Deployment Day 20080531

Ok so here are some pictures I took of the "waiting time" on deployment day. Nothing special but hey it's nice to see that we can be photogenic. Anyway.. The picture with the bus.. you can't tell but john is in the second big window. I will truely miss my honeybear!! Oh and yet again the pictures are out of order. So the bus is the last picture before they moved out.

Deployment Ceremony 20080529

These next few pics above are of the Color Guard putting the Unit flag and colors away until they get to their final destination

General Lally giving his speech (above)

If you notice the smoke in the background is where the cannons were shot off no actual picture was taken because we were standing at the time

I am pretty sure they are covering the guidon (above)Color Guard

I think John is in this group (above)

The Color Guard

The band!!

These are the pictures of John's Deployment Ceremony. It was on May 29th, 2008. The pictures aren't very good because I wasn't in a good seating area and well we were just a bit far. But I got most of it. They are out of order. I always do that. So they are in order from taking last to first. OOPS!!! But you guys get the gist of it anyway.

Our new Neighbor!!

Ok so its only a few weeks late but.. this post is really for Justin and Sarah anyway so I dont think they will mind. Anyway.. We used to have 3 horses across the street from us. Beautiful horses at that. There was a young male (the stud), and a momma horse and her daughter. Anyway, the owner apparently has been tryin to breed the little girl for a few years now. Little did he and all of us know (becuz of of course we are over there quite alot with Rylie-she loves em) that the girl was indeed pregnant. It was early so noone suspected. And then one day a few weeks ago.. She was born. Our newest neighbor, a beautiful little girl. The day she was born the owner let us go into the area with him and just gawk at her. He was just so surprised and was just amazed, it was like watching a brand new dad. Rylie was definitely excited. She is soo beautiful and what a good mommy Telly is. In the picture the big horse the baby is by is of course Telly (mommy) and I am pretty sure that the other big horse in the other pic is the stud or daddy. HEHE!! They are all wonderful and friendly horses and always come to greet the passerby. They have wonderful temperments. We have even fed them some hay that blew out of their land and they didnt try to bite. I love having them as neighbors. The best you can ask for! I can't wait to see how she grows over the years that we are here. Sorry so late but Congrats Telly!!! (the 1st 8 pictures are taken from our front porch while the last few were taken while driving down the road to our home)