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  Three little boys were concerned because they couldn’t get anyone to play with them.
They decided it was because they had not been Baptized and didn’t go to Sunday school like the other kids.

So they went to the nearest Church, but only the janitor was there. 

One little boy said,
“We need to be baptized because no one will come out and play with us. Will you baptize us?”
“Sure,” said the Janitor.
                                            

He took them into the bathroom and dunked their little heads in the toilet bowl,
one at a time. Then he said, “There. You are now Baptized!”.

When they got outside one of them asked,  “What religion do you think we are?”

The oldest one said,

“We’re not Kathlick, because they pour the water on you. We’re not Babtis, because they dunk all of you in the water. We’re not Methdiss, because they just sprinkle water on you.”

The littlest one said, “Didn’t you smell that water?”
His friends answered, “Yeah! What do you think that means?”

“I think it means we’re Pisscopalians. “

HOLY CRAP! (life is gooooood!)

  In movies, the main character often has an epiphany and realizes that their life needs to get on track. So they make huge changes and everything ends to some happy 80′s tune.  Well I woke up this morning and realized that my happy 80′s tune was playing. (except is was a song from the Scrubs Musical.) I didn’t have to make any changes, I didn’t need to turn my life upside down. Everything was perfectly fine just the way it is. Sure people want to fine tune areas here and there and so do I. But nothing major hinders my life. I finally got in touch with my sisters,  I got to visit my home town and had a GREAT visit. I hugged my gals, drank a beer with my guys, took a million pictures of my kid with anybody who held her. I’m going back to school to get my degree in Law Enforcement Sciences. (in layman’s terms, I’m studying to become a CSI agent.) If I get bored at any time I can go back to work at the police department but for now I’m excited to stay home with my girl everyday and just be her Mommy.

   I love my in laws, my family, my life.(and I ROCK at air hockey!)

Here’s the website with all the photos. I recently updated it. with photos from the trip:

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j48/Life_by_us/

And here’s a bonus just for fun:

Love to you all! 

PS, to any and all of you who knew our friend Ryan Manelick before he passed away, I found a website that speaks about the mysterious circumstances regarding his death and some photos. (props to Chels)

Story:  http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0213-07.htm

Photos:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/85709898@N00/230650457/in/photostream/

January 2007 Visit

With only two days left to visit, I’m becoming increasingly worried about the weather. American Airlines is canceling flights left and right, but I’m flying Continental and haven’t heard otherwise. Anyhow, I’m looking to squeeze in as many visits as I can before I leave. I got to visit SO MANY friends yesterday and had a blast. I got to see my baby Ry and eat at Bonsai Garden and hang out with my Grandma Lee. (see picture above) You should have seen Caitlyn’s face at Bonsai Gardens. They lit the hibachi grill on fire and the flames almost reached the ceiling. Caity’s eyes got huge and she furrowed her brows. I swear she was saying, “What the HECK?!?!?” Everyone sitting around us was laughing at her. Then she started clapping for the cook and he took a little bow for her. =)

Anyhow, I’ve been told I’m being kidnapped tomorrow  and Mom and I have plans to see a movie. Hooray for friends and family!

Love to all!

By the way, the name of this photo is Daddy face. It reminds me of Bobby’s comments about our icon photo and how Caity looks like she has gas. =) I suppose it’s genetics….

Still Safe

Even through the ice and freezing rain, I’ve stayed safe. Maybe it was the year and a half  of experience in winterland/Montana?

Howdy to all. I’m really having a blast here in Texas thanks to my thoughtful inlaws. Unfortunately sadness is looming overhead- I know I’ll be leaving.  I never knew I could love a place nearly as much as I do and yet it’s not simply the people nor the house I stay in…. it’s the land. I’ve missed the cactus, the mesquite, the dust storms the pink houses. (mexican culture influence). My Texas rainbow consists of red dirt, green weeds, white caliche (sp?) and brown grass. Who needs more? In a town you’ve grown up in your whole life, you can literally walk into any place any where at any time and see someone you know.  Even an event such as hot chocolate at IHOP  turned into a group affair with an entire table of friends I happened to bump into.

