First Amendment

Freedom of Speech!

I come from a family of open minded, speak at will individuals but I've learned to filter what I say to not hurt any one's feelings. I use my blog to respectfully say what I have to say and vent when needed.

Everyone knows if your in one of my pictures or with me on a day where something happens that I feel is blog worthy then I do just that.

I do not apologize for who I am or for what I stand for. This trip has taught me a lot about my family and how thankful I am that we are the type of people we are. I have truly learned that there is a reason for everything and I'm very happy and content with my life in San Diego and grateful for a husband who busts his ass at work so I'm able to go to school full time and take care of the children.

When it comes to family and military life there is a bond between other military families that fills the void and I couldn't have better friends to help me through the tough and happy times.

Point in being I'm ever so thankful that MY husband fights for MY right to freedom of everything!

Christmas 2008

As I've said before we came to Texas this Christmas and were able to spend it with Brandon's side of the family. His kid sister Alli had Christmas dinner over at her house and along with the Miles' she also had her in-laws over bringing the total to 23 I believe.

I being sick didn't take my normal amount of pictures but did mange to get a few. Here is what I got...

Here is the opening of gifts



Here is the fried turkey (they had already cut up the smoked and baked)



Here is Alli's nativity set. Brandon says tell me whats wrong (those of you who know him know what he means ;-))


I didn't really get any other ones, sorry. I did however get some of Christmas morning but that is another post to come.

Thank you for Smoking

We are on vacation in Texas for the holidays and yesterday we went out to lunch with Brandon's Grandma Darlene, mom Cindy, sister Alli and her family. We went to a Mexican restaurant and I saw smoke rising and I figured it was from the fajitas, but Amya asks me why are they smoking? I tell her there is noway anyone is smoking INSIDE right where we are eating, but sure enough she was right!

Come to find out it is still legal here in no mans land Corsicana, Texas to smoke inside! I find it absolutely disgusting! Who wants to eat their meal in a room filled with smoke? Also what got me was that they only sit large parties on the smoking side since it is the only area large enough. When its a large party chances are there will be children in the group, why sit them in that crap?

I try my best to not complain about others smoking since I walk away or I try to avoid it at all cost, but lately it seems to be everywhere I am! I have lost at least a couple years off my life due to second hand smoke, so Thank you for smoking...NOT!

This was the table right next to this little man...


cousin Adian


yes Aunt Alli and Uncle Jimmy submitted to the freezing weather and smoked inside

Fall semester 2008

This past semester was a test of my dedication to my education! I have been through the ringer and back with my English teacher and he had to go and run his mouth even on my last paper. He had the balls to tell me that online classes are not for me, little does he know that I've been doing online for the past 4 semester and have been on honor roll every semesters! There are not any clean kind words I can say about this man so I'm taking my C and I'm never going to think about him again!

Luckily I pulled an A in math so my overall GPA is still a 3.5! I'm a bit worried having gone through what I have and I'm about to go into a semester of 16 credits, it's only 4 classes, but math is no joke, biology and chemistry not my cup of tea, and sociology I actually think will be interesting.

I'm so glad that I have a 4 week break and then back to the good ole' books, also this will be my last semester with Milie since she will be transferring to WA, at least that is their plan (they haven't gotten orders) and I don't want them too ;-)! I have come up with a better study plan and have higher goals for this next semester, wish me luck!

Magic socks

Most know that the Milner hang out is in their garage where not only is there a pool table, dart board, TV and music but we sit around and hang out. It's a good time. I need to take a picture before they move, I see it as the parents "bar" :-) Good fun while the kids are inside playing.

The only down fall is it gets cold, especially lately with winter finally coming to San Diego. You have to plan going over there, Angie has mastered it by bringing a blanket every time now.

The other night Brandon was so smart and wore flip flops. Chris had to run over to the boat for something so Brandon had him grab his shoes. In need of socks Chris returned with these wonders...





Brandon rocking the socks

As he says, don't be jealous

English Nightmare!

Not to toot my own horn, but I have been on honor roll since I started school over a year ago and this semester I have met my match with my English teacher. Those close to me know what I'm talking about. This is the sugar coated quick version...

Every assignment is wrong, he wants it done one way so I take the bad grade and the next time around I change my format to the new way he says he wants it done and I get the comments back "why don't you follow directions?" WHATEVER I bite my tongue and try to do exactly what he wants each assignment but it is never right. I'm barley passing this class; actually I'm not at this point. When it comes to his grading he doesn't just grade the assignment he goes on to tell me that I'll never make it in school and I'm not college level and the latest is why do I even bother going to college and that I'm closed minded!

I don't know what to do, almost 75% of the people in the class has dropped it, if that doesn't tell him something I don't know what will. For Thanksgiving he sent out an email saying he has nothing to be thankful for in this class because it hasn't turned out the way he planned and that it saddens him that we don't participate as much as he would like. He does these post and he states his opinion and gives us the option to comment back- none of us do because he just writes back and tears your opinion apart. He required us to read an awful book that I didn't like and when it came time to reviewing it I wrote exactly how I felt and he judged my opinion and that's when he said I was closed minded and why even bother going to college and trying to learn!

I have held back all semester but I finally wrote him back (actually I wrote him back after he called me schizophic) this time I didn't play nice I told him how I felt and I called and asked for an appointment with a conculer with him. I just hope they can get me in before Wednesday of next week cause that is the end of the semester and when we leave for Texas.

Oh I CAN NOT wait to write my review on him and his class!!!!

Night of hell

Once again I procrastinated to the last minute. I had a paper due last night and around 9pm I thought I should finally start working on it. After an hour all I needed was to add a reference and turn it in, but this is when the drama started! My Internet went out! I tired to reset the modem and router, no good! I tired to call Time Warner, busy! I text Milie to see if she was up around 10:30 cause I was willing to drive all the way out to Chula Vista to turn this assignment in. I need the points to pull off a decent grade. She doesn't respond and I continue trying to fix the problem, but nothing is working.

Here is where it gets "fun" I drive over to Starbucks, closed! I tired to log on from outside hoping they left their connection on, no go! Barnes and Noble, closed same thing, no connection. It's almost 11:30pm now and I have 29 minutes to turn this in or I lose a whole letter grade! I call Brandon and ask for his opinion cause I am thinking of driving out to Milie's anyways and just sitting outside her house and logging on that way. I know I'm able to log on to her wireless cause I've done it before. Brandon says I'm crazy for being willing to drive that far just to turn it in, so I head back over by my house and drive through the neighborhood trying to log onto some one's wireless connection. Finally a few blocks from my house I'm able to do so, but there isn't anywhere to park and I feel like a freak just sitting in the middle of the road trying to do homework in my car! I drive back over by my house and try to log on again and my own connection says it's available.

I have about 12 minutes to get it turned in at this point so I try to log on and it again says no connection! I finally plug the land line in and hope that it works and it does! I turn in the unfinished assignment with 3 minutes to spare and then add the reference and email my teacher a b/s story that I forgot to save and here is the link with all the saved parts (meaning the FINISHED assignment). I've been having issues with my router and I guess I'm in need of getting a better one. If anyone knows which brand to buy please give me the heads up cause my cheap netgear isn't doing it's job!