can you tell I miss him??

Ok in the group shot he's in the front row, second from the left. HAHAHA look at his hand. He's holding a picture of me. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW....lol

ok one more time.. AAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! lol I am sooooooooo hooked on him! SIGH

Fellowship party

I really have to give props to the Chaplin and his wife who once again added more pictures of our guys at a party the local church threw for them. They are too cool to take the pictures and add them for us.!! I got lucky and got 2 face shots of Matt out of them!!! Sigh. I see him in 6 days and I am so excited. Be prepared for a picture and blog over load soon..lol

In the 1st picture he is in the back right side and in the 2nd he is the first on the left.

What a Doll even in PT sweats!

the ped egg

AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Those little ped eggs are incredible! Any one who knows me well at all knows I am a bare foot queen! I boycott shoes the second I can. I prefer to be completely barefoot 99% of the time......thus leaving my feet ......well, rather disgusting! lol They get really dry and kinda crusty. Since I'm seeing Matt in less than a week ( whoot whoot whooot whoot whoot whoot -unattractive booty shaking dance- whoot whoot...sorry...ok back to the blog) I needed to pedicure my feet. I bought a ped egg in hopes of being able to skip a pedicure that would cost me $28.00. Wow. I was very pleasantly impressed. That little sucker took my feet from cave woman status to silky smooth in 10 minutes....hm. I think I'll still get that pedicure though..lol. No matter how soft it made my feet it can't give me a 30 minute back massage and paint my piggies the way I want.

Now...... while I may boycott shoes as often as I can and when I do wear shoes they tend to be flip flops (ya I know....SOOO sexy, you wanna be me don'tcha!) I have recently acquired some HAWT shoes! Yes they make me taller than Matt but the Va-Va-Voom factor is soo worth it! Rawr!

Oh and for your own good do NOT double click on the pics of my shoes and look at the larger image as the massive leg hair growth may cause retinal damage! lol

Ya for Torrid.com...yet again. as I got all 3 pairs of shoes from them...on clearance I might add!

Oh and for the record..no my back does NOT like these shoes which is why I wear them ever so rarely!

Army photos

Well I have been uber lucky last week and this week to get loads of pictures!!! The ARMY takes pictures of the graduate and his team. Even though he won't graduate for another 7-8 weeks they mail them home now. YAY! Matt's so proud of the fact that from the 1st picture of him the portrait with the flag to the team photo he's lost almost 18 lbs. Not that he wasn't a skinny butt anyways. lol. The 1st pic up there is of his drill sgt.s why we want a giant photo of them...who knows..lol.

Matt is in the front row 3rd in from the left holding the Cavalry Scout flag. SO HANDSOME! Ok enough gushing....I'm off to do the laundry. ....UGH!

yippee pictures!!!

Oh Happy day!! The Chaplin at Fort Knox has a cool website, http://www.ouroperationappreciation.com/ He adds photos of the Soldier's as they go through their OSUT. I only found out about it today,I wish I had known about this sooner, dur! But I'm still super excited! I had to really look hard but I could only find him in 4 pictures. If you go to the site and click on FOXTROT on the left hand site and then click on both February 09 and March 09 you can see the pictures of a few of the things they have been doing lately. Thank you Chaplin and Mrs. Rivers!

He's in the bottom right hand corner. SOOOOOO cute. He's showing off his yummy MRE's.

Cody's Art Show

Cody had some art entered into the School district wide art show for all grades. I was so proud! He had no idea anything was even entered until we got the invitation for the show. It was a mad house in there, but then again that was the opening of the show and every child who had art in it and their families were there. Proud parents milling around all over. The district was even so kind as so serve lemonade, cookies and brownies, good thing, it was hot as could be in there! I just wish they had a list of WHERE inside the building your child's art was or even what it was so you knew where to look. We spent a good while guessing at what may have been entered, so we had to check EVERY piece of art from his school...there was A LOT of work to look through. Jon went with us and I took Cody's best friend Avery along. All in all it was fun and a proud Momma moment. He did a cool piece of metal art! He's so creative! I love that we share having art skills, we love to sit and draw or color or make crafts.