  I’ve considered the use of chloraform and  an empty U-haul truck to sneak my inlaws back down here. Somehow I think they’d know they were duped. Still… If my husband and my yankee family were here, the sun would never hide behind a cloud. Because this is home. This is where my family is and where the rest of them need to be. The is where my mother’s arms are, my favorite priest is, my grandma’s iced tea is, where the group spent every week together, where I kissed my first love, where I married my first love… This is home.

Friggin Claru

 Okay, so Claru sent me this website and it made me cry. Darn her for sending me something so thoughtful and beautiful. You see, the twelve days of Christmas start on Christmas Day and in some countries it’s still celebrated that way.  The Epiphany of our Lord is the twelth day  and occurred yesterday. (Epiphany is when the wise men discovered Jesus, but wasn’t historically in occurrance until two or a few years *after* the first Christ-mas.)

Back to my point-

Check out this website. If you cry, blame Claru. (or the artist who made it. Either will do)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45249848/

Funny Video

  By the way, the new photo is actually  from right before our wedding. Trust me, neither of us are that pretty any more.=) But you’re right Bobby, Derek *does* kinda look like he has gas…..

9 more days!!!

 We had our opthomalogy appointment today. The new doctor we’re seeing actually encouraged us to use steroid injections. The old doctor whom we first saw about the problem said they had all of these negative side effects but the new dr refuted them all. He even went as far to say he would administer this steroid injection to his own child over any other treatment.  So as of next Monday we’ll give Caity a steroid injection and hope for the best. I’m still a little nervous about it because that old doctor scared the hell out of me with all the side effects and then went off to retire leaving me in a pool of doubt and worry.  New eye doctor said everything is looking great and we can keep using the cream  we’ve been administering as an additional boost to make it heal faster.

Meanwhile, the Children’s Hospital the Dr’s office is in is GREAT! It has a huge salt water aquarium and beautiful fis. There’s free gamestations in every waiting room. I didn’t even mind the hour long wait. =) 

In nine days I’ll be back in Texas.  Dew and I are still talking and dreaming about the day we get out of the military. He really doesn’t want me to be in law enforcement so he’s really avid on the idea of us pruchasing a franchise so I can run it. I’m a kick-butt business woman if I do say so myself and really would love the opportunity to handle my own store.  I really enjoy customers  and employees and don’t even mind the paperwork that comes along with the both of them. I really want to open a Ritter’s Frozen Custard in Texas. We’d be the second one in the whole state and since custard is  a little slice of heaven when frozen, I’d be swimming in customers. I speak from experience because we *literally* went there every day over this last weekend. (sad, I know)

Anyhow, we had a wonderful  New Years. We spent it at the inlaw’s house and I got to kiss the love of my life for the third year in a row when the ball dropped. I love my beautiful baby, my best friend/husband and my God.

I hope you all recognize the blessings in your life as well.=)

Cat’s Outta The Bag

   Well, out of all the people I told, I was sooooo worried that someone was going to slip and tell my mom the big secret. And somebody did. Me. I did it. I told my Mom about the suprise trip I’m making to Texas in two weeks. My heart was sinking when I realized that all of my careful planning had gone down the pooper. I was trying to send an email to my Aunt Dion and had written a few things in there about the trip when I realized I didn’t have her email address. Without a single thought in my head, I forwarded the letter to Mom to have her send it to Aunt Dion. …… Wait for it…. DUUUUUHHHHH!!! Mom called less than an hour later with tears in her voice, she was so excited and suprised. Mom’s a psychologist at heart and said I must’ve been dying to tell her since I made such a silly freudian slip.  But let’s look at the facts here:

A) I’ve never had the need to hide anything from my Mom so I don’t really know how to do it.

B) It’s so much easier now! Every morning when  I get up and want to tell her SO BADLY, I *can*!!!

C) Mommy will be better prepared now to take time off from work!

D) I got to make her really happy  now instead of having to wait for two weeks. (that was killing me)

By the way, for those of you whom I didn’t already tell :

I’m coming to San Angelo!!!!! My mother and father in law got me the worlds greatest Christmas gift, a ticket to Angelo.  My mommy was crying when she told me how wonderful they were and how good their son was. I agree. They’ve been the light in the darkness on this whole exasperating move, then on top of everything else, they gave me the one thing I desired most, my other family.

