Cemetery of the Pacific

Bryan came home from Hawaii yesterday. One of the things he saw was the Cemetery of the Pacific. Intombed there are people who fought and lost their lives in the Pacific Theater, druing WWII. They also have cement walls with the names of other service members who lost their lives in the Pacific Conflict. One of the names was my Uncle Kenneth.He is my Mom's older brother. He joined the Navy after being declared an F4. He had a hernia and had that fixed so he could be with his friends. He served on a Minesweeper, The USS Emmons. He was a Machinest Mate 3C. He was Killed In Action, when a Japanese Suicide Plane flew into the vessel. All crew members were lost at sea. That was 64 years ago. My Mom was so excited that Bryan got to be the first family member to go see his name on this cement wall. I hope that we can all go as a family while we are still here in AK, to go see this. It would be a nice feeling as his niece to be able to see his name and give him the honor he so deserves for giving his life for our great country. I would love for the boys to go see all the history that is there and to know that their Pa and Uncles were in the same places fighting for our country. Brett is very into all the World Wars. He loves learning about it and what better place for him to go and see than Pearl Harbor.

Lego Vessel

Brett has always had a good imagination. He built a vessel out of some lego's. He got the idea from Bryan going to see the Missouri and Arizona while he was in Hawaii. This is Brett's tribute to those ships. I thought he did a pretty good job on it.Unfortunately, he broke it shortly after I took the picture. He was playing dominoes with brady and knocked it off the dining room table.

Brady and his DS

The boys have taken to playing their DS's with headphones on. They think I don't know what they are doing by wearing them. I try to limit their playing time, so they have come up with an idea to get one over on me. This morning, Brett got up to use the bathroom at 5:30 and snuck into my room and tried to be quiet while getting his DS.They know they can't annoy me beofore 6:30 on the weekends(my only 2 days to sleep in),so he stealthed around the closet and got his DS and went off to his room to play in bed. Then while I was in the shower I could hear Brady stomping aropund my room to get his out the closet. I keep them in their so they can't get up and play them whenever.

Happy Birthday to Me

My birthday was Wednesday, and the boys helped me make my cake. it was white with white frosting. Brett doesn't like chocolate, so I thought I would be nice and make what everyone would eat. We didn't do much for my special day, the boys did their best to make it nice for me, which they did. I bought myself some Bearfoot Bears for my gift to my self. I am still waitiing to see what Bryan will get me. I gave him some hints, we will see what he comes up with.

Super Bowl Spread

Here is a picture of our Super Bowl spread. We didn't have much, the boys don't like the same things to eat, so we thought we would go sim,ple, seeing that Bryan wasn't around. We decided on sandwiches and snacks. We had, ham, turkey and peanut butter, for sandwich choises. For snacks we had Chips, Dorito's, Cheeto's Puffs,and Chili Cheese Corn Chips. Then for dessert we had a cake from the commissary, it was suppose to have bettercreme frosting but it was whipped. Brady was the only one who really enjoyed it. You can see by his lips he had a section of the Steeler's colors. His teeth, lips and tongue were all black. He spent a few minutes getting his teeth brushed to get all sparkly again.

Are You Ready For Some Football???!!!

We are ready for some football. That is all the boys talked about since they got up this morning. Today is the Super Bowl, when is the party, and Brady's line, when do we eat the cake?!I opened up the snacks after they had their showers and bath. Normally they get those after dinner but with the big game, I had them do it a little earlier.Notice in the one picture of the boys getting their snacks, Brett has his DS, he is hooked on that and watch out when it goes red, he is super annoying, because he is bored.Any way on with the game, go Cardinals!!

Brady Playing

Brady was playing with all his little match box trucks, buses and whatever else was in there. He yelled at me for taking some out of the Ziploc bag. He said,"Why did you do that, it took me so long to collect them and you messed them all up for me.""I worked hard on that, you know!" Well, I guess he told me.

