Honeymoon in Savannah, GA

I got to fly out to visit with my husband before he went overseas and we got to visit a beautiful area: Savannah.

BBQ

Something that we all wanted was a bbq and we got one and while it was rainy most of the past week- we did use it three times and loved it.

It takes one dad and one grandpa to put it together and another grandpa to record this so thanks for the help guys!

Dan mastering the grill:

Yesterday... Happy Birthday to Dan!

Yesterday was Dan's birthday. I made a favorite dinner: salmon with Rub With Love's Seafood Rub on top, cauliflower, and rice. We had an ice cream cake from Cold Stone. We watched a family movie, Solomon picked it out, Speed Racer. The boys went to bed late!

Rumors are confirmed to be true

Dan had drill this weekend after a couple of months of very strong rumors of another deployment- it has been confirmed. He will be leaving April 5th 2009 for training that will be for 100 days before being deployed overseas for one year. He'll be going back to Iraq so he going to work in some Arabic classes as a refresher and to build on what he knows before he goes. Hopefully his job will work around the Arabic classes which we believe that will happen.
I really like having this advance notice- last time we had 3 months to prepare for him being gone. It'll be harder on the boys now that they are older and more aware.

March 20th

March 20th was Dan's big ceremony at his job along with several other people who were being promoted so it turned out be a nice event! We were there as well as Dan's favorite professor to cheer him on. The picture is Dan with his professor after the whole ceremony:

Sane?

Well Dan has had a psychological evaluation and has been declared sane! Unfortunately my bad luck sometimes rubs around Dan's aura and there were some personnel issues and it took longer than "most of the time" to hear back about the saneness so he will not be hired by Portland Police tomorrow- the 20th. But wait- there is good news: Dan has a physical test on the 26th- day after Christmas- basically checking your vision, heart-rate, etc and all stuff he should pass. So here is hoping for a New Year Resolution of Dan getting and keeping a police job *cheers*

We'll give an update when we have one...

Update an hour later: He is taking his physical evaluation tomorrow!!! This is good news because we can know sooner when he will be hired. It is about 3 days turnaround for lab results so will post more when we know more...

Update 2 hours later after above- looks like the hiring date will be December 27th :)

Dan

Here is an adorable picture of Dan at 3 years of age!