Weekend Women’s Retreat

This weekend I went to a women’s retreat with Redeemer Church. It was a lot of fun, the hotel was very nice and it was so great to get out and talk to other Christian women and meet lots of new faces! Carolyn McCulley was the speaker and she did an excellent job! She has written several books on radical womanhood and you can check out her blog here. We’ve also had some pretty windy and rainy weather this weekend due to the hurricane. It hasn’t been nearly as bad as I expected it would be though! Hope everyone’s weekend is going good…..enjoy the pics below.

9/11/2001

Wow! Seven years since 9-11…that is crazy! I hope you all have had a chance to reflect today and realize how blessed we are to live in this country and remember all those who died.

I’ll never forget the day because Terence and I were JUST married the month before. We were settling into our little house on the Air Base, and at the time never thought there would be a war. Not atleast while HE was in the military. I was awake first that morning and was just flipping through the channels and all I saw was the breaking news of what was happening. I ran to the bedroom to get Terence and woke him up to come take a look. He couldn’t believe it..and the only thing he said was “Yep, I think we are going to war”.

My heart just sunk because it never occurred to me this would even happen or even what was happening. It was just so sad! Thus the long journey began in the military…..sometimes it would take me over an hour just to get home because of the car inspections, dogs that sniffed your car, and the hummers with the m-16’s on them were quite scary! Everything changed in the military after that and it was so strict, which I can understand…..I’m just thankful that we had an okay experience, we made lots of friends, and made memories we’ll never forget. Sometimes I even miss military life!

I believe what we are doing overseas is right, all those people and their families deserve some justice. If 9-11 taught you one thing it’s to never take one day for granted….how did 9-11 effect you and what do you remember about it?

Here are some pics of Terence in Iraq…..I just thought I would share some because they are pretty interesting!
Honey in his desert camo

bunker

Tent city

Sleeping quarters
graffiti on buildings

Shipments of food and water

oil refineries

Bags of fuel (Terence fueled C-130 cargo planes in the Air Force)
Fuel was actually a big target. 
 If it was hit with gunfire then it would cause an explosion so they aimed for these bags a lot!

I love where I work! Today we got a group picture of all of us and our red bracelets. Everyone is so awesome and I’m so thankful to God I have this job to go to every day! I also got a raise today…yippeeeeeeee!!!

p.s. I think we all look like dwarfs around Adam….geeze!

I’m on the third book of the Twilight series ya’ll…..I just can’t stop reading them! Well, it helps that Terence is at school every night until after 10:00 so I am alone and I have all the reading time in the world!

I’m love, love, lovin this book! I just finished the first one and I’m on my way to B&N to get the second one…the movie is coming out in November, so hopefully I can finish the series before it comes out!And here is the link to the movie trailer….
MOVIE



Terence and I made a quick trip to Arkansas on Friday. We stayed with our good friends the Sullivans. We love them so much, they are like family to us. Their kids are so precious to us as well…I took lots of pictures of the kiddos so go check out their blog!