Advent calendar Blog

So a friend and I decided to do this advent calendar blogger thing, since we both have trouble posting regularly. You are suppose to post something for each day of December leading up to Christmas, of course it is the middle of December right now, so I am getting started late. Also I really doubt I will blog everyday until Christmas. So I am just gonna choose a few of the topics to do that interest me and I'm sure they won't interest anyone else. Anywho if you are confused as to what I am talking about, here is the link adventcaleder.genabloggers.com

So the first topic is Christmas trees. So growing up we always had this huge fake tree. It was nice, but it fell on my Mom every year, so finaly one Christmas she threw it away. So we discussed about getting a new tree and I had always wanted a real tree so I had been begging my parents everyday for a real tree and trying to convince. I almost had my mom, but she brought home a fake tree and I was so sad. And if that wasn't bad enough the tree was skinny and scrawny and looked worse than the last fake tree. I was so sad, so finaly I convince my Mom to just go look at the real trees. She had always thought they were really expensive and too much maintance. But the fake trees are more, though of course it's like an investment you can use it over and over, but there is nothing like a real tree. You get the smell and everything. Anywho I convinced her to get one and it was so beautiful. I wish I knew how to scan pictures and save them ect...but I just haven't been able to figure that out. Then I would be able to show a picture of it. But anyhow we had a real tree every year after that until I left for college and my family and I always have a real tree. My siblings will remember this intance and they will probably commemt about how spoiled I was and that the fake tree was fine (I was the baby), but I don't care I love the real trees!!

In other Christmas tree stories. For our first few Christmas's the trees we bought were too big for our apt. When we were first married our tree filled up the entire living room of our 400 square foot apt. The next year we got a condo that had vaulted ceilings so we were like we need a really tall tree. So you know how when you are outside and stuff the tree doesn't seem as big as if you saw it in a room, well we got a huge tree. We had a time trying to get it up the stairs to our place and I was pregnant at the time and everytime we walked by a neighbor they would comment on how big our tree was. Then finaly a nice neighbor offered to help. So we get it up there and discover it is too tall and so Ryan has to saw off from the top and bottom, but it looked so beautiful. I don't think I ever took a picture of this tree. Luckily our first two Christmas's we didn't have any furniture so they fit.

The first time we took Caroline to pick out a tree. This was the first time after the too large tree incident and we lived in a smaller place so we tried to find the smallest tree possible, but we still ended up with a pretty big tree.

And here is the tree we ended up with.

Christmas 2007. Me decorating the tree.

Christmas 2008. This Christmas I was staying with my parents because I was pregnant and Ryan was gone to AIT, but he was able to come home for Christmas. So we waited to get a tree until he got there and we didn't end up getting the tree till like the 23rd of Dec and it was basically the last tree they had left. It was snowing and so we just send Dad and Ryan to run and get it and you know they just grabbed whatever, but either way it was nice to have something that was part of our Christmas tradition even though we weren't in our own home.

Christmas 2009. I always think my house looks better with Christmas decorations. There is a better picture of this tree but I posted it already in a previous post.

Christmas 2010. By far our best looking tree. We always go to get the tree the day after Thanksgiving aside from 08. And this year when we got there they didn't have all their trees untied yet so Ryan picked this try while it was all tied up and it turned out great...big but beautiful!!

Exciting airport adventures!

