Family Photos 2009

My two wonderful girls what Angles they are!and the whole family.

Halloween ( part 1)

the girls PumpkinsOur friends went trick or treating with us

Gavin(the screem guy) Leslie (a groovie girl)

Emily(minie mouse) and Lyida(a princess)
Leslie

Emily

Emily bag

Our Halloween night (part 2)

Brad was off work but had to work. he was working and walking with is girls last night

(he only had to talk to one person about driving around with a 1 year old hanging out the car window and no seatbealts on)

Emily last night while we were handing out candy! or her sugar high look!


this is our candy we were handing out! its about half full we did not have many kids at our door last night, we just passed out candy for about 35 mins!

Emily's Loot

Leslie's Loot!

2009 pumpkin getting

We went to the pumpkin tent once more for he pumpkins, next year we might make it out to the pumpkin patch! as long as Brad is not working the weekends, but we had fun . once we got home and had dinner we watched the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown . tomorrow night Brad will be carving the girls pumpkins.

Emily looking at the pond with little pumpkins in it.

Beautiful Leslie

I will have more photos of the girls once Halloween is over!

Best Friends

Lastnight Brad called me in to see Emily passed out on the sofa with Sugar Diamond sleeping by her side.

Sugar Diamond Guerry

Our new dog Sugar Diamond! Sugar for short. she is about 5 months old. they found her with a bunch of other dogs that needed to be rescued, she is a little shy her foster mom said that when she first got her (she called her Gizmo) she would hide behind things and about a week later she would sit by the foster mom. she can not walk on a leash, but will work on it.

like brad's socks and P.T shorts behind Sugar. I think that in this pic she looks a lot like Shelby our old Queensland Healer. they believe that she is part Australian cattle dog/Pointer.

Brads 4 girls!

This is when we first meet her! Sugar with her foster mom. and Emily looking on.
we got to Pet Smart at 8:30 this morning to make sure we would get Sugar! (before the store opened) there were a few others how got there early to get the puppy's that they wanted.

(I was on the phone with Camea )

Lindt Fioretto Himbeere

they are so so good! brad gave them to me when he got home for his deployment, and I only have 2 left (so sad!) posted this on face book asked for any one who is over seas right now to see if they can find them and maybe send me a box or 2~ we found online a Carmel one now that one sounds so good on the back of the box it looks like lime one also! oh the one he gave me in case you did not see is raspberry! LOVE IT! its a white chocolate chocolate hard shell then a cream raspberry filling! would take a pic of the filling but the camera batteries died!

so if any one See's this morsel of goodness try it! and if you dont like it send it my way!

Dog Problems.... Depeche Mode..and Brad is home

So Brad made it home on Saturday of last week, so he has been home for a week and one day! the girls are so so happy that he is home and I am more then happy that he is home. I have been able to sleep in what and he has gotten Leslie up and ready for school.
about two days after Brad came home I was putting the girls to bed, reading to Emily gave her a kiss good night then came on down to sew... when I heard a whimper went up and saw Pebbles on the floor of Emily's bed room Em said that she pushed pebbles and pebbles fell off the bed! the dog was sitting there kinda funny , so off to the vet's after x-rays, she the dog has Degenerative disk disease, + some tumors and bad teeth! just a bout $400.00 later, the dog is now walking and when the owner gets home in about a week she is going to put pebbles down. its sad she is a good dog.

Tonight is the Depeche Mode concert! and I am so so so excited about it. and also excited that Brad is home so he can go with me. I think that we are going to try to meet up with a friend of ours well of Brads Mom and Dad, Monica is her name and she and her husband are from Poland.

Brad being home is so so nice he has about 2 weeks off, then will use about a month of leave.

Colossal Cave

well the pics are out of order! this one is after we got out of the cave and Emily got her rock candy! she is happy just thinkinng of her candy!

about half way done!

