From Mom, Wed 12/29/10 3:25 PM

Hi fav, i have a few minutes at work and thought that i would write you because i haven't really written you in some time. andy is talking about getting a truck with his tax return, i told him that he would probably only get about 600 back. he said he was gonna save the rest for it. so that would be nice. you thinking about
getting a small trailer for yours? if you got an outback type subaru you could haul you 3whr yourself. james has been in town this week so he has been entertained by the littles a few times. we are going to meet sunday for breakfast at fp's. not really planning on a big meal for g&g's aniversary. kind of hard to schedule it around everyones work and stuff. not sure if mike will make it into town he has blizzard conditions to drive thru today. so it may slow him down if the roads get closed. we had a bit of snow mixed with rain and hail today. its pretty cold. i bet all the southern boys your with arent liking the winter weather. love ya mom

Tue 12/21/10

Mom:
Mission accomplished

Jeremiah:
sorry i havent been on in a while we have just been so busy and i have been doing marcos's job well my old job and yeah
thats no problem you know that i am always willing to help and i know your good for helping me out


anyways im not so down now but yeah
well maybe sometime i will catch you on facebook again

Mom:
Hi, i just sent you photos of your 3whlr. tires look great, there's a little fender damage that been zip tied together, your gonna love it. hope your mission is going well or went well and no one greats hurt. i sill think its weird about marcos, i wonder it he will get headaches for it, it does mean that he will receive VA money

Jeremiah:
omg i love it i cant wait to use it...
i think im gonna need to ask shirley about borrowing her truck a couple times...


well thats if i have to bring three
if i have to bring two then i will need to borrow yours hahahaha


yeah i know its wierd its like taking an empty beer bottle and pinching the cap in half and putting it in the bottle and shaking it around




alright next package


space heater... kinda small but not to small and maybe one that turns or revolves..
we are moving into cold concrete buildings... that have rooms and they close off the heaters..


coffee creamer.. hazelnut and french vanilla.
and some coffee.. hahaha


then another...


lots of top ramen.. and stuff to put it in like plastic bowls and forks...


we have a water heater... and a coffee maker so were set just need supplies.

Tue 12/14/10

Mom:
Fav,

We didn't do too much today. Everyone slept in pretty late for a change. Went to FP for our usual. Teddy is so funny. In the middle of the meal he says he has to go to the bathroom and he leaves the table. There was only a couple of tables with people sitting at them. Teddy goes into the bathroom pulls down his pants and starts yelling, Danice Danice. I'm across the place at the last table before the back room and can hear him clearly. So I grab Cubby and went to help Teddy. I go thru the swing door and one of the cooks is there telling me that he is just standing there with his pants down. LOL. Sure enough he was. Standing in the dark because he can't reach the light switch, in front of the toilet because it a tall one and he cant scoot backwards onto it.

Afterwards we went to Walmart and I got myself some socks and sweat pants. I was going to stop by G&G's on the way back, but when I called them. Grandma said that they were waiting for Silly to pick them up to go over to Melvin and Kelly's for dinner. So we went on home and played with the puppies for a little bit and took naps. Then later we watched White Christmas. Cubby likes to get up and dance when there's dancing in the movie.

Loves, Mom.

Jeremiah:

ohh nice i have been meaning to ask you since i thought about it today but did my packages come in the mail yet?


they should have been there on the 6th and i dont remember if you told me they were there or not
thats funny you gotta watch out for him i guess


i got your packages today and thank you


btw letter for that lady cuz i got her package today too




dear (name)


thank you so much for your package and the previous one with the books. not only is it greatly appreciated by myself but some of my platoon as well have been enjoying the books. when it is time i intend to put them with the rest of the donated books so that other soldiers can enjoy them after i have left.
i hope you enjoy your holidays and that you, your husband, and rest of your family have a great christmas and an amazing new years.


sincerely
PFC Jeremiah Smith
of 3rd platoon charlie company
1st bat 327th infantry reg.
101st airborne screaming eagles

Sun, 12 Dec 2010

Jeremiah:
dammit get on facebook so we can talk

Mom:
I'm driving to shirleys, i wont be on there for a little while.

Jeremiah:
alright well i will get on again at lunch time for me

btw dont forget to pick up the money

Mom:
Hello Fav,

Shirley and I got soaking wet today. It was quite a down pour most of the day that we were outside. The boys helped us a little, I made a couple of gates in the chicken coup for going in and out of the chicken yard and Shirley put up chicken wire and buried it. Cubby fell asleep in the chicken coup on a bag of bedding. After a while I dragged the Littles back up the hill and got them out of their wet clothes and tucked them into sleeping bags. The rain gear Shirley and I got them keeps them pretty dry, so they don't really get too wet unless they touch the ground with their knees and bottoms.

Shirley and I spent the weekend making silly comments on facebook. Did you notice? Haha, Amber was laughing at us because we were sitting on Shirley's bed with our lap tops chatting with each other. Got home okay. Gave the two puppies at home baths and put the littles to bed. Wes let Fritz and Hiedi out when we got home, but he didn't get up so I didn't let Hiedi back into his room. She is laying on the floor in front of my door and every once in a while she lets out a little whine. Tough crap Hiedi, at least she is blocking the bottom of the door. Fritz like a good boy is curled up at the foot of my bed and Sadie is laying on your comfortable in the closet.

I'm tired, it's almost 3am. Love you and miss you. Mom XOXOXOX

Jeremiah:
ohh nice i can picture him just moseying on over to the bedding hmmm i gotta try this out and falls asleep hahaha
i cant wait to hang out with them

yeah i noticed and i think you two are dorks sometimes hahahahahha
i miss fritz too
not a whole lot going on here

December 10th, 2010

Jeremiah:
ohh jeez well then solder on hahahahahha
at least its picking up a little bit and some christmas present puppies too woo hahahaha

yeah i know you told me about it so many times does that mean that you have to go back around and fix all those other one for the past 5 years too then

still pretty dry over here but really cold

Mom:
I found the photo of the hole in the roof that we were talking about. Thomas Deitsch had the hole in the roof posted. I dont know if it will open for you. you guys need to post them as jpeg not bmp




Jeremiah:
alright now its hard for to tell where that building is but im pretty sure that is the chapel... there wasnt anybody in there and that was a lil bit ago

yeah i think so

thomas just got back from leave

Mom:
Yea he posted it a while back. marcus is now my friend, =)

Jeremiah:
dammit get on facebook so we can talk

Mom:
I'm driving to shirleys, i wont be on there for a little while.

Jeremiah:
alright well i will get on again at lunch time for me

btw dont forget to pick up the money

Mom:
I got 400 today, will get the rest sunday

From Mom, Thu 12/09/10 12:39 AM

Fav,

I just got done sending several emails out to puppy people. I got a deposit for Emma's smallest puppy tonight, they will be picking him up on the 18th. I did some more sweet looking soldering today. I have more to do tomorrow. The reason for all the soldering is because when we where replacing the water heater, we were putting flexable braided steel lines on the high pressure drain valve on the top of the water heater, (know as the TP valve) now Joseph decided that they need to be redone with regular copper lines. Which is fine, but I wish that had been decided a couple years ago or so. We've replaced so many water heaters in the last 5 years.

I can hear it raining. Must be coming down pretty hard for me to hear over Family Guy. Four more weeks till puppies! Man I hope they are chocolate.

Love Mom

Tue 12/07/10 10:08 PM

Fav,



I think the ladies that help her put together all the boxes like knowing that they made someone smile when they get their box. I'm sure that none of it is real fancy, but I know that Lynda has alot of people or businesses that donate items or funds to help get all the boxes sent. Like the golf balls she sends, I know that those are donated by the local golf courses but Lynda says the used balls are in high demand. I guess there's a few golfer's over there that just want to escape from the daily grind and send some balls sailing.



Cubby and Teddy have taken up wrestling now. They roll over each other and sitting on each other and doing flips onto Teddy's bed. They have the bruises to prove it.



That's cool that you can stay a bit with Andy, just don't over stay. If you stay for an extending period of time, his neighbors will complain that he has extra people living there. You know how people are. Just like calling the office when he did a maintenance start up on his 3 wheeler.



I'm missed chatting with you for a couple of days. Oh well I know you get busy. I soldered some sweet solder joints today. Nice and clean. You'd be so proud. =) hehe. I have puppy people coming over tomorrow night and am meeting someone who is flying up thursday from San Fran for Gretchen's last puppy. Then I will have 3 more puppies to sell. I hope I can get homes for them soon, I have three more litters coming in January.



