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well this winter has been unbelievably cold and i am glad that it's finally ending. although, now that the snow is gone, norman has been escaping the back yard by getting under the fence. he's so funny because he can get out, but he has a hard time getting back in. at least, that's what he makes it seem like. when kyle get's back we are going to get an electric fence so maybe that will help. he always seems to get out right when i need to leave. although i have noticed that daisy is kinda of a tattle tale. whenever norman makes his great escape, daisy will start to bark at him and just go crazy at being left alone in the yard. although really it doesn't take much to set her off.
i was eating a sandwich from subway today and one of my brackets came off! it just completely fell off and it's not even one of the ones in the front where i bit into the sandwich. it was the the very last one one the left side. i'm not sure what happened. i'm going in on friday to get it replaced. i am not looking forward to it. i hate getting the back ones done because that bitter cleaner always trickles down my throat and it chokes me. oh well, i only have 4 months left. my teeth are looking totally different from before i got braces. my mouth feels different too. i have even been told that i sound different when i talk now. i don't know about that one, but i'm glad that i got braces.

Happy New Year!

Happy new year everyone. i'm still feeling sick so that really stinks. i just thought i'd say happy new year and i hope that this coming year will be full of great things. oh and also i need to say that johnny's lunch restaurant treat their employees like garbage. while i do still think the hot dogs are pretty good, i can not endorse them any further. to all those i told to go and eat their i ask you now to forget it. as a witness to how they treated a dear friend of mine, a family member even, i can't understand how they are even in business. for managers to come in and just take cash out of the register and not document it is just ridiculous! when my dear friend (who was a manager himself) told the manager that he didn't think it was a good idea to do that and he should at least write down how much he was taking he was told to mind his own and was fired the next day. i can not hold with such policies, especially since i know how much my friend put into this restaurant. traveling to other chains to open stores, train new employees, and even cleaning out other stores to keep them from going out of business. he put everything he had into his job, including time he could have had with his children. ok. now i'm done. they suck.

Deployment Pictures

ok here are some pictures of me and kyle at the airport waiting for his plane to take off.

Deployment/Election Day

well, i'm officially a deployed spouse. kyle left yesterday. i was able to go back to the terminal and wait with him. that was lots of fun we spent over an hour taking pictures of ourselves making funny faces. i didn't cry when he got on the plane, i'm not that type of girl. not that there's anything wrong with cryers, i just can't do it.
anyway, today is election day. i live in a "swing" state now so i had people come up to the house everyday for the last week and half reminding me to go down and vote. i went in this morning and was happy i only had to wait a little over an hour. after watching the news i was excpecting over 2 hours. some areas here were on the news as having a 4-6 hour line! at least people are voting. it's such an important time for our country. it is every americans (over 18) right and responsibility to go down and vote. i hope all my friends and family went and did it. kyle even voted through absentee ballot before he left.
anyway, i'm getting a massage on friday. it's at a new place, not my normal girl. this one is closer to home and i've been getting crazy advertising from them so i figured i'd try them out. if i like it i might start going there. its seriously like 5 min away. my normal girl is down by our old house which is like 25 minutes away so this place would be good. gas has gone down -$1.87!!!! but who know's how long that's oing to last.
yes that's right. today i bought gas for $1.87. i filled up my truck for a little over $20. i was so excited i did a little car dance as i drove away. i went down to ikea and i got this spatula that's like double wide. it's awesome i can't wait to make jumbo pankakes with it.

cool book i'm reading

hi everyone! its aerro and i was reading this book that i thought was really great its called why gender matters: what parents and teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences by leonard sax. anyway, its really good. i understand the men in my life so much better. i even understand myself better. for example, boys cant hear as well as girls. so when i'm talking to kyle and he always tells me he cant hear me when i feel like i'm talking at a reasonable level. also it talks about how the brain functions differently and how men and women use it differently. what i really like about it is that when he says something he always tells where he got it from and from when. anyway, 23 days to halloween!! are the pumpkin trees starting to bloom?
aerro

Long time no blog!!

ok it has been a few months and a lot has happened. first i had a birthday! i turned 24 in august. it was a good birthday. mom and dad sent up a birthday in a box and it was lots of fun! we had drinks with umbrellas in them and chinese paper lanterns hanging around the deck and pink swirly flowers that glittered in the moonlight! thanks mom and dad for sending me a birthday party. kyle's mom came down and celebrated with us as well. it was really a double birthday party because kyle's birthday is a week after mine and he left for a 5 week training course the next day.
i spent the next five weeks working and sleeping. i walked the dogs a few times in there too :) right before kyle got back though we had the hurricane hit here. at least that's what every one is calling it. it was really a hurricane with no water. it didn't rain, but we had strong enough winds that the entire area was out of power. some people it was only for a few days for others it was almost two weeks. i was out of power for about 4 days. which is just enough time for everything to melt and start to get warm. luckily i had an empty freezer that was powered to move some food too. kyle and i are still cleaning up the damage though. we had some branches break off of our trees in the back yard and some siding came loose. the gutters flew off the house and down the road a bit. i got them back though. anyway, now kyle is home.
we just got back from a wedding over in the eastern side of ohio. it was at this little vineyard. it was really a lot of fun. and i got to see kyle in a tux and cowboy boots! well anyway, for those who don't know, mom and dad created a bignall family blog for us to keep in touch as a family. i think it's great. i put up a blog there about this great book i've been reading. i'm going to paste it on here as well for those who don't want to go there. well that's it for now.
aerro

Matt's Wedding/Nearly Dying in a Plane

well, last weekend matty got married! kyle and i flew down to san angelo to see it. now i don't like to fly. not at all. i understand that it's the fastest way to travel and i appreciate that it makes it possible to spend more time where your going. but man do i hate it! especially those little planes! i had a near death experiance on this last trip because of one of those planes. our pilot had been coming in to fast to land and the plane fishtailed and leaned over onto one side. people were screaming, men were crying, and the flight attendents nearly peed thier pants. it was truly terrifing. i mean i never actually thought i was going to die on a plane untill that landing. and we were on the ground! the whole flight was awful. full of turbulance and it was just aweful. ok moving on.

well the wedding was fantastic. dusty was absolutly gorgeous in her dress. and matt was looking very nice in his uniform. bishop bushman performed the ceremony and he said a lot of really wonderful things. explaining the symbolism of the wedding ceremony and i thought it was just really nice. during the ceremony both matt and dusty had tears in there eyes.

of course matt's wedding wouldn't be complete without the rock and roll band to walk down the isle to. yes that's right matt's friend james and his band played cannon in d on their electric guitars and drums. they had even made a wrote a special intro to the wedding march when dusty started down the isle. in all actuallity, it was really kinda cool. deffinetly matthew. he's lucky that dusty is cool enough to handle him. they got married at the lake in san angelo and it was just a beautiful day and a great sunset wedding.

the reception was a lot of fun. we had homemade root beer and it was catered by chick-fil-a. the cake was cute too. it was decorated with sunflowers and it was chocolate! unfortunatly for me i didn't get to eat a whole lot of food. the chicken nuggets had unfortunatly been sitting on top of the ice bag, so they were cold. i did eat some fruit and that was nice.

i don't have any pictures to put up yet because kyle took them on his camera and he had to catch a flight to his next trip right away so we weren't able to download any on my computer. i'll try and put some up though. or you can go to my parent's picture site (the Reunion link) and see pics from the wedding, the reception, the reharsal, and the "official" picture taking for the wedding.