Hopefully Seeing Some Of The Pictures Might Help Jog My Memory?!

Hello blog peeps! I had planned to post tonight but for whatever reason, Facebook is being a turd and I cannot pull up my pictures! I can certainly upload them from my phone, but when I try to open them up, it won't allow me to! So hopefully tomorrow I can work on trying to get a lot of pictures onto here!


If you follow me on Facebook, then I am sure you aren't missing me so much on here, that is, if you are missing me on here! ha!


We've had a lot happening especially me with FRG. Thankfully most FRG things are during the day while kids are at school. I've had one meeting that took place at night!


On September 9, there was a Casing of the Colors ceremony for Paul's brigade as they're preparing to head off for a deployment. Paul missed it seeing how he is still in school, so I took some video of it. I always like watching military things. I loved it when we were in Fort Hood and the 1st CAV did things. They had horses and such! If you ever are in the Fort Hood area and have the chance to see a 1st CAV anything on the parade field, I encourage you to take the time to watch it! Amazing! But I got of the subject. What is the Casing of the Colors?! Each brigade and then smaller sections called squadrons have guidons or flags. Well, when they deploy, they "case" them and get them ready to go to where ever it is they're going. They'll do an uncasing ceremony once to the place they're deployed. And then another casing when they are fixing to come home. And of course, once home, they will uncase them again! It was a nice day and tried to rain on us but for the most part, it didn't! I was able to access the video on Facebook, but not the pictures! UGH! So like I said, maybe I can get pictures posted tomorrow?! Oh, and Paul's squadron is 1-13 CAV!

Because I have been busy quite a lot lately with FRG, the days seem to have run together! I know there was an FRG leader's lunch one day, which was fun. And today we did a mock scenario of what is called a CARE team. Should there be an injury or a death while the guys are deployed, and if the family affected by it is here and if they want they can request a CARE team to come in. Basically check on the needs of the family, organize meals, do laundry, whatever along those lines. Because it was mock, we kept saying "time out" and discussing things and then "time in" when we were to play our rolls. It ended up in lots of giggles at the end when we were being evaluated. It wasn't a "pass or fail" type thing, but a learning experience. When we were done, we discussed with our colonel's wife the things that might help us better should we happen to be called out on a CARE team. So now we know what we need to work on and such along those lines. That took most of the day but was done in time to get kids from school.


The kids and I are doing well. Counting down the days for when Paul is home. It's been a long while now! He is doing well and has now entered the very hardest part of this time at school. He said for the next 4-5 days he will receive very little sleep and will be working on some project non-stop. He must be working hard as it's been almost 2 days since I've heard from him. If he does well on this project, he *SHOULD* graduate top in class as distinguished honor grad (ranked #1). So far, he hasn't failed any tests and I think he is the only one that has not failed any! I am very proud of him and his hard work! I know this has been a sacrifice for our family, but in the grand scheme of things, it does help open up more job opportunities when he gets out of the Army!


So, I can't think of all that has gone on since the last time I blogged. Hopefully seeing some of the pictures might help jog my memory?! I will try and explain each section of pictures as I post them, whenever that may be! On that note, I hope y'all have a great night!