Tuesday, September 23, 2008

it's been a while

it has been brought to my attention that i've not updated this in a long time. we've been really busy the past 2 months.

emma started school at the end of august. she's in 1st grade now. everything is going well with that. ken chaperoned a field trip yesterday to the local salmon hatchery. emma's class will be raising salmon from egg to salmon over the course of the year. yesterday, they retrieved the eggs and watched the process of the mommy salmon being sliced open and the daddy salmon fertilizing the eggs. ken said that all of the kids were amazed and found it to be wonderful. all of the adults that were chaperoning were grossed out. lol

emma had her final soccer game last monday. this past saturday, we had a big party at a chalet here on base. trophies were handed out and plaques for the coaches (ken was one of them) and lots of food and fun.

ken has been gone a couple of times the past 2 months. typical of his time when he's not deployed. as far as we know, he will not be deploying this winter!!! we're all very happy about that. he will be home for both of the kids' birthdays and all the holidays! he's missed the last 2 sets of all.

i recently changed my permissions on my flickr account. this is why the pictures are not showing up on the blog anymore. sorry for how ugly it looks. i'm too lazy at the moment to go through each post fixing them. from now on, just check the flickr site directly to see pictures of what's going on with us. i'll update this with information only.

the pictures of the fishing trip on flickr are from when we went with our friends to a navy recruiter outing. our friend, will, made chief in the navy. after making this rank, each of them is put through many many absurd things. like sleeping in disney sleeping bags in the middle of nowhere, hiking miles and miles. one of the least absurd things was fishing for 80lbs of salmon. they invited us along, and ken caught his first salmon!! he donated it to will so it would go towards the 80lbs. ken bought waders for emma to wear as well. she didn't catch anything, but she had fun. spencer fished with his spongebob pole and caught "plankton" every time. ;)

we're so thankful that we bought the jeep, bc in order to get to these really good fishing spots, we have to have something that can get beat up without us caring. will, lisa, sammy, and charlie drove their van to the parking area. we shoved them into our jeep (8 people and tons of gear and food) and drove through the 4-wheeler terrain. i drove, and i don't think we made it over 10mph. i think even if we'd had an accident (which was nearly impossible), we'd be okay bc we were packed in like sardines.

i will be uploading more pictures to flickr soon...the link is on the side of this blog. don't hold me to the word "soon" though. lol

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So you all are still breathing over there! Great to know! You expect me not to send new pics and updates out but I expect you to keep up with that stuff!!!
-Christie :)

Monica said...

i know, i know! lol

i've taken some pictures, i've just not posted them. i am so unmotivated in general right now. lol

Anonymous said...

Well get motivated!!! :) I wish we could see you soon!!! You're way too far away!
-C