The Allans

Tuesday

FYI: What a day is like for Michael..

I asked Michael what a normal day is and this is what he wrote me....

My days have been so busy but maybe they will slow down a bit after we start flying. Right now my days are kinda ground hog day.

I wake up at 0600 and call you tell arround 645 then off to PT tell 830 then shower, breakfast and at the office by 9 then I work issues or paperwork most of the morning. But hopefully this paper work will stop once we are all set up. I basically work on how we will train, and on classes for the guys. Then off to lunch and then back to the office to finish anytihng that got started I didn't finish before lunch. Then at 430 I have a meeting with everyone that is involved with this site and the project. Then once that meeting is over and all of my stuff is taken care of I head to the hooch, call you then go to dinner, study either my limits or learn a card trick, then call you again before bed then some scripture study and then off to nighty night to start all over again.
Hopefully after we start flying things will be different. I am going to be on the midnight to noon slot, so our calls will probably change a bit. I am actually not sure how that will effect us. :( Wish I could stay on this schedule for that reason.

For those that don't know, Michael's group of guys is the first group over there starting up this brand new UAS. This is the first one they put together to be flown in Iraq, just the other day.
He thinks things will change quite a bit (as for his schedule) when they start flying.

Friday

Marysvale tradition..

When I was young we use to travel to Marysvale, Utah for the 24th festivities. In fact there is a picture of Michael and I around the ages of 9-11 running in the skating rink for one of the many fun traditions. This year the boys got to do the same thing. Catch fish with their hands. It was so much fun to watch. Uncle Kendal coached em and we got 14 fish! We learned how to gut them and then Kendal BBQ'd them. YUM!! They also got to do it with their cousins, just like we did!. It is one of my fondest memories and Aadric seems to agree. He said "That was the funnest thing Ive ever done!!"

Sunday

Im so excited!!

I entered a contest for military wives to post their story and I became a semi-finalist!!! So my Story is posted on Author Sara Humphreys Blog:
http://www.amoveoromanceseries.blogspot.com/ http://sarataneyhumphreys.com/
She is an actress(some of her television credits include, “A&E Biography”, “Guiding Light”, “Another World”, “As the World Turns” and “Rescue Me”). She has written a romance novel and is donating a portion of its proceeds to ASMBASTAR, a fund for Veterans and their families.
The contest lasts until August 31st after which The Winners will receive:
The Grand Prize is to have her name used as a character in one of her books and a $100 Amazon Gift Certificate
First Prize is a $50 Amazon Gift Certificate
Second Prize is a $25 Amazon Gift Certificate
I am just so excited to have my message out there! If you can, will you post a comment on my story?
Warning: there is a half Naked guy for her romance book:)

Monday

Military Days at the zoo!

You cant pass up free zoo day!.. or maybe ya can.
I asked Grandma Mickee if she would help me keep the kids rallied at the Zoo.
So we headed out, finding out soon enough that "Free Military Days" is popular.
Parking the big white Van was......FUN!
We also soon found out that it was a hot hot day......Really fun!
What better conditions to go see animals? When its hot, they hide, when its crowded, they do the same.
Well, being the big pregnant trooper that I am, I dragged (oh wait...or did they drag me? Cant remember its a bit of a blur) those hot tired kids and grandma all around the Zoo, hurrying through, seeing what animals were natural born desert animals. All 4 of them! (Glad we didn't pay the $55.00 it would have been)
Needless to say, it wasn't really fun. I'm sure allot to do with my pregnancy, but the best part of the whole time was the poem we came up with on the way home:
"One , two go to the Zoo
Three, Four elephants snore.
Five, six Monkeys on sticks
Seven, Eight head for the gate
Nine ten, lets not go again"
We all had a good laugh over that, then came to grandmas and had homemade pop cycles.

Grandma must have been tired, she accidently cut Kaedrin off:)

Wednesday

David is a Dad!

When I was 3 and a half years old I got to be there when my first brother was born, I got to be there for his first son, right before he was born. It was so amazing! I think being an Aunt is as close to being a Mom as you can get. The feelings of love I felt for him were overwhelming. He is so precious and David and Robin are already such dedicated and loving parents.

Monday

Its just see ya later.. Not good bye.

Michael Left Friday May 29th
He will be in Arizona and Texas for the next month
for some training and will head to Iraq the end of June.
The expected return is July 2010.

Wednesday

I love my new house!!

First: it is great to be in Utah, nice people, clean places, FAMILY!
B: It is nice to own a home again.
6th: It feels bitter sweet to be here, I love that I am here, and hate that I wont be living with my hubby for at least a year:(
Last: I sure hope its time to settle for a while, we have moved allot in the last couple of years, the kids want to settle even more.

Here is our home...