Captured Memories

Surprise!!!!!

2011-08-03T08:12:00.000-07:00

I bet you thought I forgot about my blog well ....your right I did and I was going through my e-mail and got a link to my blog ... now that's kinda sad :( but I do I think have good news for you all to maybe up lift your day I am due December 27, 2011..... yes I said it.... I am going to have another baby believe it or not I am still trying to believe it myself so don't feel bad if your a bit surprised. I am not going to find out what it is solely because we have four boys so far and I don't want to think it might be a girl and then it be another boy not that having another boy is a bad thing I just kinda really want my girl and no we were not trying for a girl we were done but God had other plans for us as you can see. Well thank you for not forgetting about me it has been nice to share with you our news I will try to keep you informed on how we are I hope.

Hi there yes I am actually adding a little something to my blog.

2009-06-27T10:04:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since I have been on here unfortunately but here I am.
We are moving again Chris is going to Arizona for M I ( Military Intelligence) school on the tenth of July 09 and I am staying with a friend while he is in school and once he gets out in November of 09 we will be stationed at Fort Bliss here in Texas. We were going to Alaska up until Chris put in to have the orders canceled so for those that heard that we were going to Alaska that was right up until a month or so ago. Our boys are doing good and growing fast we are still able to do some things at home to lurn and study our Lord and Matthan doing good luring his memory verse's which is real exciting for me. Andrew is getting tall and he is looking forward to starting school this fall we are not sure where but we will soon find out. Caelan is walking real well and he has the stars mastered and he tries to boss his brothers around he is a little copy cat.
Thank you for all your prayers they have been very much appreciated and felt I am looking forward to the privilege of going to be with the saints of our precious Lord and Saviour and be able to remember him in his death again soon.

Here are a few pictures

2008-11-18T15:52:00.001-08:00

We're Back in Texas

2008-11-16T06:31:00.000-08:00

Hi every one I am happy to say we do not have to move again until July, Lord willing, and we have found a pretty nice place here in Copperas Cove, TX. Yes, it is quite a ways from meeting unfortunately, but thanks to the brothers in Richmond, BC, I will have some sort of encouragement in the Lord while we are here. I have not tried going to the meeting in Dentin, TX just yet, being we are still settling down, but I am hoping that I can try to make it up there in the future. I think if we were to do that, we would stay over night instead of going in the morning depending on the drive since it is 3 hours and 14 minutes from where we are.

The boys are doing good and Chris should be back in January around the 28th which is really exciting! I am hoping to go to LA Conference and spend time visiting family while we have the opportunity - we are excited and looking forward to it already.
Matthan is starting to talk a lot more - as in I can understand him better and Andrew is such a help I truly am enjoying them. Caelin is just about crawling - he scoots backwards a lot and gets hung up on stuff and he gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth. He tries to jump and kicks his feet out from underneath himself and tries so hard, but is not quit there yet.

Yesterday I arranged to have the stuff from Washington moved down here so we will finally have all our stuff together. Thank you for all your prayers. I will try to get on here with some pictures soon.

- Tina

Wow time sure has gone by.....

2008-08-03T22:31:00.000-07:00

I thought I would write and mention all the things I would like to get on here that have been hapening recently like my mom comming and staying with me. She got to the airport on June sixth and we had a real enjoyable time we were able to visit and on the Twelth Caelan Asher Lurvey arrived and the boys went home with there Nana for two days so I could get a rest.
While she was here we were able to get Matthan's Two year old pictures done and Caelans baby pictures done and it was a real help to have my mom there to give me that extra pare of hands it was so nice.
Going to Hidies babie shower which was nice and dropping my mom off so I could share her with Joy for a bit while she was up here.
Chris comming back for the visit which turned out real enjoyable to have our family togather for the short stay he had. Matthan really got attached to his daddy, Andrew seemed to do pritty good and daddy sure enjoied being around his little family again. It was hard to have to let him go again but it will only be until December before we get him back for a good while any way. Once he is back in December we will be headding to Texas again and will be stationed there until July of next year so he can start his new MOS ( military occupational skill ) in Araxona. And our up comeing plans so in the mean time I would just like to help everyone stay some what informed on how we are.
I wont to deeply thank all of you who have been praying for our family it truly has ment so very much to us, and I have been blessed with such wonerful friends and family. It truly shows how much every one cares Thank you and thankyou for all your prayer they have been being ansered I can not explain how many things that the lord has done that has maid it so much easyer in our every day lives all the little things are so clear and ovious ...like I think some of you may have known about the ishew whith my insurance not covering the birth and we found that out six weeks away from the dew date and two weeks out the Lord alowed for some reson to have them cover the whole birth after a lot of people telling us that it was not going to happen he still aloued it to happen oh, yes,... the lord makes himself soo clear that there is no question who is making things happen in our lives. Well I will sign off for now but I will try to get on again soon tina

