{Happy Father's Day to 2 of the Best Daddys in the WORLD!}

Happy Father's Day!!

I'm lucky enough to have grown up with ONE of the best Fathers in the World! I married the other one! My Father is a Daddy! Not all Fathers can BE Daddys! That takes a special man. One who is loving, giving, disciplinarian, kind, helpful, teaching, strict, lets you call him ANYTIME for ANYTHING and won't laugh @ you for it (okay...maybe he'll laugh, but with LOVE in his heart!), and this type of man always makes you want to come "home"! THAT is the kind of Daddy that I have! I'm a LUCKY, LUCKY, LUCKY kid! I love you Daddy!

The one I married didn't quite have the same upbringing that I did. He has learned by watching my Daddy and by God's blessings to be an AMAZING Daddy to our little girl! He's always thinking of her and making sure she knows how much he cares about her...not a day goes by that he doesn't talk to her, even if he's on some crazy work schedule and they miss each other by minutes, he'll call her to tell her to have a good day and that he loves her. THAT is a Daddy trait! And he has all the others mentioned above as well...ahhhh, I'm blessed with TWO of the Best Daddys in my life!

I love you both! Thank you for all that you are, all that you do, and all that you mean to the "girls" in your lives!

{Welcome Los Alamitos High School's Newest FRESHMAN!! Class of 2013!}

{Pretty Meghann with her new haircut! 4th time donating to Locks of Love!}

{Meghann and Stephannie}{Meghann, Cassidy, Kendall}{Nicole, Meghann, Stephannie, Kendall}

Yes...it's true! Meghann has completed 8th grade! She will be starting HIGH SCHOOL in the fall! OmiGOSH! She's a beautiful young lady and is going to do a great job in high school! We're SOOO proud of her and all her accomplishments! She can't wait to take Drama this year as well as Orchestra. She's taking summer school to get her semester of Health (Freshman requirement) out of the way so that she can do Drama the whole year. She's always been a great actress with a super sense of comedic timing! She had fun doing all the church plays over the years and now wants to try something a little more "serious"! She has a beautiful singing voice and would love to do musicals! We look forward to MANY great things in the 2009-2010 school year both academically and creatively!

Congratulations, Sweet Baby Girl! We love you SOOOO much and are SO happy to be your parents!

{16 Years of Wedded Bliss!}

16 Years AgoToday

Happy 16th Anniversary to my best friend, my confidant, my lover, my forever love! I'm so glad that I met you 17 years ago, and here we are...against all the odds that the military threw our way, and other obstacles that we've overcome...TOGETHER! Here is a poem that our sweet daughter wrote for us:

"It's been sixteen years
You're going strong
But even more
Once I came along.
The years all filled
With wedded bliss
The years to come
You shouldn't miss...

Together forever
Day in, and day out
Your love will last always
Without a single doubt!
It's been so long
Since that faithful day
You've been together so long
And I hope it stays that way!

My poem is short
So it's almost through
Sixteen years it has been
Happy Anniversary to you!"

{Walker Look-alike Meter}

{Mike's Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage}

What the heck? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi? REALLY? Mike looks like an Indian with a BEARD?!?!

{Michelle's Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage}

{Meghann's Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage}

{It's JUNE! 1st Mortgage Payment....MADE!!}

Yeah! Never thought I'd be so happy to part with that much $$$, but it'll be a JOY every month! We are LOVING our new home...it makes us very happy to finally have a place of our own! It felt like home as soon as we moved in, that's how you KNOW you're in the right place! There are still MANY, MANY more boxes to get through, but that will just take time! We can't wait to have all our family and friends over...I'm sure it'll be a little bit @ a time, but eventually everyone will get to share in our homeownership joys!

Thanks to Mom and Dad for all their gifts for our new home! We have been SO lucky that so many of our friends and family have given us gifts...it seems weird, because we HAVE had a home to live in for many years, but being as it's our first home PURCHASE, we're so glad that everyone seems to get as much happiness out of it as we are! We love you all!

Okay...back to watching "Tale of Desperaux" with Meghann now!

{Slowly Wading Through....}

....all the boxes! Hee, hee! We have a few dishes left over @ the old house still, but no rush to get them out. Claudia is gone for 10 days and said to take our time, not to worry about it! So it's off to get more shelf liner stuff today and get all that taken care of!

Our friends are AMAZING! All the work they did on Sunday can never be repaid and the friendship has ALWAYS been irreplaceable for us! We are TRULY lucky people to have friends like we have! God has blessed our lives in ways that constantly blow us away!

So....back to the boxes. Gotta get everything back in "place" @ the new house, and get rid of crap that we don't need anymore. We have too much "stuff"..."stuff" takes over your lives, and it's time it all went AWAY! The Goodwill won't know what hit them when we start dropping stuff off! :-D

We can't wait to have everyone over to the new place for a BBQ and swimming! YEAH! Thanks for all your well-wishes during this whole process, and we're REALLY working on getting ourselves above water! Mike went back to work today (patrolling) for the first time in about 8 months. So he's VERY excited, but I'm sure will be even MORE exhausted than moving made him! It's a good thing, he's happy to be doing his job again and not sitting @ the office. Pray that he continues to do well...he was blessed by a wonderful surgeon that healed his back with God's help.

Okay, okay...now off to that LONG commute to get Megs to school. (Ha, ha...it's 1 minute away!)

{Today is MOVING DAY!!}

So...it's finally come to this! All our procrastinating is @ an end! Today is Moving Day! We pick up the UHaul @ 11am and all our friends are coming over @ noon to help! With Mike's back, we have to be careful...thankfully we have a bevy of WONDERFUL friends who are willing to give up their Sunday to help us out! Mike and I already decided that we're NEVER moving again! It was so EASY when the military did it for us! :-D This is our first non-military move! But we can't put it off any longer...the DirecTV guys are coming tomorrow and the internet guys are coming Tuesday. That means we HAVE to get everything over there! We've taken a few big loads of stuff on our own, but it still doesn't look like we've made a dent! Living in 1 place for 8 years you don't realize how much stuff ya have! Time for a good garage sale!

Okay...better get ready for church and a LONG day ahead!