I'm going to try to get to sleep early tonight. If you log on to facebook, send me a message in case I'm still awake. I maybe because Teddy is over there lying in bed whining because I didn't give them a drink to go to bed. He's been waking up wet way to much. Love you and miss you everyday. Mom XOXOXOX

Tue 12/07/10 6:46 PM

well tell them all thank you for the support i guess..

nah see that didnt work at all cuz i am totally jealous that your eating one...
but im sure i will bring you lunch a few times

andy says i can stay with him in his spare bedroom
that could be nice.. although i might come and snuggle up with fritz hahahahahahahaha

From Mom, Tue 12/07/10 2:57 PM

Wes brought me lunch a little bit ago. i had him running around for me today, i have a puppy going to san fransico, so i had him out picking up a crate and taking her to the vet and stuff. so dont be all jealous because i'm eating an oregon, i dk why they called it that, it should be an idaho. lynda said she got her box mailed out again to you. she packed it herself. said theres some more books, snacks and other stuff. a bunch of ladies say to send they best to you. i guess that means they are thinking of you and hoping your doing fine. they're from all over, ones in england, a couple in austrailia and across the US.

12/7/2010 9:24:17 AM

yeah remember i used to bark and yell at people... mainly teens
yeah and i just laugh with them lils too
i can relate still im just a 19- year old boy hahahaha

yeah i can imagine they would be har to follow if we didnt keep the previous ones on there

yeah i know its been a lil difficult the past few days to get on a computer sorry

love you all

From Mom, Mon 12/06/10 12:34 AM

Haha, riding with me makes you yell? Hmmf. Teddy yells because he learned how to get his way by yelling. I yell along with him and it turns the reason why he is yelling into something funny. Kids are natural comedians you know. Why do you think they are always laughing. When your that age everything is funny. Remember you and Mike used to giggle all the time when ever someone said poop? Ya, ah ha.

Your letters are interesting sometimes. I have to keep scrolling up and down to figure out what your talking about. Makes my life interesting. I missed you today on facebook. I was experiencing techincal difficulties at Shirley's place and wasn't able to get online most of the evening. Sucked.

Hope your mission goes well and you get back ok so you can eat some RKT. Those things are soo good, cereal in your hand. I gotta get some sleep, ugh work tomorrow. We love and miss you bunches and bunches. Mom, XOXOXOX

Sun 12/05/10 7:59 PM

yeah right i thought so too...
the last thing was chocolate and rkt

yeah and i got another one today should be longer but i do have fun driving in the day time so thats nice
i dont get to yell that often... only when i riding with you... i think thats where teddy gets it from

i have it on my hard drive im sure you have it too

no pic of dutch

sounds good then i guess

From Mom, Sun, 5 Dec 2010 02:15:20

Fav, I thought you were eating this stuff faster. LOL OMG that is one full locker, now if you could get a supply of soda, beer and cigarettes you'd have a convenience store. HEHE. What was the last stuff you received that I've shipped you?

I hope your mission today was boring =) that's from the mom in me. I hope you have fun driving on the way back =) that's from the practical side of me. I hope that your thrilled and get a chance to shout at something because yelling is fun, =P that's from Teddy.

I still have that movie I think. Here's a picture of Dutch. Isn't he pretty? G-pa Mobley must be feeling pretty good since he is hating everything.

I love you always, talk to ya later. Mom XOXOXOX

Sat 12/04/10 7:01 PM

alright cool. thank you

and im good on candy i filled a complete foot locker with snackage

i feel like i should be on that movie the heavy weights with my candy stash

From Mom, Fri 12/03/10 8:56 PM

(Jeremiah and I were talking on facebook about the boxes I mailed this day and the cost of the items, we got disconnected. So I emailed this to him.)

I know, I got you a few items more than you asked for. I sent you a few resupply items that I sent you when you first got deployed, the only I've already resupplied was the tooth paste. The underwear cost more than I expected, but I can understand that you would feel more comfortable in the boxer briefs than cotton boxers or regular briefs. I also got you 12 pairs and 20 pairs of socks. I know that I'm always looking for socks, so I imagine the same for you. Plus a couple more items of clothing that you didn't ask for and a few snack items to fill in the rest of the box.

From Mom, Fri 12/03/10 12:14 AM

Ok, I got your stuff packed up, the socks were made in pakistan, I thought that was funny, you could have just gone next door and picked these up yourself. lol.

The boys and sadie miss you too, and fritz. We were looking at photos last night and we were working on saying uncle jeremiah. teddy say unc jeremamama. I can spell wait cubby says uncamama or something like that. hehe. Sadie's ears are looking better, in another day or so I'm gonna pluck out the ear hair.

Oh I better get to sleep. I agreeing with the computer screen again. Fritz is intently licking himself and wiggling the bed. I'm gonna have to give him a kick if he dont stop soon.

We all miss you and love you. Take care of yourself, be safe. Love MOM, XOXOXOXOX

Thu, 2 Dec 2010 01:10:30

well thats good im glad to hear that he is doing better i was scared there for a while.

i miss sadie and the boys... i cant wait to be around all of them

im sorry it took me so long to get to the computer

and i could use some low cut white socks... the have to at least cover my ankles so no

"no shows"

and yeah thats about it

ohh and some boxer briefs prefferably dark colors... like black gray and blue

medium size should do...

From Mom, Thu 12/02/10 12:08 AM

Fav,

Grandpa got moved out the hospital and in to a rehabilation center. This is great news, at the center he will be getting alot more physical therapy, a few hours everyday, verses a few minutes everyday at the hospital. James went back up to be with him today. James had to go thru this kind of thing after his wreck so he can relate to what grandpa is doing at the center. They will push him to work hard at moving around.

Not much else happened today, went to work, was cold but not alot of rain, just sprinkles now and then. It took me 2 hours to clean up the compactor today. It was a mess, hate people. Ugh. The littles went to G&G today. I had Wes call and order and then pick up medicine for Sadie's ears. Her ears have been more trouble than normal, she kind of stressed out at Shirley's over the weekend and so her ears were pretty saucy. She is such a sweetie pie. She never complains and I know it burns when I clean her ears. I only seen her complain to Fritz because he kept wanting to get into her ear holes and she told him point blank NO.

I miss you, I stayed close to my computer all night. What's the weather been like. Do you need anything? I was showing pictures to the littles tonight. They call nollie Nonnie and when I ask them who is in the pictures when you all were babies like them, you are cubby and teddy say mike is teddy. They have been real cuddle bugs the last couple of nights. Most of the time they just play in the evening with their toys, they been fighting over who sits next to me. I love you and miss you. Take care of yourself. Mom, XOXOXOXOX

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 05:33:38

yeah i do enjoy being able to talk to you like that... gets some things said alot faster

well they sent me a tracker link so it should be there around the 6th if you could just put it off to the side... i hope to not have it opened yet when i get home

yeah you told me about grandpa earlier...

im so sore from today and yesterday
mainly im tired so i think im gonna go to bed as well

From Mom, Wed 12/01/10 12:07 AM

Hey my Fav,

I am so glad to be able to chat with you a little bit tonight. I just wanted to let you know that I tried to calling that number again for the stuff you ordered and still just got an answering machine again. I don't know what's up with that. Maybe you should just cancel your order. I'm sure you can get this stuff from another place. If you want me to continue pursuing it I will. It looks like the transaction went thru your account. I just checked. Maybe we can track it now. I'm going to go back and read the email you sent me and look for the shipping info.

OMG, okay this is weird, I'm watching Lopez tonight, George Lopez's talk show and there's this band singing on the show and they are all playing instruments on what looks like iphones. Pretty crazy shit. One of them has a vote for pedro shirt on.

Grandpa was working on squeezing a ball in his hand today. He is now in the ward that does physical therapy.

Well it's time for me to get to sleep, I love you and miss you all the time. Mom, XOXOXOX

From Mom, Tue 11/30/10 1:17 AM

Hey, I'm sorry I missed you earlier. Shirley and I are both back home again. Before we left, Grandpa was moved out of ICU and into a more general room. He continues to make progress. Yesterday he couldn't lift is left arm and today he was able to lift it and hold it up for several moments. Shirley had all the aunts, grandma and jerry in the room with grandpa today and laid the law down on them and basically told them that if they didn't have grandpa get some time at a rehability facility asap that he won't improve enough to be reasonable enough independent. Shirley said she made them all cry and when the conversation turned in other directions, she kept turning everyone back to focus on getting him the help he needs and made them cry again. After the fit that Aunt Pat had when she got to the hospital last night about how all this is going to fall on her to take care of him all by herself and had to make all the decisions and take grandpa home and how she's been the only one taking care of him for 14 years.... and so on. Some people are really good at playing the victim and aren't happy unless they can disrupt calmness and pull everyone's attention to them.

I didn't tell you before but Shirley and I saw quite a few elk driving over white pass. Now that it is colder they have moved down from the mountains to the valleys. They were pretty bold and was just standing on the shoulder of the road. I felt like I could reach out and get some of them a nice pet on their heads. They are huge! some of them probably weighed atleast 600 pounds. The drive was okay, just a little bit of falling snow and at the top of the pass it was sticking enough to barely cover the road. It was pretty cold in Yakima, the trees had frost on them all day, it was really quite beautiful I tried to take a couple photos of the trees. It was just all whiteness with dark lines streaking around.