Our Little Andrew

2008-03-30T22:56:00.000-07:00

The other night after dinner we were sitting reading the daily calender since our two little ones like to read them at every meal so they can color them.
Andrew told me "that Jesus had washed his heart all clean, and all the bad sins were gone.....
I was a bit surprised to hear that from him since I haven't been pushing anything on him or talking to him about it recently.
I asked him what is a sin?
He told me that when he is not nice ..and when he hits Matthan and doesn't listen to mommy and bees mean that is what a sin is. Then he continued to tell me that I was bad too.... and he wonted to know if I let Jesus into my heart too ...what a big thing to come from a four year old I thought.
I told him that yes.... I did have Jesus in my heart and that I did let him wash my sins away too.
I asked how do you get saved Andrew?
He said to me that Jesus ..."as he spared his arms out as wide as he could" was on the cross and the bad men nailed his hands and stabbed him on his side..... as he pointed to his hands and side.... and made him bleed and Jesus blood washed us all clean....
He put it plainly ...Jesus took the spanking for us so we could go to heaven even know we get some sometimes too cuz Jesus was NEVER!!! bad.
Wow I was so excited I started t o cry and he was upset cuz he wonted to know why I was sad now and I told him that mommy was not sad that I was so happy to hear that he let Jesus into his heart that mommy was crying happy tears. Well I thought it would be so neat to share our little experience with everyone so you all could find out how net it was for our oldest to accept Jesus as his saviour.
He Keeps telling Matthan how Jesus Is in his heart and that he wont's in his heart too but Matthan just looks at him and walks away he puts such infuses in it it is so sweet to see.He keeps asking me off the wall questions like is everybody saved? and why not? and don't they know? and on and on he also has been singing over and over Jesus Loves me ...Yes Jesus loves me he seem so happy I am so happy for him.

Brothers -

2007-12-27T12:13:00.000-08:00

December 1st, 2007
A - 4yrs. ~ M - 18mo.

The following afternoon - November 16th.

2007-12-16T20:31:00.000-08:00

These are of when we went to the park to play volley ball and build motes in the sand. The same afternoon at a near by park within walking distance.

These are pictures that we got the next day. I decided to stay longer than over night since our Uncle Donny had taken time off work the day before when we told them we were comming through so he could spend time with us.

This is the begining of the trip to Canada

2007-12-16T12:43:00.000-08:00

These are the first pictures we were able to get. The night we got in from our 16 and 1/2 hour trip from Temple TX. to Glindale AZ. We were staying with Chris's Uncle Donny and Aunt Sandy Bergman His mom's Brother and his wife. A very loveing and God fearing family.

Hellow every one

2007-12-05T14:48:00.000-08:00

Well we are doing good in spite of all this cold weather we are not use to . Conference was so nice, and the boys did really well the whole two days. I was so pleased with them. During conference it was really cold, and after conference it snowed some and then froze, and snowed some more so the boys got to play in the snow they had soo much fun. We staid with J&J until the following Monday as planned but, the drive to and from meeting made me wonder if that was going to stay that way or if we were going to stay longer. It was crazy we were going about thirty to forty miles an hour on highway 99 some of the way"back to J&J"s house" Once we got home I could not park there was just too much snow in the way, and even Mr. Sir could not do it so Sir parked it in the ally way. It sure was beautifully though I have pictures but,I am not on my computer right now and I can't exactly put them up so those will have to wait. I have been able to write to Chris recently though, and that is how we have been able to keep in contact. He said the only way to call home is to call by the minute and the Internet for the soldiers to talk on web cam will not be up for a while longer I guess a lot of high security, and a lot of crazy stuff going on over there fight know. It would be nice if we could keep him in our prayers. Thank you and thank you all who have been praying for him, and us it truly means a lot. Well, I will try to keep on posting I am sorry I have not been as good as I would like to be. post later

Hi there.... yes it's me finally!!!

