Utah Visit

We also traveled back to Utah to visit with family and friends before Quinn deploys. Todd is deploying this week so we wanted to get out there to see him too. It seemed like a quick visit, but we were able to see a lot of people. I was able to get a picture of Quinn and his siblings. I love taking pictures!! We were so happy to get to see everyone. I will try to get down to Utah around Christmas even though Quinn won't be around. I look forward to seeing you all then!

Kyle and Laura's Wedding

We went to a wedding out in Sacramento on 4th of July. We had so much fun and were really excited that we could attend. Quinn was asked to be an usher. He had a lot of fun fulfilling those duties :) It was a long day, but really great. Congrats Kyle and Laura!

Barbecue

So we had a barbecue yesterday with Quinn's platoon. It was a good time. Quinn played some video game baseball and I ate (a lot). I met the guys Quinn will be deploying with and some of the girlfriends. We are now getting ready to head to Utah and then California for a wedding next weekend. It'll be a crazy 2 weeks, but I'm excited to have some fun time to spend with Quinn before he goes.

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a pretty busy Memorial Day weekend. It kind of started Thursday with an Angels vs. Mariners game. Quinn almost got us kicked out of that. Angels won though and I was happy because I didn't have a cranky boyfriend that night! Saturday morning we drove to Ocean City with Kyle and Laura to go to the beach. The weather wasn't as good as we hoped it would be. Actually, it was cloudy, windy, and about 50 degrees. We had a good time though. With sweatshirts and sweatpants we drank some wine (the guys had beer) and cooked hot dogs on the beach. Bubba had a lot of fun in the water. From there we drove straight to Couer D'Alene, ID to our friend's lake house. Matt and his girlfriend were spending some time there so we decided to go and hang out for the rest of the weekend. Saturday night we made some smores by the fire and Sunday we went out on the lake. Chrissy and I went tubing while the guys and Bubba drove the boat around. It was a long weekend but a lot of fun!

Chrissy and Matt

Us

Us on the beach

Laura and me

Angels Game

Us again

Bubba loving the boat

I'm still sore from tubing

My OTHER Sister

Erin graduated college today with a degree in Communication Studies. She's trying to get into grad school for speech pathology, but if not she'll try to get a job in this terrible economy until she can get into a program somewhere. I couldn't be there for the graduation. I did watch it live online though so I probably got the best view of her receiving her diploma. Now my parents are done with college for their kids (bachelor degrees at least). I'm sure they cried in their seats. CONGRATS ERIN!

My Sister

My sister got engaged yesterday. They've been together for over 5 years so I'm glad the proposal finally came. He put a shirt on their dog that pretty much asked her to marry the daddy. Haha. It was cute. The ring is really nice (I've seen a picture). I'm upset though because I can't really help out with much and I can't be there for a lot of the stuff I'd like to be. It's pretty sad, but I'm sure she'll have a great time planning it. Congrats Allison and Dan!

A Rose Barbecue

So on Friday the FRG that I'm a part of had a barbecue to get together and give out a dozen roses to each spouse (or girlfriend in my case). A local philanthropist donated a dozen roses to all the spouses in our unit. 2,100 dozen roses were donated. The plan was to have all the husbands take the roses home to their wives after work, but all our guys are down in Fort Irwin right now so that kind of fell through. Not everyone could make it, but one of the ladies got a picture. We had a nice time. It gave everyone something to do on a Friday evening.