I love you and miss you bunches and bunches. Mom XOXOXOX

Mon 11/29/10 7:36 PM

well thank you and im glad that you are doing that
thank goodness although im sure they didnt like seeing it happen in front of them

but at least some one was there

please keep me informed

From Mom, Mon 11/29/10 12:10 AM

I just want you to know that I want you to know everything that is happening at home. I'm not going to try to hide anything bad that is happening in our lives here. I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate that kind of treatment. You are a smart and very intelligent and yes, a loving person who does care deeply about the people at home. I know that you may feel that because you are halfway around the world that you are helpless to do anything. Being in the same building or room doesn't empower us anymore than if we were with you. Be happy that G&G&V were there with him visiting him and was able to call 911 and get him to the hospital, otherwise the story I'm telling you would be much different. He wouldn't have been found until the next day and no medicine would have been able to repair dead brain cells. With therapy he may regain some use in his left arm, but how much is going to be up to him. No one can do it for him. I will continue to let you know what's going on, even if you are out on a mission, I will still be writing you to keep you informed. Please keep your focus and keep yourself safe. I love you and I'm very proud of the person you are. Mom XOXOXOX

Thu 11/25/10 12:35 AM

Mom:
Hey Fav,

Another day done. I went to Costco and got more stuff to send to you. I tried to get some stuff that was different for a change, I also got you some cash and sent it the way I did before. I wanted to get it done today because later after Thanks Giving its going to be a different story going to Costco and the Post Office. I think the holidays will also mean that it will take longer for you to receive boxes because of the increase of stuff being shipped overseas. I hope you like what I got for you, I think I got some stuff that will enable you to make a mess.

I got a call on my phone early this morning that I missed about the stuff you ordered. What do you want me to do about it? I kind of think that it is weird that they are wanting that kind of info from you unless you put that on your account yourself. I don't think I had that happen to me before.

I'm watching Hiedi on tv. Cubby is sleeping. Bear is in bed making noise. Bear and I have this game we play were I say, your cute or your too cute and he says no your cute. HEHE.

I just got a email from you on my phone so I'm gonna send this one hoping I catch you.

Loves Mom

Jeremiah:
yeah well i ordered my stuff but they are being fucking retarded and want me to send a paytstub out and shit and im like im a fucking deployed soldier i dont have a fax machine or anything so i dont know they say the are gonna hold it

im trying to figure it out but yeah

Mom:
Oh, I guess I missed you by a bit.

Mike has been stuck in Baker City, eastern OR because the cold weather. His brakes froze on the trailer he was hauling and he ended up getting a couple flat tires and had to wait several hours before someone showed up to put new tires on.

Shirley has a pipe burst in her pump house today.

Did you try to look for stuff on overstocks.com?

Well I can think of much more to write about, so I guess I will close. I miss you. Love Mom, XOXOXO

From Mom, Wed 11/24/10 1:20 AM

I guess your classes would get messed up also if you had training that didn't allow you to spend enough time on your classes or homework. Could get rough. If you did the college thing that you were talking about before would the cost of it be automatically paid for or would it come out of your GI bill?

I haven't done much the last couple days, just played with the Littles and Dogs.

Did you order your stuff yet? If yes, when should we start watching for it? I was thinking that if you wanted anything mailed to let me know. I don't really want to go shopping next weekend because if Christmas craziness.

Mon, 22 Nov 2010

Jeremiah:
yeah i talked to the career guy today and yeah the army pretty much fucked me and my window isn open till another four months if possible so it depends.if its not within the next month i aint doin it. im not trying to stay in longer than november.

Mom:

So when you get back to Campbell will you be able to do college classes? Or will you have to wait?

Jeremiah:
if i wanted to i would have to do them out of my own pocket and time

From Mom, Mon 11/22/10 9:05 AM

Fav,

It sounds reasonable, I would make sure that it will work out exactly like that though. Where are you getting your information about it at? I don't think you can rely just on someone's word about it. Read the fine print. Read your contract before you sign it and go over it with the person who handles the re-enlistment.

Mon 11/22/10 7:36 AM

alright so the biggest update right now im my noggin


my window to re-enlist just opened up cuz today the day of the 22nd is my two years left mark so im gonna go against my word and re-enlist soon but heres the master part of the plan


im only gonna re-enlist for two years under the college option so when this deployment is done i will go to college after my leave and then thats a garunteed 6-12 months of only doing pt in the morning and then going to my room or college which i am thinking online classes fer sure its be easier but anyways after those months if its the full 12 which it most likely will be then i will only have 4 months of back to regular company bullshit and then i start my 90 days of clearing out of the army and then i will take my last leave because i will have plenty of days saved up cuz after this coming up leave im not taking anymore to save up my days and yeah


by only doing two years i will only be extended a couple days or a month tops cuz im doing it right as my window opens but since ill be taking my leave ill still be gone by or before november which is my original ending time of service but itll give me a jump start on my college which will mean more classes to take within the money of my GI bill

From Mom, Mon 11/22/10 12:20 AM

Hey,

OMG can she talk or what? She never stops, makes it easy for me so I don't really need to contribute. LOL I think Pony was a big hit with all of them. Kelly took tons of photos of her. Pony liked Aunt Vicky too. she kept sitting next to her and sat on her foot a couple times. Sean really like her size, he didn't want a small dog.

I got the littles okay today from Ann and they seemed to have a nice visit. Teddy kept touching the snow. We only got a inch, you can still see the grass poking thru. I'm sending you a picture. In the picture you will see snow falling in the back yard about 1pm. Also in the photo you will see that Fritz is a speedy guy and was able to get stuck to Gretchen in the minute it took me to leave the doorway and use the bathroom. I was trying to prevent this. I guess I was to caught up in the snow and the harpy behind us was outside taking photos of her dog also, so the dogs were barking at each other thru the fence. Wes was just glad that it wasn't his fault. Ugh, She is my summer mom. Now I just have Emma for next summer. Though chances are I will still have puppies in the summer.

I'm gonna go to the court house tomorrow and have someone look at my papers to see if I can have them filed. Time to sleep. Love you and miss you. Mom XOXOXOXOX

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:41:20

well thats good that they are a good match i remember when i was doing knowledge bowl at covington and silly was my bus driver and i would just sit and talk to her the whole bus ride ahahaha


hmm well at least all things went well i hope she realized that she was doing it for the greater good of the boys and all


i miss me some fp's


yeah i got my package and im sure chris got his too and thank you it was pretty awesome hahaha im glad that chocolate can safely get here now


i heard you got snow... im jealous i wish i could be there with the boys to play with them in the snow... i hate missing all this good stuff

From Mom, Sun 11/21/10 2:15 AM

Hey My Fav,

It's about 1:30am. I just got into bed. I started painting the living room today and about half way into it Grandma called me and asked me if I was coming over. I was like was I suppose to? HEHE. I guess that PreSilly and all the rest were over there to have dinner. So I wrapped the roller and grabbed Pony and headed over. Silly just loves Pony. Of course the biggest test was whether or not Fletcher and her got along okay. That went well and he was very interested in her and "teaching" her to sit and stay. I think they will be a good match for each other. They wont be ready for her for about a month or so. That's about when they will close on their house and repaint and move in.

This morning at FP went okay with Ann. I gave her the papers to read thru and when she got to the page where she needed to sign, she dug out a pen from her purse and signed it. I guess I kind of expected her to ask questions or discuss it and suggest changes. Breakfast was good, bacon was perfect. It looks like Cubby doesn't like whipped topping on his peaches, he wouldn't touch them. Teddy didn't talk much at first, it wasn't until later that he came out of his shell. Funny thing is that after I dropped them off at the trailer Ann sent me a text saying thank you for taking care of the boys, then a couple hours later she was whining to Mike about how there was no time limit on how long I would have them in my care. When you file for custody of kids the state doesn't want to revisit the case to rule on it over and over. It considers the placement permeate unless all parties involved request a change. I think it was just her family stressing her out about it, they were all there when I dropped them off. I think she will be fine in a couple of days.

I told Wes that you are getting some stuff sent here and he will just put the boxes aside for you. You and Chris should be getting the boxes I sent you on the 6th in a couple of days unless you got them all ready. I'm not sure but you may just cry when you open yours. =) What do you do with all the candy wrappers?

So I eventually got done with the whole dinner thing and came home and finished painting. I talked to Mike for a little bit, he is headed back to Salt Lake City with a trailer for Target. The load is a priority load and there's a rush to deliver it, it's going to Colorado. Emma is able to jump up into the truck. She is happy to lay on the bed behind Mike instead of on the seat where Gretchen sat in the passenger seat. Emma is a follower. When you walk with all the dogs at the dog park everyone else is running ahead and Emma is always directly behind. In the car Emma like to sit behind me and tuck her face into the space between the seat belt and the seat.