2007-11-26T11:32:00.000-08:00

Well we enjoined Canada conference and the boys did amazingly well, they only had a few mess ups and that was less then what I had excepted. The ministry and the fellowship was worth the drive thank you all for the concerns and especially for your prayers we definitely needed them. We are at my sister Johnathan and Joy Csanyi's home in Surrey BC, and will be staying threw the end of the week with them. I will let you know more as time progresses I do hope to make it to LA Conference Lord willing.

Oh CANADA!

2007-11-23T23:13:00.000-08:00

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Tina made it! She pulled in at 11pm. Safe, Happy and EXHAUSTED! She traveled for 17½ hours and covered 750 miles today making her trip total 2,450 miles and 47 hours long. And she did all this pregnant, with two active little boys and in just seven days!

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- posted by ioi

Friday, November 23rd - 4:30 PM

2007-11-23T16:58:00.000-08:00

Tina was just coming up to Seattle at 4:30. The border lineup is still at least 3 hours long, so she'll be getting in late... probably around 9ish. I've got to go.. we're on our way in for the prayer meeting.

- posted by ioi

On The Road Again

2007-11-23T12:31:00.000-08:00

Tina left Red Bluff at 5:30 this morning. As of 11:30, she was ten miles north of Eugene, Oregon. That's five miles past the halfway mark in 6 hours of driving! In other words, she's making wonderful time, and will possibly make it for supper at the meeting room before the conference begins with a prayer meeting tonight! Of course, much depends on the border line up which is pretty bad right now, but there's a chance that it will go down in the next 6 hours. Please keep her and the boys in your prayers.

- posted by ioi

Monday, November 19th - 5:30 PM

2007-11-19T19:15:00.000-08:00

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When Tina called me at 5:30, she was only 13 miles from Red Bluff which means she would be at my mom's CPR/First Aid office in less than 15 minutes. She'll be staying with my parents until either Thursday night or Friday morning I believe. Then she'll have one more long day of driving to make it up to BC.

The drive today went reasonably well - she missed the I5 just south of Bakersfield and ended up on the hwy 99 at Delano before she realized it. She called me about that around noon and I googled a map and gave her directions over the phone for the most direct route back to the I5. It meant she had to backtrack about 40 miles, but it was worth it considering the time she'd save by driving the I5 verses the single lane Hwy 99. And it looks like she missed the rush hour traffic around Sacramento since she made it to Red Bluff before 6pm. Tina had called me about 40 miles south of Sacramento at 3:30 this afternoon to give me an update on her progress.

I just called her about 20 minutes ago (6:45ish) and she was waiting for my mom at a restaurant with Lil' G (our youngest sister), Lil' G's boyfriend and Little-Lan (Renée's son). From the sound of it, they were having tons of fun. So, unless Tina updates me while she's in Red Bluff, I'll probably won't post here again until she's on her way north again.

Today's travel distance was 650 miles and took just over 9 hours. Trip total: 1,700 miles in 30 hours.

- posted by ioi

Northbound!

2007-11-19T11:46:00.000-08:00

Well, Tina and her boys are on their way north now. They were leaving Hemet around 8:15 this morning. I could really tell from talking to her this morning, that she had a wonderful time. She just kept bubbling with joy as she told me about her stay.

I'm really glad she was able to stop there even if it was just for a day and a half. She got to at least see all of the family in Hemet while she was there, and got an extra surprise when SAJ and BB showed up too!

Anyway, she's attempting to travel about 600 miles today and hopes to make it in 10 hours or so. I'll post again when she calls and stays she's stopped for the night - after all, there are some pretty boring stretches on the I5 ahead of her, so there's always a chance she'll take a few extra breaks along the way!

For those of you who have been praying for a safe journey for Tina and the boys - Thank you so much! I can't imagine even daily life without my husband and here my sister is making a 2,000 mile cross-country trip in barely a week!

And please - Keep praying!

- posted by ioi

As of Saturday, November 17th

2007-11-17T21:50:00.000-08:00

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Sorry folks, for the lag in posting Tina's progress. My life has been a little bit busier than normal in the last day or two.

I called Tina at 5pm (California time) to find out when/if she made it to Hemet. She had, and they got to the Broccoli home at 1pm. Tina may post if she gets a minute, but right now she and the boys are busy visiting family. About 90% of our family on Dad's side live in Southern CA, so there's lots of people to say 'hi to before hitting the road again on Monday.

