The Twins Travel

I have to say, I'm very glad this was an organized trip on a bus and I didn't drive, because it would really not have been worth it. The ride is about an hour - the farm is only a few miles from the Saudi Arabia border - and there is very little to see once you leave Kuwait City. I was amazed by three things - the camel herds (cool), the amount of tent cities (workers, I guess), and the amount of trash in the desert (not cool). From the description on the website, I was expecting an in-depth farm tour - how they grow produce in the middle of the desert - that kind of thing. Once we arrived, we loaded up in a golf cart, the driver said, "This is potato." Pointed at a field. "This is lettuce." Pointed at another field. We drove through an open sided barn with milk cows in it, and were dropped off at a kind of petting zoo place. The kids loved this part, I will say that. They got to pet and feed the goats; Harper rode a donkey, they got to see camels u...

We've been in Kuwait for almost two months (I know this, because I've started getting notifications that it's time to change my password at work) and we're settling in nicely. Declan and Harper have made friends with a little boy their age who lives two doors down from us. The great thing about living on the compound is they can run back and forth between the two houses and I don't think anything of it (unless I know the baby is sleeping at the little boy's house, then I don't let them do that). There are a lot of kids close to their age and Declan and Harper usually have someone to play with when we go to the park. We spent the day at the pool this afternoon and a lot of other families had the same idea. There's usually something planned for at least one day of the weekend, even if it's just having the jumping castle out for happy hour on Thursday. Harper has it in her head that she wants to do a pajama party, so I'm going to send ou...

I decided that every year on Christmas eve, I wanted to make handprint ornaments.  Well, this year, it's footprints.  We started off trying to get Declan's handprints & he kept grabbing onto the dough.  The footprints were a little iffy as well, since he kept digging his little monkey toes into the dough.  Cute little monkey toes.  But here is the finished product.  They're a little larger than I expected, so we might not be able to hang them on the tree next year, but the handprints should be ok. Merry Christmas!

Went back and read through my old posts & realized, I'm hilarious!!

I was posting all Declan & Harper's photos to FB when I remembered I had this blog.  I'm not planning on uploading ALL the pictures I have taken of them so far, but I figured this would be a much better venue for updating everyone rather than doing it on FB.   I wish I had kept the blog while I was going through the whole process of getting pregnant with them...it would have been great for them to look at when they get older.  So here's the short version: I decided in my mid-20s that if, by the time I reached 35, I was not married or in a long term relationship where that was the next logical step, I was going to have a family on my own.  There are a lot of reasons for my decision; (more than I'm willing to go into on a blog) the strongest reason being I wanted a family & it wasn't something I was willing to put off until I found "the one".   So when I got to Wright-Patterson, I asked about the possibility during my yearly exam & got a r...

I did not get an overseas assignment, so I won't be going to SHAPE or Turkey. Apparently, two long & three short tours are enough as far as the AF is concerned. Of course, I wouldn't be racking up so many short tours if the AF didn't deploy me so much...I'm just saying. My state side list comes out 13 April, so I will know what my options are then. I'll be given a list of options & I'll have to rank them in order of preference. I'll find out three to four weeks after that what my next assignment will be.

This is the hotel I stayed in while I was in Cairns. It was located in Yorkeys Knob, which is a beach 15 mins north of Cairns. This is the beach which I had pretty much to myself. This is a stinger net. They put these up for people to swim in so they don't get stung by jelly fish. Not sure if it was because of all the weather from the cyclone or if the beach is always like this, but these small shells were just piled up along the tide line.