Well I better get to sleep. I love you and miss you everyday. Mom, XOXOXOX

Sat 11/20/10 8:31 PM

yeah it was a pretty good convo to i think i helped him out alot

yeah i dont mind and i need to be able to communicate with you and you have a dog business to run and all too

aww lucky i wish i could get some time off... i am lucky if i get a day

hmm well let me know how that goes...

hey im prolly gonna be buying some stuff to just stay there

From Mom, Fri 11/19/10 11:15 PM

Fav, I'm glad that you got to talk to Mike. He will have to wait to go into the military until he can show that he is not a single parent. Which won't happen until I get the boys papers filed with the court.

I used others internet when it was available, it didn't become a problem until I couldn't get on at all. I really appriecate the internet and phone service you pay for. Without it we wouldn't be able to communicate as much as we do.

I don't have to go to work for 9 days, yippi yahoo. I got Sadie in my closet and Fritz on my bed, a kid in every bed and a dog in every box. My life is complete. Haha.

I invited Ann to FP tomorrow for breakfast so we can talk and maybe I can get her to sign the papers. Not that it matters I will file them with or without her signing them.

I love you and I hope you can get a little break before you go out again. Miss you as always. Mom, XOXOX

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:07

sorry i have ben awefully busy and i dont have my own internet like alot of people i dont see the point in spending 100 a month for it when there are places for it for free and im already payin one internet bill hahaha


yeah i had a good long talk with him about it i think he will tell ya later
i showed him the openminded side of things outside of the box hahahaha

From Mom, Thu 11/18/10 11:40 PM

My Fav,

It seemed colder today than it has been, maybe it seemed like it because I was outside for most of the day. I also turned the unit where that guy put a bullet in his head in front of his wife. I didn't really have to do to much because they hadn't lived there for very long, just a couple months I think. One more day and then I'm on vacation! Yippi. Not much is going on, Mike spent the day with the Littles and then went to Nollie and Brian's place to play video games. Mike is talking about joining the ARMY again and being a truck driver. If he did he would at least have a pay check. He is barely scraping by, every week the money his truck earns goes to the truck first to pay for the lease, insurance and fuel. Seems like most of the time he is in the hole. He went and talked to a recruiter that he talked about joining before, he said he needs to get some papers together. There's a new video game out. call of duty, black ops. getting alot of commercial time.

I need to get some sleep, sometimes I send email and then lay here checking to see if you respond before I go to sleep. I think your now 12hrs ahead instead of 13 since the time change. I love you and miss you. Take care and eat and rest. Mom XOXOXOX

Thu 11/18/10

Mom:
Fav,

Wow, your right you typed alot. hehe.

HEHE I'm watching Forrest Gump. I KNOW I can't help it. If its on tv I have to watch it. even though I have the dvd in my drawer.

The big tree by the front pool has now lost all it's leaves. It has been seriously windy the last couple of days and tons of leaves are on the ground. Another cold, cold wet day. I even snuck off to applebee's and got some soup.

Jeremiah:
nice i miss that movie i wonder if i have it

so guess what no i cant find my camera im really mad about it i wanted to look at pictures of the boys..

hmmm we are gonna go to lunch a few times when im home.. which i cant wait for

Mom:
Man I hope you find your camera. It isn't really usuable because the screen don't work.

I know we should, we didn't last time.

I was thinking that I need to do the oil on the car.

Jeremiah:
yeah i mean i do to i want to find it and it is still usuable the screen works just has a couple white lines through it and such but i can still see the pictures


hmm who would you have do it... i would get a quote to see how much it would be to do a tune up and then get one...




you could use it..

From Mom, Thu 11/18/10 12:53 AM

Hi Fav,

James send me a picture of Rayna, his grand-daughter. She is 3 now. She is a cutie that's for sure. I'm sending you some photos, hers and some from my grandma packers funeral.

The one where they are carrying the coffin you can see John in the middle, in front of him is my cousin Harold (Harold is named after my Grandpa Packer) behind John in the cowboy hat is one of my cousin's husband, he was pretty nice and chatted a bit with me and cubby, I don't remember his name. In the back on the other side is my Dad, dress all in blue. In front of him is my cousin Kim's son, I think he is about 15. I don't know who is in from of him, maybe his dad.

The next one is of Teddy, he really liked the headstones and walked up and down the rows like they were stepping stones. Since he wouldn't hold my hands he also walked up to the coffin to look down into the whole under it. He kept alot of people entertained.

The next of the coffin, it was a very pale rose pink color with darker pink accents that had flowers painted on them. Kind of hard to see in my photo. But it was really pretty as far as coffins go, I think it would have been one that Grandma Mobley and even Wes' grandmas would have choosen.

First group photo is of Aunt Karen with her two daughters, Kim on the left and Kandy on the right.

Last photo is of the Littles, James, John and Me and our Dad.

There was another group shot taken of the whole family but I was stuck in the middle of the group because I was too short to sit and too short to be in the back row, so I didn't bother to pass my camera to the church ladies that were there feeding us. I'm may someday get a copy.

Love Mom,

Thu 11/18/10 12:52 AM

i didnt hear about the plane going down but i didnt get any casualties in my platoon and only a few in my company it was mainly just another company
tho one of my old squad leaders did get one in the chest but i think he is gonna be ok and all


hmm thats lame but at least he came back ok i hope the owners werent to pissed about the whole ordeal and all and im not surprised about the sadie thing i miss loving on her she is so good i cant wait to have her around


and its fine although i was waiting for you reply and all but its ok i know your busy alot and why has he been screaming when you put him to sleep is it like a fit thing?


i miss the lils alot i cant wait to spoil them
apparently mike is done with anne for good i.e. his facebook status hahahaha
we will see how that goes i hope he goes through with it
he needs to find someone good i liked that katrina chick i wonder what ever happened to that i mean i know its alot of kids but still she was nice


wow i am surprised i typed this much.


love ya too

From Mom, Wed 11/17/10 10:05 AM

My Fav,

kevin's mom said that a plane went down with wounded on it and that some guy named stephan got hit in the leg. stephen's mom is named michelle. i dont know if he is in your platoon or not. you must be tired from them extenting your mission like they did. i hope you get a chance to eat good and sleep good. did you drive or were you guys dropped in to place? i ended up falling asleep last night, cubby has been screaming the last few nights when i put him to bed so i was laying there pretending to sleep and then i wasnt pretending anymore. i had this lady who wanted to breed her male poodle to hiedi bring her dog to shirleys and as soon as shirley put him in with the rest of the dogs he went sailing over the fence and down the driveway, so shirley and amber spent hours driving around looking for him and everytime they got close to him he would take off like it was all some big game. his family drove down to help look and ended up sleeping in their car at the end of the driveway, the stupid dog came back about 4:30am and they took him home. i'm glad that he came back. i bet he was all tired and hungry and slept all the way home. the lady i bred sadie to her with with is all excited because it turns out that sadie can trace her lines back into her line, she's been breeding for 40 years. which make sense, i bet alot of dogs in this area could be related to her lines. sorry for an email all in parts, i wanted to write you asap and didnt want to wait til i got home. take care of yourself, i love you and miss you bunches and bunches. mom xoxoxox

11/17/2010 8:27:18 AM

yeah but its cool and yeah i tried to get on and i ended up lcking my account and then had to unlock it...

and give them loves when they go to sleep for me

From Mom, Tue 11/16/10 8:37 PM

Fav,

I am so glad to hear from you. I will write more later when the littles go to bed. Thanks, but i will just let mike owe me. i missed you.

11/17/2010 3:02:13 AM

hey sorry so here is the story

got back from a mission in the morning that was after a mission in the night and here that a company is getting fucked up so we were already spinned up so we went out
what was supposed to be a rescue mission turned out to be us picking up their slack and yeah.. we finished early but it was 5 days in total and we had no prep time like we
would normally have

in total
5kia 37 wounded

sad day

yes i dont really care use the money
write a contract or list to keep track... thats somewhat a last thing on my mind

use it for you use it for mike.. all i ask is to be paid back sometime..
i know its hard for you all
but i just hope that i dont turn into a money pit..
you know what i mean
i hear all the stories in the army about the gimme gimme's and yeah

but that doesnt mean i wont help
i will help but helping is different from giving... that speech is mainly for mike not you
i work hard for my money and i have dreams to accomplish

im sorry im ranting to you but you know your my output...
i havent slept yet either

gah i wish i was out already

there was alot of email so if i didnt cover anything important re ask me =]

i love ya

From Mom, Mon 11/15/10 11:35 PM

Hello My Fav,

Monday again, atleast next week I will be on vacation and can do some work for myself. Work was okay and not really involving me in much, worked in another vacate unit and have the last one tomorrow. Someone skipped out last week and I mentioned it to the office today, so I will probably work in there thurday or friday.