Today's travel distance was 300 miles and took about 5 hours. Trip total so far: 1,050 miles in 22 hours.

- posted by ioi

And They're Off Again!

2007-11-17T10:12:00.000-08:00

Because Thursday's drive was so long, Tina and the boys took a mini break from the drive and just rested. Chris's Uncle and Aunt got part of the day off from work Friday so they could have a little bit of time to say hello. And since Tina's an early bird instead of a night owl, they just stayed the night and took off westward this morning.

Tina called me at 10am Arizona time and said that she'd left about two hours earlier. She was just coming up to the California/Arizona border she figured, and had about 2½ hours of driving left before reaching Hemet. But since she's about to enter the last time zone of her journey, she will gain one more hour and should get there at or a little before lunchtime!

'Last I checked, her overall trip plans have changed just a little. She discovered that the boys do better in the car if they don't push it too hard on the road, so Tina is hoping to spend the rest of today and tomorrow in Hemet. If they leave bright and early Monday morning as planned, she'd get in to Red Bluff late Monday night. And that way, they will still have about three days to recover before continuing North.

- posted by ioi

All in a Day's Drive

2007-11-15T20:35:00.000-08:00

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Tina made it in one piece to Glendale, Arizona where she's staying the night with family. They got in right around 9:30 pm AZ time - tired and ready for a good night's rest.

1050 miles and 17 hours of travel. I'll say that's pretty good for an expecting mom with two active little boys! Way to go Tina!!

- posted by ioi

November 15th - 5pm (NM time)

2007-11-15T16:06:00.000-08:00

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I just got off the phone with Tina. She was just coming into Deming, NM. That's halfway between Texas and Arizona and 750 miles from where they started this morning! She has about 3 more hours of driving before she should reach her destination where she'll stay overnight with Chris' Uncle and Aunt.

She hit road construction somewhere between El Paso, TX and Las Cruces, NM, but she thinks she'll still reach Glendale, AZ by bed time. Pray for her though, she's not a night person, and she'll be driving in the dark for the next couple hours.

The boys have handled the drive today well. They took a 3 hour nap after lunch and have had two half hour 'get-out-and-stretch' breaks. Tina sounded like she was handling the drive well herself too! Stay tuned!

- posted by ioi

On The Road!

2007-11-15T14:21:00.000-08:00

Tina and the boys hit the road at 5:30 this morning (Texas time). So far the intended route looks like the following:

Day 1 get to Glendale, AZ.
Day 2 get to Hemet, CA
Day 3 get to Red Bluff, CA
Day 9 get to BC, Canada.

Check back for more updates and to watch her progress as she makes her way West and North over the next few days.

- posted by ioi

My Week So Far

2007-11-11T14:41:00.000-08:00

Well this is change since I have been neglecting this so much, in fact there has been little I have kept up on the last few months but, now I am back so you might be seeing a little more of me if all goes well.

As you all should know by know Chris left for his truer in Iraq at eleven thirty am. on the fifth. Well, he wrote me, and said that he stopped in Main, and Germany on his way to Kuwait which I guess they had a side mission for them to do there before they got to Iraq since he is spending two weeks there. But he said that he was doing good and they weren't doing all that much at the time.

As for myself, I have been busy as a bee getting everything organised, and packed ever since he left. I was going to come up the first of December, but I was having such a heard time with him not being there and the thought that the soonest I will get to see him was in seven months I decided to leave by the fifteenth so could be in time for Canada conference.

So this is how I came about my decision; The day he left was real heard and the next not much better I had a heard time falling asleep and woke up at three in the morning, and could not go back to sleep for the life of me the first night. So I left that morning to go get boxes to put his stuff away thinking that if it were out of site it would be out of mind, but it only helped a little.

So I rearranged my room which didn't help much so I started filling the leftover boxes with stuff I ran out of boxes that evening. That night I fell asleep a little easier but I woke up at five, and I decided after struggling to go back to sleep I would get boxes, and just started packing.

Well, I got a lot done that day, and had to stop since I ran out of tape The next morning it wasn't any better as far as sleep so went and got more boxes, some newspaper and tape I was on a role. I got the rest packed up except what I was taking with me.

