Fall Crafts

In Arizona only the inside of the house will ever look fall-ish so I made a few things to make it look more like fall inside. I painted the tin buckets and the sign and put up some scarecrows I got on clearance last year.

Moving

This weekend we finally finished packing up and moved into our own apartment. We have a lot of crap! It took 4 Car loads and 2 U-haul trailer loads. If we would have waited a month or two more it would have been alot cooler. It was definitely over a hundred degrees when we were trying to move everything to our 3rd Story apartment. Thanks to Mom and Dad for helping us!

All of our stuff in the Garage

Inside our new apartment

The View of the Pool from our Balcony

Vacation in New England

Here's some pictures from our latest trip to New England. We spent most of the time at Ben's Family's Camp in New Hampshire. There was lots of cool weather, swimming and some jet skiing. We went to an amusement park and to the beach. We also rode on an old train from the 1920's. I tried lobster for the first time too. It was great.

Mom's 6th Picture Game

This picture is from the 6th Folder in My Pictures and the 6th Picture. Its from when Ben and I went to Massachusetts and we went Rollerskating with his brother, Jesse. Then later this picture was photoshopped to have the sepia type look to it to match the rest of the pictures I put in a brag book to give to Ben's Mom for Christmas. And it was kept because I still need to make a brag book for his Grandmother too, but who knows when we'll see her.

A Quick Weekend

Ben is in FT. Leonard Wood, Missouri for Advanced Individual Training where he's learning to drive all sorts of big Tonka Trucks. He flew me up there for the weekend and I got to see him and our other friend from Arizona who is doing his training there too. It was really good to get to see Ben since his boot camp graduation. He'll finally be home at the end of next month.

Ben's Graduation

After the two day nightmare of trying to fly to Georgia Ben's Mom, Brenda, and I finally arrived there and found another nightmare of trying to find a way to the base. A few hours later we got there and were able to see Ben and his Father, Bob and his brother, Bobby. He was all dressed up in his spiffy Class A uniform, but of course I forgot to take a picture. We did get one from his brother.
The next day Brenda and I went to the graduation and watched the soldiers march and salute and stuff and officially Graduate.

Afterward we went on the field to go see him and then we all went out to eat. We went to eat at this Japanese restaurant where they make the food in front of you. It was neat but yes I forgot to take pictures. We drove around the base and looked at some of the stuff Ben did in boot camp and went to a few stores and out to Ice Cream.And later, Ben was packing his stuff and he found a bear dressed just like him, even with his last name stitched on the name tape and he had me look in the bear's pocket and inside was a ring. :)

Christmas Vacaion... Yes I've been slacking

For Christmas Ben took me to Massachusetts for a couple of weeks. I kept saying it looked like a Christmas card, but I was too cold to roll down the window to take pictures. I got to meet alot of his family, and believe me, it was a lot. Our family's big, but his has one more generation to it. So I met them, and his friends. We spent a lot of time at his friend Tyler's house. That's where we were New Year's Eve, but as soon as the ball dropped I was asleep on the couch. We also did a small snowboard trip, which I didn't do so good at, but it made me excited to do some more here with Kirsten. We also went to the New England Aquarium. To get there we took a commuter rail and a subway. It was my first time on a subway. For Christmas we got alot of gift certificates to go out to eat, so we ate out a few times. We also hung out with a couple of Ben's brothers. I was mostly a photographer when we were with them because for christmas I made their mom a cute little brag book of all of them. When we were with them we went bowling, but it was weird. The pins were shaped funny, more like thermoses than like bowling pins, and they had small bowling balls, without anywhere to put your fingers. I'd never seen it before and never really could get the hang of it. We saw a few movies, Yes Man and Bedtime Stories were both really good.

Ben's Family had a party for him going to bootcamp. Below is a tiny part of random people from his family.

This is Ben's Father and his brother. His Dad look much like John Mohr?

Me in the Snow!

Me and Ben's Grandmother and Ben

This super huge turtle :) at the aquarium

Me and some feeshes at the aquarium

Penguins

Ben and His Brothers

Ben's Aunt welcomed me to the family with a handmade stocking :) like everyone else in the family has