ARMY BRATS

Saturday, July 11, 2009

HARRY POTTER PARTY

COUNTDOWN TO HARRY POTTER 6

WE HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO COUNTDOWN TO THE HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE PREMIERE. SINCE MARK IS GONE, I WILL BE TAKING ALL THE CHILDREN TO SEE THE MOVIE...AT THE DRIVE IN.

WE HAVE AN OLD FASHIONED DRIVE IN THE STILL HAS THE SPEAKER BOXES.

WE STARTED TODAY WITH A HARRY POTTER PARTY HELD AT THE LIBRARY ON FT. DRUM. WE WERE THE FIRST ONES THERE FOR A CHANGE AND WE ALL DRESSED UP FOR THE OCCASSION EXCEPT MARCEL WHO REFUSED TO WEAR THE SMALLEST ROBE I HAD.

THE EVENT WAS SMALL SO WE WERE ABLE TO DO EVERYTHING AND GET HOME TO HAVE A MOVIE MARATHON....

HERE ARE THE BOYS JOKING AROUND BEFORE THE PARTY

THEN THEY GOT SORTED INTO THEIR HOUSES...FOR ALL YOU MUGGLES (NON MAGICAL FOLK) ...IT'S LIKE BEING PLACED IN A FRAT HOUSE.

MATT WAS MAD THAT HE WASN'T CHOSEN FOR GRYFFINDOR & RONAN WAS ALITTLE MIFFED THAT HE WAS NOT PUT INTO SLYTHERIN...BUT THEY HAD EACHOTHER CUZ THEY WERE BOTH SORTED INTO HUFFLEPUFF....I WAS SAD TOO!!! BUT ON THE UPSIDE- CEDRIC DIGGORY WAS IN HUFFLEPUFF & SO WAS TONKS!!!

NEXT UP...POTIONS CLASS- COUPLE OF SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

NEXT UP, WE HEADED TO DIVINATION...HE READ MATTS FUTURE AND FREAKED HIM OUT- HE SAID HE WAS GONNA MARRY A SUPER MODEL.

MATT WAS LIKE ICK....I TOLD HIM IT WASN'T A BAD THING.

RONAN WENT TO CARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES & HAD TO PAIR UP THE ANIMALS SO THEY COULD EAT THE RIGHT FOODS...YUM

IT WAS A GAME OF MEMORY---GOOD FOR HIM.

MATT THEN WENT TO HERBOLOGY...NOT SURE WHAT HE WAS DOING????

RONAN WAS IN TRANSFIGURATION CLASS AND MADE A MASK.

WE THEN HIT OLLIVANDERS AND WE MADE OUR WANDS.

AND LASTLY, WE STOPPED TO TAKE A PICTURE WITH ONE OF THE HOSTING PROFFESORS

IT WAS A FUN COUPLE OF HOURS. IT WAS THUNDERING & STORMING HEAVY BUT WE GOT OUT OF THE HOUSE...GOOD FOR ME. WE MISS DADDY AND CAN'T WAIT FOR HIM TO GET BACK HOME.

AND NOW FOR THE HARRY POTTER MARATHON...

Sunday, July 5, 2009

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

THIS IS OUR SKY AT 8:45 PM AS WE WERE DRIVING TO SACKETS HARBOR TO WATCH FIREWORKS THAT BEGIN AT 9:30...WE WERE EXPECTING TO HAVE TO PARK A MILLION MILES AWAY ANYWAY!!! AND THE KIDS WERE ALREADY TIRED...

RONAN FELL ASLEEP A FEW MILES AWAY FROM HOME AND MATT WAS GETTING CRANKY TOO!!!

MARCEL ON THE OTHER HAND WAS HAVING A BLAST WATCHING OTHER PEOPLES FIREWORKS OUT THE WINDOW

AND THIS IS MOM & DAD WAITING IN A SEA OF TRAFFIC AT 9:15 THINKING ABOUT TURNING AROUND SINCE 2 OUT OF 3 WERE ASLEEP

BUT WE PARKED ANYWAY AND WOUND UP IN THE BEST PLACE TO SEE THE FIREWORK SHOW. HERE WE ARE MESSING AROUND ON OUR BLANKET BEFORE THE SHOW

MARCEL WAS BEING CAMERA SHY UNTIL THE FIREWORKS BEGAN AND THEN HE WAS ALL ABOUT BEING IN DADDYS LAP

(L-R) MARK WITH MARCEL IN HIS LAP, RONAN, MOM, AND MATTIAS .

WE WERE ALL COMFY ON OUR BLANKET AND WATCHED THE FIREWORKS TOGETHER.

