Happy Halloween!!!

A fun day turned into night of parties and candy!! GALORE!!!!! We started off about noon at the girls' school with their school carnival! Games, prizes, sweets, sweets, sweets....oh yea, and FUN!! Then Jeanette and her boys and Falyn's friend Paige and her mom & sister joined us for about 3 street of trick-or-treating before all the kids were D-O-N-E!!

Falyn & Faith were 50's girls...original plan was Chandler to be a Greaser and me a Pink Lady...but well, Chandler saw the Lightening McQueen costume, and that was the end of that cute idea!! LOL Maybe next year since these dresses will still fit them, and daddy will be here to look retarded with us!! :)

Here are some photos of the last week! :)










The school carnival....Falyn was "too cool" for us most of the day. :(







Trick or Treating!

Simply Gorgeous!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtrnB4FZ-yc

YIPPEE!!!!!!!

We're into the 20's!!!! Days that is!! We have less than ONE month until Justin comes home!! YAY!!! I swear, I was WAY wrong when I said that 6 months was easier than a year....WAY wrong!! Somehow it has been SO much longer and HARDER!!! I miss him!!

xoxo

Day off...

Ok, so flashback a few weeks ago to the whole "pirate" situation. Justin's ship was first on site due to their location when the hijacking occurred. Ship's from all over the globe and from numerous nations where called into action, including more US warships. Well, we would have never thought that this deployment would bring two worlds together. But one of the ships that joined in the efforts was the USS Roosevelt, and Justin as the IT Chief was called on to go on board their ship to help out their IT's. So, this is where the two worlds collide...in 2006 Jeremy took orders to Jacksonville, FL which was the last time that we saw the Byrd family. Justin then took his tour in Bahrain, while I was home, and now we are here in San Diego. So...back to that "call of duty" on the Roosevelt....JEREMY'S ship!! What are the ods? The odds that us on the West coast and them on the East coast...that they would meet up in the middle of Indian Ocean somewhere! Crazy huh?? Venus and I pretty much threatened the men with their lives if they didn't send back photos. Ha!! Here's what Jeremy sent! Justin said that it was a nice break from the "everyday" and great to see an old familiar face.

The men looking rather....goofy-faced! LOL

USS Howard

Justin and the "Roosie" ITC

USS Howard

My Chief

Isn't he SO handsome?!? :)

Oma's Pumpkin Patch

No...not MY Oma! LOL But this is the Van Ommering Diary farm, and the original farmers are from Holland, where they also call their grandparents "Oma & Opa". Now their childrens' families run the farm, and have a pumpkin patch! Our FRG arranged a group outing for the families yesterday and what FUN this place was!! The kid's had a blast and that's the best part! I can't wait till next year when Justin can be there with us!! Loved it!! Enjoy the photos!



Falyn, Faith and Dylan

Geigley kids, Miller Kids, Jeanette and Hannah. Chandler was ready to go! LOL


SUCH a boy!!


Priscilla, Falyn and Dylan


HAHAHAHA!!!!

Priscilla & Falyn

The kiddo's and our pumpkins!

The Blues were here!

I never realized how excited I would be to see a "piece" of Pensacola flying overhead. If you know anything about the Blue Angels, you know that thier "home" is Pensacola, FL. I remember many of days standing out in my backyard and watching them practice. It was great! Falyn's K & 1st grade school was Blue Angels Elementary, one of my girls on my softball team, her dad used to pilot Fat Albert. So, when Jeanette asked about going to the air show, I was hesitant at first, thinking...I used to watch them all the time. What's the big deal right? But we went. It was actually just as exciting as always. I always get a good kick out of watch them fly. It's AWESOME! The kids really enjoyed it too! I took a TON of photos, but these 3 are my favorite!



I LOVE how I caught this one! Not too bad for my point & shoot camera! :)

Lei Making!

Today should have been the last day that we needed to work on this, but all our RSVP's...well, they didn't show! LOL So, after about 2 hours, Jeanette and I packed up the kids and headed back to my house to finish it. They were tired of playing and getting "ancy", and since no one came, we figured it would be easier to keep them entertained at home. So, here's us playing around with it after getting about 75% done. We have 2 sections left to fluff and then it's READY!!! For those of you going...huh?? What the heck is THAT? When ship's return from deployment they hang a lei off their brow. We've been working on it since August, and would say that Jeanette and I have done about 75% of it by ourselves! Ack!! Labor of love!! :)

51 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Even Romo helped!! LOL


LOOK OUT!!! ATTACK OF THE PLASTIC BAGS!!!! LOL

Latest update

Pirates....INSANE!!!

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