Dad did so good with all the stairs going up and down and then down and up!

and at the beginning of the trip! it was a bright afternoon, we had a great day with dad!,and grandpa!

no sewing tell July3:(

well at project day yesterday, (well for the last 3 weeks or so) metal chips were falling on the top of the fabric when i sewed! so I finely took it in. I have and would like to do so much sewing but I guess I cant now so what will I do?
don't know maybe hang up pitchers in the house or bring in books,sheets and all else that need to be brought in from the garage. well its to hot but maybe!
cut out more things to sew when i get my sewing machine back< class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">likely oh an while at project day some of the Lady's bring in fabric and other things that are no needed at their houses, so I picked up a bunch of baby flannel! so excited. going to make some bibs and baby blankets! well off to do all the other things around the house now! have a good day.

quilts

for some reason I am not able to upload Photos I have to do it in video form! sorry, I am hoping that when brad gets home, or when I get my laptop what ever come first! i will be able to do pic again.

the first 3 are of Emily at her swimming lessons, then the rest of are the quits that are just waiting for the binding and 2 for quilting and binding. sorry about quality of the photos it was too bright for pic taking. so we kinda went in to the shade of the yard. then just moved in to the house. so the red white and blue one is a picnic quilt.so is the one next to it. the yellow/orange color is called school bus yellow! and that was done in the 40 prints and the backing i used for it did not get a pic of it was from Grandma Thatchers stash. the Sunflower one is what I picked out about 2 years ago now for my birthday from brad. the quilt shop that i got that at douse a % off for how old you are turning so this year I will be getting 35% off! then the last is a king size and Brad and the girls went to Joann's and got that for me. (or was that before I had Emily or right after i had her, well its been a long time!) it was done shortly after I got it but just took my time finding a backing and then I quilted it myself . once i get more done i will put them up also.

the month of June

This summer is going by so fast! In about 2 and a half weeks Leslie will be home! Actually, only for a bit, she will be here with her mom until the 13 then she and her mom will fly to Oregon to see Leslie great grandma and will be home on the 23. For good!

Emily has been taking swimming lessons at a pool off-base. It is nice, but being an outdoor pool, Em does not like the cold water at all ! The great thing is, there are only 2 other kids in the class with Em. The class has finished the level one and I am hopeing that they can start the level 2 on Friday. They have 4 classes left. Then on the 22nd, the second session of swimming starts so she will do that also!

As for me, I have finished 2 picnic quilts, 1 doll quilt, 3 pillows for the dolls (I'm going to make pillow cases for them), another grocery bag(using a different pattern, I have another pattern to try out too), 2 church bags, and going to start on a table runner, oh and I have about 3 baby quilts that have been started, 2 more full size quilts that have been cut and waiting to be done, oh there is another quilt that i have started a while ago that is almost done just need to do the hand applique and then putting all the squares together! oh and I have two quilts that need to be binded before Brad gets home. ( he thinks that they are done ... unless he reads this, then he'll know that they're not!)

I have also been reading about 3 to 4 books at a time, and I think that I will start reading Harry Potter book 6 again before the movie comes out in July! I would also like to get all the Twilight books. I left the first one at Mom and Dads last Nov. when we were there. I am not sure where the second one went too and the 3 and 4 books I borrowed them from a friend.

Then tomorrow after swimming we have our ward dinner. On Saturday I won tickets to a comedy club. Next Thursday we're having the sister missionary's over for dinner, then Friday I am having a pampered chef party! Saturday the 20 Em and I are going to Breakers water park with the other Deployed family's. that should be lots of fun! Busy, Busy!

On news of the house, it's coming along, its just about done. The place where the cars should go is just about finished. I have two boxes left. I would love to just toss all the little thing on the ground that I am not sure what to do with, but I still need to make sure I don't need anything.

Brad is doing well, he is so ready to come home, and the girls want there dad home too. He should be home in the middle of August. I am hopping that he gets in before the 23 because I am going to Depeche Mode on the 23! and I would like brad to come with me!

So that is all for now!

Betta

So today the girls and I went to petco and got two Betta fish!
Emily has a purple one the name is Cinnamon, and
Leslie has a reddish brown one name is Violet!
one good thing about all the Vases that I have is that we do not need to
get fish bowls!

Our house on Saber Loop

so here is our new house on base and a little tour of it, the first pic's are the "new house" fell and then ones with our things in, the girls bathroom I know needs to be picked up, good thing its upstairs. and the Landry room is the room that I am doing tomorrow, I have no Garbage cans at the house as of yet! the soda boxes and pizza box will be going in them once I get them.

