You're cruisin' now

Sorry about the title...couldn't help myself.
The pictures are great and you look beautiful in all of them...as usual.
To be so pretty AND photogenic is a gift you certainly have loads of!
I am glad you had a good graduation/Mother's Day weekend.
It must have been great to see the family at our place for a change.
And to have KT's shower on Mother's Day was priceless.
I just wish I could have been there to help clean a make some snacks and things.

Well I finally shipped you a little package today.
Included are some pics I have taken since this deployment began.
There is a short video of me right after I caught a monster "Saddam Bass"
in which you will hear a few choice words from some of the guys around me.
Sorry...I guess all Army men have foul mouths.

I am already putting together another surprise box for you.
Imagine, I go to Iraq with the military and I am sending You care packages. ;o)

I hope you had a great time on your cruise...or are having since you are there as I type this.
Send or attach some more pics for me to see!

I love you and I miss you.

It's really official!

So even though I have had my degree since January…walking across that stage let me know that it was really real. :-)













My mom, dad and MeMe all came up for my graduation and it was great to see them all! We ate at Granite City on Friday night and my PapPaw was able to join us there as well. We took pictures and were even able to wrangle a new graduate (Jason Barns) to take pictures for us before everything got started. With a MFA in Art we figured we would be in good hands and other than the photo with the dump truck in the back ground he did a GREAT job! Our only real complaint about the picuters was that until I got in line I didn’t have that stupid hood on right. The directions they included with it couldn’t have been more wrong! So for the pictures with the family it wasn’t right but once I was in the tunnel it was all great. And yes we lined up in a tunnel and were herded in like a bunch of cattle. :-D



Everyone there gave good little speeches but after an hour and a half I ducked out and Mom, Dad and I went to have brunch at Common Grounds! I am pretty sure that with Thursday’s dinner at Noodles with my Bible study gals, Friday’s dinner at Granite City and Saturday’s brunch I put on a solid 5 lbs! (to borrow from Laura – BOO HISS!!!)



Looking back on this weekend I realized that I didn’t even have one. Friday was entertaining family and so was Saturday then Sunday I helped throw a surprise baby shower for my old roommate Katie. I never realized how hard it is to get everything ready for a shower. That was the first one I planned and I will have to say I don’t look forward to doing any more. J We did have a great time and that helped to add to the proverbial 5 lbs as well. Whitney and I started working on everything at 1:30 and the guest of honor showed up at 4:45 completely surprised. Everyone left by 7:30 then I walked the dogs and was completely spent after that. When I woke up today I realized that I felt like I hadn’t slept in three days sooo I can’t wait until SATURDAY when Mom and I leave for our cruise. I can tell that I will need the rest and relaxation from my basic 2 weeks of work.

Congradutation!

I wish I could be there to watch you walk, sweetheart!
Instead I am here just waiting to get off work so I can keep answering those letters from the class in Alabama.
I hope your parents get some pics of you an the stage that you can post for me to see.
I love you and can't wait to get home so your life can go even better (and mine too)!
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One more day until DEAD DAY!!

So excited!! I have 6 questions to answer and then I am done with this semester!! :-) WOW - Time flys when your husband is serving his country in Baghdad. :-D

One more week unitl I get to walk at my second GRADUATION!! YEA!! I mean can you tell I am excited?!?

Nothing else is reallying going on but I wanted to post just to say that my life is going great right now. I miss you lots so get home safe and soon!

jgw

Hot as blazes!

Another day pushing 105 degrees...but at least it there is no dust storm.
I had the day off today and spent the morning sleeping in (until 7) and then went fishing.
I do not have those pics ready to post yet, but I will attach some from the last time...
OK, the upload did not work again.
Anyway, the fishing was good this morning.
I caught 3 asps and several carp...3 big ones that I got pictures of.
Another guy videoed my catching another...including it getting off the hook right as I was about to drag it up onto the bank.
I hope your paper went well the other night.
I love you!

What? 2 days in a row?!

Greetings from sunny Baghdad! But then I guess it has to be sunny....seeing as it is a desert and all. We had a 3 day dust storm that ended about 3 days ago. Everything looked a little yellow/brown and hazy. Worse than what we had down in Kuwait. I would love to attach a picture, but everytime I try to upload one, the Internet connection craps out. I guess it may be some kind of firewall that the provider uses or something. I can not even download movies or music with this stupid provider.
Hopefully the video camera will be here soon. It shipped on Friday. Maybe then I can record a video or two of me fishing and not catching anything. :o)

i'm bored, i'm bored, i'm bored

Soooo bored! Not because I don't have a ton to do and not because I have finished both of my papers that are due this week...one tomorrow and one Thursday...just cause I am!!

Today we had some hail (pea sized) and in like 3 minutes time the sky went from a little overcast to BLACK! But now the rain is gone and the sun is even trying to come out from behind the clouds.

I am so excited that school is almost out and I will finally have some time to read for pleasure. :-) Okay back to work...if I must!

Thanks so much for posting! :-) It really made me smile!!