BTW Cody had his 1st full day back at school yesterday! YIPPEEEE!!!! He's doing SOOO much better now!

I would like to reaffrim the fact that I hate yo gabba gabba

I feel the sudden urge to go find a drug rehab facility every time I am subjected to this show. I feel like I'm coming off what I assume an acid trip is like.....lol. NOT cool. Talking food, asking to be eaten and then rejoiceing as they are slowly dissolved in a strange green stripedey monster/alien's stomach acid......yippeee.........

so just in case someone wasn't clear on this point........

I HATE YO GABBA GABBA!

freaking creepy children's programing from the very fires of hell I tell you!! lol......<-------------------------*shivers in a corner in fear*

Pink or Blue????

So...........I've been considering putting some fun color into my hair for the coming summer............so since I'm a baby and not nearly as "fly by the seat of my pants" as I normally am ...because it's my hair, and I'm vain! I admit it. I got great hair genes. Not on color mind you. I have more grey than my Mom and she's well....not 29! I have to dye it at least every 4 weeks or I look 50. ARG.

As far as lusciousness goes, I lucked out, so to say that I am being cautious about whom I allow to add bleach to my locks is a severe understatement! lol. So I babied out and got some clip ins for now to try them out. To tell you the truth they work really well, but I do want maybe tips on some of the hair and a tiny bit in the bang area. Color vote! Hot pink (darker than these clip-in's) or Turquoise which I am leaning toward.

Oh btw...................Spring has sprung here in Arizona ( screw you, you evil little rodent groundhog, I refuse to wait any longer! mean little sucker! lol) and my neighbor's tree was covered in gorgeous blossoms and I had to take picture of it looking up to the sky. Sigh......I welcome in warm weather with open arms! Oh wait! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......I live in Arizona.....we have warm almost all year round. I guess I'm ushering in sweltering, oven roasting heat! lol BBWWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......that's for all you poor schmucks in the Arctic tundra that is Idaho. Curses....maybe Karma will get me and stick Matt and I in Alaska for our next duty station.......wait crap... I'd love that! Hit me karma! Hit me!

VOTE!

BLUE PHASE

Ok so I've decided to be a bit lazy today and just copy and paste a portion of something I found online. You have to also remember this is generalized and not nearly as hard as OSUT is for Cav Scouts, not to mention at the end of this phase Cav Scouts don't graduate. They get a 3 day family weekend (which I must say I am THRILLED THRILLED THRILLED about) and then they have an additional 6 weeks of training before the graduate and may have an additional 2-4 weeks training if they want them to work with the strikers, which I'm pretty sure Matt's interested in doing so who knows! But this gives a good idea of whats going to happen in the next 3 weeks. After family weekend comes, Black and Gold phase where we have heard rumor that they are allowed cell phones and some extra personal time at night which means more than once every 2 week phone calls! YIPPEE!!!!!!!! MAN I can't wait for calls!!! ok enough rambling.


The Blue Phase encompasses weeks 6 through 9 of basic training. During this period you will wrap up your series of classes in military values. Your morning physical fitness sessions will be more intense, and longer in duration. Many recruits like this phase the best because of the numerous confidence builders, including the appropriately titled “confidence course.”
In the Army, the confidence course is a series of 24 obstacles, which will test a recruit’s mental and physical capability to negotiate certain situations. The second confidence builder a recruit undergoes is foot marches. During the Red and White phases, you might have been required to go on a few road marches, but not to the extent you will have to undergo during the blue phase. Be forewarned, the foot marches in this phase are long and arduous -- about 10 kilometers long, with you carrying all your equipment.
All of the knowledge you gather throughout basic training will culminate to a 3-day field training exercise (FTX), which combines all previously taught basic combat skills. During FTX, you will complete teamwork exercises and missions. The last night includes the night infiltration course, where you will learn to shoot your weapon at night. If you have never seen a tracer bullet, pop a Star Wars movie into your DVD player. This exercise was my personal favorite in the entire 9 weeks of basic training -- not only is it neat to watch, but it also gives you tremendous confidence in your weapon. Once you successfully complete the 3-day FTX, your company will have a ceremony recognizing the successful completion of this challenging exercise.
One of the worst things that can happen to a recruit during basic training is to get what’s called “recycled,” the military’s term for starting all over again. Yes that’s right, it is possible for a recruit to make it to the last day of basic training, and have to start all over again because of disciplinary action. I have personally seen it done. The best advice I can tell you in this phase is to never let your guard down. Often by this time, recruits are getting cocky, their confidence is high, they have been accomplishing tasks they never thought they could, and they are getting used to their dill sergeants. If you let your guard down and do something to get you in trouble, you are liable to get recycled. Don’t assume your going to graduate basic training until you are on the plane ride home.
Another quick tip: Before you graduate, don’t forget to get your friends’ phone numbers and/or addresses. It is amazing how fast you leave once you graduate. Sometimes you never get to say goodbye to your friends, which you might regret later in life. [Of course, you can always track them down later using Military.com’s Buddy Finder if you need to!]