I decided today that I will go ahead and file the papers for custody and not wait any longer. Ann is talking about moving again, she is so stupid. She needs to stay put and go to school or get a job. But instead she wants to go running off with her friend Kayla who is worse than she is. Mike was telling me today that Ann was getting high when she was pregnant with Teddy and when she got pregnant with Cubby she tried to drink him out of her. I don't care if she moves away as long as it doesn't involve the littles. I paid Mike's back taxes today for the state of Oregon. He called me today and wanted me to ask you if I'd write you and ask you for a loan of $400. I got the number and amount from wes and got mike's ssn and called the department of revenue and got their online payment site and made a payment. I got a quarterly bonus plus my pay today and I was going to send Shirley her portion of the puppy I sold a couple weeks ago and now I'm short again. It's always something, never get ahead.

Missing you, Love Mom, XOXOXOX

From Mom, Mon 11/15/10 1:58 AM

My Fav,

We didn't do to much today. We just played around, did some more laundry and played with the two puppies we have. Later we drove Hiedi up to Shirley's to leave her there to get bred, Pony went along with us. We saw Levi, Rachelle and Wyatt briefly. He is getting big and has 6 teeth now, Wyatt, not Levi. The boys all just kind of stare at each other, they haven't really ever gotten to play together yet, Wyatt's usually in someone's arms. I think that the boys are plotting future trouble they can get into some day. We had Papa Murphy's for dinner, the papa has a new pizza called bacon, bacon, bacon. Nice and bacony. We watched a couple of movies and brought Emma back home with us. I gave Emma a bath and put her in Wes's room with him. He's been moaning about Hiedi having to go to Shirley's for a couple weeks. He knew it was time. He was saying today that she is going to miss us and be all traumatized. I told him that he was putting human emotions in an animal. HEHE. That made him quiet about it for a minute thinking that one thru. James called me while I was driving home so I got to talk to him for about 30 miles.

Hope all is well, I guess your on a mission or something. Feels like forever since I heard from you. I love you and miss you. Take care of yourself and stay safe. Love Mom, XOXOXOX

From Mom, Sun 11/14/10 2:12 AM

My Fav,

So I did everything on my list today, well almost. While the boys were sleeping off FP's I watched a Harry Potter movie. I also did laundry and put clothes away. On the way to G&G's I went to Costco and got you some more stuff that I will mail next week. I hope you don't mind but you also bought a couple bags of dog food. I spent alot of money last week on doughnuts and gas.

I was looking up what your medals look like. Very nice. Then I was looking at a list of possible medals and ribbons and realized that you could have a few of them just for the short time you've been in. Its nice to be recognized for working hard and doing a good job. I know all to well what its like to work, work, work and never hear a kind word about how much you get accomplished, but get scolded for some minor, very minor item.

We had a good visit at G&G's, Silly didn't show. She called earlier in the day because Aunt Vicky and either Sean or Fletcher was sick. So we went anyways. I met them at Wendy's and we had dinner there. Then we went to their place and watched Toy Story 3 and the Cars movie. Then came home and the Littles went to bed while I packed a new box for you. Love Mom, XOXOXO

From Mom, Sat 11/13/10 1:36 AM

Hey Fav,

You've been quiet or busy.

I was going over Sadie paperwork and I entered her breeder in a search and wouldn't you know, I came up with an add for the lady that I bought Fritz from. Scared the crap out of me! I thought that Fritz and Sadie had the same breeder, which could mean that they could be related. I had to dig out the pedigrees that I have and see if they had any of the same names. I didn't find any matches. Though to be honest, I'm not really impressed by the lady I got Fritz from. I think that I'm pretty lucky that Fritz is in such good health. She didn't give the puppies any vaccinations or wormings. She emailed me and asked me to refer people to her and I told her that I would only if she started vaccinating her puppies, I never heard from her again. She also had an ad to sell Fritz's daddy and claimed that he was 3, I'm pretty sure that he is 5 or 6. Fritz is 3.

Anyways, Shirley and I discuss my plans for the day tomorrow and I think it should be.

1. Sleep In (Shirley's suggestion)
2. Moesy over the FP's and consume bacon
3. Sleep off bacon
4. Dinner at Grandma's
5. Sleep off dinner

Which will probably be fairly accurate. We are taking Pony over to G&G's so Silly, Sean and Fletcher can meet her and see if she is a good match for their family. I hope they think she will work for them. Pony is alot like Silly, I wonder if they will see it. Mike says that Gretchen is in heat, I hope he is careful with her and don't bring her back fat. Hiedi is also in heat and so I got to take her up to Shirleys for Dutch and leave her there for a week or so. When Hiedi is due I will take her back to Shirley's to have her puppies and stay there until they are weaned. Emma will come home in her place.

I worked in F102, remember the man that lived there? He died a few weeks ago. I said at the beginning of summer that he wasn't going to last. Morbid of me I guess. He moved in to that apartment just after I started working at the apartments. I had to basically replace everything that is replaceable in there. A long day. I stayed an hour late to finish. I think Joseph should have given me more time to work in there.

I love you and miss you. Mom, XOXOXOX

From Mom, Thu 11/11/10 11:31 PM

Hey fav,

Hope your day was going good and all. Not much is happening here. Boys are in bed, Teddy is talking. I'm sleepy that't for sure. I wonder if I will ever catch up on sleep. Shirley reports that she has moved the remaining chickens that were staying in the green house down to the chicken house and made a roost and put up a divider wall inside. She also said that she put up a door in Dutch's area on the porch and screened it with a layer of rabbit wire. He likes to chew the regular wire and can make holes in it. We think that he wont be able to get a grip on the rabbit wire cloth to make holes. James said that John got back home okay and that he found all the dirty harry movies at walmart for $13. Mke and Gretchen is headed to Salt Lake City. He is hoping to get back on the Walmart run. Nice steady miles when he is one that. Right now he is barely breaking even because he hasn't been getting enough miles.

I better get to sleep. I love you and miss you bunches. Mom XOXOX

From Mom, Thu 11/11/10 5:23 AM

Does that mean pretty ribbons on your uniform? =) Good Job.

Thu 11/11/10 3:04 AM

yeah i let him know and i will ask around people always talk about getting dogs and im like ohhhh what type... i got one friend who wants a pug but yeah we will see hahaha

yeah you told me about john and im glad you got to see him

i do remember mmitt and then mike throwing the ball at me
jeez... 7 car garage. awesome

ps.ohh i was awarded three medals today

two aam's(army achievement medals)

and an arcom
(army commendation)

From Mom, Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:16:58

My Fav,

I forgot to tell you that I got to see John over the weekend. He flew in for my Grandma Packers funeral. So he stayed at James's house too. Right when I got there I got the Littles out of the car and locked my keys in the car. I didn't have any pockets and I set them down on the seat while I put Cubby's shoes on and then shut the door. James was able to break into my car and John chased after the Littles in the house. James has a 7 car garage with attached house. LOL. It's awesome. When I went in the garage I was like "this is why James bought this house" The rest is pretty nice. It doesn't get alot of wear and tear with just him living there. Oh, Rambo is there also. James brought out a pair of baseball gloves and baseballs that his girls use to play with when they were littles. So we played with the Littles, showing them how to put their hands in the mitts and use the other for throwing. Remember your little mitt?

11/10/2010 12:41:45 PM

ohh nice i still seem to be hearing those complaints around here.. so um i got another person who would also like a beenie if you feel like making on but i mainly just would like to have mine sent.. wash it a couple times to so it softens up please.

i was wondering why you havent written back in a while

alright ill let him know

well yeah nothing really new hear

From Mom, Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:31:05

Hi Fav,

Ugh, I'm tired. Shirley and I spent the day complaining about the rain and coldness and how it gets dark so early now that we are back on standard time. Each time we complained to each other I always ended with "how long until spring?"

So Sadie sweet heart and Cassie got stuck 5 times. I picked her up last night on the way home from James' place. I drove 600 miles yesterday. The littles were pretty good about it, especially since I kept the powdered donuts coming. hehe. I got home a little bit after 2am. I cleaned up the puppies and cubby's butt and was in bed by 3am. I cleaned up Sadie's ear holes too. She stunk up the car all the way home. Poor baby girl.

I repacked all those boxes and was able to fit everything into one box. So it wil cost about $12.50. I put together a box for you also. Because I love you.

I'm sleepy, I better sign off and hide under the blankets. I'm cold. Love Mom. XOXOXOX

Mon, 8 Nov 2010 02:18:29

well thats always hope that all goes well with that stick i guess i dont really know how to put it at all and stuff but ya know what i mean

yeah i mean its alot different but yeah i think im doing pretty well at it
and yeah i hate to admit it but i try to excel at anything i do even tho i dont always end up doing that

ok well he just wants to know how much it is going to cost for everything so he can pay me back

yes it is getting colder chocolate would be nice..
one more thing

do you think you could finish my hat that you were making it doesnt have to have the jew curls on it but make it kinda long on the bottom part so i can fold it up... or just make it a good size so i dont have to roll it

maybe if tammy wants something to do she could knit me a cool one too i wear that mask thing she made but a beenie would be better..
and cool

be safe tell everyone i said hi

maybe ill be able to call you when you are there... just let me know

From Mom, Sun 11/07/10 9:16 AM

Hi, I got back okay from dropping Sadie off. They were stuck before we left. HEHE. I was worried that he would be alot taller than she is, but he is about the same height and is a nice dark chocolate color with a greyness undertone to his fur. Jan the breeder wants a black girl from the litter. Which I'm fine with, she has someone else that is looking for one.

