It was only 7:20am, AZ time)
• D: "YES"
• Me: "Ok, here"

D and his conversation:

Remember the HUGE sign...He missed it!

OK so I spent how long painting 208 stars...tying the curtains together...hanging the sign in a place that he would never MISS it! Well...the Marine Corps always messes my plans up! They drove in through a different gate and he MISSED the sign completely! Needless to say I showed it to him on the way home!! Next time I will put signs EVERYWHERE!!

MIA (Missing in Action)!!!

MIA has brought many wonderful times getting reaquainted with my husband!! Hiram arrived home on October 15, 2008!! We woke up EARLY in hopes that he would arrive EARLY!! I called the hotline and they said they would be here at 9:30am. I got up and began getting ready! Woke the kids up and off to get daddy bright and early only to find TRAAFIC!!

I thought are you kidding me...everyone move!!! My husband is coming home!!!
Here are pictures of the kids just waiting "in the car" in hopes that they could just stay clean until Hiram got here!!



They stayed nice and clean for a little while!! At 8am we were getting really excited...I made another phone call to find out the same information...9:30!! Then I got a call from Hiram..we are going to be late! OFCOURSE!! The one time to be on time and they couldn't do it! 9:30 rolled around...nothing...10:30 nothing! Wait here comes another phone call ...we are on our way but we won't be there until 11:30. I headed to Burger King with Athena just to have a break from all of the excitement! We hurried back..just to wait some more! Finally we saw buses! YAY! DADDY finally arrived! I was so excited that I forgot to get more pictures!! So here are the kids seeing Hiram for the first time!!
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Notice Annabelle's outfit has totally changed! No more tights, (she ofcourse peed her pants right when the buses arrived) no sweater and her hair...well that's NC!! The humidity always ruins curls!!>