Getting ready

I have been keeping busy lately. With what you ask? Getting ready for Travis' upcoming deployment. Well, kind of. I am a family readiness assistant for his unit and we have been busy trying to get things together and started for all the families. We are already starting to plan events and fun things to do while they are gone. I like this, I hate deployments, but volunteering gives me something to do to make me feel productive and to keep me occupied!

I have designed t-shirts and gotten cards made so that everyone can have the right information to contact me! I have also decided to try and start a program (i guess thats what you would call it) called I ran to Afghanistan. Actually, I didn't start it. One of Brandi's friends, Carolyn, started it back in 2008 when her husband was deployed to Afghanistan. But I recently contacted her and she said that I could start/continue it all the way over here in good old Tennessee! It is such a great way to stay healthy and be supportive in a fun way while the guys are gone. See now you are interested and want to know more don't you!!?? Well, I will tell you more so that you can sign up to help!

There are 40 something guys deploying with Delta Company. And what is going to happen is:Any spouse, parent, sibling, or friend can sign up to help us get to Afghanistan. That is walk the distance there. It is 7,268 miles from Knoxville to Kabul, Afghanistan and we plan to walk that many miles while they are gone. At the end of every month everyone who is participating will send in how many miles they walked in that month and we will add them up! See?

Well, as you can see I am super excited about the things that are going on. I am not, however, excited about what my house is looking like. Travis decided he need to get out all his Marine Corps stuff, and it looks like I re-decorated in camouflage! I hate this part of any drill weekend/deployment/AT. All his stuff stinks and it just doesn't match the red and orange of my living room! Oh well, guess there isn't much I can do about that now is there!?

I hope everyone is having a great week, it's almost the weekend so start getting excited!

Snow Snow Snow!

I just can't believe it. It has snowed again! If you have ever lived here you know that we don't usually get much snow. I mean occasionally we will get 1 maybe 2 good snows which allow schools to get be cancelled for the day. And by good I mean maybe an inch. I know for you northern people are like "an inch isn't that just a dusting" well here for that the entire town shuts down. Well, already since the beginning of December we have had 5 snows. Count them 5!!!! And this last one brought us around 3 inches! I recently said that I don't think that I have ever seen a season that brought snow this many times. I love it!!! Don't get me wrong it is freezing and I hate being cold, but it is pretty to look at! Pictures to come!