OMG have to share....

As I was looking though old photos trying to find one of my mom I came across this old picture! Holy cow I am HUGE...no wonder people were always asking me if it was twins! In this pic I still had a month to go! I guess you can tell that Carter really was 10+ lbs!

Happy Birthday Mom!

I just want to take a minute to wish my Mom a Happy Birthday! Reece and her always have the weekend after Thanksgiving where they spend the weekend together celebrating both of their birthdays and I know they both really missed that this year! Mom, I hope you had a great day and I can't wait to do something fun next year! We'll have a girls day! We love you and miss you Gubby!

SOOOOO awesome!

Magnitude-7.4 earthquake rocks Caribbean

FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique: A powerful earthquake rocked the eastern Caribbean on Thursday, damaging buildings and panicking residents, some of whom were hurt when they jumped from windows of buildings.

The magnitude-7.4 earthquake was centered 14 miles (23 kilometers) northwest of Martinique's coastline and lasted longer than 20 seconds. It collapsed the roofs of a bank and a store in the capital of this French island and left cracks in several other buildings.

I was in the bedroom this afternoon when I started to hear a weird sound and then it felt like the house was shaking...I thought it was some sort of construction on our apartment. I went out on the deck and it was just a rockin' and the tv was shaking so much I thought it was going to fall on the floor. The stuff on top of the TV shook right off. When Dave came home he was so excited, he was so thrilled to now be able to say that not only has he been around a hurricane but also now an earthquake! He said he was at the school studying outside and his desk started shaking and it was like a ride! Another experience to caulk up on a great experience!

Happy 5th Birthday Olivia

We have three boys but we were blessed with three nieces! Two from Dave's sister and one from my brother. Well our niece Olivia turned 5 yesterday and Dave got to talk to her and said she sounds so grown up! She has always been the talker and even though we don't see her very much she always runs up to us when we see each other again, and acts like she has known us forever! I still remember when we were in Arizona for Christmas 4 years ago and she would say "Uncle Dave" it was so cute! So Happy Birthday Olivia, we hope you had a GREAT birthday! I can't believe you'll be going to kindergarten!!

Christmas is coming early....

David got his Christmas present early! He is flying home after finals! He is so excited and I thought it would be the perfect Christmas present! He will be home Dec 12-18. He'll miss Reece's birthday but when we told Reece that Dad would be able to buy him a present from the US he had a whole list! I know Dave could really use some perspective and then he can come back for Christmas and next semester refreshed and ready to jump back in again! We have been going over all the restaurants he needs to hit and I'm already making my list of things he needs to bring back! He made it 1 year without going home, so he deserves it! I can't wait for break...only 2 weeks left! The end is in site!

Dodge This!

AUC had a Dodge Ball Tournament this weekend so some people from the Spouses Org put a team together. We decided to call ourselves the Jock Straps, since the club is supportive! A few of us got together the night before to watch the movie Dodge ball with Vince Vaughn. It was nice because it went over basic things like rules and technique but it didn't help us much! We still stunk big time, but we had a lot of fun! The team that beat us even was in the final game so we can always blame our stinking on how good they were!

The kids were so sad because they wanted to play too so they let the Spouses take on the kids for a fun game! The sad part, the kids almost beat us! But we pulled it out at the last second getting Reece out, who was the last one standing on the kids side!


Look I even worked up a sweat! Actually that is me wiping my tear since I sucked so bad!

Snorkeling Tour with Reece's school

Reece is involved with a club at school called Guppies. They do a lot of Marine research and they go on great field trips. This time we went out with Snorkel Safari and we got to go to a floating dock area where we could snorkel. We got to see ship wrecks, a sunken submarine, an old cannon, and a lot of fish...my friend Erica went a long and she saw a jelly fish which I'm glad I missed! Reece and I spotted a barracuda, scared the heck out of us! The floating dock was really cool with a Tiki hut and "pool" area, which was really the ocean but they had a raised platform under it so you could stand. We had a lot of fun! The funniest part is when Erica and I were relaxing on the lounge chairs and drinking rum punch! Rum punch at a school activity! How Caribbean is that, the teacher in charge was drinking a few beers! That just blows my mind! Hey but I went with it!!! Enjoy it while you can is my motto!