Young Women's Camp

Breana and I went on our first young women's camping trip this year. Aside from all the HUGE mosquitos that entered our cabin "shelter" it wasn't too bad. Breana was sick the whole time but she was determined to get her certifications and awards. We were definitely grateful to be back in our air conditioned home and to be able to take a hot shower.

We had a total of five Beehives that added to the 13 girls that we had total not including myself and two other leaders. It was a great first experience for young women's camp. Giraldine will be going next year and she is so excited. We will definitely be more prepared.

School's Out

Ready for summer!

It was the last day of school. The neighbors and I had a "block party" for the kids to celebrate. The girls had fun doing the crafts and games. If you look in the back you will see our house in the corner.

The kids had to guess how many pieces of candy was in each cup. For the gumballs Emilee put 121 which was our last address and won.

Giraldine guessed the closest for the lollipops.

A visit from our friends

Our friends came to visit on their way to Alaska. It was wonderful to see them. As the Army gives us many chances to travel, we hope to see all our friends again.

wishes

Oh, do you think our wish will come true? Only if we don't tell....

Emilee and Abby

Since we have moved from Fort Bragg, NC Emilee has talked about her friend everyday if not every other day. She misses our old house a lot.

Emilee and Abby.........."Friends Forever"

The cast is off!

The cast is off! We didn't know what to expect since this was our first cast. The technician didn't know either. When she went to turn on the vacuum for the cast remover thing....Emilee jumped, I jumped and the girls jumped, but get this...the technician jumped to.

Breana at school. On the left was Breana's first day of enrollment. A few days later on the right was an awful storm day. Aside from the snow that day this is the normal weather around here cold and wind.

What a brave girl...

What a brave girl she was that day. Never thought this would happen to one of the girls. I was in Saint Louis debating wether to stay and have lunch with Tiger, when the phone call came from school. The nurse underestimated the fact that it was actually broken. The x-rays said differently. Since our move to Illinois, Emilee has had her share of sickness and of course the broken wrist. But..What a brave girl she was.

Emilee is six...

Still in temporary housing...Emilee celebrates her 6th birthday. While she took a nap from a long day at school, Tiger and I gathered all her birthday surprises. She was so surprised. My how they grow so fast.

Temporary housing

Not even one week into our temporary housing did we receive about a foot of snow. The kids had fun as you can see. It was even more fun when we finally moved out of there into our housing now. We weren't quite sure if there were mice or squirrels having a party in the attic.

Our new home

For most of you all now we are now in Illinois. What you see in front of you is the Saint Louis Arch. Scott Air Force base (our new home) is about 18 miles from this beautiful arch. Of course Tiger's new job is only two blocks from this arch. He will be taking the metro to and from work.

It's my birthday today!

This was Giraldine's birthday cake at Olive Garden.....I think or I hope that she was surprised about her cake. It was past eight o'clock so she was past the point of being sleepy.....
For those of you who know Giraldine...eight o'clock is her bedtime...literally

Emilee's Field Trip

emilee's kindergarten class went on a field trip to gross farms...emilee said..."my favorite part was going through the corn maze"

Breana

Alex