Cute or Creepy?

Through the magic of Photoshop I decided to combine Justin and my baby pictures to create what may or may not be a preview of what our child may look like someday. Ta Da! Yep, this is the kind of stuff I do in my spare time.

A little family style Chippendales

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Go Chief Chef

Check out the piece Mike Francis of The Oregonian contributed on Justin and his fellow soldiers. Here's the link: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/oregon_army_national_guard_ser.html

Lovie Ain't Smiling Tonight!

One thing's for certain, the Bears' game was littered with mistakes tonight... Ryan made Cutler look like a high school quarterback, two potential touchdowns were missed while they were practically hovering over the goal line, they threw in an extra player for illegal advantage, and someone was handing out brownies for the most false starts and interceptions... okay, so I'm not next in line for Sports Commentator. I just want them to know that while Lovie is forced to calmly and serenely share his disappointment post game, while Cutler loses himself in a bottle of Jack Daniels to suppress his shameful performance, and while Forte considers throwing in the towel for a day job at Sports Authority that one die hard fan was willing to wake himself up at 2 am in the morning after 14-16 hour shifts slaving away in the midst of a war zone to cheer them on. Honey, I wore my jersey tonight - not in support of the Bears, but in support of you. I would require payment to pull myself out of a deep REM sleep to tune into 11 strangers running around in tight pants, but clearly our priorities are different. Two very positive aspects of this game were the incorporation of national breast cancer awareness month (the boys looked great in pink!), and this awesome miller lite commercial. Copy/paste this in your browsers... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXXgBU_bS7A

10 Reasons Fall Season Rocks

1. The Fall colors are ridiculous

2. The hussies downtown are back to leaving things to the imagination

3. The air smells clean and rich

4. Kids are back in school

5. All the hot TV shows are back on. If we're lucky we'll get a run of 4 episodes before repeats start in

6. Football

7. Daylight Savings time, fall BACK baby

8. Comfort food and warm drinks

9. Traffic dies down in Hood River

10. Justin comes home in 7 months  

Enduring the wait

Currently Justin is serving 12 excruciatingly long months in Iraq with the Army National Guard. Fortunately he has served almost 5 months, so it's dwindling down one long day after another. For the soldiers' families at home, life has been rudely interrupted, and we have been forced to stay positive while we wait for our other half to join us again. We wait and we wait. Nothing is the same when your companion is missing at family or social functions, meals are less than exciting when you're unable to share them with each other, and you miss being able to talk about anything and everything on a daily basis. Although Internet enables us to communicate more regularly than ever before, I find the quality is compromised in more ways than one. This is the sacrifice you make when signing up for this - sure there are perks - great benefits, increased pay, a soldier's sense of pride and contribution to his country, but does it all balance out? Is it worth it? I don't have the answer to that question. We'll try to remember this when 'they' ask him to re-enlist. Next post will be more positive.