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Present

My wonderful husband bought me an early anniversary / Mother's day / birthday present! It is just what I wanted. Its a notebook!! But more it offers you the versatility to touch, draw, or type. The unique, convertible design offers a full-size keyboard and can also be used in slate mode as a sketchpad with a digital pen.

The swivel-top HP Touchsmart tm2 not only comes with a 12.1 inch screen and a 9-hour battery life, but it also comes packed with HP's own Bumptop 3D desktop. When you're using the tm2 in tablet form, you can activate the Bumptop 3D program and use touch to command your tablet. Want to toss some photos onto Facebook? Just drag them into the Facebook icon and away you go. The tm2 also comes bundled with some sweet-looking media apps like Netflix, Hulu, Twitter (who cares), and Facebook (cool!), so you can stay connected.

DigiFish Dolphin: Experience an interactive 3-D screensaver that recreates an ocean environment. This is way cool! My kids and I can sit all day watching and playing this.

I am still learning all the things this can do but so far I love it! I am sure there are more things I still have learned on this but I really do like what I know it can so so far.

I love the fact that I am no longer have my back turned to the kids when I am on the computer. I can be in any room in the house with the kids and still be able to do what I need to do on the computer.



Maybe now I will be able to blog like I use to!!

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can't believe

I can't believe its been a year since my life was turned upside down. It was sudden, unexpected and horrifying. I would like to tell you all that things are back to normal or almost there, but normalcy will never be in my life again. But then again what is normal. I would love to tell you all what happened but that is just not right or fair to the others that are involved. But that I can tell you all is how I feel. I feel robbed of my Innocent. I feel robbed in so many ways. I don't know how to feel sometimes. Most of the times when I think about what happen I just want to cry. I don't understand why it happened. Then I feel guilty and wonder if I could have changed things. I know the world does not evolve around me but . . . something one person can make a difference.

I wish the people that are involved comfort in their lives.

spam

I just got spammed! I have had this blog for almost two years and never been spammed before. I changed my settings so hopefully this never happens again

Way Back When-sday - Veteran's Day part 2

after I wrote the last post I decided that I should have not done me. I should have done my heritage!

My Grandpa

I don't know when my guess is in the 50s

My Dad

1976

And me again

2001

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Way Back When-sday - Veteran's Day

since its Veteran's Day I figure I would do a picture of me!

This picture was taken in 2001 on deployment for the cruise book (it like a year book)

This picture brings back so many memories.

Date: Sept 23, 2001

I was actually in boot camp at this time, but went home on emergency leave because my Uncle Brad died. Nikki was in training/school to become a cop. Me. Jeremy is in his Army uniform. He home on emergency leave too. Josh was still in high school. He actually enlisted in the Army four years ago. So 3 of 4 siblings in my family are Vets! If you count our spouses into that 5 of 6 are Vets (6 out 8 if you count exs)! My dad and his dad (my Grandpa) were Navy and My mom's dad (my Grandpa) was National Guard.

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bonus pic

Date: some time in 2003

Sam and I

Happy Halloween

So I am a little late, better late then never!

Gwen asking Gilbert where his shawdow is

This is Peter Pan and Tinker Bell looking at thier shadows (again)

After I toke a ton of pictures I realized Gwen did not have her wings on so I had to take more!

Gwen and Gilbert loved dressing up! They wore their costumes all day. We went to church at 1 to do trunk-or-treat. They won the cutest costume award their! We went home ate dinner and finally at 5 we went out into the neighborhood. We started out by ourselves but because we moved super slow some of our neighbors caught up to us. Gwen and Gilbert loved being in a group so we tagged along with three of our neighbors aka "our friends". We only did the street we lived on. Which is funny because last year we actually did more of the neighborhood. I just did not want to do more because I did not want to get more candy. because I know I would end up eating most of it (which turned out not to be true, Gilbert has a sweet tooth!).

We went home to hand out candy. I think that was actually Gilbert's favorite part of the day! He just sat in the patio chair and let the trick-or-treaters come to him. If they did not day trick-or-treat Gilbert told them to say it!!! It was soooo cute!

This is what I saw

About two hours ago I went to check up on Gwen and Gilbert after they finally fell a sleep and this is what I found . . .

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Now you may notice that Gwen's and Gilbert's mattress may look a little lumpy. Ok I admit I did not spend a lot of money on the kids mattresses but I promise they were not lumpy when I put them to bed tonight.

If you look closer you may notice . . .

they stuffed their beds with stuff animals/dolls! Every single doll was in their beds! Gwen and Gilbert were crammed up next to their headboard. I really wish I could have taken a better picture of Gilbert but I was afraid of the flash waking him up.

It only took me a couple of seconds to unstuffed their beds but the whole time I was giggling at them. I wish I could have been their when they came up with the idea to put all the dolls in their beds.

Lost

I have lost my wedding ring!! It has been miss for four days now!!!

A year ago

Its weird to think that year ago Sam was coming home today and today he is gone. He was not even home a year between deployments. But in a lot of ways I am not complaining!!! There are many soldiers and sailors out there that are gone for over a year. My brother was gone for 18 months straight!!!! Sam hopefully will only do less then half of what my brother did.