I really wanted to update...

but Jason is waiting for me :0)



Maybe this weekend...I know...I say that every weekend!

Rest assured nothing exciting is happening in my life :)


****Love you all****

P.S. Kids are doing great in PA, and nope we aren't ready for them to come yet!

Family Pictures!

Check 'em out!

http://www.photographybymelibelle.com/

Gone

My kiddos left today for PA.

Alive!

Just wanted to let you know I'm alive. Busy with work, and the family. I'll try to update this weekend:)

More funky photos

I wish had the negatives to these pics. I 'd get real reprints.

These were taken in July of '96. The top one is 4th of July Weekend.

Jason came to Derby to spend it with me;)

Not sure about the bottom one. I know it was in Jason's room.

I told Jason today that June 2nd starts our new era.

That I'm not waiting for 2007 to be over before making it better.

It's been years since we celebrated the day we met.

I'm still not sure what we are going to do,

but we will be something to commemorate this day.

Golly, we were goofy looking! We have definitely gotten better looking with age!

Happy Memorial Day.

Please remember all of our Service members past and present.

June 2, 1996

Can you believe that in 6 days Jason and I will be going on 11 years? I'm going to count down this whole week. June 2, 2007 is going to begin a new era for us. An era of only good things. That is insane to me. 11 years. Almost 1/3 of my life! We met on June 2, 1996 at a Village Inn in Manhattan, Kansas. Jason likes to tell people it was love at first sight. Or at least it was for him. I took a little convincing. We were introduced through a mutual friend. I had just decided that I was giving up on men (at the tender age of 17! HA!) So when Chad approached me wanting to introduce me to his friend, I about ran in the other direction. I figured I'd be polite and meet this fellow, but that was all I intended to do. What follows is "our story". It's so cheesey, so cliche', so Jason and Angel.

I walk up to the table with our mutual friend where Jason is sitting.
Chad says, " Jason, this is Angel. The girl I was telling you about."

Jason looks at me smiles, and says....." So, this is Angel, the woman of my dreams. I'd marry you."

And he did. How about that? We didn't have a long courtship. 4 months. We were crazy, young, and in love. I was 18 and he was 21. We had no business getting married. But we knew. I knew he was soul mate, I knew he was the father of my children, I knew I was going to grow old with him. There was never any doubt in my mind.

This is one of our first photos together. It was taken in Jason's barracks room.

I don't even know if we were "officially" dating yet.

This picture was taken at Country Stampede. This was about 2 weeks after we met. It was a 3 day country concert that we went to together. Like the sunburn???
I think this is the same weekend as Country Stampede.

This is Jason packing to go the field.

It was his first of many times leaving me for weeks at a time!

***Sorry about the weird crappy pics. I had to scan them from my first scrapbook pages!***

Lazy Day

Today is a lazy day. It's dreary and rainy out. I'm passing my time with laundry and cleaning. I've paid a few bills, updated my myspace page, now my blog. Trying to organize and clear out as I clean. We have so much crap! So much we don't need or use. I'm a sentimental pack rat. I keep everything anyone has ever given me. Cards, notes, photos, everything. Then there is this scrapbook room. I haven't scrapbooked in forever. Months, and months. Unfortunately, I have almost NO desire. What desire I do have is hampered by my very cluttered area. I can not scrapbook in a cluttered area. It's insanely cluttered. There isn't even room to work. It's just crap everywhere. I know when I get the pics from Melibelle I'm going to want to scrap, but first I have to clean that area. It's a disgrace.

I have a 4 day weekend! Yipee! Monday CW is closed, and I used my floating holiday to take Tuesday off. Jason has Tuesday off too. It sucks that he works retail and has to work 3 of the 4 days I am off. I'm ready for him to get an 8-5 like me. Our family needs it.

Last night I had a dream we had triplets. 2 girls, 1 boy. Mimi, Lyle, and Olivia. Don't ask about the names I have no clue what's up with those. I don't remember much else about the dream. I guess it was on the brain b/c Jason and I were discussing the probability of us having a 3rd child prior to bed. Don't freak out, it's was just a discussion. There are NO plans for any baby making here at the Hallock house.

I Hate Thursdays

AGH! Is this day over yet???

TEASE!

Here are some of the pics from our shoot with Meli. She is so incredibly talented with that camera it's almost unfair! There is another one more I wanted to share, but for some reason it's not working right now. Enjoy! And call Melibelle to book your session now, not long until she's of Annie Leibowitz status and won't do photo shoots for peons like us anymore!

MY NECKLACE FROM JASON!!!

THE HALLOCK FAMILY!

A Good Weekend

This has been a great weekend. It started out Friday with some good news at work(ask away, but I won't tell!). Then on my way home Jason called and said he was getting off early AND he had a surprise for me! I LOVE surprises! When I got home Jason had me close my eyes....and when I opened them, there he stood with a little grey box.... I almost started crying just looking at the box! Then when he opened it up, I did cry. It was an opal and diamond necklace!!! So beautiful, and so perfect! Yes, sobs and kisses followed! Then Jason and I took the Savannah and her friend to see Shrek 3. It was cute. Better then Spidey 3 in my opinion.