FOR THE FIRST TIME NONE OF THE KIDS WERE SCARED OF THE NOISE

Saturday, July 4, 2009

ORGANIZATIONAL DAY

THE ARMY PLANS ORGANIZATIONAL DAYS. THEY HAVE EVENTS THAT EVERY UNIT, COMPANY,BATTALION,AND EVERY OTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE COMPETE IN. IT'S A FUN DAY EVEN THOUGH IT IS A WORK DAY. KINDA LIKE A COMPANY PICNIC & YOU CAN BRING YOUR FAMILY ALONG. EVENTS WERE FLAG FOOTBALL, VOLLEYBALL, TUG-O-WAR, SOCCER, AND SOMETHING ELSE. THE BATTALION PUTS ON A BBQ- SO THERE WAS FOOD AND THEY HAD JUMPERS FOR THE KIDS AND JUNK FOOD GALORE. EACH COMPANY WAS COMPETING FOR THE TOP BRAGGING RIGHTS. MARK WAS SUPPOSED TO DO THE TUG-O-WAR CUZ THEY NEEDED GUYS WHO WERE BIG AND HEAVY AND CAN BENCH PRESS OVER 250. ---HE INTENTIONALLY MISSED THE EVENT. HAD I KNOWN THE TIME OF THE EVENT I WOULD HAVE MADE SURE WE WERE THERE SO I COULD HAVE GOTTEN PICTURES, BUT HERE ARE SOME PICS OF WHAT WE DID INSTEAD....FIRST WE ATE....SEE THE TENTS IN THE BACKGROUND???

....MOMMA SAID....

MARK AND RONAN ATE CRAP WHILE MATT AND MARCEL PLAYED. IF YOU SEE BEHIND THEM THATS WHERE ALL THE EVENTS WERE TAKING PLACE

MATTIAS LOVED THIS SLIDE...

WHILE RONAN LOVED THIS JUMPER....AND YES THOSE ARE SUMO SUITS IN THE BACKGROUND AND WATCHING THE PEOPLE IN THOSE WAS HILARIOUS!!!

JUST ANOTHER FUN EVENT THE ARMY HAS PUT TOGETHER FOR US. WE HAD A BLAST!!!

Sunday, June 28, 2009

AIRSHOW

WAITING FOR TWILIGHT SO THE AIRSHOW CAN BEGIN.....

IT'S ALWAYS PARTLY SUNNY IN NEW YORK!!!

THE EVENT WAS AN ALL DAY THING, OF COURSE MARK DIDN'T WANT TO HANG OUT ALL DAY THERE AND HAVE TIRED LIL CRANKY BOYS, SO WE WENT TO THE LATE AIRSHOW AND STILL CAUGHT SOME OF THE CONCERT AND THE OPEN EXHIBITS.

WE GOT TO THE AIRFIELD @ 6PM AND IT WAS DRIZZLING.

WHILE WALKING AROUND IT STARTED RAINING, BUT THE SHOW WENT ON AND SO DID WE!!!

WHEN WE GOT TO THE AIRFIELD WE WALKED AROUND AND GOT IN SOME TRUCKS & AN AIRPLANE.

SOME OF THE PLANES HAD CLOSED DUE TO THE CONCERT,TWILIGHT AIRSHOW & FIREWORKS LATER THAT NIGHT

HERE IS A VIEW FROM ONE OF THE COCKPITS.

NOT SURE OF THE OFFICIAL NAME,BUT TO ME IT'S A HELICOPTER OF SOME SORT

I THINK OF TOPGUN WHEN I SEE THESE PLANES... THERE WERE A BUNCH OF THESE GUYS BEHIND A SHORT WALL TO SEE NOT TOUCH ON THE AIRFIELD.

HERE ARE THE OLDER BOYS IN A TRUCK, MARCEL WAS NOT COOPERATING FOR PHOTOS!!!

WE FORCED HIM TO BE IN THIS ONE..

THEY WERE IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK IN THIS ONE.

MATT WAS ROCKING TO THE MUSIC THAT WAS PLAYING ON THE LOUD SYSTEM..THE SOUNDTRACK WAS COOL WHILE IT RAINED, IT KEPT THE SPIRITS UP DESPITE THE RAIN.

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FINALLY....THE SHOW STARTED

SINCE OUR CAMERA SUCKS, MANY OF THE SHOTS WERE OUT OF FOCUS OR WITHOUT PLANES IN THEM BECAUSE THE CAMERA IS SLOW...HERE IS A LUCKY ONE.

MANY WERE DELETED AND MY NECK WAS SOAR FROM WATCHING THE SHOW AND TRYING TO TAKE PICTURES, SO I STOPPED

MARCEL LOVED THE SHOW...HERE HE IS CLAPPING

WHEN THESE 6 PLANES WERE APPROACHING THEY LOOKED LIKE A UFO

THEY WERE EASIER TO CAPTURE BECAUSE THEY WERE SLOWER & THEY HAD LIGHTS.

THEY FLEW AROUND IN DIFFERENT FORMATIONS AND IT WAS THE LAST PART OF THE SHOW BEFORE THE FIREWORKS.

WE HAD GREAT SEATS FOR THE SHOW, BUT THE FIREWORKS WERE DOWN TO THE FAR,FAR LEFT OF THE AIRFIELD SO WE DECIDED TO HIT THE ROAD AND WATCH FROM THE CAR....GOOD CALL...THE KIDS WERE KNOCKED OUT & WE AVOIDED ALOT OF TRAFFIC