Greetings from Rachel in Iraq

Here she is my good friend Rachel. As you can see life is dangerous no matter where you go over there. She is constantly on guard for hidden explosive devices. Can't wait for her to come home, sure do miss that girl.

PUPPIES!!!!!

Can you believe how cute these little girls are? They are the newest additions to our family. Yager is ecstatic! He loves them but he has yet to learn that they aren't toys that can be picked up and carried around. He is learning quickly though and will be a great big brother. The dark one is Roxy and the brown is Cinnamon. They are six weeks old and are pretty timid, they are 1/2 lab, 1/4 red heeler and 1/4 blue heeler. So cute!!!

Four Great Years

We made it!! Four years under our belt, who would have thought. There are a lot of things that marriage has a way of teaching us. Most lessons are those that hurt us while we are struggling to learn them. It has been humbling to become a servant and to put Kevin and his needs ahead of my own.

Every day has brought new challenges and adventures. I love were the Lord has brought us. I look forward to the years ahead. I can't wait to see were we go in this wonderful life.

These beautiful roses were my gift from my sweet husband.

He gave me four dozen, one for every year. It just gets better and better.

The great dilly bar

So summer is upon us and with it comes the hankering for a refreshing treat. Enter the dilly bar, chocolate dipped creamy vanilla ice cream. Oh, it goes down so nice. Can't you just taste it?

I guess I've been busy

WOW, it has been forever since I have added to this here blog and so much has happened. My birthday came and went, I went to grand ol' Branson Mo for my grandpa's 83rd birthday extravaganza and recently celebrated my youngest brother in-laws birthday as well.-Pictures to follow. All these birthdays, whats a girl to do but eat all the cake she can. Yummy.

I'm working of course, and tonight I'm on the postpartum floor. I just finished feeding three hungry babies and they are so cute. Three more hours to go, this night has flown by. It started out with the house supervisor who assigns us to the floors giving my spot away and then having nowhere else to put me. I decided to stay and work on a stroke course that I needed to get out of the way and see if anything came up. Well as you know it did, and here I am working away.

I'll try to post all the new pictures that I have been taking and get them posted soon.

Oh to be in the outdoors

We are going camping! I can't wait, oh what a time it will be. We are going with Tim and Mallory to Pat Mayes lake. There will be grilled steaks for good eating, fishing to pass the time as we relax and memories aplenty. Friday, really only one day away by my calender. Tomorrow I will be sleeping as I am working tonight, tomorrow night I will be working again and then FRIDAY!!! Lovely, lovely Friday. Wish you all could go but alas you cannot. Sucks to be you and it is wonderful to be me. Tata for now, love you all.

p.s. this is a pic of the lake, looks great huh?

The green beast

We are now owners of a John Deer lawn mower. A great green beast that will hopefully serve us for years to come. It is now official, we are country folk. What a great life it is waking up to the beautiful trees and tall grass that sways in the breeze. I finally planted my roses and Yager decided they would be fun to pull out and chew on for a while. Friday my dear friends Bethany and Rebekah came over to watch movies. At one point Bethany stood up and look out at Yager and said " he is chewing on a bunch of twigs". Well of course it wasn't a bunch of twigs, it was one of my rose bushes. Crazy dog his daddy went to the deer lease and he acted up the whole weekend. I guess I didn't give him enough attention, I can't help that it was really cold.