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9-5-08
Well as some as you know, I went back to Utah for a mini vacation. I only told Amanda that way she could come pick me up from the airport. so exciting!

Amanda told dad that it was opening Hockey game, could she go, so dad said yes and closed up work "early" so she could go, he said, "far be it for me to get in the way of Amanda's social life"

We pull up to the house, I walk in start walking down the hall towards mom and dads room, and mom walks out, she starts screaming for 30 seconds straight her hands up in the air going back and forth, Amanda and I are just laughing, finally she stops screaming then she starts patting me down like I just stolen something and hid it some where in my outfit. I ask, "so how are you?" "aggg" "What are you doing this week?" "aggg" finally she sits downs down and starts crying, Amanda and I are still looking at each other laughing and smiling mission accomplished!

I hear dad pull up mom says,"you have to surprise him too!" I go and hide in the spare bedroom, I am watching him walk from the kitchen to the living room, carrying a box of peach tarts, and his gun. He looks at Amanda and says, "what are you doing here?" "I was to tired to go to the hockey game" "Well I am glad we closed early for you, well I guess you can have Travis peach tart." (enter me) "I hope you have one for me?!" (dad) ".....................(Mouth dropped to the floor looking at me, mom Amanda, and back around again)..............." "wwwwwwwhat, wwwwwwhyyyy?"

After every one is done being shocked, we sit down and start talking just as if I live in the same state, and we are able to visit every so often. It is nice to know you can go home and feel warm and welcomed and loved and not feel as if your in there space invading it.

I give them some presents that dustun and I made, It is a poem and some magnets to hold the pictures of the there soon to be new grand daughter (this was the reason I wanted to go home I wanted to tell as many people in person that dustun and I are going to be having a girl)

The night was perfect, below is the poem that Dustun wrote, enjoy.

This marble with pink frills
is not meant to scare or give you chills.
If you look beyond, set forever like the stars above.
It'll hold the result of our love.
With these subtle hints, you're now proud grandparents.
To a beautiful little girl.

Pregnancy packing list

A Pregnancy packing list for a vacation:

Tums
Gas-x
Stool softener
Hemorrhoid cream
Extra tissue for nose bleeds
Plastic sack in case you get sick
Panty liners
Acne cream
Stretch mark lotion
Multi vitamins
Calcium supplements
Water bottle
Granola bar
Tylenol
Heat pack

Wow who would of thought that being pregnant would increased you luggage by 50% and of course the airlines only allow you to check on free bag. I’ll need just one for all this!

My Arch Nemesis

They're back, those soft and gooey, sugary, little things, they started out just at Easter time, now they have invaded all of my holidays, I cant resist they are so good, and cheap, so for every holiday I have to buy a box of them but not just one box I have to buy a different box of every shapes and color. I try and not eat them all at once, but once I start I cant stop, they are so good, and fat free. (although not calorie free)



How do you eat them? Do you blow them up in the microwave? Eat them when they are hard? Do you bite the heads off first? Do you dip them? Put them in hot Chocolate? Pop the whole gooey thing all in your mouth at once?
I personally, eat the edges first, then the rest. mmmmm Currently eating my marshmallow ghosts, mmmmm

Here are some peeps facts:
Fact 1: It would take over 172 million peeps bunnies end to end to circle the moon.
Fact 2: In the early 1950's it use to take 27 hours to make one chick, now it only takes 6 minutes
Fact 3: Peeps are the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy sold in the US for the last decade

Missions Baseball Game and Wii boxing

Yesterday Dustun and I went to the San Antonio minor league baseball game, we had free tickets, so we figured why not. well we stood in the heat for about 30 min, sweaty, I mean like beads of sweat running down your back, so gross, We paid 3 dollars to be upgraded to the real seats in shade, no bleachers in the sun. As we are sitting behind home plate in the second inning, we hear crack, you look up and the ball is coming backwards, it hit the box seat above us, I turn back towards the field and put my head down between my legs and bam, the ball hit me right in the back, rolls over my foot and the little boy next to us grabbed it, boo who, I get the battle wound but no metal. I stung for a bit, but it left no mark, or at least not a lasting one. I laugh at this, here is my first baseball game, sitting behind home plate, behind the netting and I still get hit with the fly ball.



Apparently the mascot for the team was a Henry the Puffy taco and a jalapeno called ballapeno, they would go out on the field and dance it was funny, watching them shake it, I feel bad for the people inside the costume, can you imagine how hot it is in there? no thank you.



We ate hot dogs, water, ice cream, snow cone, water, and kettle corn.