So I didn't feel like typing up a Christmas Card letter so I was like well why don't I just include our blog in our Christmas card, cause that is like a long Christmas letter right? Well maybe if I actually posted anything on the blog. So anywho here it goes. I will start with an impromptu trip I took to MD with Jack. So I was already flustered and anxious because I was going for the funeral for a wonderful man, whom I could dedicate an entire post to, but not now. So I get a ticket out of Dallas....Dallas Fort Worth right? So I am running late of course, and there is traffic and I almost forget my conformatin number and all that. But we finialy make it to the airport and this airport is huge and I have no idea where to go. They charge you just to drop someone off or pick someone up whether you park or not. Anyway so Ryan drops us off with all our stuff and we go up to the ticket counter and I put in my conformation number and it isn't working so I call someone over and they ask what time and where is your flight and I was like 4pm to Houston at this point it is past 3pm so I am getting anxious. So he tells me you are at the wrong airport and I was like what?? Yeah apparently there are two airports in Dallas. I am like oh my gosh, and I do not have a cell phone mind you. I ask the guy what I should do and that I needed to borrow a phone and he just said he would get someone else to help me. Meanwhile I am freaking out so I go and track him down again and ask for a phone again and he was like oh that what you were saying? Anyway so I call Ryan and I tell him he needs to come back now, and that I was at the wrong airport. They assured me they would be able to help me there even though I wouldn't make my flight. So Ryan had just left the airport but turned around to come get me. Of course this takes forever cause the airport is huge. He doens't arrive until about 3:50pm. I decided to call ahead to the other airport to see what they could do for me and they got me on the next flight to houston that should be get me to my connecting flight in time. So I felt better about it all. So we get there and of course during all of this Jack is freaking out and doesn't want to be in the stroller ect...Anyhow so this flight I was on ends up getting delayed half an hour. It would put me at the Houston Airport which is larger than DFW at the time my next flight would be boarding. And we were coming in at terminal B and my flight out was at terminal E. So I haul it to the terminal with Jack and all our stuff...of course I didn't check anything...and we even had to get on a little trolly thing. I got there barely in enough time to get on the plane. Luckily Jack was a good boy on both flights. The second one he slept the whole way. It was crazy though cause it was a super full flight and Jack was on my lap and asleep and I couldn't get to anything and my stuff was everywhere. Anyway we make it to MD at like midnight and of course since Jack just had a 3 hour nap on the plane he is wide awake and I am so tired. So anyhow fast forward to the next day. I want to take my sister to lunch for getting me from the airport and letting me stay with her ect...and I go to get my wallet to pay amongst Jack throwing a huge fit and scrathcing my face in the process when I realize my wallet is not in my purse. Everything had been so crazy who know where my wallet ended up. The last time I saw it was when I got my ID out at the 2nd airport. Thank goodness I left my ID out in my pocket and didn't put it away. So I assume I lost it on the airplane when my stuff was scattered everywhere on the second flight. (which I also lost my watch on) Between the veiwing and funeral and everything I didn't have time to think much or deal with the situation so my sister reported it missing for me. That night though I started getting major anxiety about it and starting thinking, what if it got stollen? So I am praying please God let me find my wallet, and then I just realized what made me so sure it was left on the second plane. So I decide to go and report it missing on the first flight as well and also to airport security and basically wrote down every lost and found number I could find from each of the three airports I was at. And I happened to find one for continental so I wouldn't have to wait for them to respond to my e-mail. Like come on this is a wallet, I can't wait around. So I feel a lot better after that and am able to go to bed and the next evening I called the number I found and by the grace of God my wallet was on that first flight I was on and they had it at the Houston airport and fed exed it to our house. Wow I have never thanked God so much in my whole life...though they never found my watch. Ok so this is one crazy trip right? Oh it does not end here. So I go to go home. My sister drops me off super early. I was like I do not care the earlier the better. And thank goodness she did. I get there and they tell me I cancelled my ticket I was like uhhh no. So I go through it with a whole bunch of people and they tell me when I called to move my flight originally it some how cancelled my return flight...what the heck? Why would I all the sudden not want to come home? They could have at least let me know. Anyway she tells me that I would probably have to purchase another ticket home and I was like what I couldn't even if I wanted to because I didn't have my wallet. So I asked to speak with a manager, who thankfully had mercy on me and gave me my original ticket back so I could go home already. It probably helped after I told them my whole pathetic story and I was like on top of everything I was here for a funeral. Oh and Jack had a major melt down on the flight home and Ryan was an hour late to pick me up due to a car accident and of course I have no idea where he is cause I don't have a phone. Anyway it all worked out and i am sure this is one of those stories where you look back and laugh...but I haven't laughed yet. And I didn't get any pictures while I was there. But, Mr. Robinsons service was beautiful, and it was wonderful to see his whole family who took me in as one of theirs. I am so glad I was there to mourn the loss of this wonderful man who served his country, community, family and God faithfully. It is a true loss for this world, but a gain for the one to come.

Westover family!

This July on Pioneer day, my entire family got together for a little reunion of pictures and crabs and lots of family time! I have more pictures of the visit, but here are the pictures taken of our entire family. 2 parents, 4 children, 4 spouses, and 9 almost 10 grandchildren. (there is one in Aprils tummy that was too scared to come out when we were all there.) It was crazy though we had to bribe children with smarties to get them to stay in place and you can't tell from the picture but they were running all over the place. The poor photographer had to hurry and take the picture before another kid ran off.

