ROTC Awards Night

Taylor had his NJROTC Awards night and he got quite a few medals, awards and Letter for a Lettermans Jacket.
We are very proud of our boy!!

Young Marines Recruit Grad

Taylor had his Recruit Graduation and is now officially a Young Marine.
Here are some pics.

Military Ball

Taylor had his 1st Military Ball this last Saturday - here are the pics before he left.

Being all serious....

Got a smile...
Annoyed because Ry wanted a pic w/ her big brother - he was afraid she'd mess up his attire.

Merry Christmas

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Deck the Halls

The Christmas decorating is done... We have 2 trees this year. The old one was too short for these ceilings, so I got a 9 foot one last year on big sale after Christmas, it now touches the ceiling and my old one looks dinky now.

Drill Meet

We went to watch Taylors Drill Meet today. It was cool. Long time to wait for him to perform (3 hours) but he did great. Here are some pics and video, we didn't get the whole thing. In fact, due to technical difficulties, meaning Mr. H, we only got 5 seconds total. Luckily, we had a friend there and she got a little more than that.

Geez, look how serious and intent he isin the first pic. He says it is just the son. I say whatever. I am so proud of him!

I am thankful for....

For my wonderful husband...

My pretty awesome son(most of the time anyway) who almost plowed into the block wall today

My beautiful girls...

and great friends, both near and far...

On this day of thanks, I am very thankful to Phillip -without him, none of the above would be possible. Had he not chosen me over that one guy back in the day, I never would have met Brigitte, who I do love even though we have nothing in common other than she likes native americans and I married one. LOL Without her, I never would have gone to Rocky Horror, where we then met the dorks that introduced us to SCA where I then met the man of my dreams and also Steph who has been an amazing friend. I love you Phillip, you are the best brother from another Mother and we have the most fun when we are together. I can't wait until we are old and still silly and do stuff like this....

I also am the luckiest girl in the world when it come to Mothers. I have the absolute BEST Mother in the world. I am also lucky to have a great Mother in law. I have heard horror stories about horrible Mothers in Law, and I lucked out and got a great one.

I love you all and hope you had a wonderful Turkey Day. Mine was another H. Family Holiday, and that says it all right there!

We are family...

My scanner sucks, but you get the idea!!!

So Proud

Don't know all the details yet, but our ROTC guy just called from Sahuarita High School where they just preformed his first ROTC drill meet. They did so good they qualified to go to "some bowl". He said The Super Bowl, but I am thinking The Rose Bowl since he said it was in California. He is so excited and we are so happy for him!!!

What do you think?

I never really thought the girls looked like me until I saw these.....

Pumpkin Patch Fun

Today we went to a Pumpkin Patch and here are some pics...

Ry making "corn angels"


My 3 favorite goofballs...

My "babies"

Taylor picking up chicks....

Me and the kids....
We tried the big family corn maze, but Ry got bored after awhile so we never finished. She spent a lot of time playing in the corn and the bouncy house. Then we left without getting pumpkins because she was having a meltdown at the time. We got pumpkins closer to home at another pumpkin stand and came home to carve.

Ramsie joined us for a few minutes..

The finished products....