Stella

My dog Stella, is a little interesting. She has funny habits, such as, she use to go outside and immediately she turns around real fast to make sure you close the door behind her. She howls at you as you walk up the stairs and she really misses David while he is gone.

Well this weekend, she has started a new habit. As soon as she goes outside and you close the door, she scratches it because she doesn't want you to close it. So I let her in, and she does it inside also. She just wants the door open so she can come in and out as she pleases. Well, I'm not letting her do that as it would run up the air conditioning bill with it being in the high 90's outside everyday.

SHE'S DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!

Ticket

Just wanted to let everyone know I bought my plane ticket for Denver for the family reunion! Can't wait to see everyone and have a long long weekend of relaxing!

Jack in the Box

Well, it's been a long time. I have been so busy working and keeping up with everything around the house. I have been to Vegas and Denver and back. Nothing really exciting has been happening. We are getting ready for David to leave for 6 weeks to go back to J-ville. I'm a little jealous that he gets to catch up with our old friends and some friends even from here. David has been extremely busy doing funerals and tonight he is at a wedding rehearsal. I'm glad it's not another funeral!

Here in town Jack in the Box has opened today, but yesterday they had free food for military. It was pretty cool, we went in and ordered 2 meals, got them for free, and then went back and got milkshakes for free. It was a lot of fun to do something like that and it was really nice inside.

anyway, as I said. I'm not really up to anything!

Stanley Flat

Stanley Flat has made it to New Mexico.

Man did he have a great day yesterday. First, I taught him something very essential...how to use the ATM!



Then Stanley helped me check out at the Commissary.



Then while I made some yummy food for girls night, Stanley hung out with Moose.



Then we were all ready for girls night...and was feeling good!



And what a fun night we had at girls night, catching up, eating GREAT food and playing some poker!



Stanley was so tired, but I know he can't wait to go to work with me on Monday!

Kids doing the cute things

On Tuesday night David and I went out on a date for dinner. We were going to go putt putting, but we were to tired to go. We went to California Pizza Kitchen. It was such beautiful weather that we ate outside. Right next to the outside eating patio area is what I call, the Albuquerque Bellagio. It's nothing like the real thing, but it's about 15 sprinkler things shooting up. All of these children were running through it laughing and getting soaked. David and I couldn't take our eyes off of all them as they were having so much fun. It was so contagious to laugh with them. It was really cute.

Something else that was really cute was we were sitting in sacrament meeting having the bread passed around. Two children right behind us were looking at a picture book that I think mom made for them. They were being extremely quiet (something they hadn't done up until then) and all of sudden we hear "Baby Jesus" said in unison together. It was just so cute and then they continued to softly talk about the pictures and then they said "Adult Jesus". It was just really cute because they got this little voice and sounded so excited.

House

The downstairs portion of our house


The front room


Our 18 step stairway...so long according to my nieces and nephew


The kitchen


The dining room


The laundry room


The pantry

This is our downstairs!

Moving

So, This past month David & I have been extremely busy packing up our house to move onto base. In that time, so many funny things have happened, but I just didn't have time to write about them. So I am going to do a small sample of them tonight...as I am exhausted but just don't want to go to bed.

The week we were getting ready to move I am at work and David calls me. I couldn't pick up the phone because I was on my work phone speaking to a Defendant. When I get off my phone I see that David has left me a voicemail. I listen to the voicemail and start cracking up instantly. It said... "Krissie, I tripped and fell down the stairs and made a hole in the wall (pause) but I'm ok. I need to go to home depot so I can patch it up" I kinda start freaking out. He hasn't told me what body part made the hole. Did he go feet first, was it an elbow, or a head? I call David back but he didn't take his phone with him to home depot so I go to two of my co-workers desk and tell them the story. We were all laughing so hard we were crying. Just so you know, David hit his head against the wall, but he had it patched up before I even got home from work. And I was super happy he was ok. It wouldn't have been funny if he had been hurt.

Another story that comes to mind happened this week. We are living on base housing now, and well, all the houses look the same. I'm driving down my street, and the duplex next to us almost has the exact SUV our neighbors in our duplex has. They are just different colors. I pull into my driveway thinking, I just drove by David's work and didn't see the truck. I wonder where he is. I hit the garage door opener so I don't have to go through the front door, and nothing happens. I continue clicking it and think, man, now I need to reset the garage door opener. I get out of the car not really thinking and start walking up to the door. I look at the floor infront of the door and go, oh, that's not my welcome mat. (I just bought us a new one this week) It all of a sudden clicks in my head that I'm at the wrong hosue. I hurry into my car and realize I am one duplex to early! I'm just glad I didn't try to use my key in the door.

Moving has been good and I do enjoy our new house and the gym on base and the drive is much easier for David and I. David now only works 2 miles away and I'm just a jump on the freeway to work. But, it's going to take us some time to unpack.