Keys

so afternoon or right before 5pm going to pick up the new house key. once I get the key we have 10 days to get everything out of this house, and to clean the stove, dishwasher and frig.
On Monday the movers are coming to pack up our things, and on Tues. they will be dropping them off at the new house, also on Tues. cox will be coming between 10-12 to put in the phone and Internet! this Thurs. tomorrow DTV. will be coming to set up the satellite, I was telling this to Brad last night and he so dose not think I will be able to live with out all my TV shows. and I told him that the girls and I will just watch movies, but come to think about it I will be so busy cleaning the grill out picking up the back yard (free of doggie poo) and all of the other wonderful things that come with moving. and the DVR that is on the Tv will record all my shows, so I can live with out it!
oh and I found the bed that I would like to get Emily, that and a table set for the Kitchen, I think what i have right now will be way too big for where it is going, and a couch set that I love also. but for right now just the Bed for Emily I am getting.

Moving

This morning I got the along waited phone call from the housing office, "I have some good news for you" yeah (hoping that we would have been lucky enough to get a 4 bedroom) no just a 3 bedroom. and that is good for me, now tomorrow afternoon will be heading in for a meeting about the "move" and then waiting for the orders for TMO to come pack up all of our stuff and move it!
Now I really need to go and throw away things that I or we do not need or what I think we need but don't.
Emily and I have driven by the house, it will be so nice to get into something bigger!

Hapy Easter!

After the girls and I get a delivery from some where or something,(Brad has sent us something that we do not know what it is yet!) we will be taking off heading to Alamogordo, NM. we have friends who just well last summer moved back to the base there, Anna's Husband is deployed again so we are going to spend Easter with her and her son.
Our plans for today wait , then drive for 5 hours, sleep and not sure what we are going to do Fri, maybe take the girls to the Small Zoo in Alamo,( it had a monkey, a wolf, and some birds i think) then go to a park that has some cool wooden play things, like the one in Lincoln City at the cost, but a lot bigger!
then on Saturday we are going to head up to White Sands National Park(they filmed part of transformers there) then Sunday Easter Bunny, and on Monday drive home.
As for the waiting part not as fun as i would like , I did get my car cleaned out and the car seat washed and taken apart! just waiting for it to go in the dryer now. finished one baby quilt almost done with another, Leslie is picking up, and Em is helping some what!
I need to go pack I have not done that yet! clothes are in the dryer now.

Emily giving the scripture on Sunday.

all right Emily has been asked to give a scripture in primary on Sunday. and I am not sure what one for her to give, the theme for the week is "I have many family members who can help me." so what scripture should she give? please input will be will welcome,

I Love Depeche Mode

Brad just let me know that My all time Favorite group is coming to town! Yeah !!
DEPECHE MODE! well Aug the 23. Brad will not be home yet but I get to go!!! thank you my wonderful husband, the tickets go on sale tomorrow, and I will be getting mine. now all I need is someone to come with me. this will be my 4th concert with them I belive two in Portland and one in SLC. and now this one! To take the words out of my 3year olds mouth " I am so EXCITED"

Emily's Eyes

Emily went in to my bathroom and found the mascara she got some on her eyelashes and the
rest of her eye's. later she found the bright pink blush used for when Leslie was in dance.

This is Pebbles, the dog that we are watching tell Sept. her owner is Deployed right now. the girls love her a little too much at times.

Brad's Address in Qutar

Brad Guerry

379 ESFS/OLA Box 528

APO AE 09898

*I mailed off a box to him on Monday and he got it today !

so at least form Tucson AZ. it takes about a week for him to get things.

Disneyland photos

Disneyland

On the 24 of Feb, I took the girls to Disneyland Mom and Dad came down and went with us.We got in Tues. afternoon (thank you Tom Tom) Dad was not felling to good he had a bad cough and was running a temp, So Mom and I took the girls to Medieval Times that was so much fun I found a coupon for buy one get one free and they said that if Emily was not going to eat( she is not a big eater at all) they would consider her a lap child, so we only paid for one adult and one child. not bad at all. WE were cheering for the Yellow Knight! and when he won and got carnations from the Princess he gave one to Leslie, Emily had her hands out for one also Mom was holding Emily and the Yellow Knight told them that he had something special in mind for Emily and to just hold on. Well two more flowers later, (and smiling and laughing at Em, tell her to hold on) Emily got the Yellow sash from the knight it said the "Queen of Love" (that was the "BIG" prize of the night) and of course a 3 year old douse not know that. Long stories short she fell a sleep shortly after. the girls had a good night and I am glad.



