Happy Mother's Day

a little late.

We had a great day around here. It was pretty low key, we just went up to the air force base exchange and then had lunch in the food court.

Nothing but the best around here. :)

The family.
The view behind the monument. If you look on the left side of these two pictures you can see the same two palms trees.

The girls.

Josh is officially in the military until May 2013.

Homeschool is looking better and better

Ok so not really but man some of the things they pick up in school amaze me with how inappropriate they are. Today I was walking outside with Grace and she was wearing a skirt and a pair of my sunglasses and she says to me "I'm hot and I don't mean from the sun" WHAT??? So I ask her if she means hot like good looking (while shocked I'm having this conversation with my first grader) and she says "No like sexy"!!! I couldn't believe it, I asked her where she heard that and she told me this riddle they say at school, something about Pepsi and sexy I can't remember exactly now. So then we had to have a conversation about what it meant and why it wasn't ok for her to be saying.

If this is what we deal with in first grade then I'm afraid to know what middle and high school are going to be like.

I'll be back later to post pictures of the reenlistment. Grace took most of the pictures and I haven't looked at them yet...

Reenlistment

Today Josh is reenlisting for four more years. It will bring him right to 20 then he can retire. It's going to be at a beach out in town and he wants the girls and I to go. Since it's at 11am I'm not going to send Grace to school because I would just have to turn around and pick her up an hour later. Plus now she gets to sleep in as long as she wants also. This will be the first day of school she's missed all year so part of me thinks I should send her just so she can be marked present! :) We plan on going to lunch after then she has a girl scout activity this evening. Brianna is excited to not be going to school or the daycare, right now she is watching cartoons, eating leftover pizza and getting her own cup of water.

I'm telling you the fun never stops around here.

I'll make sure to post pictures, well as long as I remember my camera, when we get home later.

For now I have to go do homework.

Clarification

Josh is going to be going to school in Mississippi for a month and won't have very much free time, plus he is staying in barracks.

The girls and I could book our own commercial tickets to the states but when I looked them up the other day the three of us could fly to LAX for the bargain price of $4200.

I don't need off the island that bad!

Ask me next summer when I've been here longer. It might be worth it then.

:)

Today in...

as the Cotterell household turns.

So Josh is going to the states in June for A MONTH! Then he is taking two weeks leave on top of that.

I'm pretty sure he is not authorized to ditch, I mean travel, without us for six weeks! :)

That will be the longest the girls have ever been away from him. The longest before this was maybe a week.

Also it's raining and I have to walk to the bus stop. Well I guess I could drive but I don't think I'm going too.

(How was that Britt? I'd say that I'll work on making it more exciting but I'm hoping my life ISN'T exciting for a while!)

I seem to be getting better but...

Brianna has an ear infection.

Other then complaining that her ear hurts once in a while and not sleeping at night it doesn't slow her down.

Really though, nothing does. :)