Surprise

Well, we got a bit of a shock and a surprise...Travis received word that after AIT in July he will be stationed in Korea! Holy cow! I'm still reeling a bit at the shock of it. BUT Jessica and the boys DO get to be with him since he will be there for 3 years!! They are coming here for a visit sometime this summer before they leave for Korea. I guess I'll have to get really good at sending letters overseas and packages too! And hopefully, Skype will help out so we can see them online that way. This really is a great opportunity for them. They will learn and grow so much by being in a different culture. The Seoul Temple is about 40 minutes from the base there so that's good. I'll bet they have an awesome ward too! Lucky ward to get my kids! I'll have to find out how to do international calling too.

Family History

I just wanted to write about the new and exciting thing that I'm doing now. I am doing Indexing for the Family Search program that is by the Church. When I signed up I wasn't sure what exactly I would be doing but I had been feeling a pull to do some family history work but didn't see how I would get organized enough to do where Mom had left off. So I went to the website and when the first page came up it brought me straight back to being a kid and doing genealogy with Laura and Mom. There in front of me was a scan of a census from 1910. So cool!! What I do is transfer the information from the census sheet into the table/boxes on the computer and then when I'm done I send the batch in. It goes pretty quickly and the boys and Dan are so impressed that I'm doing this and Ransom reminded me to say a prayer to be able to read it correctly. Sweet boy! Dan is going to sign up too. I think he'll really enjoy it as well. Dan says that I'd probably start having angels surrounding me as I worked. Sounds like a good idea to me!

A Soldier!!! I'm gonna have to learn to say HOO-AH!!!

Our Number one, number one son is completing basic training this week at Ft. Jackson, SC. His follow on assignment for Advanced Infantry Training, (AIT) is at Redstone arsenal in Alabama. His pretty wife, OUR Number one only Daughter-in-law is on her way out to his graduation, this Thursday and Friday. Life getting in the way as usual precluded me from attending, to my chagrin and disappointment. I did get to talk to him Sunday when he called. He apparently won an Eagle pass for on post for having the best pt score and generally being an excellent example of a recruit.

We've been able to follow him on Facebook because of the training command allowing a photographer to follow their training and post pictures of the different platoons as they progressed. If I can figure out how to link it at the end of this I will. We have therefor been able to find him in pictures as Echo company (the Punishers) have worked their way from the NBC chamber and tear gas- through victory forge, the last 4 day field exercise before graduation. To anyone who reads this....This is my son the Soldier. Jessica's Husband Thomas and Felix's Father but my Son. (OK Sharon can claim him too.)
OK i can't figure out a hyper link to his basic training but I'm sure you can find it by searching for above, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment
Well done Travis!!
Not to bad for a Daddy spot, lol