Mommy who??

Daddy's home and it's right back to life as "normal"....oh except right now....mommy doesn't exist!  YAY!!  LOL  It's ALL about Daddy, and that is SO very fine with me!  :)

Thanks to everyone's well wishes!  We are enjoying being a family again.  I didn't take photos at the pier, as I had an OpLove photographer there, so as soon as she posts the pics, I will let you know!!

xoxox

TOMORROW!!!!!!!

This time tomorrow, we will be getting ready to go pick up Justin from the ship!!  YAY!!!  I swear this 6 months has seemed SO much longer than all of last year, but I have to thank my family for last year and I believe that being around you just made time fly by!  Even tho I have tried to keep us busy, and made friends that have also helped keep us busy....it's just seemed SO much longer.  Who knows why, maybe b/c we have spent so much time apart.....but it's OVER!!!  He will be in our arms tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!  We have a very nice and much needed, family vacation to Big Bear planned for Christmas, along with Patty and Emma coming to play too.  

Tomorrow is also Thanksgiving for the Geigley family, as we had no one to celebrate with, we kept the festivities off until we are all together again, when it really matters.

Miss you all, and love you!!

Gina :)

President Elect Obama

There is no denying that I am truly disappointed in the outcome of this election and fearful of the outcome. I am not convinced that this election was not won because of and not despite of race. However, the people have spoken and the choice has been made. My prayers will be that President Elect Obama does NOT increase taxes, does NOT pull out of Iraq prematurely and that he does NOT move our country into a socialist society. I will support our President, as I always do. I may not agree with him, but I will respect him. Senator McCain's concession speech was one more example of the honorable man that he is and I would hope that everyone gives him the kudos he so richly deserves. Conservative Americans need to stay strong in their convictions yet reach across and work with President Elect Obama and pray for him and for the leadership we have just put in office.

Obama gave an eloquent acceptance speech and I pray that he spoke truthfully. We have to ban together and I hope that Obama will follow through on his word that he will reach across the aisles and work together as we are all Americans. Interestingly, I noted that he said that he will have false starts and people won't always agree with how he is doing things, but that he will always work for the people. Too bad the same people cheering him on haven't shown the same respect to President Bush.

I will support Obama as our President and hope that Ronald Reagan's words echo in his ears.

"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." - Ronald Reagan

God Bless America!

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!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_re_af/af_somalia_piracy

More prayers....please!!!

Just keep their whole crew in your prayers...this is a scary/weird event! I just hate the thought period! Yes, this is Justin's ship.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080928/ap_on_re_af/af_somalia_piracy

Fox News report: http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3117034&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/index.html

Thanks for the prayers!!

Everyone is ok, aside from the clean up and no electricity, for the most part everyone is fine. No trees falling on houses or anything that bad. I haven't talked to my dad yet, but I don't know if he has been able to get back to his house yet anyway. It's BAD down in Galveston!!

:(

Thanks all!!

Some prayers please!!

My entire family lives *IN* Houston! Many of them are not leaving. My dad's house on Galveston bay (and he did leave) will most likely take a direct hit unless Ike decides to turn more East and then Houston/Galveston will get the "easy" side of the storm. My brother and Jennifer left for her parent's in Dallas, so I knwo they are safe. My sister lives in La Porte, and they have left to go up to my other sisters near Austin and they are safe. On that note Angie and Ryan may get a good bit of "slammed" by this beast too after just outrunning Gustav! :(

So just keep my family in your prayers. I am MEGA concerned about Oma in her house surrounded by rickety trees!! Carol and Patty and the kids will be there with her, and they have a generator when they lose power....but UGH!! I feel so helpless!!! :(