Update on Cody

Well it's a week today since Cody had his tonsillectomy, and while I cannot deny how fast his surgeon was, or how well he did the first few days, I have to say that I am on the verge of KUNG-FU kicking his Dr.s teeth in! GRR. Who doesn't make a follow up appointment with a post operative patient? Who doesn't call to check on their patient? Evidently Cochise Ear Nose and Throat that's who. About 2 days after surgery Cody began running a low grade fever that would spike to 101.3 on and off, but when I called in the office wasn't worried about it. He ran out of pain medication and when I called in to get a refill they told me over and over they were calling it in. After 6 fruitless trips to Walgreen's to pick up medication that wasn't there I lost my cool. Cody was running fever, refusing to eat (normal) and refusing even to drink. After 48 hours of drinking nothing but a tsp. here and a tsp. there I had, had it! I was furious. I took Cody into the ER last night at about 5:30pm, Jon kindly took Michael and Matthew to his apartment and kept them while I was there. We hit the "crazy"night at the Er. It was PACKED! It was after 10:30 pm before we were taken back. And after 12 am before he was seen. He was very dehydrated and his blood pressure was up due to his pain level. They tried to trick him into eating jello and drinking punch or having a Popsicles as if I hadn't really tried to get him to drink or eat....DUR! My freezer, fridge and cupboards are FILLED with ice creams, Popsicles, jello, pudding, koolaid, anything soft you could think of, not to mention his favorite home made cheesy broccoli soup. Well all he did was burst into tears over and over when they forced him to take bites and swallow, finally they caught on that " Gee this kid might be in real pain." ..............Really??? You think so? After only 6 1/2 hours of him crying in the Er?? whatever let you draw THAT conclusion! GRR.. I hate medical professionals who act like they defiantly know better than the child's Mother. Which, yes they often do, but come on! So after an IV, a LOVELY stab of Morphine to the leg, a lidocaine swish and a little nap he was good to go. We headed BACK to Walgreen's to get the meds that I had called and reamed his DR.s emergency line until the Dr. called me back, and once again......NO FREAKING MEDS! then we headed to Jon's to get Michael and Matthew then off to bed, he slept from 2 am until 11 am lol. Woke up and was bawling in pain again. I called the Dr and sadly yelled at his receptionist until the nurse got on and called in the prescription WITH ME ON THE PHONE! I hate being "THAT WOMAN" but you know what, when you tell me you've done it over and over and over and my nerves aer frazzled from listening to a child cry, fuss and whine for days on end with nothing but tylonol.....sorry. She caught my wrath poor thing, and she was so sweet. I apologized later...lol We finally got his pain meds about 20 minutes ago and OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!!! He is downing water as we speak, and gulping down soup and jello! I asked the Dr why he was in so much extra pain lately and he said "oh on the 5-6th day after surgery the nerves start coming back and it can be very painful its normal" ........OI! why didn't you warn me?? Seriously, even the Er was annoyed that he hadn't had a follow up appointment. Guess I won't be referring anyone to this Dr. lol. So long story short, Cody did well in the beginning but hit a wall of pain and his Dr. failed to see him or get him the pain meds he needed until it was too late but he's doing GREAT now thanks to a very pissy Mom! lol