So Dad said that he was felling better in the morning so we went in to Disneyland and got dad a wheel chair (I would recommend everyone going with someone who needs a wheel chair get to go to the front of the line!) well we did the rides in Fantasy land all but 3 and it was fun! and the Buzz Lightyear ride, after that we got lunch dad was cold so I went and got him a Disney Blanket! and we my girls and I went on the Pirates of the Caribbean( my personal favorite) Emily loved it! she had a tight hold of my shirt going down at first. after that we went to check on dad and mom they said that they would stay where they were at in the sun, so the girls and I went on to TOONTOWN! and to Leslie Favorite Ride the Gadget's Go Coaster Emily was tall enough so she went also and she liked it but then again a even tighter hold on me. while in line for the Dumbo ride I saw that I had 4 new voice messages (mom had called to say that dad was running a temp again and she was taking him to the first aid room, ) SO when I did call her back they were Riding in a Ambulance(NOT A DISNEYLAND RIDE) Dad ended up with pneumonia and stayed in the Hospital for 3days! (not what I had in mind for our trip)end day 1.



The next morning we had Breakfast with the Princess mom came with us (it was so nice having her with us, I am even in some photos for once) she did a few rides with us then went to see dad. we were in California Adventure for day 2 and had so much fun.



Day3, we did both parks so that we could do rides over again, and while in line for the big thunder railroad we saw a sing(Leslie and I) that said "Filming in Progress" so I asked what was going on they were filming something for a Internet pilot and so some time you might see the girls online! they asked them questions like who is your Favorite Disney Character Leslie "Hannah Montana" Emily"Snow White" (she was in her Snow White Dress). after doing more rides mom told me that the Hospital called and that we could pick up dad! so we were done any ways Emily on the other hand was not done and was crying the whole time saying "I want Disney" (when Brad comes home we will have to go again) that was Friday night and Saturday morning we Drove home. and it is nice to be home.sleeping in your own bed well the couch for me.but still nice. Emily now has the cough that dad (grandpa) has and yes she now has pneumonia!

Brad made it to Qutar

Well I have heard from Brad and he is doing great! he has made it into Country and started working! I have his address so if anyone would like to send a note or baked goods he would love it. just leave a note and I will pass on the Email to you. have a great day.

Denver

Well last week Brad was done with his training, and has been in Denver since the 14th. So this past Thurs I got on a plane and headed to Denver so that I could see brad before he flys off to Qatar. we have had a great time just the two of us(well 4 if you count the guys with Brad).
Last night we went in to town and walked around the 16th street mall most of the stores were closed but we had fun just looking around, today we went to see a movie "taken" it was very good. and then in the morning at 6am we both will head to the airport, me back to the girls and brad off to the next part of his trip.

the girls.

Emily wanted to have a dress on last night so Leslie got her one! this is one that I wore I think back in the 70! and it fits Emily! thank you Mom for sending me some of my old dresses I have looked and do not have a photo of me in the same dress! when I head to Oregon this summer I will go and look throw moms photos to see if she has one.

Leslie posing like a rock star.

I love this one !

I can not ask for better sisters, they love each other so much!

my little angles!

Emily's 1st hair cut

Monday morning after getting Leslie off to school I was brushing Emily's hair and she has a little bit of gum in her hair in the back and at the bottom.
I could have cut it out my self, but asked Emily if she would like to get her hair cut and she said YES ! so we went and got it cut just a inch and a half.
The night before Emily did have a bath and her hair was washed and brushed. this is what her hair looks like in the morning unless I put it in ponies the night before. Emily was very good she sat there and let the guy cut her hair and had a big smile the whole time. for being good we went to the bx and got her a new watercolor book, she loves to paint.

Color Wonder! or is it

The other day I was on the computer Emily was using her sisters Hannah Montana black color wonder paper, after a while she got so quite so I got up to see what she was doing, she had some how gotten it all wet! there was a blue mess all over the floor and up her arms and down her legs! She looked like smurfette.
took the photos after she was already in the tub.

This is how her legs looked before she got into the tub. she was still was a little blue a few days and baths later.