Super Bowl Cake

Brady and I went grocery shopping after work yesterday, and found this super bowl cake. It was the only one that had white frosting, so I knew Brett would eat it too. He is just too darn picky. We are having a small party with the 3 of us, and the boys want to get decked out in their jersey's too. We are having sandwiches and alot of snacks, not to mention cake for dessert. Pop, we wish you could be here with us. Go Cardinals!!!!

Snow, Snow, Go Away!

I am so tired of winter! I know that snow is a big part of living up here, but i can complain about it if I want. We have had to shovel like 5 times in a week. You can't really tell how big the snowpile is on the side of the driveway from this angle, but I was too lazy to get redressed and go out and take a better picture. i always forget to take it out with me when I start shoveling.I can't wait for Spring!!!! We are definelty going someplace warmer after we leave here, I am done with winter.

Scarf

Yesterday Brett borught home this scarf that he made in school. He strung beads on the ends of it. It turned out pretty nice. I thought that he brought some girls scarf home when I was taking his stuff out of his backpack.Brady naturally had to get in on the action of wearing the scarf too. He was using it first though as the brushes in the car wash that we go to down town.

Hair Cuts

I went to the Bx to get a calling card for Bryan to use while he is gone, and decided to get the boys hair cuts. They needed them pretty bad, Brett's hair looked yucky. It was getting way too long for him. The guy that they like to go to wasn't working today, so we had some else do the cuts. they are more of the high and tight, which I was never really too keen on, but thought why not try it today. I thought they looked so nice after getting their new stylish dos. Brady would tend to keep his bangs longer, but I think I kind of like him this way better. even if they don't like them their hair grows so fast it will be another two weeks and their hair will beed to be cut again, it gorws that fast!

Such Sad Faces??/

We took Bryan to the airport on Saturday. The boys were sad to see him go, he had to go to Hawaii for 3 weeks for an Air Force Trainers class, that he needs for his job. Brett did a good job of putting on a sad face for the camera but Brady just couldn't get the emotion to come across for the camera. He isn't as good an actor as Brett. I wish we could have gone to Hawaii too to enjoy some of the nice arm temps., and to play on the beach, maybe one day!

Gamers

The boys each got DS's for Christmas, they play them just about every day. It is one of the rare moments of them where they are actually getting along and not fighting.

Our New Year's Visitors

We were sitting in the house on New Year's just before supper time and I happened to notice something moving around outside in our front yard. I was wondering who was crazy enough to let their kids play out in the negative 40 + degree temps. Then I looked again and it was 3 moose. We all looked out the windows, like we never saw moose before. Bryan got the camera and took a couple of picitures that actually turned out for a change. We will miss the moose when we leave here.

Brady's Room

Brady got some SpongeBob decorations for his room from Santa.He got 2 tabletop lamps and an alarm clock from his Auntie Sue, which by the way is very loud when the alarm goes off. The night I set his room up I put batteries in the clock and set it, and didn't think to check if the alarm was on or off. So at around 1:45 you could haear plain as day in our room, the theme song to SpongeBob Squarepants as sang by Mister Krabs. I woke up and was wondering why the boys were up at that hour watching SpongeBob so loud. Then it kind of dawned on me very slowly that it was the clock. I was like well, I sure hope it didn't wake them up, I was still half out of it with that thought. I was secretly hoping Bryan would have gotten up to turn it off, and I think he was waiting for me to get up and do it. I finally got up and the boys were coming towards the room telling me the clock was going off, as if I couldn't hear the noise it was making. So I turned it off and we all fell back to sleep. It was one of the many goofy things that went on over Xmas. It ranked right up there with me dropping the Christmas ham on floor while I was taking it out the pan to put on a plate to carve it up. We laughed so hard, it just made a big loud thud and bounced once. It reminded us of the Everybody Loves Raymond Episode when Debra drops the turkey on the floor and then finally gets it in the oven. The boys thought it was funny too, they keep bringing it up all the time.