Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Friday, February 8, 2008

Off to Iraq



This is my brother Dave. He did medical school via the army route (so they would pay his tuition) and is now serving a few years for them working as a doctor. Part of the deal for most of these guys is a trip over to the middle east (or elsewhere) to work in a hospital for a few months. So he will be in Mosul, Iraq for the next 5 months and 3 weeks! With no visits home at all during that time, his wife Laurie and his four kids won't be seeing him until August! But, I'm sure he'll learn a lot and he is definitely making Aaron jealous with all of the ammunitions training he is getting. Their family has a new blog, sixlayerdip.blogspot.com (isn't that cute!) so that we can keep up on Dave's adventures, and Laurie's adventures as single mom for the next few months. Dave, we all appreciate what you are doing and we are all looking forward to when you get home safely! Oh, and by the way, that color looks great on you :)

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Photogenic? It must be photogenetic!

We recently got our pictures back that we had taken during Christmas vacation with my family. We had 9 kids, ages 9 and under who we were trying to get to look at the camera. We didn't care if they even smiled, we just wanted them to look normal for them camera! Not surprisingly, even with our great photographer, none of the pictures turned out to be worthy of hanging on the wall. But with a little photoshop, cutting and pasting, I'm sure we can work something out!

Our individual family pictures were even better. We couldn't get our kids to smile for the camera and look normal to save our lives!