So you ended up as a driver. That's okay, I think it is important to know as much different jobs as possible especially when your under fire. I'm sure you are great at it, your a pretty decent driver.

Hmmm a beattles shirt is a great idea. I think I'm going to wear a green sweater that I have and don't wear very often. In fact I think I wore it at Wes' grandma's service.

I plan on sending his stuff under his name, anyways. so it will go directly to him. It costs right now about 12.50 a box like I send you your stuff in. I would have sent it earlier but I was waiting to receive all his boxes so I can send it all at once. I'm going to send you another one at the same time. Has the weather cooled off yet? Do you need chocolate?

Well I gotta get ready to leave for James' place. I love and miss you. You are always with me in my mind. Take good care of yourself and stay healthy. Love Mom, XOXOXOXOXO

Sat, 6 Nov 2010 01:21:37

dang that is busy well did my first mission as a driver and guess what it was a night mission i think i did fairly well... imagine not having windows on the passenger side and being like 5 feet off the ground yeah thats retty much it but other than that yeah i dont think mike has shit on me.. and my deisel hahahaha

i cant ven remember the last time i saw you in a dress...
you should where a beatles shirt like i did for wes's gammas funeral hahaha
i thought it was appropriate hahaha

hmm im tired but anyways
lemme know when you get sgt coronas package sent out and how much it cost and i think you should just put it under his name

From Mom, Fri 11/05/10 12:41 PM

Hey Fav, i'm working in a trashed apartment today acrossed from the back clubhouse, so i walked acrossed to take a break in the bathroon for a bit. no one ever really comes in here during the pool off season but me, so its a nice quiet place to be. i've actually composed several letters and texts from here to you and others. i loaded a bunch of photos that i had for you last night. the littles helped me clean up my room, its amazing how much stuff they push under my bed. we cleaned up so i could find that usb stick thing. i also found the jacket cover for the kindle2 that i didnt think ever showed up. shirley bought me a green clip on book light for it. i think she just got it because its green. did you know that you can also upload kindle books onto your iphone and laptop? you can also go from device to device while reading the same book and never lose your place. fritz does look awesome in his new cut, very elegent. sadie's turn tonight. love ya

From Mom, Fri 11/05/10 12:20 AM

I think I would need about 25 to 30 breeding dogs. I know it's a ton, a ton of dog food, a ton of dog poo. I'd have to have 2 sets of washers and dryers, a grooming room. Lots of space between me and any neighbors. Well I already need the last one. I was looking online again at houses. I pull up a map and find the Lewis river and look at houses north of it. Some are pretty remote, I like to do a map search and with ariel view look at how close a place is to other houses, even how close it is to Mt. St. Helens.

I have a busy weekend ahead of me. Saturday I gotta drive Sadie down to meet Cassie. I decided to go to my Grandma Packer's memorial service and I took Monday off from work. I will leave on Sunday, spend the night at James' place and return Monday evening. The Littles will be going with me of course. John is going to fly in to Pasco Saturday night. So he will be there also and stay at James' house. It will be a bit strange to be there because besides James and John and the Littles, I wont know anyone there. I don't really have anything appropriate to wear. Ugh, I don't even want to think about that. All my clothes are work clothes, I don't know if I even have shoes besides my old tennis shoes that I wear to work. I'm going to have to do some digging. The Littles have kaki pants that will be fine. I'm clothing challenged.

11/4/2010 2:28:41 PM

nice i miss wrestling with him he is pretty awesome i cant wait to see him again
jeez just setting up franchise.. have you done the math to see how much it would take to be fine with just the dogs?

yeah go for it i already warned you about the bad thing but the rest is just candy and games

yeah he would be fine with it
i told him about that anyways
i was shocked about how awesome they were
i mean it was almost worth crying over
love ya too

From Mom, Wed 11/03/10 1:26 AM

Hi Fav,

I cut Fritz's hair tonight, while I was cutting his hair Wes came in and asked me why I was cutting him like a poodle. I said because he is a poodle. HEHE. Fritz looks awesome! Real Poodle like. I cut short the hair on his legs and feet and left pom poms on his legs and tail. I also cut his face short and his but. So he looks like he is wearing a sweater. I did cut the line at pom poms on his hip bones, I'm not sure about the decided factor about placements of those. His muscles in his legs are real defined and everytime I cut him short he looks more and more charcoal color. His color is called blue. I think that when I breed him to Sadie's girls, the chance of having a silver puppy will be greatly increased because Sadie and Cassie (aka the stud) both carry the silver gene and so in their offspring it will be an even stronger trait.

Hiedi should also be going into heat in the next few days, she tends to be about 7 to 10 days behind sadie. I am going to breed her with a different poodle from a lady from Gig Harbor. I bred Dutch to her poodle last summer and she has a boy that is about the same color as Hiedi. I charged her a stud fee, but because her boy hasn't done "it" yet and she wants him to prove himself, she is letting me have his services for free. What she doesn't know is that I will also put Dutch to Hiedi also because I don't want to risk a dud stud. HEHE.

Hey, by the way. I've gotten I think 6 boxes for the Sgt so far. I have to fill out custom forms for them because they gotta go thru customs when they leave the country, so I need to know the contents and a couple are small and can be repacked together. So can you ask him if it is okay if I open the boxes and repack them? It will save on the cost of posting them by reducing the number of boxes. Just let me know what he wants.

What you do mean by shocked about your boxes? I pretty much sent what you asked for.

Well anyways I gotta get to sleep. I love you so much. Take of yourself for me. Mom, XOXOXOX

November 2, 2010

Mom:
I thought you may have been out on something like that. hope the guy that fell off the cliff is ok and not hurt too badly. i'm sure andy will love hearing from you, he was in better spirits yesterday about the whole thing. it didnt really bother me much, didnt know the guy. just another apartment to turn i guess. i understand why you feel like you do about what you see. its a defense mechanism. otherwise you would be unable to function when the shit is going down and risk getting hurt yourself. thats why you went thru training, so you automatically react to the situtation. it doesnt mean that your unfeeling about the blood and gore. i look at look at the stars to, it reminds me of the american tail movie and the song fivil sings with tanya about looking at the stars and even though they are separated by distance they share the same view of the sky and wishes. i watch it again the other day at shirley's. i love you, take care. mom

Jeremiah:
somwhere out there beneath the pail moon sky hahahaha
i know its wierd that i remember that song hahaha
yeah i guess your right but what else can you do
at least your life goes on
and i got your packages today and i was in shock
it was a glorious site

i love ya

Mom:
Shock about what?

11/2/2010 6:25:51 PM

i told you andy is like me alot in most ways
he is very caring about people and i can undrstand about him being shaken up even tho i have seen plenty of that sort of stuff here but that is to be expected in my line of work not yours
i just have to drive on i find that alot of it doesnt bother me much and sometimes i feel something is wrong with me but i dont know what. maybe i just look past most things but i have seen all the gore and guts i never wanted to already and i still am sure i will see more

i just got back from a three/four day mission thats why it took me so long to write back but yeah i am exhausted very much so
everyone came back except another one of my buddies from another platoon tha hung out with me and ethan alot fell off a cliff at night
he is alive ad alright just waiting for the x-ray results to come back and everything

i found myself looking up at the stars alot when i was up at night just thinking of home
i miss home
alot

and the boys

the screen on my camera you gave me busted a lil bit
kinda sad
but it still works i just have to put the pics on my computer to look at them all the way
i was looking at the boys alot when i was out there
im gonna talk to andy in the morning since i have to be up super early

From Mom, Mon 11/01/10 2:03 AM

James texted me tonight. My dad's mom died Saturday, she was 91. I hadn't seen her since I was 14. I don't really remember much about her just stuff from photos. Grandma said a couple times that I kind of took after that side of the family. I guess I resembled her in some way. I don't know since my memories of her are pretty vague. My Dad's Dad died when I was a teenager and she came to Tammy's wedding to Tony. James' first wife Kelin contacted her when they lived in Kennewick. I guess that she kept the same farm for a long time, they grew grapes. She gave her piano to Sheryl when she was about 10. A couple years ago James took Sheryl and Sheryl's little girl to see her. He said they have 5 generations there that day. So I guess either my dad or my dad's sisters was there also to make it five generations.

