Sleeping Babes

Has anyone ever "watched" their kids sleep. They look like the little angles I know in my heart that they are. No more little demon that has spent the last 8 hours on my last nerve. This is Trista with her elephant and water dripping on my couch.


(I have found a feature on my camera that does black and white pictures and I just HAD to test it out of course.)

This is Lani. Sleeping nice and warm with her two dogs Nemo and Mini Me.

The Exploding Closet.

Yesterday I cleaned out my closet. It started as a walk-in closet when we built this place. Then it turned in to the biggest space in the house that held the most crap. I could not get to my clothes without moving about six storage bins full of who knows what. So, yesterday I decided to get off my lazy arse and clean it out. I locked myself in my room for three hours and it was done. Here are the before and after shots. Isn't it amazing?




Before.










After.






Seven bags of donation items like clothing, books, computer nonsense. Four bags of trash (old paperwork and other misc stuff). I also found some old stuff of Jim's from when he was in the Navy. All of his awards and things that he got. I plan on framing them all and putting them up for Christmas. I even have a copy of his very first enlistment!

Follow me on twitter!

Alrighty everyone. I finally did it and got a twitter page. Go ahead and check it out by clicking on the title at the top of this post. Hopefully I will do a better job at keeping that one updated than this one. I can't post pics I don't think which is why I kept this one but you can know what I am doing all the time ha ha ha. I know that you all are THAT obsessed with me.

Veterans Day

It seems funny to me. It was not that long ago that I was in the military on board this awesome vessel. I first met the ship in San Fransisco, CA. I was 18, excited to be away from home, fresh out of boot camp, and gungho Navy. (Pretty good for a girl from land locked Utah huh?) I spent the best years of my life on this ship. I did two deployments with her and I got to see plenty of foreign countries. Some of them I wouldn't mind going back to visit, while others can stay where they are.

(On a side note that has nothing to do with this particular blog is that I recently found out that this ship ran aground in February of this year costing about $40 million in damage to the ship and about $7 million in damage to the coral reefs off the coast of Hawaii and my old XO took command after the CO was relieved of duty. I shake my head in dismay and say "really?")

All day today I have heard nothing but "Happy Veterans Day". This day is not supposed to be a "happy" day. It is meant to be a day of thanks for those that are serving or have served and remembrance for those that served and lost their lives for our freedom. It is not a day of celebration but a day of mourning. I believe that it is because the general public people do not know what it means to serve or what it meant to all of us that did serve and they just do not know what to say. That is quite alright, I will take your "Happy Veterans Day" comment and put it aside and tell you that "you are welcome, I did it for you, for my family, for my friends, for all of my fellow Americans." So the next time you see a sailor, soldier, or marine, thank them...Thank them for all that they did and continue to do, no matter how long they served or will serve.

Today, I give thanks to all military forces and I salute you my friends. Thank you.

Really...?

I have to be the worst "blogger" ever.

Either that or I/we as the Hill family no longer have a life. We used to go out and do things and I was able to post them here and let all you wonderful friends and family know what we were up to each week. Now, Either we do not have that life I spoke of earlier or the things we are doing now are not post worthy.

Either way I think I have gotten lazier and lazier about taking pictures on my own and getting them posted. I would totally have Halloween pictures if it wasn't for the fact that I forgot my camera and the camera phone S-U-C-K-S. I would have random pictures of the kids hanging out on the swing set if I was not lazy and refused to get my butt off of the couch to take the pictures. Funny, that swing set sat at the bottom of the hill, lonely and unused for all of the summer months. Now that it is freezing outside the kids refuse to come inside until they cannot feel their toes and their lips are purple.

I am terribly sorry and I promise that whether I am just that boring or just that lazy I promise to post more stuff and/or random pics from this moment on. You know whats even worse? I sit at a computer ALL day and I come here everyday to read your blogs but I still have not posted anything. I am amazed.

Love you all! TTFN.

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