Bella girl, my first baby...

My very first baby, she followed me around the house every minute of everyday her first couple of months....she was a beautiful puppy and she's still good lookin..This is Belle over the holiday at my parents house, now--she's my mom's baby....I miss her terribly and was so glad to spend some time with her AND she did pretty good with Evan...

4th file,4th pic

Leslie's friend Holly has kept a blog idea going....you go back to your fourth file pic, fourth picture....and post it, so this was mine. September 2004 John and I stationed at Thule AB in Greenland. I took this pic hanging out of our dorm window. A little brook/creek/waterway and in the summertime we actually saw a few guys brave it with some type of kaiak/canoe. For it being out in the middle of no-where and desalit, it was very beautiful. I'm glad John and I got the oppurtunity to go there, we really did have fun up there.

Sirocco Band

Coming to a desert location near you...Here's John's band with some extras, some cool horn players. Good Luck guys!

A big shout out to Keisha Gwin-Goodin!!!! Miss ya and thinking of ya!!!!
Love
Evan

Evan's Art Time...

Evan had art time this weekend...this is his masterpiece.

John and Evan play piano for me....I loved it.

The Links together....

A highlight from the CT trip, the Link kids together. This was very enjoyable and we wanted to stay longer.

The Saga of visiting family in the states....Part 1

Well, It started something like this....after days of not getting out on hops we decide to take the only thing available....it's going to the west coast so we go for it....It's a freezing (not cold) but freezing cargo plane going to McChord (13 hr flight)....we get there, get snowed in, buy comm. tickets, they get canceled....we get out on another hop back to the east coast, Dad picks us up in the middle of the night. Yes....we're home.....but I start to not feel good, hmmm feels like a cold wait, the flu, no wait a real bad flu, I fight this flu through a trip to CT. We get back to MD, now everyone is feeling bad.... Christmas..... A few days after xmas....one of the baby nephews comes down with a vicious stomach virus. We all get this virus eventually...and it's aweful and if there's a better word....then it's that. John has to go back before me, ok so a day and a half before I have to travel with Evan by myself with a 9 hr lay over in Dublin....I get the bug, I up-chuck all-night and I mean all-night. The day we travel I'm barely making it but we get home....now for the last leg---we have to transition to Germany time (opposite of MD) so Evan has been up everynight practically all night. But we're making it....now John is the last with the stomach bug right now so I make him sleep at night as he has lots of important training going on during the day, poor guy, hope he gets well soon. Now I truely know the meaning of inner strength and patience that mothers develop the moment after giving birth, I have found some mental and physical toughness I didn't know I had...to be continued.... ok holidays over...back to work....and prep for the deployment....