The San Antonio Missions won the game against the Corpus Christy hooks, 3-0

Well After the game we went home, I showered and changed out of my wet clothes, then we grabbed my veggie tray and cantaloupe, our Wii remotes and Mario Kart game and headed over to Kevin and Sandra's house. Kevin is leaving some time this week to Iraq, he is going to the same spot at the same time as dustun last year, (wow dustun left a year ago) so we wanted to get a good game night in. We played all the games, and laughed at each other, and had so much fun, now watching Kevin and Dustun box that was so funny.





All in All it was a great weekend, I know to day is the holiday, but I think I may just let dustun sleep late before he goes to work, and I may stay in my pj's and clean and have a lazy day watching a movie. Hope you all had a great weekend, and enjoy today!

Fredericksburg

Yesterday Dustun and I went to a little German town called Fredericksburg, it was so much fun. We ate at Auslander Biergarten and Restaurant, we ate authentic German food, I had Bratwurst which is a traditional white sausage made of smoked veal and pork, my sides I got garden fresh salad, potato pancakes and spätzle, and huge delicious roll.



Dustun got Kassler Rippchen which is partially smoked pork chops, his sides were garden fresh salad, spätzle, and hot German potato salad, and the huge delicious roll.


We also went walked down main street, where all the old buildings were turned into little shops that sold a verity of things. Like the hospital was now a restaurant, and the butcher shop was a store that sold different type of nick-nacs.




We also drove to the "eternity rock" but due to being pregnant, I was afraid of climbing up the mountain and falling, I mean I have never had the best coronations and since being pregnant I have gotten worse, so we nixed that idea, but we drove around, it was so pretty out in the hill country, we saw some long horns they were so pretty.



We also went to the bat cave where every night about 3 million bats come flying out of the cave, that was so amazing to see all these Mexican free tailed bats flying out man we could smell them and we weren't even that close.
( I don't know if you can see the bats coming out, if you look at the left side of the screen, you might be able to see a flutter of movement, yep that's a lot of bats flying around)

Bullets

Well yesterday I had the privelage of writing up 25 of my own bullets. For those who don't know a bullet in the military 99% of the time is not referring to ammo. It's a term we use to talk about short little sentences that we use for award packages and our annual ratings called EPRs. It's formated to show action/impact. I learned while in ALS how to write descent bullets. I used to not know how to write one. In fact I just would write a huge paragraph of information and send that to my supervisor. He didn't really like those that much, ha ha. Anyway so I came up with 25 of these things last night ranging from various things I've done in the past year. It was hard considering I didn't write down even half of those on my list that I keep of things I've done. Today (Friday that is as I'm on my night schedule and it's technically Saturday....bah), I stopped by work to turn in LASIK paperwork to try and have my eyes lasered to see better. I saw my supervisor and what do you know? It was when he was working with those bullets. Bad part was....he needed more! That's right! MORE! Ha ha! My head hurt last night from just writing the 25 I gave him. He said he only used about 18 and wrote some of his own. So we (Crystal and I) sat there with him and came up with the rest. What an event. Crystal was phenomenal at coming up with things I've done and words to use. I told my supervisor that she's my backup memory of things I've done.

Anyway in case you're wondering what this was all for, I'll tell you. It was for next year's Zembrod awards. According to AFI 28-2856 for Medical Service Awards, this is what the Chief Master Sergeant Anton Zembrod Award is for:

Description. This award recognizes and rewards outstanding performance of duty and professional achievements of diagnostic imaging technologists during the award period. It honors Chief Master Sergeant Anton Zembrod who was instrumental in raising and implementing superb professional qualifications for Air Force diagnostic imaging technologists. Active duty and ARC are eligible to compete for these awards.

Qualifying for Award. The nominees must meet the following:
A37.2.1. Hold AFSC 4R0X1, or one of its subspecialties on the last day of the nomination period.

A37.2.2. Be assigned to active duty, ARC, or be a federal civil servant serving in a Department of the Air Force facility in a 4R0X1 position.

A37.2.3. Outstanding Airman. Nominees must be in the rank of Airman Basic (AB) through Senior Airman (SrA), E1 through E4 on the last day of the nomination period.

A37.2.4. Outstanding NCO. Nominees must be in the rank of Staff Sergeant (SSgt) through Technical Sergeant (TSgt), E5 through E6 on the last day of the nomination period.

So there you have it. I don't at all expect to win. I'm just glad I finally got put up for something!

Please vote for me

I feel it is time for a women president, but not Hillary, I would allow guns to still be legal by the right people, I believe in the death penetly, (why keep them around and pay for there food and "house" when we know they are guilty?) I think we should drill here in the US, I think we should pull out of Iraq after we nuc. the terrorist, and of course I believe in world peace!
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