I know that it has been a long time since I last posted. The girls have been going on from one sport to another. We had just finished up with soccer. They were amazing this year. The team had won 3 out 6 games. That is 3 more than last year. Ashley loves playing goalie and is great at it. I thought that we were going to have to visit the ER this season. She loves to dive for the ball while feet at still trying to kick at it. Sam is all for action and that is why her fave spot is forward. She scored two goal in the last game. I know that this is going to be the it sport for them both. Who new that my calm, sweet Ashley could be so aggressive.

Ashley had a band festival last month. There were three elementary schools, one of the junior high bands, and one from the high school. All of the elementary kids played together. It was really great. Ashley loves playing the flute. She has picked it up so well. I know that she got the musical genes from my side of the family. I just wished that they didn't skip me. Sam wants to join the band next year. She was scoping all of the instruments to see what she wants to play. She has her heart set on the tuba but since they don't offer it on grade school level she'll just have to settle for playing the trumpet. I think that i will have to invest in earplugs.

Alex will be out processing this next week and then he will be home on leave for three weeks after that. For those of you who don't know Alex is deploying later on this year. He has some training that he has to do in Texas and Kansas and then he will be going to that great big desert. He will probably be gone for 16mo. I don't know if he will be able to make it home for leave while he is gone. We did find out where we are going to when he returns. FT. Benning Georgia. My in-laws are ecstatic that we will only be about 20min away from them.

As you can see I got to meet Peter Facinelli, the guy who plays Dr. Cullen in the movie Twilight. He was great and he said that he loved my shirt and asked to sign it. He is now my most fave actor. He stayed at the PX for 12 hours to make sure that everyone was seen and had whatever they brought signed. How many actors do you know would do that?

School is going great for me. I received my first 4.0 this last quarter. I was so excited that when I found out I had to call my mom. I knew that she would appreciate it as much as me. I do have to go back to school today while the kids are on spring break. Thank goodness Alex is home to watch them. Well that's all for me and my house hold. I don't know when I will be able to update again but I will let you all know when I do. Take care.

Hello everybodeeeee

ashley had her first band concert last month. she was able to have someone sit by her during the concert. i was in class that night so sam sat next to her so alex could take pictures. i did get to suprise her by showing up to the concert because i had gotten out of class early. she was so excited to see me and i was glad that i didn't miss out on her first concert.

other than that not much is going on. we did find out that alex will be deploying this year. we don't know when yet or where he is going. i will keep you all posted on it when we get the information. the girls and i will stay here in washington since i have to finish school. i will try to write again soon. it most likely won't be until soccer starts next month. talk to you all later.

the girls started basketball this year. they are having a great time with it. ashley is really aggressive on the court and sam is a little timid. totally oppisite of what you think they were. they have played three games so far. they won the first one but lost the last two. it doesn't really matter just as long as they are having fun.

A New Year

Hope everyone had a great holiday. We had a great time staying home. We had two big snow storms hit the week before the girls' Christmas break. We ended up with at least a foot of snow in a two day period. I know that doesn't like a lot for others but for here it was a great big mess. They had even closed the military bases. Luckily we didn't have any where to go and the kids had a ball sledding down the driveway. We all seemed to have gotten our Christmas wishes this year. Santa had brought Sam her giant teddy bear (it's almost as big as she is) and Ashley her bratz doll. Alex's parents had gotten the girls a Wii and games to go with it. I got my wish for a white Christmas for the girls. They have never had one and it was great to see snow Christmas morning. Then after that it could go away. We really didn't do much for New Year's Eve. We all went to bed early that night. I was pretty much sick all that week.

The girls and I went back to school today. They also started basketball this month. The first game is in a couple of weeks. I know that they are going to be having a great time with that. I on the other hand am going to be busy, busy, busy. I have a full load this quarter with classes plus I am interning in both girl's classrooms everyday. I just hope that I won't go to crazy trying to keep up with everything and everyone. I am just glad that I have a really great husband at home to help me out.

Hope everyone is doing great. I will try to write more later. Take care

Happy Thanksgiving

we hope that everyone had a great thanksgiving. we stayed home this year again, and I cooked dinner again. we were invited to have dinner with my sister-in-law ashley and her family, but there were supposed to be a lot of people that we didn't know and i knew that alex and i wouldn't be comfortable with it. it turned out that there was a lot less people and it was at barbs house. wish we would have known. we did however went out for desserts with mike, ashley and brittan. it was great seeing them. alex and mike talked shop (army) the girls were coloring and giggling with each other, and ashley and i tried to talk over all of it.

we ended up hitting the big sales on friday. actually alex made out his wish list and i went to the stores. i was smart and went out at about 8am. i wasn't going to get trampled on. my theory was if the item wasn't there for me to buy then it wasn't meant to be. all in all we had a pretty good weekend. i have two and a half more weeks of school left for this quarter. it will be nice to have a break and focus on family and my church calling. we hope that everyone is well and we will talk to you all later.

I know that it has been a while since I last wrote. A lot has been going on since August. Both the girls and I started school in September. My first day of school was on my birthday. I am taking a Para educator course. I should be done with it and have my degree in about a year. I am having fun going back to school. The girls are doing great in school. Ashley is done with speech therapy and they are both doing a musical instrument. Ashley is in band playing the flute and Sam is in orchestra playing the viola. they are both having a great time with it. They also played volleyball this year. Ashley has improved so much from last year. She has been diving for the ball and you can always count on her to yell "mine" even if the ball isn't going to her. This was Sam's first year and I think she had a good time also. Next on our list is basketball which starts after Christmas break.

As you can see how cute the girls are in there Halloween costumes. Sam was a bat princess and Ashley was Sharpay from High School Musical. We had a great time going to a couple of trunk or treats until Ashley got sick in the parking lot. Memories.

There really isn't much going on with us. Alex still has a couple of more years until he can retire. He wants to make sure that I will be done with school first so I can take care of him while he goes back to school. I will try to keep things posted more often. Talk to you all later.