Highlight Pictures from our Year

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Highlights From Our Year

Happy Holidays---

I know I've been neglecting my blog so with that let's start. This has been an eventful year for all of us. At the beginning of the year, Bill broke his wrist snowboarding and required a metal plate and 9 pins, Ouch! Having done this, his deployment to Iraq was postponed until this January 2011. He has been a busy guy, flying around the brass, training for his mission in Iraq and will be the Commander while he is there. He still works for the Pentagon aside from his reserve duties. His outlet has been bicycling around the loop and being assistant coach to Jack's soccer team, they of course came in 1st place. We will be sending him off on January 15Th, with lots of love, hugs and tears. We will miss our Hero!

Taylor graduated from High School this year, we are so proud of her. She has become such a beautiful, tall, 19 year old dare I say woman. She has taken a break, but plans to go to college in the Spring. She keeps changing her mind on what she wants to do, so waiting until Spring has been a good idea.

Jacqueline is almost 11 years old. This little lady excels in school, she pretty much is a straight A student. Her teacher told us, that she will go far as she loves to learn and actually likes being at school. She got an award at the end of the school year for reading the most words, I think it was something like 100,000 words or maybe it was close to a million. She is in 5Th grade this year and will be graduating and heading to Middle School next year, Yikes! She played soccer and her team came in 1st place for the classic tournament, she got the MIP ball, which stands for (most improved player), she was thrilled. They made her the tracker on the team, she followed around the person that was the best player on the other team and stopped her from scoring, she was awesome!

Jack, my little man turned 8 years old, he is getting so grown up, but he's heart still belongs to mommy...He is in 2ND grade this year and is doing really great, he is getting all B's. Last year, he got 2 awards (Special Achievement in Reading and Citizen of the Month). He also played soccer this year and his team really kicked but, LOL. He is still an avid gamer, the workers at Game Stop know him, it cracks me up, he will be one of their groupies some day. He is quite the ladies man already, he told me he got a new desk partner and that made him so happy. He said, "she drove me crazy, she was always asking me who I liked," LOL. Another little girl, would wait for him to give him his back pack, OMG, to cute....

As for me, I am still a Soccer Mom. I worked this summer for the Dean of Students at Marymount College in Palos Verdes, it was a great job! Working a college environment was something different, but the people and the students were really warm and made the experience so much fun. I'm a college student myself, I'm going for that magic piece of paper in Liberal Arts. I just finished with 2 classes, Health and US Government. I enjoyed these classes, learned a lot, got an A in Health and a B in US Government. I did pursue one other passion this year and that was learning to belly dance. I had an awesome time, but with life the way it is, I've had to put that back on the back burner. I've been running another passion of mine, I run just under 5 miles about 4 times a week this helps me to stay focused and let all the stress of life out....

As a family we've been through lots of changes, have grown closer as a family and have enjoyed new experiences. Hope this new year will bring lots more fun adventures to us and that we will continue to have good health, kindness in our hearts and love. God Speed to Bill, that he will be safe and be home soon.

Green Hairspray

Grandma and Jacqueline--

Well my prankster of a daughter is up to it again. She asked Grandma if she could do her hair and add a little hairspray. This is the result, Muwahhh, don't you just love her!!! (Grandma is such a good sport, LOL)

It's Complicated

Okay, for those of you who read my blog and have been wondering what is going on, here is the scoop. Back in June, Bill and I were seperated for a few months pending a divorce (he was also deployed to Alabama). Well in October he came back and we decided to give our marriage another try, as we have been married for 15 years and have 2 great kids out of it. So, that is where it stands, it's not an easy rode, we've been up and down, but were hopeful. It's Complicated, great movie :)

Fun Times with Old Friends

Highschool Friends (Belinda, Don and Me)

The guys getting in our photo op with the guitarist, LOL

Caught up with some High School friends this weekend. Don plays the guitar for a tribute band called In Color, code for (Cheap Trick). Belinda is my friend from way back when we were in Middle School and neighborhood friend. She taught me a lot about life and lots of firsts were shared with her. She's like a big sister to me :)

Life - Old Photos

Taken on my Birthday in October' 2009 I'm blank, blank minus 10.

Wow how time goes by, I can't believe I'm blank, blank years old already. I'm also a facebook user and lately friends have been posting pictures of themselves growing up, so I have done the same. Here is a link to my album of old photos of me growing up, have I changed much??

copy and paste link

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=151167&id=555506007&l=8536495723

New Year 2010 - Utah Vacation

Happy New Year 2010!!!

Viva Las Vegas!!

WooHoo--

Breakfast of Champions :)

He Ruled, till he ate it---

Bill and The Instructor - Way to go Dudes!

Yahoo, I'm doing it!

Getting a tip, from my instructor--

Me and JP going up--

She is so cute :)

Just a little spill..

My little Man got an Award :)

We rang in the New Year "2010" celebrating with friends, it was a good time. We headed to Utah for a family ski vacation before the kids were back in school (they are off for 3 weeks for winter break). First stop was Vegas, to break up our 12 hour driving trip. We stayed overnight at the Hilton Flamingo Vacation Club Grand Resort, it was the BEST! We had a view out our window of the Belagio fountains, pretty cool. The jacuzzi was so much fun :)

On to Utah to visit family and ski some real snow. We got there late Sunday night and so Monday would be our first day of skiing. However, Jackie forgot her thermals so we stayed behind to go into town and find some (not an easy task, as they were sold out everywhere). Bill and Jack did a half day of skiing so all was good in the world. Tuesday was suppose to be a family ski day but, we over slept, so only Bill was able to go. He figured since we weren't there, he'd try snowboarding for the first time. He got a private lesson and headed out. Per him, he was doing Awesome, (I guess being high fived by 20 year olds helps) he headed to the black diamond with his posse and instructor. He was doing it alright until he got down to the bunny slope area and ate it big time. He was bandaged up by the ski patrol and I had to drive him to the nearest Hospital. Needles to say, he had to have emergency surgery on his right wrist which was broken and received a metal plate and 9 pins. He now has a metal spider in his arm, LOL. He is doing okay, is in pain, he says his arm reminds him everyday about his dreams of granduer. So for now, deployment in February is on hold.

The rest of our trip was great! I tried snowboarding for the first time and I thought I did great, no broken bones, just major bruising on my bum and hands. Jacqueline and I skiied together our last day and this is something I know how to do, but did eat it just once. She has become a good little skier and we had fun doing this together.

Were back home, kids are back in school (Jack got an award), Christmas decorations have been put away, with the exception of our Christmas tree...What to do, what to do, I guess I need to wait for the rain to stop!