The whole family at downs park. It was too sunny to take pictures of the whole group by the water, but they look beautiful regardless.


Grandma and Grandpa with all the grandkids. It was not easy to get all the kids to stay seated and look at the camera, smile ect...but this is the best. Only Caroline isn't looking.



Mom and Dad with their 4 lovely children. Everyone wore khakis, but Grandma refuses to wear khaki.


Me and my siblings.

Craftiness!

So I finally downloaded all 500 or so pictures that were on my camera for the past 4 months. So it is gonna be blog overload. I apologize. Plus now I have more free time to blog now that Caroline is in school, though I am sure I should be doing more productive things with my time like dishes. Anywho I have been working on several knitting projects. mostly hats and blankets. Everyone I know is having a baby. Everyone just had a girl this summer except one friend and now this winter and spring everyone I know is having a boy! So I have to go pick out some cute boy colored yarns. Anywho here are some pictures of the progress of my latest ones. Some of these babies have been born already but you know how I roll.

This one was so slow. It was hard at first, but then I got the hang of it. But it was very tedious. It looks nice, but I will never make this one again. Now if I could just mail it to the baby it is for who is almost 2 months old now.

Yes if this one looks familiar you aren't seeing things. I have been working on this one forever now. I have promised it to someone now so I really need to get going. I have made a little more progress since this pictures, but this is also a slow moving one and also tedious and just hard in general. But definitly will be one of the most beautiful ones I have made I think.

I really like this one, but if you can't tell from the picture...I have messed up a lot on this one. There isn't anything particularly hard abou this one and it actually goes by pretty fast. I have actually gotten much further on it than this picture, but for some reason it is sooo easy to mess up on. I just think it has too many steps. When there are too many steps I start to get them confused, but I think I have worked out all the kinks and should be smooth sailing from her on out...considering this baby was born almost a month ago. Opps.

There are others I am working on but either I haven't shown them to the people recieving them yet or they aren't far enough along for a good picture. I am teaching a lady in our ward how to knit on thur for a personal progress project. I am so excited. I love to share the joys of knitting!!!

First Day of School!

So we sent Caroline off to school today. It was hard I am not gonna lie. Well only for me. Caroline had no problems and even told me she didn't want me to come have lunch with her. She is growing up too fast. I was good though I didn't cry in front of her. Everytime I was in the car today I would look back and panic for a second cause Caroline wasn't there, but then I remembered oh yeah she's at school. I still can't believe this is happening even though she is already gone. I guess I just didn't prepare myself enough for this day. Who knows you all are probably thinking I'm crazy. Well I hope she had fun and I should be on my way to go pick her up.

1st Day of School

Daddy and Caroline

Jack wanted to do his school work too. hehe he was being so funny and cute this morning. We ran around all day today so i don't think he has had time to miss Caroline yet, but I enjoy my time with my little man. It's so weird to just have one again. I used to have to think so much about Caroline when planning our activities but now I only have to think about Jack and the things he would like to do. I think we will both enjoy this time we have together...but I still miss my baby girl.

One year of blogging!

I just noticed that I have had this blog for a year now. So I figured in honor I should actually blog something. I have posted 26 blogs though. I'd say thats pretty good more than once a month. I know I know I said I would do it once a week, but obviously that didn't work out too well. Anywho I guess I can give everyone a quick update on the kiddies and everything that is happening around here. Caroline just turned 4 in June. I can't believe it and she is going to start all day pre-K in two weeks. Oh goodness how did this happen. She is so smart, too smart for her own good. Last Sunday her Sunbeams teacher told me they were having a lesson on saying you are sorry and she asked Caroline, "If you get mad and push down your little brother, what should you say?" Caroline responded with, "Tell Mommy he fell down by himself." Oh goodness and whenever he cries from the other room and I ask, "Why is Jack crying?" and Caroline responds, "He just fell down by himself." So we had a family home evening about lying. I don't know if she totally understands, but she will tell on herself now if she lies and calls us out if we lie. They notice everything you do. It is amazing. You think your kid isn't watching but they are and they will know you are full of it if you say one thing and do another. That is one of my biggest challenges as a mom. To always be a good example to my daughter. Why should she not yell if I get angry and yell? Why would she say thank you and please and talk politely if I don't speak to her that way? It is the suttle things sometimes. I know some believe that you are the parent and they should respect you blah blah blah...but I think they are people too and deserve to be treated the way you would like to be treated. It's hard though. Hopefully I don't screw them up too much. I try to remember that they are special gifts from our Heavenly Father and try to think how he would have them raised and how he is with his children. Because he and Jesus Christ are out ultimate examples. Anyway, Mr. Jack is getting so big. He is walking very well now. And he only says few things, but is very well at communicating and knows some sign language and he knows where his belly button, nose, ears, and hair is. He is so cute and sweet and loving. He is kinda naughty too and is in the hitting and pushing phase. Hopefully he grows out of it as Caroline did. It is hard to help a 1 year old understand why you can't hit/push. But he will give hugs afterward and he puts his head on you. Thats how he shows love. He is so cuddly, I love it! Anyway we had lots of fun this summer and hopefully once I get all the picture down loaded I can blog all about it. But now I have to start to get into a routine with school and everything. Hopefully I can get here there on time. Here are a few more recent pictures of the little monkeys too and other happenings.

