Getting ready for Christmas

With only a few weeks to go Aaron and I decided to go to Shreveport to do some shopping and have some good food. haha that's hard to come by down here. We started out shopping close to Barksdale and ended up downtown with some of the guys and girl that he works with. We had a lot of fun and ended the night with a lot of craziness and caaa awwwing....haha! The next day was beautiful. We went down to the River Walk, had lunch and shopped some. After all that excitment we headed back to DeRidder where we went to the singing Christmas Tree. It was so cool. It was like 10 levels of people and the church was huge, we were on the 3rd balcony. The lights lit up and changed colors with the music. The next day we went to church on post and had lunch and went to get our Christmas tree. They give them away on post I believe they called it Trees for Troops! It was very nice and I love the smell. We got it stuffed in the car and went to the house to decorate! It was a lot of fun we watched Christmas movies, decorated the tree, hung the stockings (from the counter top) and put out the nativity scene.

Taa Daa!!!!

Bellydancing...WhAt?!?!?

OK SO I have been wanting to do some sort of exercise but I'm not sure what yet. One of the other Air Force wives, Laura asked me to go to a bellydancing class with her. Doesn't sound too bad, right? Of course I agreed. So I talked Jennie into going with me. We arrived at the gym a little early only to hear people inside screaming like they were in the worst kind of pain. Come to find out it was a lady I know who's boyfriend is a TACP at the other Air Force office on post teaching the class. She had invited me before but I didn't know if I could handle it. It looked very intense, but maybe I will give it a try. Should know it would be it's called Bootcamp! It was finally 6:00 and time for class to start and we had no idea what to expect. The first 45 minutes we got through fine, with only a few giggles. We did a warm up and started different dance moves, simple enough. It's when the running, jumping and spinning started that we decided maybe we should sneak out the back. But we decided to give it another chance. Half way through the class they took a break and the teacher told us that the class had been going on for a month and they were doing a show. And that we were more then welcome to stay and "dance along" but it might get a little more challenging for us. We gave it a shot and left after the first dance. It was like something you see in the movies. We were running, skipping, jumping, shaking things, it was crazy! AND the teacher gave us some of her skirts with jingles on them to wear! I was laughing so hard I could barely stand much less dance! Needless to say I think we are going to wait until the next one starts and go back at the beginning! Maybe we should stick with Salsa lessons!

Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving. Sometimes it seems to get overlooked. This year we decided last minute to go to Missouri to visit my family. AND we took along some friends! Tim & Jennie and the girls were planning on staying here but the holidays are times to be with family, friends AND go shopping haha. So the Tuesday night we called them up and the next day we were on our way to Missouri! It was such a good time! We left out around 3:00 Wednesday and got there a little late. Only running into what could have been a major accident. Some idiot lost his homemade looking trailor with beds on it! This is not a joke. It was 3 lanes of traffic going one way and Tim was driving all of a sudden we see metal and beds flying all over the road. Thank God no one was hurt and nothing was wrong with the car. We did pull over to check it and help another guy get a bed out from under his truck! So Thanksgiving day we had a HUGE meal of course. We hung out that night by the fire and played games. And of course the next day all the girls (me, Jennie, Mom, Christina, Leslie and B.) went shopping! YAY for after Thanksgiving Day sales. We had so much fun! Even if we almost got ran over trying to fix Jennies phone. And standing in line at Kohl's that wrapped all the way around the store. All that aside I had a wonderful time! I'm so glad my friends and family were all together. I think I take forgranted sometimes ok more then that, family. They are the most important thing to me, and when it's all over they are always going to be there for me. Thanks for letting us all come and stay Dad, Mom, Christina and Micah! Can't wait til Christmas!

Micah, Kailey, Alexis, Megan & Zoey

Zoey....being good as always!

Me & Jennie went for a ride...I think she was a little nervous!

Nothing like a nice campfire!

It was a little cold that night!

Riding the golfcart

My Parents back yard. I miss that place!!!

Pre-Thanksgiving

Tonight was Aaron's work Thanksgiving party. The food was great and the company was fun! It was a great start to the holiday season. And just a few weeks before we welcomed home Bartle and the Captain from Iraq! It was so much fun going to the air port in the BIG van to pick them up. Even though it wasn't the "perfect surprise" we still had a lot of fun! I was so excited! Probably more then they were. Afterwards we headed over to The Mallory's (the Major aka Aaron's boss) for some Gumbo!

Some of the kids at the 21st made them signs!

~Little Terria & I~

Good&Bad

Everyone says things happen for a reason. Well I'm still trying to figure out last weekend. Aaron and I were planning to go to Missouri to see both families. His was driving down from Ohio and we were meeting up at my parents. This may not make any sense....feel a little out of it! Anyway Wednesday Aaron wasn't feeling well and finally decided to go to the doctor. 9:30 Wednesday night I was sitting in the very scary waitingroom while he was having his appendix removed. Thank God it wasn't too serious, it hadn't exploded yet. Of course they gave him 2 weeks off work but wouldn't let us travel. Aaron felt so bad because I was so excited about going home and seeing everyone. Honestly I was a little or maybe a lot but I was mainly glad that he was ok. Just another lesson on being thankful. It could have been so much worse but it wasn't. Aaron's parents decided to still come down. Once they got to Missouri they decided to come down even farther! haha. All the way to Louisiana, yes they are crazy! They left the 3 younger girls with my once again brave and wonderful family. We had lots of fun, walking, visiting, and having some very delicious steak! So glad they got to come. And thanks so much to my parents and Christina for watching the girls. They had a blast! Hopefully I will be seeing you guys soon! Thanks for all the prayers and calls everyone.

Where did Thanksgiving go?

The month of October flew by. And thank God the election is over. I don't want to talk about it right now. I do want to talk about Aaron's birthday. We didn't do anything too exciting, we both worked that day. I invited some of our friends over for dinner and of course cake! Thanks to Jennie for the delicious jello cake. And we played some games. I couldn't pull off a surprise like he did for me but I think he enjoyed it! I would like to know what happened to Thanksgiving. Do people not celebrate that anymore? I just went to Wal-Mart and there was Christmas stuff everywhere! It seems like people forget about it or something. Maybe they're just not thankful anymore. Sad. Aaron and I are going to my home next week to visit both our families. I can't wait! It's funny that Missouri is almost exactly halfway between here and Ohio. Which makes for a great meeting place. We will be celebrating birthdays and Thanksgiving! See you guys soon! Bye for now...

October

October is here but I don't think Fall is...at least it doesn't feel like it. Not too much exciting events to occur this month. I did have another birthday. Or as my friend calls it, the anniversary of my 21st birthday! It was just the big 2-3. Nothing too exciting. I did get a very nice set of pots and pans, and wedding picture of us from my parents! AND Aaron had a surprise party for me. Acutally Christina had a part in it too! He had Shera sneak around and get me to go coffee table shopping while he got everything ready. We had all our friends there. And the little girls. They are so cute. I really did not think about it until I walked in the door and everyone was starring at me. haha. I guess that's what's supposed to happen huh? It turned out really good. We had grilled out and had a very delicious cake thanks to Tim & Jennie! Then later that night, went to there house and played games until the lights when out. That's when you know they want you to leave.haha actually we never figured out what happened. Just another wonderful thing about living at Polk! It was one of my best birthdays yet! Thanks Everyone!

SURPRISE!!!

This is how Aaron will look in a few weeks for his birthday!


I had the best cake! Thanks Tim & Jennie

The Girls


Me & Jennie

Stay tuned, I think I'm caught up now. So everything will be posted by event! Hope you enjoyed!