On the ninth I got a car payment for my T-bird that am selling and went and opened a storage unit. That afternoon I started moving stuff with the kids, and we got about seven or eight loads done before I quit at about nine that night, but all I had left was a few real big boxes that were heard to fit which I moved the next day. It ended up being about three more loads so now all the boxes are moved but I am having a moving truck take the furniture this afternoon.

It turned out pretty good since I was going to rent a U-Hall truck to move everything at once, but they had a moving truck they would let me use for free. They said they would help me move the furniture so I decided to start cleaning while I waited for when they could do it which wasn't until today.

I am almost done and a little ahead of schedule I am getting so excited too.

And it is helping as far as not having Chris around I still am struggling to get rest but at least I am not so down about it now. Ready or not here I come!!!!!

Recent News

2007-11-06T05:22:00.000-08:00

Right know is not the time to be blogging but I figured I would put something up so those who are wondering would know what was going on. I found out that I was Pregnant the day after Chris left for NTC, and that was the fifth of October. He got back the eighteenth of October and he left yesterday on his tour over seas. At this point I am doing ok but truly need the prayers I appreciate them so much thank you all who have been praying for us. Well I will try to write something better when I can think strait

"Forth Of July In Texas"

2007-07-06T09:01:00.000-07:00

Well to start with I should tell you that Chris is on a base in Southern California training for Iraq right know he left last month, and I am hoping to have him home by the middle of this month. Last I heard he was doing well.

On forth of July we went to a park near by that they were going to have some fire works at, and parked out on the grass where everyone was told to park. The fire works started around nine and Matthan had fallen asleep on the way. We had fallowed a friend who lived across the parking lot from us that we did play dates with. I had Andrew, Matthan, and Emily, Amanda's two year old little girl with me. On the way there the kids were really excited and were really wound up. Once we got parked it started to rain, that lasted for about thirty minutes. When it let up we got out and let the kids play " in the mud" and they got soo dirty but they had fun. Matthan woke up and he was scared of the noise but he didn't cry just was trembling for a while. I put Andrew on the hood of the car and sat next to him rocking matthan since he was so scared. Once Matthan caught on to the fact that they were not bad he started to say fire and point at them. We called Daddy's cell phone ....even know I new it was at my house, and left him a message telling him all about it and that we missed him. That was heard since we couldn't even talk to him, but we got to hear his voice mail which was nice. Once it was over every one started to leave and they were making a mess in the mud so I just waited until most of the cars were gone and went out a different way and didn't have a problem at all just got the car a bit dirty since it was real muddy. That was are Forth of July it turned out good even know it did try to rain us out and daddy was not there we still had fun witch was grate.

Some pictures from my picture phone.

2007-04-30T09:42:00.000-07:00

My free time!!! yeah :)

Were hiding from the camera.

Boys think everything is edible.

Matthan is not to sure about that remote controlled truck.

Working on there trucks.

It's so nice when there content.

He sure loves his bananas

Hi there eveyone.

2007-04-26T14:55:00.000-07:00

Hi there, We are doing good Matthan started to walk last week and he is doing real well. Andrew is getting tall he is up to the top of my hip know, and I don't know what to do with him, he is very creative and loves to act like Matthan. They have this thing going, who can get the closest to Mommy or Daddy they are very competitive Well the news on our living situation ...yes we were trying to move on or near base so Chris doesn't have as far to drive, but we were unable to break the lease, and we just got news that our soldiers are not going over to Iraq until November third to the twenty third of this year so we have about three months more then we thought we had ....witch I am VERY HAPPY about since they were leaving in August. Chris has been moved to headquarters recently I don't know what he does yet but that is where he is working know. I am busy doing the usual keep up with everything, We just got a whole bunch of clothes from the next door neighbor so I have been going threw and washing a lot of clothes lately, but other than that not a whole lot going on. I took the boys to the swimming Pool last week and Matthan loved it, but Andrew said it was too cold. Later on last week we had some meager thunder storms they shook the apartment, and kind of scared me, but everything was fine. Well thanks for your patience I will be trying to get some more pictures up soon so hang in there.

The three stooges

2007-03-15T10:22:00.000-07:00

Hay everyone just an update on our lives, hope all is well with you.

