Greg And His Crew

Greg brought his girls to visit for a week or so. The girls thought they were going to be able to meet up with Kaleigh and Ashley, but that didn't work out. They ended up staying a couple of days and then went home when Greg had to go back. They decided maybe they would try to hook again with the cousins on some other week before school starts. TOO BAD...SO SAD! :-(

The Lake is flooding this summer. We had to use the aluminum boat just to get us over to the walkway that leads to the marina. Can you believe that? In the boat is Greg, Brittani and Darian, Greg's friend Summer in the red cap and her son Ethan.
The marina was closed due to the flooding conditions so after getting my boat in the water and starting up only to find out someone had decided to syphon ALL of the gas out of my boat we had to put it all back up and head back up the hill. Luckily enough, we ran into the manager and he opened up and let us put some gas in the boat so the kids could get a glimpse of the lake before heading home. Another adventure on the lake...got to have at least one every summer, right! :-)

Greg and Brittani

Darian, Greg's Friend Summer and her son Ethan

Daniell's House will probably get flooded within a few days

Care Package from Jason's Aunt Pam

Jason's Aunt Pam and her friend Patti got a care package in the mail to Jason on Tuesday, June 26th. It has candy, cheese crackers, bandanas, ace bandage (for his wrists and ankles), deodorant, foot powder, athlete's foot cream, shoe inserts, moist wipes, hand sanitizer, peanuts, and jerky, just to name some of the contents. They even included a San Antonio Spurs championship T-Shirt in there for him!

Also, quite a few of the folks from Pam's office have contributed $$ so she bought a stash of stuff to send to him over time.

Thank you so much Pam and Patti.

Care Package from Michelle's Granny

Barbara Gandy copied a Nascar race to a DVD that was run yesterday June 24th and it will be going into the mail tomorrow.

Donations from Kenny's Family

Today I deposited a check from Kenny's mom and sister (Margie and Sandy) into Jason's debit account. Thank you so much for your support of Jason during this time. I'm sure he appreciates knowing he has plenty of family and friends supporting him here at home.

Care Packages/Donations

Jason's Grandma sent a care package today. It has Starbursts and Skittles, beef jerky, a toothbrush, travel size Dove soap, Old Spice deodorant (I hope he can use the deodorant...it's probably scented), 4 travel size Gold Bond foot powder, a couple of travel size shampoos, 1 Cutter's insect repellant wipes, and probably a couple of other things that I don't recall right now.

I also deposited two checks made out to Jason into the debit account he is using to purchase the things he needs while serving in Iraq. On behalf of Jason, I'd like to say "thank you very much" to his Aunt Patricia and my friend and co-worker at the Department of Veteran's Affairs, John.

Care Package From the Gandy's

On June 19th Joni Gandy indicated she had subscribed to Sports Illustrated and the Stuff magazine and she will be sending them to Jason as soon as she receives them. Barbara Gandy ordered another magazine called Scene and it is a weekly magazine on Stock Car Racing that gives results of the races. They also printed out some articles from the past two week races, Jeff Gordon won week before last race so they printed out pictures and article.

PaPa Turns 70 on Flag Day

Today is PaPa's 70th birthday. Jared brought Tara and their kids, Jay Leigh and Grahm to spend the week. Michael and Patricia brought their girls, Kaleigh and Ashley, to bond with their big sister. The kids had a big time celebrating PaPa's birthday...they cooked dinner and baked a birthday cake for him. We all had fun. Talk about some good cooks...we sure did have some!

Some more pics of the Big B'day Party

Grahm, Tara, PaPa and Jay Leigh

Andrew and PaPa

Michelle Graduates from High School Today

Congratulations to Michelle on job well done! Jason's Grandma and his mom drove to Huntsville to attend the graduation ceremony. It was a rainy day overhead but lot's of sunshine was radiating from the graduate. Michelle's Grandparents, her mother, a Great Aunt and her boyfriend Jessie were also cheering from the stands as she crossed over the stage to recieve her diploma. After the ceremony we all went back to Michelle's house for some great food, a graduation cake, and of course there were the graduation presents to mark this accomplishment on her big day.

More pics on Graduation Day

Vacation in San Juan, Peurto Rico

Jason got a two week leave before the deployment and was needing some R&R. Michelle was getting ready to graduate from High School and was having a difficult time accepting the fact that after having finally met her brother, he was going to spend the next 15 months at war in Iraq. I asked Jason if he thought it would be a good idea to invite Michelle to join us for a couple of days on the beach somewhere in the Caribbean. He thought that was a great idea. So Kenny and I took Jason and Michelle to spend a couple of days on the beach in San Juan. The weather wasn't exactly what we were hoping for but we had a lot of fun inspite of the grey days. The sun finally came out on our last day there. Here are a couple of pics of our stay.

Look What's on Michelle's Back

Michelle kept teasing Jason because he was wearing a T-shirt that had bird droppings on the back. Jason didn't seem to care...no big deal he says! Kenny tells Michelle...Jason's not the only one wearing bird droppings on the back of his shirt. :-)

She's checking it out, and guess what! It may not have been a big deal to Jason, but it sure was a big deal to Michelle. Yuk! Kenny enjoyed her reaction. We all laughed at that one! Not only was Michelle freaking out because Jason thought nothing of bringing half the sand from the beach into the shower, or rinsing the sand down the drain, or changing his T-shirt just because it had bird doo doo on the back; but now she had to deal with the dirty shirt detail herself. She was such a good sport though.

Eating, drinking and shopping on the grey days

Don't you know, the day we had to pack up and return home the sun comes out and the skies turned blue!