Shane's Team

This is Shane with his team first in Kuwait, the guys by the tank and then the rest of the pictures they were in Iraq. There is a picture of Shane and Maj McDermott who is the other team leader. Also pictured is General Patreas, who went out on a patrol with them.

Happy 2nd Birthday

Alyssa celebrated her second birthday. Mommy was very under the weather with strep throat, so I will have to start making cakes again next year. We had dairy queen cake with a picture of Alyssa on it, it's a monkey. I think my monkey has the longest tongue in the world. She was also bound and determined to roll on that balloon, thank goodness it didn't pop.

Christmas

I know I am really far behind, but everyone knows how hectic the holidays are. These aren't the best pictures, but we were all very tired, but the kids loved their presents from Santa.

Beautiful Menace

We were in a huge ice storm that was pretty damaging to the midwest. When I woke up and looked out the window, it truly was one the most beautiful things I had ever seen. There wasn't one thing that didn't have ice on it, including all the trees that fell and broke the power lines. Unfortunately I live in the county that got hit the worst in Kansas. We lost power for a week. Thank goodness for family. My Great Aunt Geri and Uncle Ted took us in and are the two greatest people I know. They were the best, even though my kids were running wild with cabin fever. After the terrible ice storm, that next weekend we got ten inches a snow and also our power back. Thank you for all who were praying for power, we sooo needed it. Not the best couple of weeks, but we are fortunate to be in our house, while others are still without power.

A Sad Day

Daddy had to leave, but we tried to make the best of it. Thank you for all your prayers.

Day After Thanksgiving

Everyone flew in thanksgiving day and since it takes two hours to get to the airport, we decided to have thanksgiving friday. It was a full weekend, but nice to have everyone around. It has been a long time since everyone has been around for my birthday, so thanks for coming. We don't need to talk about how old I am!!!!

Great Wolf Lodge

We spent our thanksgiving days off at the Great Wolf Lodge. It has an indoor water park, mini golf and arcade. We did it all and of course had a blast. They have an arcade which I had to pry my two Shanes out of. But most of the time we spent our time at the water park. They had the coolest water slides, starting inside, wrapping outside and then back in. It was 84 degrees inside, so it was really cool going down the water slide as it snowed around us. This is definitely a must do, by all.