It's late I better get some sleep. I love you and miss you bunches and bunches. Mom, XOXOXOX

From Mom, Sun 10/31/10 1:20 AM

Fav,

I'm home again. Going home is a nice feeling. We got a little bit of stuff done. When we got there, Shirley had already gotten the rest of the siding up and window put in and most of the 110volt wiring done. Isn't she amazing? So today we re-routed a wire that was in the new doorway and ran plumbing drains for the washers, it still needs to be ran under the house and tied into the existing line. The 220volt lines for the dryer and the water supply lines need to be ran. Shirley also got most of the insulation done today.

Andy had a really bad night and day at work. About 12:50am last night he got paged by 911 that one of the residents committed suicide, shot himself in the head in front of his wife. So Andy called Rachel the manager and she came in to be there while the EMT and police were there. Then this morning the company that does restoration work for us came in the the apartment to remove whatever in the apartment that had gotten contaminated by blood and other stuff that came out of him. Andy took them over to the apartment and said he looked inside and then later wished that he didn't. The whole thing really hit him pretty hard personally because he grew up with a sister that attempted several times to end her life, so it brought that all to the surface. I didn't find out about it until 3:30pm today. I called him and talked to him for quite a while about everything that had happened. I could tell that he was still very shaken up about everything and told him to just concentrate on what he needed to get done tomorrow trash wise and work on service requests that need to be taken care of right away. They are closing the office early because they are having a Halloween party for the residents so if he needed to he could go home early. I've come to realize that Andy is a lot more sensitive and caring about people than I guess I thought him to be. Even before all this happened. Eventually he will realize not to take this job overly personal and to separate work from home life. Eventually they all get over it, usually it takes about 5 to 6 months of always cleaning up the same mess time after time and fixing the same broken crap every time someone moves out. Then they will realize that they are just there to do a job and at the end of the day they get to go home and get away from all the madness.

This is why everyone thinks that Joseph is an ass. I know differently, Joseph is a really nice person, but his job requires him to do things like honestly charge people for cleaning and damages. If he was nice, then the people moving out wouldn't be charged properly and the property would loose alot of money. Joseph's says he is there to do a job and get it done in the quickest manner possible, not chit chat with people. He could care less about their personal lives and acts professional at all times. I used to try to be everyone's friend when I first started. It's not really making true friends and the friendship is one-sided, because the resident's are just trying to make pave the way for favors.

I got a second box for your sgt and will start mailing them next week.

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:00:16

yeah well im not there yet i wont move until about next week and yeah its still undecided if i am going to be rto fer sure yet

jeez yeah you are deff gonna have alot of dogs i bet you cant wait to get your new house !!! =]

yeah i mean i want to spend some time with you too and i will have alot of things to do and if your thinking of the same things that keep you busy that i am then maybe i can help by taking them off your hands for lil while ya know

hopefully Cubby wont be too bad with his fits and all

From Mom, October 30, 2010

Hey, I hope you got all that settled. I am hoping you get to keep rto also. I think personality wise you are suited for the job.

Sadie is in heat. I've been watching her pretty close for a few days because her ears have flared up and again and the two seem to go hand in hand with her. I won't be initially making a profit with this litter. I'm hoping to keep 3 of her puppies, two girls and one boy. because I'm getting her fixed after this litter. I knew I wanted from her next litter the smallest chocolate boy to breed with Emma. Dutch is really too big for her and I want to keep her puppies as small as I can. Then I was going to keep a girl the next time I breed Sadie next year, but because of her ears I just don't think its a good ideal. Shirley said she wants a boy if one has the same coat color as Sadie. So there's half the litter taken right there. The two girls I will breed to Fritz and the boy to Emma and Tawnee. Dutch will only be bred to Gretchen and Hiedi in the future. I'm breeding her to a stud that only produces chocolate and silver/chocolate puppies, to increase the likelihood of having a full chocolate litter.

We are up and Shirley's tonight and will return home Saturday night because Shirley works Sunday. then it will be three weeks before we have time off together again. I took Thanksgiving week off like I usually do. I considered taking Christmas week off but I already get paid days off then anyways for the Holidays. I want to save my leave time for when you are home again. I know that you will have lots of things to do and people to see when your back so I don't expect to you spend all your leave with me at home. I will have other things to keep me busy too. I can name two right now. =)

I love you very much and miss your face. Mom XOXOXOXOX

October 29, 2010

Mom:
Hope all is going well, did you find out for sure what you'll be doing in the 3rd platoon yet?

I just watched peter griffith try repeatly to dispose of a frog out chris' window.

Jeremiah:
yeah i mean they get sent individually thqats why
but yeah im fer sure going back to 3rd just dont know what i am gonna be doing when i get back
but i think im prolly going back to be rto
again
which is what i prefer since its what i already know

October 28, 2010

Mom:
Hey Fav,

A box arrived for your Sgt today, so that was fast. How many more should we expect?

Jeremiah:
shoot i think like 8

and guess what

im going back to third
the first sgt
(company sgt) doesnt like me at all
but i think he is racist and im not the only one to think that

ohh well

i dont mind
now we are trying to figure out if i am getting my old job back or not
its up to me and figgy the puerto rican who has my job now
he doesnt wanna go back to driving and mainly just wants to be on the ground

i think i might go back to my job

but who knows i will keep you updated

Mom:
Thats odd about having to return to 3rd platoon. i hope that everyone gets settled back to where they are content with what they're doing. jeez, 8 boxes. thats alot of postage.

October 27, 2010

Mom:
Mike said he drove thru his first snow fall of the year going thru wyomin to utah. he and gretchen were playing in it this morning, gretchen kept putting her face down in it and coming up looking like santa. hehe. its been raining very hard for 3 days, records amount. probably turn to snow passing over mike.

Jeremiah:
thats awesome i wish i could go snowboarding sometime but all my timing is off unless by some miracle it is a late winter in the nothwest but thats very unlikely
hahahaha
i find that ann is good for one thing so far and that is putting up pics of the boys online and i get to see them hahahahahha

Mom:
Yeah, she sent me a photo earlier when i was on my way to pick them up.

Jeremiah:
yeah i hate having to go through her photos to find some of the boys... feels like my eyes are scarred or something ugh

Mom:
Omg, hehe. scared

Jeremiah:
yeah pretty much
vomit doesnt even wanna come out and see it

some people just arent meant to be models...

not even for trailer park G.A.P.

Mom:
She is too old to be a model unless its for public service announcements on what not to do.

Jeremiah:
**this is a public service announcement brought to you by the ghetto**

ann comes on

"dont do drugs and always wear a condom"

Mom:
So Teddy came back from pissing and was wearing wet clothes and I told him to take them off and now he is dancing naked in my room. So ya, um better get some clothes on him. He needs to go to bed anyways.

Jeremiah:
hahaha thats awesome i miss that bugger so

anyways sgt corona sent some of his order out so it should be arriving to your place soon
make sure wes knows

annnd.....umm... apparently he ordered a pocket pussy... so just a warning hahahahahha

he says if you were truly awesome you should take a picture with it hahahahaha...

i said my mom has to draw the line somwhere hahaha

we just got done laughing about that for like 10 mins

Mom:
OMG, that's so freakin funny. Tell him to keep "her" himself. Could you imagine trying to explain to someone that you got an std from one of those? Because "she" cheated on him.

Jeremiah:
yeah i thought so

ohh jeez i couldnt imagine having that happen to someone but im sure it has before
wouldnt surprise me if it was a soldier either hahahaha

Mom:
Yeah, the littles are sleeping. Ugh, it seems like a long day.

I'm watching a documary about polygamists. I don't understand why anyone would want more than one spouse and then all those kids they pop out.

Jeremiah:
yeah and they only copulate to have children
prolly why tey have so many kids in the first place

setting up franchise pretty much i dont know but i have watched something on them a long time ago as well

Mom:
There are alot of groups out there that encourage their followers to pop out as many babies as fast as possible, its hard on them finacially and ages the women prematurely

Jeremiah:
yeah i know
bunners hahaha

Jeremiah:
shoot thats no problem unless they dont like back roads but if we let them get out at cool places they might like it
multnomah falls maybe

or just an adventure

Mom:
Hi,

I got home a little bit ago from Shirley's, I tried to get online this morning to email you from her place but was unable to. Sucked. Anyways, We got the framing for the walls up and made a trip to HD with the littles to pick up a bunch of supplies to run plumbing lines and electrical. We also got a couple of pieces of siding up. It poured rain hard today off and on most of the day. The dogs stayed up on the porch all curled up next to each other. It's kind of challenging to build this room, nothing is straight and the floor of the porch slopes.