2007-03-15T09:08:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we got to take the kids to a BBQ which was fun, but I forgot the camera so I don't have any pictures to show sorry. Although we enjoyed the afternoon with Sargent Campaign, his wife Stephine and there four girls ages three, five, seven, and nine. Matthan stood up by himself for the first time while we were there. He was playing in the sand box from the outside, and he just stood up slowly, and stood there for a brief moment just looking at us. I was really excited about it. I sure enjoy watching them progress. Later in the afternoon they all joined in the fairly good size kid swimmimg pool and yo-yo between their tales, and the sand box when they were not caught for about three hours, they had soo much fun it was grate. After lunch they weren't aloud back in the pool so Andrew and the girls made good use of the swing set they had there, I found him too daring, he tried to use it like a jungle gym instead of just playing on it like you normally would. We spent about six hewers there and we all had a blast. Matthan only got in the pool long enough to decide that it was just too cold for his liking not to mention it was too rough with everybody splashing and having fun. But they gave him rides in the wagon, helped him walk around, give him his bottle, and even tried to carry him he was just too spoilt that day. On our way home both Andrew, and Matthan were out before we even got to the interstate minutes away from their house. Well I thought I would share our outing and let every one know that we are all doing good and miss them a lot.

Here are some more pictures.

2007-02-12T18:35:00.000-08:00

Someone likes Oreo cookies....

He's learning from the pro, and he loves that controller!!!

His favorite place to be , and I think I it's mine too. :)

He sure is a happy boy, and he has four teeth on the bottom now.

They sure love that ball, there always playing with it.

Some one wore themselves out playing with Daddy's shirt.

Brothers sleeping in Daddy and Mommy's bed.

Daddy and his boy.

Some new pictures to show.

2007-01-24T13:04:00.000-08:00

Daddy, and Matthan playing video games, and Matthan loves the controller.

We were on our way to the park on a Saturday when Daddy was home, so he came with.

Andrew insists on pushing his little brother because as he puts it "I'm a big boy know, and Mafin's a baby."

Matthan found my keys, and knows he is not suppose to be playing with them.

Matthan likes to play with Andrew's letters.

Andrew and Matthan playing in the living room, Andrew sure loves his new little play mate and Matthan would be lost without Andrew.

The trip to Texas.

2006-12-18T09:18:00.000-08:00

We left Everett, Washington on Tuesday October seventeenth at two in the afternoon. The kids went to sleep shortly after we left town and we were cruising. It was late when we got into Red bluff, California, but the kids were only awake for about four hours of the trip at that point between there nap and bed time it worked out perfectly. We got a hotel and spent the night there.
The morning of the eighteenth Wednesday we called my Mom and asked if they wanted to meet us at the hotel since we were trying to keep going and didn't have a lot of time to stay. She said she would get there after she picked up Dad from work. Isaac and Gloria met us at the hotel room before Gloria had to go to school, and we packed up and headed over to Virginia's. Later Mom, Aunt Jewel, and Aunt Cathey met us at Virginia's apartment we staid and talked for a while and enjoyed being together. Once we left Virginia's we got gas, some groceries, and we were on the road again this time leaving around one thirty. The kids played for a while, I gave Matthan a bottle, and he went to sleep shortly after that. We were cruising again so far no traffic, rain, snow or ice the weather was grate and we were very grateful. We got into Apple valley around three in the morning and got a hotel there. Yes this was in just one days drive it was a long day though. We made it threw the big cites thankfully during the night when there was less traffic.
Thursday the nineteenth we got up late, I think around ten and the kids were up early like seven so we didn't get as good of sleep as we could have. We got gas and something to eat at a Taco Delmar place in the gas station and we were off again. This was not as good a day as the last few, but considering the circumstances those were really good days too. We didn't get as far we wanted since we kept having to stop for one resin or another. Matthan was tired of being in the car it was hot and Andrew was having a heard time staying entertained since it was so hot and he had been in the car for the last few days with little breaks. We got to a little town called "The Grand Canyon, Arizona" around three in the afternoon. We had an early dinner and called Sarah and told her how everything was going and Andrew was real happy to talk to her again too. We spent the night at the little adobe restaurant slash hotel place it was a pretty cool place. So far we were doing good no car trouble and the kids were doing way better than I had expected and we were making good headway.
On Friday twentieth we went the I-max Theodore and saw the Grand Canyon from a birds I view, that was amazing. Then went to the Grand Canyon itself and stopped at almost every view point there was. We had tons of fun and got a lot of pictures. We left the Grand Canyon around two in the afternoon. We stopped at a gift shop along the highway it was pretty net we found some little moccasins ,Andrew was thrilled but Matthan didn't know what to think of them . We spent the night in Sana Rosa, New Mexico after a long days drive.

