3 weeks since the move!

A post in pictures...

The light beam is where the Twin Towers used to stand. The red white and blue lights (under the bright blue reflection from my window) is the Empire State Building. I took this picture from my car on the highway on September 11th.

Before and After!

This is what happens when kids play with cameras!



Wearing the outfit her auntie gave her

Remembering September 11th

Update...

DB is over in Germany right now and I was lucky enough to get about 20 minutes of gmail chat time with him just now. He has a laptop with him but no internet access in the room so he had to use a public computer (I assume) and supposedly had to get off because he thought other people were waiting to get on. I got the basic information of where he is and how he is and that was it. No "how are you", no "I miss you". One "I love you". And I have to fake like it doesn't phase me. I am new to this city, have no friends here that can understand any of this, and since we are not married I am not allowed on base. If there is anyone reading this that can offer some advice, please do.

end update...

news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Afghanistan/ss/events/wl/08072001afghanistan

Thunder and Lightning!

My plan for this afternoon to go down to Rehoboth Beach to do some outlet shopping but since a terrible thunderstorm is going through right now I think I'll wait it out for a while, watch Days of Our Lives and write a post. The power went out for a couple minutes but thankfully that didn't last long. The construction workers next door took off at the first sign of the storm and I don't blame them! So instead of going out I'm going to post some new pictures.

This past Sunday we drove down to Bowers Beach which is about 15 minutes south of Dover. It's just a small fishing town so there isn't really a beach but we heard about this good fish restaurant so we decided to check it out and have dinner there.

Appropriately named?!

I'm a dork and still like to take pictures of every plane I spot, this one was especially close so it was exciting. Those are birds to the left.

Monday was my cleaning day and unfortunately for DB it was also the first day he was required to wear this instead of his flight suit (just on Mondays from now on).

We recently had an alarm system installed so this morning we were setting it off different ways to test it. I had the upstairs box duty and he had the downstairs box duty which is located just under the alarm. Of course setting the alarm off was very loud, so instead of using ear plugs, DB thought of something much better...

I toughed it out without any ear protection, but I did get to try on the fancy headset!

I'll be here until Thursday night and then I'm heading up to Connecticut to spend a couple weeks with my brother and his family to help out while he's recovering from ankle surgery. DB will be gone on a mission for part of the time and hopefully will be able to join me when he gets back. Don't I wish all missions could be timed this nicely!

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I'm so excited to be attending my first Air Force Ball tonight! Since DB is an officer, I get to wear my fanciest of dresses! I love dressing up! It should be a fun time! I'm going to try to take lots of pictures without looking like a tourist. Lets all hope Hanna doesn't make too much of a mess of things tonight.
For more information...
www.dover.af.mil/news/story

*Update 10:45pm*
Well we are back from the ball and we had a wonderful time! I got to meet several of his friends and even made the squadron commander laugh! DB was impressed with that and I'm still wondering why I felt comfortable enough to tell him a joke, but it worked! It was a pretty formal event so no dancing and not much relaxed time, so we only got a few pictures. I think I did fine for my first military event and I'm looking forward to the next one already!

No matter which side you are on...

you have to admit this is adorable!

I got crafty today and made myself a new pillow in a fabric I looked ALL OVER to find, mini stripe in light pink. It came out great and was very easy!

Then I had a small scrap leftover so I decided to embroider a cute little bird to frame and hang on the wall. Wasn't as easy as the pillowcase, but I am very pleased with how it came out and it matches the colors in my room perfectly!

Now I'm off to bake some cookies!

At home

Right now I'm watching the New Kids on the Block perform on the Today Show. I loved them way back when they really were kids. Donnie was my favorite. One of the nice things about not working right now is that I get to watch the Today Show every day. I love Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira.

DB and I took a walk last night and I planned on bringing my camera along but of course forgot. We saw a couple things that I would've loved to snap, including a pile of 13 peach pits. We'll try again tonight and then I'll update.

I got some fabric yesterday so now I'm going to attempt to sew myself a new decorative bed pillow!