Great News to share!!!

The kids thought the golf carts were the best!!

Jellystone Campground, Luray, VA

All the kiddos snug as bugs in rugs!!

Noah and his buddy Ian

Our Awesome group of Friends!

Hi all!!

I can't believe it's Thanksgiving already...boy do we have a lot to be Thankful for this year. Our amazing family and wonderful friends, we are all healthy, and finally Rich got a job!!! LOL!! All of you know that we have been waiting on pins and needles to find out what job Rich will be doing as an officer. Well.........he got Finance Officer. That means he will be doing budgets and handling the financial matters of the Corps!! He is very excited and we are very proud of him. Finance was his first choice and he worked really hard to get the job.

We have been so busy lately that I haven't had a moment to post photos from our camping, ball and Grama and Papa visit. I will post a few to the blog and the rest to the slideshow. Again...just click on the slide show on the right hand side of the page and it will take you to our folder of photos!!! Enjoy...we had a blast camping and at the ball. We also had a ball taking Grama and Papa around the town and to the beach! Wow it was beautiful at the beach...but COLD!! It took Gracen a few days to figure out where they went when they left...both the boys loved having them here!!!

We will be spending the holidays here in Virginia and Rich will be graduating on January 16th. Hopefully we will be able to make it home sometime after that to visit before things get too busy. We don't know what base we are headed to yet, but hopefully soon!!

Love to all,

Crystal

Halloween Pics

Our Little family at the Church Fall Festival

The boys at the Military Base Halloween Party!

What can I say...he likes cake!!!

Gracen thought his balloon was too cool!!

Mama and the Dinosaur brothers!

Good Morning Family and Friends!!!

We certainly have been busy! Rich made it out of the field in one piece...boy was he dirty. EWWW were the first words I said when I saw his laundry. That was followed by "Good luck with that honey!" He just laughed!! We drug Daddy out of the field and into the world of children high on sugar. Rich got home on Halloween and we had already attended two parties. That evening we went to a Fall Festival at our local church with some of our friends. We all had a ball!! It was kinda sad we didn't trick or treat this year...but with some of the neighborhoods here we decided not to. The church put on an amazing festival and the kids got to "trunk or treat" where the church members decorated their cars and the kids trick or treated the cars. Gracen's favorite was...guess....ELMO!! I know that wasn't much of a surprise. We got to ELMO at the library that day so he was on a roll.

This week is fairly busy for us as well. We are preparing for a few major events. First we are going CAMPING this weekend!!! AHHHH!!! I am so excited. Of course being that it is November we went in with another family and got a cabin! You won't see me tent camping if there is a chance of snow...no way. We are going up to the Shenandoah National forest. Then next wednesday GRAMA and PAPA are coming!!! The boys are sooooooooooo excited. Every morning we have to go to the calendar countdown and see how many more days! We can't wait! Then next weekend is the Marine Corps Ball. Whew! I found a dress and Rich found and outfit to wear(kidding of course he has to wear his lovely uniform). So needless to say it will be a busy few weeks coming up. BUT that means lots of fun photos for all of you.

Oh by the way be sure to click on the slide show to see more photos of our fun here in VA! I can only put so many here on the blog...the rest go into the slideshow folder so check it out! Love to all.

Love,

Crystal and the Gang