Hiya!
Today I added some pets. These are Meagan's turtles. Her Daddy and Mommy each brought one home and she held them awhile before releasing them into the woods. She keeps talking about her turtles though. So here they are 'virtually' so she can visit them and feed them with her mouse. Fun, huh?
I also added a music player with a few of our favorite songs. You have to click on 'radio' to hear them.
Enjoy!
Gidget

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Ok, this is my first time to post on a blog. HI! I hope I will be able to keep this up-to-date.
School is out and we have enjoyed our first day of sleeping in and relaxing. We have several projects we want to tackle this summer, so sleeping in won't always be an option ;o)
I suppose I don't have much more to say for now.
Gidget

Annual Training 2008!

Well, we just got back from spending a fun-filled two weeks at Fort Chaffee! Let me tell you, it's hard work getting a bunch of old vehicles to work right after sitting idle for over two years! They either didn't want to start, or the computers refused to talk, or something else wasn't working right! After several drills trying to get up and running, and a week in the motor pool leading up to it, we finally get into the field and fired off a couple hundred rounds with outstanding accuracy! Aside from a small problem with a new propellant there at the end, it was a smashing success! I spent most of my time sitting in a HMMWV (humvee) watching the gun line, verifying location, establishing firing positions and generally watching things happen (or not happen, as in when the A-10s took over our target area!). Below are a few photos and a couple of video highlights for you. Enjoy!!

1st Platoon firing Low Angle

Yep, that's my platoon sergeant walking back from the gunline. Notice he doesn't even flinch when they fire? I think he's been doing this awhile.

1st Platoon firing High Angle

Only Guns 1 & 3 are firing here. Gun 2 went down with a battery charging issue. It managed to continue firing only after they hooked the CAT up to the front power.

I hope you enjoyed these images! That's all for now, but I'll add stuff as I get it. S!

More Patrick photos and general news

Playing with Daddy

Patrick sleeping

Morgan sitting with Grandpa at Danielle's birthday

While I have been up at Fort Chaffee during my annual training, we got back in from the field on Thursday afternoon, allowing me to get home and head over to Gidget's parents' house for Danielle's birthday party! It was just us and Bridget's family with Audrie and Nathan (Ken's children) who were staying with Grandpa and Grandma. We had a nice party with some absolutely terrific strawberry cake!!

I'll be posting some photos and video from training at Chaffee later. That's about all for now unless I can finally convince Gidget to start posting here ;-)

UPDATE!!

Ok, so I'm about to leave for annual training, but I wanted to get some new photos up for everyone! Last month we went up to Branson for the weekend and had a great time in the new travel trailer. Peter and Bridget went with us and took their tent and we all had a great time at Silver Dollar City. I don't have the photos loaded from that yet, but I have a couple I'll post later. Here are a couple of photos from today... The twins reading before lunch and Patrick sleeping in his swing.

Welcome to the HawleyHome!!

Ok, ok... I finally decided that since we were the *only* ones not up-to-date with a blog, and because we were now taking up space on the HerrRanch, we would finally go ahead and get our own blog. It seems like a good time, too!

Now to see if we can actually keep it "current"... =)