Colorado Cashens

Our fall has been gorgeous. The warm air and gentle breezes ushered in torential downpour last weekend and Chris had his first induction to hard core sports. He played several soccer games in VERY wet weather. I was so proud! All the guys on his team were aching to prove their stuff by playing in rough conditions so they were strutting too. We continue to hear from Tim every several days. The weekends are usually hard to talk so we get to talk to him pretty regularly on Mon/Tues/Weds. We can't call him, so we wait for his call...or rather continue with our lives hoping he'll call from day to day. This past week, he phoned and gave us the news that he may be coming home in December! WHAT? His Colonel said that the rear detachment commander for thier Battalion is overwhelmed and needs help processing all the work at Ft Lewis. He asked Tim if he'd like to join in the forces down there en lieu of his current position in Iraq. He called me early one morning to ask me what my tho...

Deployment has been fine. We miss Tim like crazy. We are happy to have family here, and are in the haven of Seattle and all it's conveniences....so we decided to give in a bit. We were so tired of feeling alone at night, that we decided to get the big ass TV. Edit as you read to children . I sold our leather living room couches on CL and together the kids and I went shopping! We decided to reclaim our living room. Who really lives in it anyway? SPIDERS? So we headed to Costco, the haven of big screen TVs and snack foods. After a year of no cable...really...we were enjoying snow on our 10 yr old TV...we bought the mother of plasmas! Oh how Tim would LOVE it! The Movie Watcher of all movie watchers! He was proud...I could hear it in his voice as he listened to us recap our purchase. He was like, "Lady, what are you smoking?!", in a cool very happy way. Needless to say, he's looking fwd to joining us for Christmas and then we'll watch cable together. Ahhh family tim...