Home Sweet Home

We bought one of these in October. I hope we can use it this year for hunting season. Cole is finally old enough that maybe he can go with. I still have Nora running around but last time I went camping with Tim I slept on snow and froze my rear off. This has prompted the purchase of this.

Everytime Tim takes me hunting it just gets more expensive. One year up in Salmon ID I toted my 7mm mauser around. Tim had asked me to help him out and hold his gun for a bit. His Kimber Montana weighed on 6lbs and it felt great. I could walk around in the hills all day with that. So I told him I better have one of those next year. That he supplied. Diamonds, Tim has never been a huge fan of but guns....take your pick.

So this next purchase is to keep me warm. My Hawaiin bones can't handle the chill of ID in early October. Bunks in the back to sleep 4 kids and still room 4 more if we needed it. I cannot wait to have the opportunity to use this. Just don't want to haul it.

I was kicking myself for buying such a long one. One day I was talking to Grandpa Kenneth and telling him I was afraid I had bought one so big that I didn't think I could drive it without Tim. He says, "Well maybe so but when its parked and you have four kids, your going to be happy you bought big!"

My EOD Tech

Everyone wants their picture taken with an EOD Tech. The movie "The Hurt Locker" may have made them known but it is not what makes them famous. They are famous for blowing stuff up and disarming IED's. Most of you all know that I married this man who does this crazy stuff and he is one of the best. The stripes on his shoulders are stacked a little too high and keeps him behind a desk a lot but if I know Tim, he weasels his way outside the wire when he can.

This is Tim's seventh tour. Some of those include Kosovo, Iraq, Jordan, Africa and now Afghanistan. We have always been proud of him and what he does. What is really cute is when the children yell "fire in the hole" from behind the couch when playing without giving it a second thought. They miss their father very much but knows that his job is very important and some body's got to do it.

Miss you Tim. See you when its hunting season.

Hawaii

Slow down Nora!

Nora loves the water. Most of my time is spent trying to keep her from getting blasted by a wave. I think by the time I can sit and enjoy a book on the ocean, Tim will have me so far away from an ocean it won't matter. I will have to settle for a babbling brook. That will be ok too:)

Normal

What is normal. I thought I was normal but am starting to think I am abnormal. Without airing dirty laundry I just want to say that my eyes are being opened to others lives. I don't want to know these things but they keep coming at me. How people live, what they think is good and bad/right and wrong. It is heartbreaking to know some of the turmoil people in the military deal with on regular basis on top the average stress that just naturally comes with military life.

I am thankful each day for my husband and family. No we are not perfect but believe that God keeps up from falling off the deep end. Do we screw up?....sure we do, however when we put our faith in Christ, we trust him to sustain us.

What ever happened to the people who stood by you, told you that you were stupid when you needed to hear it. Our beliefs have become so vast that we have no common ground with others so when things do happen that are bad in our eyes, we just say to ourselves "well they don't believe or hold that value so who I am to butt in their lives".