Honoring our serviceman, Jared!

We love our service men and women, especially when one of them is Jared! We truly appreciate his sacrifice for our freedom and safety. It is also a HUGE sacrifice for Kris and little Jack. So with his recent deployment, I thought it was a neat idea to get a military service flag for Shauna to fly at her home. She had never heard or seen these type of flags hanging in windows of families that have members deployed.

Now a little history of the flag so everyone knows about it! The flag was designed during WWI,becoming an unofficial symbol of a child in service. During WWII, displaying the flag became very common. Almost every home displayed the flag indicating the number of family members serving in the Armed Forces. In 1966, the Department of Defense declared the specifications of the design and display of the service flag. The flag is white with a red border. Each blue star represents the number of members serving (one star meaning one member serving). The color of the stars is symbolic in that the blue represents hope and pride. When a service man been killed a smaller, gold star in placed on top of the blue star to create a blue border surrounding the gold star. The gold star represents sacrifice to the cause of liberty and freedom.

According to the Department of Defense, close family members should fly the flag. So parents, siblings, wife, husband, and children. The flag should only by flown during times of war.

And there is your brief history lesson for the week!

So thank you Jared for serving our country and for your HUGE sacrifice. We pray for you everyday.

He got away!

Well, this year for St Patrick's Day Avery and I built a leprachaun trap to catch us a little green fella. We set out a lot of gold but when Avery got up, he had stolen all of the gold without the trap going off (better luck next year). He did, however, leave little green footprints and a pot of gold for us to enjoy then he escaped down the heat vent. Avery really wanted to catch one but that little guy was just too fast for us but we really had a fun time trying.

Then I made green pancakes and green milk for every one to enjoy on St Patty's day. Avery took green jello jigglers for her little class mates to enjoy. From sun up to sun down, I added green to everything! Dinner rolls, milk, peppermint brownies, if I could add green I did. Jason thinks he's going to be pooping green for the next week!

We've got the Winter Blues!

She is so excited to be put on her coat and hat...again.





Since Hawaii, our lives have been in the usual rut. We cannot wait for Spring to come. Avery

drags me out every day to see how our tulips are doing. She can't wait for warm weather!

We did break out and make our way to Salt Lake. We got tickets for Avery to see Disney on Ice. It was a painful month waiting for this to arrive since she asked me every day if it was time to see the princesses dance on ice. So the night finally arrived and she squealed with delight. We had fantastic seats!!! We got to sit on padded seats which made my night (I hate sitting on hard chairs, it ruins the event for me). We were on row 1 so no one blocked our view and all of the characters were right in front of us. It was a great show because Avery's attention was focused on those Disney characters!! She was mesmerized and so cute when she waved at them. Here are a couple of pictures from our night.

Isn't he thrilled?????

And we are so excited we can hardly stand it!!!

I will add video when my computer doesn't freak out when I try to add them.