This is the picture that was in the Waco tribune. Taken at the fireworks in gatesville on July 3rd!

Super fun night. We saw a random guy get hit by a car in the parking lot right in front of us, by a poor old lady. He was fine of couse she was probably only going 5 miles per hour and that dude wasn't watching where he was going. So it was actually pretty funny. I am sure that poor old lady was saying to her husband, "uh oh they are taking our lisence for sure now."

Jack and Caroline in the pool in the back yard. Now the dogs pool.

Me and a few of my YW at girls camp. Now I know I said I wouldn't post these photo's but I don't think that any of them will notice hehe. I love them and love to show them off! And they looked so beautiful without any make up on and were so happy and filled with the spirit when I came to get them.

Last blanket I finished, back in May. Actually finished it before the baby was born. I gave it to my friend Janis who had a baby girl successful VBAC. So proud of her! This was by far the funnest blanket I have made. I love how it looks like a quilt. I have several in the works and will post pics of my progress once I get those photos downloaded.

Caroline waiting for her turn to show off her gymnastics skills. She did gymnastics and at the end of the classes they had a big showcase. She did so well and loved it. I don't know if we will continue though with her starting school, but I can continue to teach here things at home.

Caroline doing her handstand. Probably her least favorite of all the skills she practiced. She would always try to skip in during practices.

Jack after Ryan took him to get his hair cut at the army barber. They cut all my little boys hair off, but he looked like a little man and now he gets it down all the time and everytime we cut it he gets blonder and blonder.

My baby girl turned 4!!!

I cannot believe our baby girl is 4. Where did the time go? She has gotten so big. It makes me so sad and proud and all kinds of emotions at once. She is going to start all day pre-K this fall. I can't believe I am old enough to have a child in school. I guess this day had to come eventually right? She is the cutest sweetest girl ever. She is so nice and thoughtful. She is very social and smart. She is going to love school! She loves her little brother and Jesus. She is always nice to Jack even if he is bothering her or hitting her or taking something away. She never hits him or takes things from him. She is so patient with him. She is a great example for her little brother. She is so smart it amazes me. She knows stuff I had no idea she would know. Like she knows all her numbers now and can do some simple visual math. So our tolit upstairs broke somehow, I don't know what happened but I think it involved Jack flushing something random down it. But it is fixed now. Anywho, I was talking to Caroline about it cause this was her tolit and she was having a hard time dealing with the fact she would have to use another tolit. So I just said "Caroline we have three tolits here to choose from this shouldn't be a problem." And then she said "no mommy we had three tolits and then one broke, now how many do we have?" I was like you are right Caroline. I was so shocked she would even think of it that way. Usually when we do math it is very visual and you have to use fingers or pictures or objects. She does very well I actually think now she is doing better with numbers than letters. She does know all her letters and sounds and can tell you what words start with and is trying to write...some letters look better than others, but most are unrecognizable to the naked eye. She is such a sweet girl she is always thinking of others. Now if she doesn't want something she says we should donate this to the library if its a book or where ever else. The other night at family home evening we were talking about prayer and all the different things you want to say in a prayer. So at the end we ask her what she is going to pray for now. We are expecting her to say a friend, some toy or food or something like that. But she says, "for mommy to have more babies." I was so shocked I wanted to cry. I never thought she thought about that much. It's not like we are trying and aren't able to or anything like that. She just really wants more siblings I guess. I actually think she may know something we don't. She is such a good girl and loves church and she knows so much about scripture stories and about Joseph Smith. She has parts of the first vision memorized. Don't ask me how. It must be from a song or something in primary. But it is so touching to hear here tell gospel stories. Ok so I better end this post, it is making me cry. Anyway I love you Caroline. Happy Birthday!

