Easter picnic

We went to an army Easter party the Saturday before Easter. It was not a very good idea. Long long lines and too many people.

They had Easter egg hunts divided into age groups. Kassidy went first they had 2000 eggs in the little playground below and unleashed over 100 kids aged 7-11! Yeah. It was a mess. Kassidy my non fighter got none. She's the one in the picture in the white shirt looking unamused that I made her go in! They had to give out prizes to all the kids that got nothing!
Abbey saw all the tears of the big kids and decided she wasn't going to do hers.






The girls had fun doing the bungee run. Abbey couldn't even get the bungee to stretch!












Finally we waited in line for free popcorn. Had it eaten before we made it to the free snowcones then called it a day! Love this picture of my super cool and sassy ladies!





-- Post From My iPhone

Location:Ft bliss/biggs

Test

Trying the new app from my phone that is supposed to help me blog update from anywhere. I am so busy and keep most Picts on my phone so this thing never gets updated!

Let's hope it works.

This is a test pict of the girls from Easter.


-- Post From My iPhone

My life feels like this....

So I've disappeared, I've been told! Here is why...

Brian is gone (again) he can't see our blog so I slack

Decided to finish school since I am so close to being done (5 more classes after the 3 i am taking and then i can apply to the nursing program to be a labor and delivery nurse)

Brian is in command for his unit which makes me the "mom" to all 75 wives and their problems.

Church keeps me busy too!

So to the world I look like this.....

All put together and getting it done. but.......

I feel like this!

Ha Ha Ha

No life isn't that bad! Just makes me giggle.

It's harder than I thought giving up my awesome mom do what ever i want when i want lifestyle to go to school. It will be good. It gives me a new purpose and it's so my little ladies can go to school and have no worries or loans!

Life Is GOOD!!!

Run, Dylan, run!

So my super buddy/nephew Dylan is just awesome!

This past weekend he ran in the PF Changs Rids rock run. He ran for our favorite foundation the Sydney hudson foundation (if you ever feel inclined to donate to a fab thing this is it!)

I understand that he was amazing and came in the very top of the runners. He is so great.

Love this picture because he is a time man. I mean he is ALL about time and if you say a time you better be prepared to be prompt or suffer the wrath of Dylan. So here he is pointing to his wrist that it is time to get this wagon train a rollin'!

Check me out man! I got a medal! Who's cool now?! ME

Life would not be the same without D. He brings a simple joy to everything. He keeps you young and makes you play. I am pretty sure he's one of the coolest people on the planet and if he could talk he'd tell me the same thing about me!! ha ha

Love you bud!

Merry Christmas

This year due to my lack of time management skills and my new desire to "save" the planet. we have made our card a digital one. Thus saving on printing, postman time and you just looking at and throwing away! So Wishing you a super duper meryy Christmas. May you continually feel the Lords light in your lives!

Love- TeamCaldwell

Change of Command (finally a new post!!!)

So today was one of those pretty big things in the life of an Army Family.

Today Brian took command of his own company. He is now the commander of 6/1 HHT. He takes command just a few weeks before deployment and is ready to do his best for all the families he and I are now responsible for. It's quite a big undertaking that he is ready for.

As we prepared for this day yesterday I made all the final arrangements for our reception, ie picking up cake, plates, sandwich trays etc. The day started to turn a little ugly, then it started to rain and got even uglier, then snow?! Are you kidding me? Our ceremony is outside at 9:30 am it can't be snowing. Surely its a freak thing and will go away right? I mean we are in El Paso. So I went to bed thinking nothing other than man it's chilly. Only to awake to this view!

SNOW, in EL PASO in OCT!!!!! Super exciting unless you have to sit outside! Oh well we will endure!

The ceremony was very nice. Everyone spoke and it was as short as they could make it for all us poor freezing folk. It was very humbling to see your husband being the one to take the reigns and the responsiblity of being the commander. I am proud to say he is mine!

He's the hunk on the right!

Handing the flag from old commander to new

Taking the lead

Super sweet 1 minute speech!

Going to his men

Telling the COL the meeting is done and handing the troop over to 1SGT

I LOVE this wonderful man.

I will miss him dearly but know he is needed and will do a gret job at this new venture in life.

Thanks for having me along for the ride Love!

Brown boys...are cooler

So on the way home from church today we were listening to Rdio Disney, like ALWAYS! A typical boy group song was on and abbey like to try and figure out which boy it is. She is usually saying, this sounds like jonas brothers or mitchell muso etc. well today was a new boy. so in all her 5 year old wisdom she came to this conclusion....

" well, he can't be a brown boy because they only make cool music. huh mom?!"

She is only 5 and knows her soul music already! Man she makes me laugh with the stuff her ever thinking mind comes up with.