Hello Friends! This morning we went out to the USS Missouri Memorial to attend the commissioning ceremony of a friend of our family. The prompt was the photograph someone wearing red. I have very few red items of clothing and most of the people I saw today had on white, khaki or blue uniforms. I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'navy life'
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February 3rd, 2012 · 3 Comments · Family, navy life, P366, Photography
Tags:Jalen·Jordan·Joscie·navy life·Photography·Troy·USS Missouri
Homecoming
October 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Family, Hawaii, navy life
Last Saturday we welcomed Troy home from his last deployment and home from his last ship. We are so excited that he is now going to a shore duty, it has certainly been a long time coming. The boys and I picked up lei and went down to the airport, parked and walked over to [...]
Hello October
October 1st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Creative Charms, Design House Digital, DT, Family, Hawaii, Holidays, navy life, scrapbook
Hello October! I can’t believe it’s already October, can you? but then again, I seem to say this every month as if I expect time to pause while I get my stuff together? anyway. My ear problem recurred on Wednesday night so I called early Thursday morning to get a same day appointment and miraculously, [...]
Tags:black glitter·Creative Charms·Design House Digital·halloween·Jalen·Jen Allyson·Jordan·Joscie·Pearl Ridge·punpkins·sewing·Troy
Deployment Day, yes again.
September 1st, 2011 · 10 Comments · Family, Hawaii, navy life
Hello friends. First I want to say thank you so much for all your kind words of support after this huge adventure of Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Donation. I also want to let you know that I feel great. The day after the donation Troy and I went down to the post office to submit [...]
more around here
April 11th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Family, Hawaii, house, navy life, PBSC Donation
Is it really almost two weeks into April already? Here’s what’s been going on around here. One day we decided we’d go out to the garden shop to get some potting soil to plant veggies. We got into the car and nothing. The car would not start. insert sad face here. When Troy got home [...]
Tags:be the match·bikes·bone marrow donor registry·Jalen·Jordan·Joscie·movies·navy life·PBSC Donation·Troy
P365 049-057
February 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Family, Food, Hawaii, navy life, P365, Photography
Hello friends! I have a bunch of p365 shots to share. Troy had the day off and we went down to the Honolulu Zoo. self portrait. Thanks to central air I sleep in my christmas flannel pj pants year round. Pastor Jim during Children’s Time talking about eating MnMs. Jordan is sitting directly behind Pastor [...]
Notable in November
December 31st, 2010 · No Comments · blog, Family, Hawaii, navy life
We hiked with friends Marnalicious and ‘Iokea, FabuLisa and Aunty Maile. We saw a Hawaiian Monk Seal sunning near Sandy Beach. We saw a free sneak preview of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii Theater. We had our 3 year old washing machine replaced after it started leaking. we [...]
Tags:Aunty Maile·Bryan·FabuLisa·Joscie·Makapu'u·MarnaLicious·Troy·Windward mall
Airshow at Kaneohe Bay
September 27th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Family, Hawaii, navy life, Photography
We spent Saturday at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii enjoying the airshow featuring the Blue Angels courtesy of KHON2 and MCCS. We were lucky enough to win box seats, a souvenir program and hat via a twitter contest. It was a beautiful blue sky sun shiny day out there. There were a lot of people [...]
Tags:Family Fun·Hawaii·hawaii beauty·Jalen·Jordan·Joscie·navy·Troy
busy busy busy
August 28th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Family, navy life, Photography
But aren’t we all? Troy has ended his leave and is now back at work. The boys and I are doing our homeschool activities while doing family things as well. Since Troy has been home, he’s fixed the lawn mower, mowed the lawn, hung some art holders, put together a shelf (that has been sitting [...]
Homecoming
August 19th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Family, navy life
Most of the homecomings I can remember have been in the mid morning. This one had been scheduled for an early-ish morning and then was pushed back into the afternoon. Although it was hot (but really, it’s always hot) I actually appreciated this afternoon homecoming- we had time to get out and get things done! [...]