The day Caroline was born. Look at those cheeks!
I can't beleive she was once this little.

Caroline at 1!



Caroline acting silly at 2.


Caroline right after her 3rd Birthday. I never noticed how much she changed since last year until I looked at these pictures.


I the cuttest girl in the world!

Sniffing flowers in grandma's yard this spring.

Precious gift from God!

And our new house.

Before. This is Caroline looking for Easter Eggs in the yard hehe.

Ok sorry for the blog over load, but I promised pics of our new house. Sorry no inside pics, that is still not totally together...though it is getting there more now. Anywho these are pics of what the front yard looked like before and after. Ryan got to have an entire day off on community beautification day or something like that. It was awesome. Most of our neighbors tried to get out of it or BS around the neighborhood when they were suppose be cleaning up, but not us we totally overhauled our yard. there is a yard of the month competition in each neighborhood, though I doubt we will ever win, it is nice to take pride in your yard. We never messed with our yard at the other place, so it feels good to have gotten it done at our new one!
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After. It looks even better now that my plants have grown and my bulbs have come up and we have added a few things to the yard. And my front door is open this picture.

The minivan!

So here is the sweet minivan that I promised a pic of forever ago. We got it about 6 months ago. It is a dodge Caravan and I love having a minivan. I never thought I would say that. But since getting it Ryan has already tore out the radio/cd player (he did that in our other car too) and I ran into a pole at a Micky D's drive through. (Probably a sign.) But it only left a little dent and Ryan actually got me a better radio that plays MP3's. So we were able to download all of conference onto one cd and listen to it on our trip to UT. It also have a plug in for your Ipod...not that I have an Ipod, but I thought that was cool. All the guys at Ryan's work made fun of him for getting a van, but when he had to drive it to work, when the Altima was having problems they all loved it and called it the man van. And anytime they would have to go somewhere, they would say, "lets all go in the man van." They were finding excuses to go places with Ryan, so they could all ride in the man van together. Hehe they are silly, anyway here is me, the proud owner of a minivan!!!

Nap time.

This is how I found Jack when I went to wake him up from his nap. Isn't that cute. Too bad eh won't sit through a book. His bed is right by his book shelf so he pulls them off when he is suppose to be going to sleep. I always thought he was just throwing them on the floor cause that would be where I found them when he wakes up. But I was glad to see he was "reading" one, and one about Jesus at that. I love my little Jackers.

We got a naughty puppy!

