Daddy Pillows

I was going to save these for Christmas.
There was a big fight over the Daddy Doll that we have.
Fighting - rolling on the ground wrestling, hitting and sometimes biting, over who's Daddy he is.
So after the fight and they were in bed, I put the picture in the pillow and left them on the bed for a nice morning surprise. They are so happy!!
Sunday needs to get here Faster!!

Sweet Dallin

We were in the car listening to a CD. Dallin said: "I like this song mom, is this Taylor Swift?"

M: Yes it is, Wow how did you know that?

D: I don't know.

That song was over so the next song came on.

D: MOM!! This IS Taylor Swift AGAIN! How did you do that?

M: It is a CD of all her songs.

D: Are you sure it's not Mommy Magic?

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I was was changing sheets on the bunk beds one night. I was on the top bunk and Dallin was on the floor looking at a book about Dinosaurs. I heard the page turn then Dallin said: "And it came to pass..." The next page turned "And it came to pass....." and again the page turned "And it came to pass." I started to giggle. Dallin looked at me and said "Mom in this book I there is a lot of, And it came to pass." Well, I guess he has been listening when I read the Book of Mormon every night.

Count Down

7 Days!

That's all I am saying.

1 more Tin Cat Photo

Wow, look at the concentration!
I love this Photo.

Tin Cat

US Group - 7 started

4 Finished!!

The Tin Cat, an annual rigorous international physical training competition,was held at the French Camp on Sunday, 15-Nov. Camp Lemonnier's US team of 7 performed superbly and represented our country in an incredible fashion,complete with sweat, grunts, war cries, and blisters.

50 Pull-ups

6 climbs up a 20ft rope, arms only, (legs allowed to descend)

100 Pushups 100 Sit-ups 400m track with a 66lb. backpack 10 benchpress repetitions with135lbs.

Must be completed within 35 minutes

Some quick statistics: - 42 competed, including U.S., French Camp, and French Foreign Legion- 21 successfully completed the course- Camp Lemonnier US personnel had 7 competitors, 4 of which completed the course.

Some highlights from the successfully finishing competitors:
#1 French, Competition winner, new course record, 16min 39sec

#8 U.S., Williams, 26min 52sec

#9 U.S., Dineen, 26min 54sec

#12 U.S., Moonier, 27min 54sec

#16 U.S., Pederson, 26min 52sec

#21 French, last finishing competitor, 35min 00sec

Steve sent this to me this morning. He was really excited to try this course. I just looked at the times and the ranking seems off. I need to ask him about this.

Stevie - We are so proud of you and Love you very much!!

Count Down Chain

We have this many days left!

(Shhh.....don't tell them that I added a few extra days just incase)
I love these chains. The boys are very excited to do this.

Wrong End

(Sorry this is fuzzy)

I Love this Boy!

Let's Eat Cake

Happy 234th Birthday

United States Marine Corps

& to all who serve!!

Oohrah & Semper Fi

Pictures from Steve

Steve is loving his new shirt. I had the bookstore at the U of A mail him this shirt. When we found out that he was selected to work for the Marine Corps teaching ROTC at the University. Arizona was our first choice, we wanted to be close to our families. We are looking forward to our move and making new friends.
Here are a couple picture of us training Djiboutians.
These are at their Military Headquarters.

We are teaching them how to use radios and how to send text messages and files from laptops over their Radios.

Garage Fun

Good thing I cleaned the Garage.

The boys are having so much fun in there.

I love it!