 I’ll be in town from Thursday, January 11th to Friday, January 19th. I’ll be staying at my Memaw’s house most of the time, maybe a night or two at Mommy’s. Either way, email me if you don’t have the phone number and no calls after 8! (remember, I’m old and married now, I need my beauty rest!) Caitlyn will be with me but sadly, Derek will not. Being so new at his job, he hasn’t got any chance for vacation.

  By the way, Caity now makes a funny clicking sound with her tongue and mimics the dog’s barking. She also cracks up everytime we play fetch with the dog.  She’s such a goober.

Anyhow, we love you all and hope you can make a little time for us.

PS, Tio Bobby- I know you’re a busy man, but come visit your niece(okay, okay, brunhilda), mmkay?

This is life…

I am so angry/frustrated I could just scream, but out of courtesy to the nice lady on the phone, I’ll refrain.  Okay, our doctors appointment last week was a nightmare. After a two hour wait and a whole load of crap later, the resident (aka not a real doctor yet)  tells me that she is only authorized to  refer us off base because Caitlyn’s condition is only cosmetic, not really a true problem.  I told her all about the severity of the issue and the chance of approaching blindness if left untreated and her response was, “Well, I hope your referral gets accepted then.”

  I couldn’t make anymore phone calls until today because the offices were closed for the holidays. (those lazy bums). So this morning I called up Optometry. SSgt. Parker answered and has sort of been my beacon of hope. (her voice sounds JUST LIKE Dr. Laura from talk news radio)  She’s gone above and beyond to help me get in touch with whomever could help us best. As it turns out there is not ONE SINGLE pediatric opthamologist on base.

 So we had to move everything and resign up for two more years so we can do the SAME (damn) THING we were doing in Great Falls.  *sighs* ……and this new house has had a “funk” smell to it that all the Glade in the world can’t compete with.  We’re adjusting.  So I made a few phone calls and that resident (Dr. Connor) called back with a little more information and help. We now have an appointment  at the childrens hospital off base next Tuesday where they can do (hopefully) laser treatment and keep her off the steroids they were threatening to use. (the side effects are s -c – a – r – y.)

 I shouldn’t allow myself to do this again, but I am most *definitely* stressing out.  Stop the world, I wanna get off.   Mom says I need to have patience and I’m sure you’ll all agree. However… it’s my baby. There’s not enough patience in the world to get me to calm down when I’m worried over her. I know mom understands. She’s just trying to get *her baby* (me)  to be okay.

 So we’ll keep you updated on how things turn out. The inlaws spent Christmas with us and left yesterday. It’s so empty and quiet here. Caity feels it too, she’s sad and fussy. We need family here again.

PS- My laugh of the day comes from Bobby’s website:

 i’m sure most have heard about the rabbi in seattle who said he’d sue over an airport not having a manora. yeah, the airport had nine christmas trees, but no manora. he said he’d sue the airport if they didn’t put a manora up. because it wasn’t fair to the jewish community. the airport instead removed all holiday decorations, that way no one would be offended. well, the rabbi didn’t like that either because he thought the jewish community would be seen as “grenches”. he went on to say that he wouldn’t have sued over it and was very upset that the airport would take everything down rather than put one manora up. the airport director said that if they put up a manora, then they would have to put up a symbol for everyones holiday practices. so what happened?? the employees put up their own little decorations. without the airports’ consent or approveal. they chose to express their own belief and celebrate their holidays together. by the way, there were jewish employees at that airport who didn’t see what the big deal was in the first place. the airport managers’ spouse is jewish.

 so what’s my point?? i think americans are tired of being overly polite and politically correct. why should everyone tread on eggshells when we all have such thick skins?? most people are tired of trying to make everyone happy all the time when it comes to little things. we are all tired of the petty lawsuits because someone hurt someone elses’ feelings with a joke. ”burger king made me fat, so i want fifty million dollars!!” instead of saying, “no eatting five double cheeseburgers with six orders of fries and four shakes a day made you fat.”

I emailed some of you photos but you had to make some stupid account. Well, if you haven’t done it already, I posted  the pictures on Photobucket and you can view those for free.

http://s77.photobucket.com/albums/j48/Life_by_us/

Love to all!