Williams promotion ceremony

I want to preface this by the fact that William works in a controlled building and so I am not allowed to bring a camera into the building. Now they had a wonderful man taking pictures with a camera that makes mine look like dirt, so there will be pictures, just not now. I wanted to write this now while I am feeling the glow from the ceremony and not trying to remember how it went and what we felt when we get the pictures.

William will sew on Staff Sergeant on Sunday, which by the way is our 7th wedding anniversary. Today at 7 am they had his promotion ceremony. We got up at 5:30 so we could be at his building at 6:30. William actually left before me and was practicing when I got there. Since his building is controlled, meaning you have to have a special pass to get in, this is only my 3rd time in the building. They practiced and then William and I met with the Colonel. He wanted to congratulate William on being such a great Airman and for being a good example. He talked to us about how proud he is of William and how feels it to be an honor to work with him. Then we went upstairs to the meeting room and they had all the great pomp and circumstance that is the military. A Colonel sang the nation anthem, a beautiful prayer was said, the colonel got up and recounted William career and then a they said the Non-commisioned officers creed. Then the Chief got up and shared his thoughts on William and how he now will have more responsibilities. It was wonderful. It touched me greatly to hear what these great men think of my husband. They are his examples and I know that he looks up to them for his work. Then the fun stuff started. The Colonel and Chief got the opportunity to slap the stripes on him. The Colonel got two Baseball bats to beat his old stripes off of him! They got a real cute picture of that. They put the baseball bats down and then slugged him as hard as they could in each arm at the same time! They wanted to make sure he got bruises! Then William got the opportunity to share his thoughts and gratitude to those who were there. He gave such a moving speech that I know I wasn't the only one who cried!! I saw the Colonel wiping away some tears. I really wish everyone got an opportunity to see it. It moved me and made me thankful to be part of such a great establishment. I am so proud that my husband is an Airman and that he serves his country. I am proud of his accomplishments and proud to help him along the way.

The new house!

The front of our new house!

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Yesterday we were offered this house. Since it had everything we wanted we gladly accepted. We love how it has a two and a half car garage, it has a decent backyard and the walls don't connect! I am happy to be back to 1600 and some change square feet. This last weekend when we had Mom and Trent stay with us it seemed as if I was always running into someone. So this will be nice to have an extra 500 square feet. Plus I am thrilled to have an upstairs again! We move in the middle of September! Yea!

backyard

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Happy Puggies

Today we took a long walk and about 3/4 of the way home we stopped at a park and they found this lovely patch of grass. They were so happy. I really love my puggies.
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New housing offer

Emily and I knew that we would have to move, but we were worried about the new houses and if we would get a good one or the worst house ever. Well they gave us our offer today and it was for.... wait for it .... The house most likely to never get picked by anyone! It shares walls in three rooms with the neighbors Master bedroom, both upstairs bathrooms, and one bedroom, the living room and kitchen in it are so much smaller than we have now, and the back yard is a joke. It should not even be called a yard, when the 5 x 7 carpet on the ground is over half the size of the grass, if you do not believe me look at the picture. Anyways we are trying to look at some of the Pro’s and not only the Con’s before we make a choice, but I believe we will take another house on this side of base. It will be smaller, older, and comes without a water softener system or carpet. However the “older” home does not share walls in any of the living space only in the garage, and the yard is larger then the one we have now.

Manti

William's parents came into town on Tuesday evening and on Wednesday we headed up to Manti for William's cousin wedding. His cousin, David, got married on Thursday in the Manti temple. Their reception was held in Rexburg, Idaho, so our adventure just led us to Manti. The boys did well on the trip but weren't to big of fans of being in the car for a while. The Manti temple is beatiful. We got there as the sun was setting. We stayed at this super little hotel that was actually really nice. I enjoyed the opportunity to get to meet some of Williams family that I haven't met before. After Manti we drove down to Zion and spent the next couple of days there. We had a great trip.

The Manti temple at night. It isn't it just beautiful!

A veiw during the day.

A picture of the bride and groom, Ashley and David.

Our little family in front of the temple.

William entertaining the boys.

Carol and William. Aren't they beautiful.