Viva Las Vegas

Welcome from 'sunny' vegas!!! It's normal temperature here seems to be in the 70's! I am loving it but missing home. My neices and nephew are awesome and growing quick and the trip was well worth it!! My only regret was not staying longer! Here are a few pics!

Swimming with the kids the 1st day, the weather was perfect and the water was warm!
Me, with Ethan and Kayla

Alyssa loves to dive! She showed me that many times!

Honoring Vet's on Veterans Day

Today is Veteran's Day .. as I remembered this, I popped on my computer and sent a message to Paul to wish him a Happy Veteran's Day. He Thanked me and then I went on my way to think what exactly Veteran's Day is about. Many Americans mistakenly believe that Veterans Day is the day America sets aside to honor American military personnel who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained from combat. That's not quite true. In fact, we already have a Holiday for that it's called, Memorial Day and it is the day set aside to honor America's war dead.

Veterans Day, on the other hand, honors ALL American veterans, both living and dead. In fact, Veterans Day is largely intended to thank LIVING veterans for dedicated and loyal service to their country. November 11 of each year is the day that we ensure veterans know that we deeply appreciate the sacrifices they have made in the lives to keep our country free. As, I think of this day, especially after last weeks election, I am very humbled and grateful to those men and women serving our country near and far, past and present. Thank You for serving our country! Here is a picture of Paul in 1989 as he served in Baumholder,Germany when the Berlin Wall was still up or it might have been down by then!?! Though, he has not served in the Military or National Guard in quite sometime, I am grateful to him and many other family members, my dad, uncle, cousins, & brothers. Anyway, Thanks! Sorry Paul, I know you hate it when I post pictures of you on the blog! Enjoy!

Alright, I put this on the web because I'm crazy and to show how crazy we are ... you can see that our schedule is usually jam pack with stuff and yes, mainly church stuff. We're pretty dedicated and happy to be but as you can see ... it's crazy! Now that the holiday's are around the corner, we'll be even more crazy with our schedule! Ha! Enjoy.

Fall Leaves

Last Night, our Young Women went over to Bro & Sis Becker's house to rake leaves. I was genuinely impressed and happy to see that we had a turn out of 13 Young Women! Yeah! That is over 1/2 of the girls helping us!!! They seem to enjoy themselves and the Beckers yard had enough for us to do! At the end, of course - I made them pose for pictures, it just didn't seem right to not do it and I couldn't pass up my chance at it! So, the girls humored me and Paul took these pictures, he takes bad pictures but these turned out ok! Thanks Paul! A BIG Thank you to Paul, Sherie, & Michele for joining us and helping with rides! Enjoy.

Don't forget to Vote!

Today my crazy husband got me out of bed at 630am to vote, lucky thing too .. because I probably wouldn't have walked over during the day to do it! It's pretty important to us to do this, since we believe and have the right to do this when some countries still don't. Today we are all apart of history making! I'm excited to be a part of it! So, if you haven't already done so .. get your butts up and go vote and if you have, congratuations!!!! enjoy the day!