New Baby Niece in the Family

I am so happy! My youngest brother's baby girl was born this past weekend. She is healthy. Her name is Aracely Martinez. I can't wait to meet her.

The kids are fine. We are off to our boy scout meeting. They are shooting off rockets this weekend. I still have to help David put it together. I hope it doesn't blow up in our faces. We shall see.

I am ready for Summer. My Tim will be home and then we will be a family again. I can;t wait to see him. My birthday, mother's day and our wedding anniversary are coming up. We will celebrate when he gets home. We are thinking of taking a family trip to someplace fun. Anybody have any suggestions?

Snow for Easter?

It is funny. We really wanted snow for Christmas but instead got lots of sun. It seems that we will have a White Easter this year. We have tickets to see the Avalanche play today but the road conditions are worrisome. My son will be heartbroken if we do not get to go. I am hoping the sun shines through.

All is well with us. Tim mentioned that he might get home around June 5th. I can't wait to see him. I think he might get a week off. Let us hope. We want to get out of Colorado Springs. I am looking into going to South Dakota to check out Mount Rushmore. We will see.

Hope everyone has a nice Easter. The kids have a nice four day weekend. We saw the Monster VS Alien movie. It was okay. We also went to the nice Fine Art Museum. What treasures they have there. I have plans to take them to the Olympic Center and Garden of the Gods outpost on Monday. I am trying to see all the great CO sights before we have to pack up and move again. Once the weather is much warmer we will have to do Denver.

My parents will be here in less than three days. It will nice to see them. They are excited to see the grand kids.

I have a great friend that is being reunited with her husband after a long year deployment in Iraq. I know that she is excited and nervous for the reunion. I feel happy for families that get reunited after being apart for so long. Congrats to the Peek family.

Colorado

We have been here in Colorado for 10 months and I am really starting to like it here. We have about two more years and then we move again. I can see why people decide to retire here. I think that we might consider retiring here after our military career. Our next tour I am hoping we can either go to Germany or a nice beach location. I loved living in Monterey, California. Maybe we can go to Florida this time. It is currently very windy and cold. David has flag football this afternoon and I am hoping that the sun comes out.

I spoke with Tim this morning and he sounds fine. He is working a lot but seems to enjoy what he is doing. He should be home the first week of June. I hope he gets some days off so we may go on a family trip somewhere.

The kids are fine. They get smarter, funnier and a bit more daring as they get older.

We are off to church this morning. It is Palm Sunday. I hope that my middle child doesn't vomit like last weekend. She told me this morning that she thinks she will do better this morning. This time I will sit in the back. Just in case we have to run out!!!