Sunday, July 8, 2012

Way to long!

I have no idea how many of you come and check my profile hoping for something new and its the same thing...every time! SORRY!!!! Well I figured it was time to update a little. Not much has been going on here in El Paso. Chevelle will be 3 in 2 months. Its hard to believe I am going to have a 3 year old! We are still in the potty training stage. She is getting the hang of it, she just wont tell me when she needs to go potty. Kinda frustrating. Im not making this as an excuse but it doesnt help with all the traveling we have been doing the past few months. Its been pretty warm down here and we only have a swamp cooler...makes for a grumpy me! Last July I was put on the waiting list for a house here at Fort Bliss and we are finally down to 157 on the list!!!! Insane, I know! we used to be up at 800 so we have made progress! Hopefully in September we will be able to go look at a few houses that are available and move on post. It will save us quite a bit of money and I believe they have GOOD a/c! Plus we will be surrounded by all military (not always a good thing) but it will be nice to have kids around Chevelle's age. We just got from our summer vacation a week or so ago. It was fun to get out of here for 2 weeks. We had a wedding to attend, lots of family to visit, birthdays, skydiving, new friends, and lots of miles covered! Over 3000!!! A few months ago Felix sold his car and bought a Jeep Patriot, he loves it. He custom built it and it was a huge pain in the rear but he is happy with it so thats all that matter, I suppose! A couple of months back I decided to get more involved with our company FRG (family readiness group) by volunteering to be the Fundraising Chairperson and also the Co Treasurer. My first fundraiser was a family movie night and I was so proud of myself I had a local movie theatre donate 5 free passes and 75 lbs of popcorn were donated for this event. That night walking into the event I expected to see tons of people there ready to chow down on some popcorn.....THERE WERE 9 PEOPLE THERE!!!!! We still have popcorn left over from that and it was in May!!!!! It was a learning experience for sure. The Battalion that Felix is in is gearing up for a deployment so he has been a busy man! This will be our 2nd deployment as a family and I am so thankful that this time I am only a few hours from my family instead of acoss the ocean! So I think that is about it for now....hope I didnt bore you to death! I will try to be better at this for the people that do read it...and if you do happen to come back maybe I will have pictures!!!!!