more of John's "travels"

Gene and John

Gene, Frank and John with the kids

Man--you just have no idea how much I miss ya, John!

John in Action...

John rockin out at an undisclosed location downrange this week....(Thanks Frank for all the great photos of the band and John-this really makes a big difference-being able to see recent pics of him)

Pooh+bubbles+Evan=cuteness

Missing John...

Not much to say...just missing John, praying for his safety right now.

John in Kyrgyzstan

I can't put into words how proud I am of what John is doing over there. When he tried to explain it to me, the well-spoken-bright-intelligent man couldn't find the words either...

This is the site where the photo is from: the news story is: www.manas.afcent.af.mil/photos/

Miracles do happen....

my miracle: Evan slept 5 min shy of a THREE hour nap today. These are the things I got done with that wonderful amount of time: de-poopied the back yard, trained/walked the dogs(in the driveway and yards), put a welcome basket together for our new american neighbors (with a homemade card), scrapbooked, cleaned the kitchen, started laundry, John called, blogged, and mopped the floor--YES YES YES today is a good day. He is now in bed at a decent hour and I am climbing into bed with a book for the night! This has been a REALLY good day. Good night

This post goes out to you, Daddy!

Hi Daddy, Just wanted to show off my t-shirt and rock star hat for ya, wish I could come hang out with the band....Mommy and I miss you but we're doing pretty good.

These were taken on Saturday, so you would have a very recent look at me :) I hope your doing good and I bet your buisy......Love ya dad and can't wait for your phone call

Monkey PJ's

These PJ's are my favorite on him (2nd to his Red Sox pj's-thanks Rob and Kelly) and soon he will grow out of them and I will miss seeing them on him, they are just so stink'n cute on him. Picture taken a few min ago.....

What is Evan up to?

He loves his living room toy bin, but lately the new thing is to empty it....how fun for Evan but no so much....for mommy....ok it's really no big deal as long as he is having fun....He's getting a little too confident getting in and out of it so I will just watch him like a hawk, ok well try to--

Evan and Elmo meet

Hope this video works. Evan's first meeting with Elmo.

I am trying to burn this image in my head forever, there is just something about Daddy-time that I love to witness.

quick trip to Prague

John surprised me with a little weekend getaway for our birthdays and his last weekend. So 5 and a half hours from Gonbach, we ended up in Prague (Praha) in Czech Republic. It was cold and rainy but it didn't matter, it was a pretty cool place. It's known for it's crytal shopping and other home made things.



On our way to the big castle.

This is the famous clock....it was said that the towns people were so proud of this clock and it's beauty that they blinded the man who created it so that he could never reproduce it. History is cool......the city has lots of it....

looking into the town square and approaching the clock..can you see all the people gathered? We waited to hear it chime and watch the little figures pop into the windows it was pretty neat

ooooh do I love the coffee....the latte with a shot of Bailys a nice little treat

After listening to the clock, this band formed and let it rip, it was kinda cool


As soon as we finished the hill to the castle everyone was gathered so we checked out what all the fuss was about...we guess a changing of the guard, really neat with really neat music coming from guards standing in the above windows man, we got lucky perfect timing!

walking by this window for a night walk, was this, being projected onto the window of this closed theatre, it was really neat....

We miss you already, John

John, we are so proud of you and what your doing...we love you and miss you already! The troops are going to love you guys and they will appreciate your entertainment and music-rock em out!!!! Evan and I are counting down the days and can't wait to see you and hug you again.