On Saturday the twenty first we headed out hoping to get to make all the way to Temple Texas but it was a lot further than we had thought. We spent that night in Wichita Falls, Texas it had been a hot drive and Matthan had a heard time dealing with it but we did ok considering.
On Sunday the twenty second we headed to Temple, Texas it was like a half a days dive down there. We spent the night in the Moose Lodge Hotel in Temple, Texas. We were realizing that Texas was not as flat as we had imagined it, and we found a lot of tornado shelters which made me a little nervous I have to admit, but the rest stops were really nice. We looked at the apartments that we had contacted over the Internet and all we could do was wait until the next day since it was Sunday so we just hung out in the hotel room.

On Monday the twenty third we got to look at the apartments but we didn't get them until that afternoon. Our stuff got there before we did so it had already gone into storage by then so we had to wait for a week to it get out. That morning we didn't check out before we left the hotel so we staid there another night since we were paying for another night anyway.

Tuesday the twenty fourth we finely got into our apartment.

Life In The Military !!!

2006-12-13T16:24:00.001-08:00

Hi Everyone, I am finely able to get back to keeping you all informed on how our life is treeting us.
Chris is doing good, and his sargents really like him they are trying to help him get into Warrant Officer school he is really happy about that.
I am doing good and so are the chillis.
Matthan has aquired six teeth now, and he is sitting up by himself very well. He is off the charts as far as his sise but he is very healthy.
Andrew on the other hand is just starting to gain weight again. He is doing realy well with his counting, and we have been working on his ABC's witch he thinks are fun.
Andrew loves reading the Bible, praying, and sing from the childrens hymn book.
Meeting is two and a half hours away so it makes it heard to make it .....Wortham is where it's located.
Well I need to go Chris just got home and I need to get him dinner thanks for being concerned.

Temple Texas

2006-11-08T14:32:00.000-08:00

When they gave him the orders that he was going Air Born we were going to Fort Worth North Carolina, but Chris asked to have them pulled so we could be together again. We got him back on October sixth and we enjoyed a few days together before I got sick with a kidney infection and he ended up taking care of me for a week and a half I was unable to take care of the kids let a lone myself so he took the kids to Sarah's and we picked them up the day before the movers came to get our stuff, "I was still sick but was getting better"when we got them back. We left the day after the movers came which was a Monday and got here on the following Sunday afternoon. We staid in a Hotel until we could get the paperwork on the apartment settled and then got our stuff the following Monday. We are now almost settled and he reported to duty on the second of November it is still really new but it is really nice haven's him back we are all doing well and hope to keep this up dated thanks for your patience. Tina

Change of plans

2006-09-23T13:43:00.000-07:00

Chris is going Air born which means that he will not be on his way home until he gets out of that school which is three or four more weeks :(
then we may not know where we are being stationed since he is more qualified now after this other school ....I think he said some where in the East cost but I do not know yet we are still waiting to hear where they are actually going to put him. Meanwhile we just have to wait for him and ride the waves.
I would have put pictures up but we are all sick and don't feel good right know so we will wate till next time

Andrew and David sleep over last night

2006-08-24T00:05:00.000-07:00

They made there own bed up Andrew was soo happy he was being extra helpful

Mischievous kittens...

little rascals are in it together

Chris when he came back after Matthan was born

2006-08-23T14:09:00.000-07:00

A little some one found a very

comfortable spot on Daddy

Matthans first bath and he is loving it...
unlike his brother did

Daddy and his boys

Daddy playing with matthan

Daddy drawing an excavator for andrew

Here are some pictures

2006-08-23T08:54:00.000-07:00

These two babies are actually five months apart.

Andrew and Matthan are "being buddies" said Andrew

Matthan at one month ...

Chris enjoying his boys while he was back.

he's a week old here

Mattnan's first hug from his from his brother.

Chris getting acquainted with his new son

Practice with Pictures!

2006-08-21T14:00:00.000-07:00

This is the first hug Matthan got from Andrew

Cris and I when we were dating

Another Graduation!

2006-08-17T16:17:00.000-07:00

Chris is graduating from Fort Lee Virginia on the fifth of October. I get to go see him on the first of September.

On the twelfth of November we are reporting to duty at Fort Hood Texas. Which means we are moving some time in October and we can be together as a family again....YAAAAA