Jeremiah:
ohh nice and this is for the bigger laundry room project?
sounds like your off to somewhat of a good start

Mom:
Yeah, for the laundry room. i wish we had gotten more finished. your old PL posted on his blog about geraldo rivera visiting blessing and posted some new pictures, you're in a couple of them. so it was nice to see your face again. i need to send you that ubs memory stick. i asked people to send me photos but so far only amber has. i got look under my bed for it. i'm putting together another box, i forgot to send you tea. i may just take some from work. no-one drinks it and they got rid of the coffee maker a couple weeks ago. its gonna get old just sitting there. love you mom xoxoxox

Jeremiah:
well have andy do it
have some from him that would be good
tell him to get me some pics of home and he should know what to do
just tell him to have other people do it and to make signs for the picture
which is just writing big on a piece of paper and having it in the picture

hmm we have alot of tea unless its like cold brew
mainly i just like the convience of single serve packets

=]

i keep looking at the pictures of the lils that i have now

Mom:
Ya I should get Andy to take some photos. I made him do tons of service requests today. We went over them in the morning and I explained a few things to him and sent him on his way. I feel like I got very little done. Joseph is off this week. I did manage to get a little shocked playing with live wires. It's been a long time since I've managed to shock myself. Tomorrow I have to turn an apartment, besides do Joseph's and Andy's jobs.

Jeremiah:
YEAH MAYBE HE COULD GET HIS OWN SD CARD OR SOMETHING
damn caps

umm yeah or just buy one for him too

but yeah i mean as long as you think he is still doing a good job i hope
im sure he is
something may take longer to catch on then others
maybe i should try to apply again when i come back hahaha

maybe
but yeah
could always use a good painter huh
two years away better start scheming now

btw my boss sgt corona is ordering some candy and such from amazon and they dont ship overseas and his madre dont speak english so he is going to send it to your house and if you could send it here that would be great

ok?

Mom:
Sure no problem, Just send me his name and such and I'll post it for him and his mom. I also need to know when to expect it so I can watch for it.

Jeremiah:
well he doesnt need anything for his mom just needs it sent here and yeah just like a package for me
you can use my name or his

sgt christopher corona

Sat 10/23/10 7:55 AM

Jeremiah:
where would you ever want to go for a journey

remember when me and you drove to salem for no reason

or did you have a reason

i cant remember
i think i was having a bad day or something
do you remember

Mom:
Yeah, That trip to Salem was so we could just talk about stuff. Salem was just where we ended up. I'm not sure what was wrong, probably something to do with school or wes or whatever. I just remember that you were having a bad day and was depress or mad about something. Sometimes you just need to run. "I just felt like running-Forrest Gump"

One time John and I drove over white pass for no reason at all. I had my little honda accord. I was working at Dominos' and I think it was the first summer after he finished high school. I got off of work about 11 or so and we were just driving around and ended up on the road that starts going over the pass. Drove all the way over to Packwood. Some car flashed its high beams at me and so I flashed them back. Turned out that that car was a cop's car. And it turned around and pulled me over. The cop wanted to know where we were going and John piped up and told him that we were going to see Aunt Pat. It's not like we could tell him that we were just randomly driving around. So he let us go. We turned around at Packwood. On the way back I saw a couple broken down on the road. And I stopped and picked them up and drove them all the way back to Yakima and dropped them off where they lived. Hehe, that was really weird and they fell asleep in the back sit. I wonder if they ever got their car back.

Jeremiah:
yeah i remember that was fun
we are gonna have to do that some more sometime i mean going to seattle is fun but that was with a purpose plus we need to figure out what we are going to do with the lil..s maybe beach and then cabin 18 or something

idk

Mom:
The Littles are game for a drive as long as there's powdered doughnuts and we see a lot of trucks.

10/22/2010

Jeremiah:
hmm thats awesome cuz jalalabad is the closest place listed on here

thats gonna be awesome

Mom:
I guess the weather will depend on how high above sea level you are and moisture content in the air. since your not super close to a large lake or ocean, it may just be super cold with little snow. snow would just make everything wet and muddy. i was wondering if you want me to look for underamour and send it?

Jeremiah:
no no i have all the cold weather gear i need and im right next to a river

and i think are about 3800 above

Mom:
I think you will see mostly cold dry. The river will create fog along it and if there's any roads that run along the river they could be come icy from moist air freezing and landing on the road.

What kind of building to you sleep in? Whats it build of?

Jeremiah:
i recently moved into a concrete building but i was living in a wooden shack type thing

hopefully we get some heaters or something otherwise i was gonna have you send me a small space heater like the one you had in the lower bathroom

Mom:
Ya, just say the word, if I can get it to fit into box I can send it. Atleast a concert building is warmer than the wooden shacks. I wouldn't worry about having stuff there. You could always leave it behind. Maybe even an electric blanket. Do you share your sleeping area with several others? Are you on bunks? Did you nab a top bunk?

Jeremiah:
yeah im in a room with three others

three of us work in the company during the day and there is one night shift guy in there

and i have a bottom bunk cuz the top is storage and yeah
its no biggie

Mom:
If you get really cold you could hang up extra blankets, sheets or even towels and enclose your bunk that way the warmth of your body will stay inside.

Jeremiah:
i would do that if i had any blankets
but i sleep in a sleeping bag
might try to get a couple wool blankets from the aid station
even at campbell i never had any blankets
but that was cuz i didnt want to buy any cuz i was deploying soon
but im bringing my stuff from home when i drive back anyways

Mom:
I just talked to Mike for a bit. He and Gretchen are in North Carolina and headed back to Utah. Yep baby girl has been to the east coast.

Jeremiah:
hmm thats cool

Mom:
yeah, well both my boys and my dog have traveled farther than I have

Jeremiah:
its funny that you meantion east coast cuz i just sent a email to john

jeez well maybe one of these times you should go somewhere if life would ever allow you to

if you ever have a want to at least

but yeah

Mom:
I think it would be great to just get in the car and drive and drive. I don't know though, because at the same time I just want to be home.

Jeremiah:
yeah i know what you mean

well how about you take a lil bit of home with you

like say for instance

me hahaha

Mom:
Oh sure, a journey is much better shared. HAHA

Tue, 19 Oct 2010

Jeremiah:
yeah no doubt idk wtf she is thinking but yeah whatever

hahah shh

Mom:
I'm sitting here trying write you and my head is nodding all around.

James sent me a text this morning asking if I wanted to go to tuscon and build a fence. I was like "oh sure but I have to bring the littles.." I dont know if he was actually serious or not. I don't know if I told you that my Dad lives there and recently purchased 10 acreas east of the city. I dont know though. I think it would be strange to see this old man that was susposed to be my dad that I haven't seen since I was 6.

I just nodded off again. I better get to sleep. I love you and miss you.

Jeremiah:
maybe your just really saying yes hahaha

try writing me when you aint so sleepy sometime
ahahaha

Mom:
Ya, i sent that and rolled over and went right to sleep, lol. now i'm getting ready for work. its cold outside, around 40 degrees. i'm dreading the time change coming up, have to wake up earlier. gonna suck thats for sure..

Mom:
Hehe, i get it, saying yes, hehe. i just posted your boxes, are you starting your own quiki-mart? lol

Jeremiah:
yeah i can imagine
idk how im gonna take the new changes coming up in the eather but i have never had a problem with the winter unless its just a disaster here haha
and yeah i thought that was funny about the yes

no not quite yet i mean inshare a few but a whole lot

Mom:
Ok I found this about the weather, I don't know how understandable it is because its all in metric.

Afghanistan is situated in the interior of Asia, lying on the Iranian Plateau. It is a country land-locked on all sides and surrounded by the rough and rugged Hindu Kush Mountains. Afghanistan has the typical arid to semi-arid climate of the Russian Steppes. Afghanistan Weather is characterized by dry hot cloudless summers and severe winters. The areas lying in the northeastern part of the mountains experience sub-arctic conditions having dry, cold winters.

The Afghanistan weather is marked by great variance in temperatures from region to region. It is accompanied by huge differences in day and night temperatures and summer and winter temperatures. The drought-ridden regions of the southwestern plateau experience daytime temperatures of 35 degree Celsius. Jalalabad is among the hottest places in the country recording the maximum temperature of 49 degree Celsius in the month of July. January temperatures fall to -15°C or below in regions situated at high altitudes in the mountains.

There is a rise in the mean precipitation as one goes from the western side to the eastern side of the mountains, the average being 400mm in the southeastern monsoon areas. Mostly, the precipitation takes place from December to April. Highlands experience snowfall during December-March and the lowlands experience intermittent rainfall from December to May.

Kabul Weather: Kabul is situated at a height of 5900 feet above sea level. Kabul weather is characterized by summer temperatures varying from 16° C at sunrise to 38° C at noon. The average temperature in January is 0°C. Kabul has recorded the lowest temperature of -31 °C. Summers are accompanied with bright sunshine. The average rainfall varies from 25 cm to 30cm. Mostly the precipitation occurs in the form of snow in the winter and spring seasons. The snow stays for three months in Kabul forcing the people to stay indoors and sleep nearer to the kitchen stoves.

Bagram Weather, Kandahar Weather, Herat Weather: At Kandahar, during summer the days are scorching hot and the nights are of no relief either. On the other hand Kabul is at least blessed with cool nights in summer. Herat experiences temperate summer temperatures with violent winds blowing from the northwest during May-September. The winters in heart are not so severe with snow melting as it falls.