Monumental day for Cheyenne

Cheyenne got her braces off!!!

She has been counting the days until she could get her braces off and today was it. She was so excited! In the first picture below Dr. Gonzales is asking her if she is sure she is ready to get them off.

The process has begun... the brackets are being snipped off....

Meet Vanessa, she is the sweetest dental assistant.

This blog is not complete without a picture of Cheyenne's braces...

Look at the smile on her face...she is officially brace free and polished to a shiny wireless smile.

Thanks Dr. Gonzales for the excellent care of Cheyenne and her beautiful teeth!!

Happy New Years!

As all of you know we are very excited about it being 2010. Mike is coming home! He is scheduled to leave Iraq on the 30th of Jan. Stopping over at a couple of places to turn in equipment and then on to San Antonio, we are anticipating him being home around the first week of Feb. So please keep him in your prayers!!

Now on to the festivities of our New Year Celebration!
In the first picture you see Mike dressed up in a 70's Hippie costume. He and his fellow soldiers decided to celebrate the New Year in costumes. We think he looks dashing with all that long hair...considering we've never seen Mike with hair.

The next picture is of the kids, myself and some good friends of ours the Juni's. We went over to their house played games, and ate delicious snacks until we rang in the New Year. Thank you for letting us come over!!
We had a blast!!

Happy New Year Everyone!!

Christmas 2009

What a wonderful way to celebrate Christ Birth than having Christmas. As you all know Mike is in Iraq and with him gone we did not feel right putting up our big Christmas tree. So the kids and I decided to buy two small artificial trees and decorations. We sent one to Mike and we kept the other one at home. Here is our Christmas tree and the picture below this one is of the tree and ornaments that we sent to Mike.

Christmas is not complete without Mike being with us. We were very excited that he was able to contact us with Skype. He graciously waited until we got upon Christmas morning to open presents with us.

Here Tony is opening his presents.

And Cheyenne is opening her's.

After Christmas at our house we headed to Mike's twin brothers (Marty) house and had a wonderful Christmas dinner and then had more presents. Before we opened presents Mike was able to Skype in again from Iraq and read to us the story of Christ birth from Matthew and Luke in the Bible. What a wonderful story to be read on Christmas Day.

Every year Mike's mother (Billie) gives one member of the family "Gifts from Granny". The recipient this year was Cheyenne. Billie does her version of the 12 days of Christmas. As you will see by the picture below. Cheyenne had a great time reading each note that came with the presents.... then on the final present is the "big" gift that Granny gives you.
This year Cheyenne got money!

Baby Picture time...

Let me introduce to you Patrick. He is the little fella that I take care of in my daycare. I couldn't resist taking pictures of him for his Mom and Dad's Christmas Present. He was such a sweetheart laying on the blanket as I took picture after picture trying to capture the right one! I think I did a pretty good job, of course he is such a cute little fella that it would have been hard to take a bad picture.

Talking to Chris via Skype

Today I had the privilege of talking with Christopher on Skype. What a surprise for all of us here! He told us that he lives in a 40 man tent and sleeps on bunk beds. I asked him if this reminded him of living at home as a little boy sleeping on a bunk bed and he just chuckled. He did mention that he is not really working in his field right now, just doing lots of odd jobs and watching a lot of movies. He works the noon to midnight shift and is about 10 hours ahead of us in his time zone. Needless to say it was very good to be able to see and talk to him.



We Love and miss you Chris and are praying for your safety every day!!

Lovingly,
Mama

Cheyenne's Holiday Christmas Concert

Cheyenne had her Christmas Concert this past Thursday evening. She did a wonderful job playing the Contra Bass Clarinet... I was fortunate enough to be able to sit on the front row and hear her playing. I am so very proud of her!






Merry Christmas to All!!

Deployment UPdate three

Thank you for your prayers. We received word today from Cil, Chris's wife, that he made it safely to his destination. Right now he is battling his allergies due to so much dust. As I learn more I will update all of you again.

Much Love,