Election day in Iraq

This was such a historic day and Im so proud that hubby was a part of it I wanted to show a few pics from it... Darin is the one on the far left directing his truck to back up.... Darin is still on the far left, notice the reporters and camera people that were with them.

Here are the women and children walking the streets, its amazing how they walk the streets knowing that this is their life, I cant imagine as a mom having my kids out on streets like this, I know that this is their life and they know no other way, just happy that our soldiers are there helping them to experience some of our American Freedoms"

I had to show you the "Pizza Hut" on the streets of Baghdad..

Amazing....

Fun Friday Night

Today I have not been feeling good at all so me and the kids went and visited my cousin that is so awsome and helps me soooo much with the kids, she only lives one street over its awsome, but tonight we decided to play hide and seek, it was so funny... I know in this pic Khloe looks like a boy, she has eczema really bad and actually went to the dr today and she had some of her new cream that is why she didnt have on clothes, and she has also decided she likes pull ups since I wasnt prepared for pull ups she is wearing one of Braydens old pull ups.. ON to Hide and seek...

**************Can you find Brayden?
************************* Here he is.!!!!!!!!!!!***************************

What about now??? Look very very closely....

It truly was a funny night. Now im off to get some sleep. We sent Khloe away for the night so its me with the older kids. So I should get some sleep...

It hit me, this is real............

Well, my husband finally sent me these pics last night, I have been wanting to see what he has been up to and see some of the area.. I had no idea when I saw these, that it would hit me... He is really there. These look like images I see on the news when they are talking about the "war". But these are images of my husband at work in Iraq. Wow..
***My husband is the one on the right. Talking about the area.
We dont see it in the picture but my husband was with the Iraqi police checking out an area. Scarey..

Here is my hubby and 2 of his guys on his truck before they went on there first mission.

And here they are afterwards.All safe..

Read Me Day-- Hometown Heros

Today has been an incredibly busy day for me, this is almost the kind of busy I love.... I may have overbooked a little but I LOVE IT... Today, at Ethan's school was Read Me Day, and our school decided to honor our Hometown Hero's.. Sadly alot of our "local" soldiers are deployed, but there is talk to doing another Read Me Day with the Hero's when they get home.. Moving on.... Today when we were at school getting ready for the breakfast I took a few pics.. I love this flag made with the students hands from the school...

Here are a few of the decorations on the tables for the breakfast we hosted for them before they went to read.. It was such a good spirit in the room that day..

Here are a few of the books that they chose from to read to our kids... The one that was chosen to be read to Ethan's room was perfect!!! He read My Dad My Hero.. IT was the perfect book. The librarian is actually getting us a copy of it..

This is who read to our class.. I love to see that my Ethan was actually listening, yes, today the gentleman reading is in police uniform, he is now retired from the military after serving 33 years. He decided to read about his military experience vs the police experience.. He was sweet to bring his patrol car to allow the kids to explore, to cool... We thank alllll the people who came to read to the kids....

ALL OF THIS TOOK PLACE BEFORE 9:15. So that was just the first 2 hours... Brayden had awards day at 9:45 that will be my next post I'M just tired... Along with my kids and all our home stuff. My dad is in the hospital so I have been up there and he had surgery that was scheduled for 12 so I ran around like a crazy woman yesterday.. Stay turned for Braydens Awards Day Post.................