This is Goldie. She is a 4 month old yellow lab. Yes the most hyper dog breed ever...exactly what I didn't want, but of course I couldn't say no to Ryan. She is the dog he has always wanted and he loves her. So how did we come to acquire this dog out of no where you ask? Well we went up to Dallas to go to the temple and when I was in the temple Ryan decides to take the kids to a pet store by the church bookstore. They come back to get me with a picture of the dog they like and beg me to go see it. Ryan said she was already trained, didn't shed, and was only 88 dollars. The prices was the only true part to that. She was so naughty, and thought Jack was another puppy to wrestle with. She was jumping all over the place and biting on everything...all I could think about was how the dog would eat my furniture. So I said no...so Ryan and Jack moopped to the book store where they were suppose to originally go. Caroline and I stayed behind to look around some more. Caroline assumed that since we weren't getting the dog we would be getting a cat. I just felt bad for disappointing Ryan and not wanting the responsibility of training and picking up poo. So I told the sales lady we would get her. After all she was the clearance puppy. Of course all the crap we had to buy for her cost more than the dog herself. I didn't know anything about dogs, so they could have talked me into buying anything and I am pretty sure one of the guys who helped us out was high. Anyway I did not know what to expect for the drive home, but everyone was sooo excited. I was like this is a 2 1/2 hour drive, is this dog gonna go crazy in the car, is she gonna get car sick and poop and barf all over our car. None of the above. She was totally nice and calm in the car, and you know how dogs smile, she smiled the whole way home. You could tell she was so happy to finally be getting a family. I don't know much about dogs, but I think they are that simple. They just want a family as anyone would. She is a lot like a kid. Her and Jack do a lot of the same naughty things, like eating things like crayons and dirt. She slept that last little way home and didn't even have an accident in the car. She started getting restless as we approached our home so I dropped off her and Ryan and they ran home. When he got her to the back yard she was soooo excited. She was running all over the place and exploring everything. The next door neighbors dog started barking at her and then I was like oh great they are gonna bark all night, but she never barked. We tried to see if she would want to come in for the night, but she was having too much fun outside. The two dogs I swear played all night long. Also that night Goldie popped every ball in the yard. The only thing we heard from her all night was a little whimpering around 5am. Ryan went out with her for a run. Then she was actually calm for most of the day and even played nicely with the kids and our friends kid that night. She never once got mad at them for pulling on her ears, or laying on her or anything. We were like wow she is actually a good dog. And we had not heard her bark once as of Sunday night. So we go to bed again and then I hear her bark the next morning around 6am. So I went down and fed her and she was all full of energy and acting crazy. I would have taken her for a walk but the kids were still asleep and Ryan was gone. So when he got back for breakfast I took her for a walk. She wasn't too bad. She never barked at any neighbors dogs. I guess she isn't much of a barker. But I guess the walk wasn't enough. She was so wild the whole day, and I couldn't even begin to think about walking her with both kids in the afternoon heat. I filled up the pull for the kids and she was jumping in and out and knocking over the kids and trying to play with Jack like he was a puppy. It was too crazy. And everything time I went to feed her she acted like she was starving. How much are you suppose to feed a dog? They said only twice a day, and we have been dong three, but she still acts like she is starving every time we feed her. So when Ryan go home he took her out for a run again and then she calmed down again. I was like oh no she is a naughty dog what am I gonna do with her. So, but then today we went to the vet clinic on post to register our dog with our community. And there was a soldier there with a chocolate female lab same age as Goldie and she was totally way worse. She wouldn't even hold still on the lease. She was jumping and biting and barking and doing all the naughty stuff puppies do. And then I was like wow I guess our dog isn't that bad. So I guess we'll keep her. I think the most important thing is that she is happy now to be with her new family...living in the pet store probably wasn't fun...and she has a new friend she plays with every night in the back yard. Plus Ryan loves her and she loves him. She does whatever he says and loves running with him. I think she is a great addition and if nothing else brings more love into our home. I have never had a dog and now I understand why people love them so much!

Here she is making herself at home.

Flat Sadie in Ft. Hood, TX

Dear, Ms. Layton's class,
Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to Holtville. I have been here in Ft. Hood, TX and somehow got tricked into joining the army! But I have worked everything out and as everything in the army it has taken forever for me to get out and I will be home very soon.
Everything in Texas is big, bigger, or the biggest! It's the biggest state on the continental US. It is also said to have a big sky which you can see in the pictures below. They also have big produce, cows, and hair! So of course Texas is home to the biggest military post in the country. This is where the majority of our men in women in the army are living and deploy from to Iraq and other various places. Everywhere you go there are men and women in uniform. So how could you come and not get mixed up in it.
Something else they have here that is big are thunderstorms. I have never seen such crazy storms, but they sure do produce such beautiful rainbows. A few minutes after we took the pictures will all the tanks and helicopters a storm rolled in and we got soaked. The sky was sure beautiful afterwards though. The sun is also big and red as it was setting.
Also while I was here the family I was with went on a road trip to UT. I got to see 3 other states. New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. New Mexico wasn't much to write home about, but Arizona had beautiful red mountains and snow!!! We also drove through the archs national park in UT. All the pictures are below of my adventures here.




Beautiful rainbow after a storm

Texas longhorn cow. These cows were everywhere and very big!

Archs national park in southeast UT

Random rock in the middle of nothing in UT.

Main gate to Ft. Hood army post.

Big red sun setting in the west.

The big Texas sky right before a storm moved in.

The sky right after the storm.

Me on an old WWII helicopter.



A big airplane!

An old tank!

WWII memorial.

The Iraq war memorial.

Me showing my patriotism. You can see the American flag everywhere here!

As we drove around a bend in AZ these big beautiful red mountains came out of nowhere.


There was snow is AZ. No snow in TX though.