Sunday is the day of the big Football game GO AZ Cardinals ! and also the day that Brad will be leaving us for about 8 months! I know its 8 months and we have done it far too many times before but, this year Emily will know that dad is gone and not just working long long hours! He and his team will be heading to WY. (of all places to do the desert training) going from one slightly warm place to a colder then cold to the heat that we in AZ would not even like. 120 or hotter it just too too hot. Once his two and a half weeks of training are done, and waiting for 5 days in WY, they will be on there way to Qatar, he will be at a Army R&R so its not bad. Once I get Brads address and If any one would like to send him a note I am sure that he would like it.

Turning in the first order

Last night at Girl Scouts Leslie turned in her first order form! and she did bet her goal of 200 boxes leslie got 204 thank you to all who ordered from her, and all of you who would still like to there is still time. I will be picking up our boxes on the 15 of Feb, and will mail them out to you all the next day. then I believe that the cookies booths will start on the 19th oh what fun, brad has well for the last two years has gotten out of helping due to not being in the Country!

He will be leaving on the 1st of Feb now. and we will see him again in mid Sept. in the time he will be gone we should be moving in to the new base housing so that is one good thing and from what they say TMO will be packing us up and moving us. that will be nice the girls have been going sorting their rooms (we will be having a yard sale at a friends house off base) so right now the hallway to the door is blocked off due to toys and a lot of unneeded things!

It's Cookie time again

Well its that time again for Leslie to sell Girl Scout Cookies (I am leaping with joy!) This will be her last year doing it (I hope) . if anyone Friends or Family that I have not called would like to get a box or two let me know or you can donate a box or two for the troops! this is something that our base girl scouts do , they collect boxes for the men and women serving over seas. Leslie has set her goal for selling 200 boxes!

Mt Lemmon 09

This weekend we went up to Mt. Lemmon. We tried to stop off at the same places that we did last year. The girls had a lot of fun. Out of the two disks that we had last year only one came with us. So we spent about an hour running around town to find some more. We ended up at a resale sports store and got the last two. ( from what brad said there was a family hording the rest and Leslie was only able to get one from them. When they would not let her have another one the manager got the display down.)


AThe first hill the girls went down. Emily said, "That was AWESOME !" I was standing right by the guard rail next to the road.

This was a path that was just right for Emily, she went down it about 4 times. Big smiles one her face the whole time..

The girls and I, off to my left is a steep hill that Leslie wanted to go down. Brad said yes and walked her up to the middle of it. I was down at the bottom with Emily. OK in the picture the girls and I are sanding on a bridge with a small creek and right behind us is a small tree. Emily was standing by the tree and I was getting ready to stop Leslie. She hit me. I went flying and landed on my face. Leslie curved around the tree and stoped. I got up and was dizzy and went over to where she was and noticed that her right arm was at a strange angle and she was not moving. Brad made it down and scooped her up and started up towards the car. There I am with Emily and the three disks trying to follow. Emily was crying because her sister was hurt, long story short, we made it to the truck and 45 minutes later ended up at the ER.

Leslie is fine. She has a buckle fracture on her shoulder joint. She is wearing a sling and is doing great. I am taking her to the Base Dr. today for a follow up.

On a side note, it was raining all day yesterday and brad asked her if we should head up to the Mt. again and she said, "No! not until my arm is better!" We will go up again but I am sure it will not be until next winter.

Craft fair posabiltys ?

Last night Brad went up to his Parents then off to get Leslie.(yeah) I was fighting off a headache and made all of this. the gift bags that I made for Leslie's Birthday, she is going to have friends over for movies and pizza. we were going to have a sleep over, (I changed my mind) the girls will stay tell about 9pm then head home.

a new bag for Emily I am going to get some primary prints and make another one for church and I will also make one for Leslie I will make hers a little bit lager.( any one who would like one let me know and I will sell you one.)

Here is Emily with hers, I think this one will be for her ponyville ponys

and the bag has a little pocket !

a small purse, bag something else for the many little toys of Emily.

I am trying to make a few things for a craft fair this fall, l also have a Quilt that i am going to make. there is also a bib that I am going to try, I thought that with brad going to gone for little over 6 months I might as welll try to make a bunch of this and sell them at the craft fair on base, if anyone would like anything let me know.