Birthday Girls

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Cool website!!!

I just wanted to share a website that I came across the other day. It is called Smilebox and you can access it at www.smilebox.com. I used to scrapbook before I had children and now I am so far behind it is so frustrating. Actually I had gotten rid of all of my scrapbooking items awhile back, because I was never going to do it again. I have always thought that I would love to do digital scrapbooking, but there again never have had the time to figure it out. So now a days we all have digiatl cameras, and mine all stay on my computer. I print out ones for gifts and what not, so to make a long story short.... check out this website and see what all you can do with your pictures. My post right before this, I was experminting with it for a slide show. It is free for the basic membership, or it is 5.99 a month for the premimum, which allows you to print out your pages and do more things. But if you get a year membership it is only 39.99, what a great savings!!

So try it out and let me know what you think.

New Slideshow!!

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I don't understand WHY

WHY, WHY, WHY is the question I am asking today... Why does the military do the things that they do? Why do they want men and women to sign up to fight for our country and then treat them poorly when they get hurt doing such a thing? Why don't they listen? Why is it that I don't understand? What are we doing wrong?

These are the questions to run through my head today. We just heard back from the medical board office and it wasn't good news.. That is right, the outcome hasn't changed any and we are now stuck. We have to sign the papers and let them be on their way to Washington and then in a matter of weeks we will be out of the military. So what does that mean for our future, we are not sure right now. We have a lot of things to consider, ponder and pray about. After we get out of the Army we can appeal to Washington and see what they say, but as of right now our hopes of that doing anything isn't looking to great.

I just don't understand why this is happening, what are we doing wrong?

Update

Ok, one of these days, I will get better at keeping this thing updated at least on a weekly basis!! We had our computer get a virus, so now that is fixed. It is amazing what we did back in the day without computers. I don't think I would want to go very long without one, but I could do it!

So here goes for an Army update..... waiting, waiting, waiting, this is a word we are VERY familiar with these days. So we had to appeal the formal hearing, which required to appeal it in writing. So we had to get the doctor to write up a letter, well he decided not to sign it...so the next day he left out of town, so what happens now??? We got the "head" of the department to sign it and hope that it works. We faxed everything in on Friday and hope to hear something back this next week. If we still don't get what we deserve, then we have to accept it and fight after Kyle gets out. We have gotten our Congressmen involved and they have already requested his medical record, so that is a good sign. We hated to get him involved, but if that is what it takes then we will do it. I just don't understand the Army sometimes. They so badly want people to join and fight for our country, but when they get hurt doing it, they don't care about you because you aren't helping the country anymore. It just makes me frustrated and sad for the soldiers that are hurt much worse, I would hate to see what kind of treatment they are getting. Some people won't stand up for what they deserve, so therefore the Army can walk all over them. AGHHHHHH it just gets to me... so I will stop for now!

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks. I am not sure if there is a way to do it as a link??? Anyone know? Or do I have to put them on the page with a post? Ok, so the pictures are taking way to LONG right now. Will post more later when I have more patience!!

Thanks everyone for your prayers and concerns, please keep on praying and we will keep you updated.


Sea World with the good ole Eagle

Kyle at Sea World

The water ride at Sea World, it was GREAT fun..

Frustrated....

I couldn't think of a title, so this is just how I am feeling!! I will apologize for the downer post now..
So TX was a GREAT vacation for my husband and I, but didn't get us anywhere with the Army. The board left his hearing the same, didn't ask questions, nothing...so a trip for nothing, except alone time as a couple which was nice. So now, we have 10 days(not very long) to appeal AGAIN, but this time it is in writing. So what do we do? That is a darn good question because noone seems to know what we should do besides appeal it. Where do we start? Who do we see? What appointments need to be made? These are all questions that we are asking and NOONE is answering. We are running out of time and out of patience. We did call our congressman back in MO, and he is helping us out so far. He started investigating the case this week, so we shall see if that gets us anywhere. So we continue to wait on the Army.... the girls and I will still most likely go back to MO within a months time. We are going to wait out to see what this appeal does!

So after we returned, we have been busy. My mom is still here with us, so that is nice to have someone here! Friday we had MC meeting and it was good. We tried something different and I think it worked and my group liked it. I am going to miss this group of ladies and kiddos very much. It has been great to get to know them and to make memories and friends that I can keep in touch with anywhere. Where we are moving there isn't a Moms Club...so I guess that means I will have to start one. We will see how far that gets!! I think every city should have one and it can be started with just one mom, so that looks like me!!

When we move back, we are thinking of me going back to work. My husband is wanting to finish his ministry degree, and I want him to focus on school and not have to worry about our family finacially. He is going to try and go to school on just Tuesday Thursday, so that will be nice. My mother has offered to care for the girls, so that is GREAT. I wouldn't work if I had to take them to daycare. So they will only be with her 2 days a week and then with Kyle the other 3 days. I will still homeschool them, just in the late afternoon/evening time. That is the flexibility of homeschooling...right? I am going to work for my mother n law at a facility that assembles medical packs for hospitals, for surgies, births etc. So you never know, I might assemble your next pack!! My husband and I both have worked there before we moved here, so that is nice too.

I will be posting pictures at a later date, when we have a working computer. Our desktop has a virus or something on it, so we have to erase EVERYTHING and redo it. Our laptop is old and slow....so pics are to come.


Thanks for getting through all of my rambling..

A blog from TX!!

So here we are in TX... I am not sure how this blog will post since how it is from my phone, so sorry if it is a liitle messed up. So yesterday our flight got in and we got our rental car and headed to Sea World! I had not been since a child and we had a lot of fun. I will post pics when we get back in town. We had a great time for getting in FREE for military!!
Today we met with Kyle's lawyer and the meeting went great. We were pleased with the meeting and the lawyer said he thinks tomorrow will go great. So you can pray for us and Kyle as he appears before the board of doctors. Today we went to the Riverwalk and took a boat tour around and then did some shopping. We went and seen the Alamo and went to the mall!!
That is all for now! It is hard to type for long periods on my little phone!