On Saturday we woke up at the butt crack of dawn to take family pics with Melibelle. She did them at the canal in Irving, and they are going to be so stinkin' cute! I can not wait to see them. We did family shots, Jason and I, Jason and the kids, Me and the kids, the kids alone, me alone, Jason alone. Pretty much every combo! Melibelle even took pics of my new necklace! I'll post one soon. Then Jason called in sick and we just spent the afternoon together as a family. We went to lunch hung out, took a nap, basically chilled.

Saturday evening I took my friend Karla out to dinner. She has been keeping the kids for us after school since Misty moved out. She has been a total lifesaver and I wanted to let her know how much I appreciate her. We went to a little seafood joint that was yummy! To make it even better, she had a gift for me! She got me Victoria's Secret Dream Angel Heavenly perfume. It smells so good.

Today has been pretty normal. Jason is at work. Jonathan went to NRH2O with the youth from church. Me and Savannah Banana have been cleaning the house and doing laundry. Ok, I've been cleaning and Savannah been been whining about helping! I'm getting ready to leave and go pick Jonathan then it will be back home to finish up chores and get ready for the week. I hope ya'll had a weekend too.

Dear Lord,

Please let today be better than yesterday

My Song

Jason knows I'm a music girl. I really identify with music and I use songs to express how I feel a lot. I asked him to think of/pick/find a song that expressed how he felt about me. This is the song that was playing when I walked through the door tonight. I knew it was his song for me, b/c this song was not already in our itunes library. The words are so perfect for us right now. I feel hopeful when I listen to this song.....



I'm alone
Yeah, I don't know if I can face the night
I'm in tears and the cryin' that I do is for you
I want your love - Let's break the walls between us
Don't make it tough -
I'll put away my pride
Enough's enough
I've suffered and I've seen the light
[Chorus:]
Baby You're my angel
Come and save me tonight
You're my angel
Come and make it all right
Don't know what I'm gonna do
About this feeling inside
Yes it's true -
Loneliness took me for a ride
Without your love -
I'm nothing but a begger
Without your love - a dog without a bone
What can I do I'm sleeping in this bed alone
[Chorus]
Come and save me tonight
You're the reason I live
You're the reason I die
You're the reason I give
When I break down and cry
Don't need no reason why
Baby , Baby[Chorus]
You're my angel
Come and save me tonight
you're my angel
Come and take me allright
Come and save me tonight,
Come and save me tonight,
Come and save me tonight,
Come and save me tonight,
Come and save me tonight

Do you think it's a sign?

Stewart died today...R.I.P...

Sushi

I love it!

Last night Jason and I went out and had sushi and it was so good! I thought it would be nasty, it wasn't it! It was priced well, and tasted so yummy! What was I thinking? Why didn't I want to try it? I guess it was the country girl in me that thought it was too "city". I'm not sure what my reason was, but I'm so happy I have found it! Now I see Sushi places everywhere, and I want to try them all.

Happy Saturday Folks....

Stewart

Meet Stewart.

Stewart was meant to be dinner for Vince(our Gecko)

Vince didn't want to eat hm,

he wanted to snuggle with him.

After 2 days of snuggling we figured we'd better feed the little guy to keep him alive.

So Stewie has been eating cheerios and soy milk.

He's a baby. His eyes are not even open yet.

You know the animal loving Hallock family...

we have to keep him

So..if you have any advice, ideas,

or experience with pet mice

please let us know!

Right now we are just trying to keep the little fella alive!

Where do we go from here?

That is a power packed question. It means so many different things....

Moving. Jason and I are thinking about moving. Out of Texas. My job has a location in AZ. So does Jason's. He has already put in a transfer. If we hear something back I will put one in too. We are weeds. We have no roots. I guess it's the Army in us. We like TX, but it hasn't been good to us. It's time to spread our wings. See where God takes us. We are discussing another place as well, but we'll see...

Savannah Got A Haircut!

This is what Savannah looked like at 8 a.m.
Notice her hair has not been combed.

Combing her hair was a nightmare,

that's why we are getting a haircut ;0)

Washing
Waiting after washing
Cutting......
Doesn't she look beautiful!
A true Savannah pose!

Princess Belle, with a short do'

The joys of having an 8 year old....

You get to go see Spider-man 3 on opening day.........

Exhausted

I'm so tired, I want to sleep forever. Tonight is a 2 hour GA! Woo-hoo. Finally something good coming my way :0)

Randomness

Here's a little bit of this and that from me:

I have insurance! Yippee! We've been without for almost a year. We still don't have dental b/c we missed the sign-up with Jason's company and my dental stinks. We have medical though! It's decently priced, and has pretty OK prescription coverage too. Nothing like Tricare, but military insurance is a dream.

Toilets: the pottys at work flush automatically. Sometimes I forget this while at home and I start to walk out of the bathroom without flushing. I always catch myself and go back and flush, but WOW what a luxury to have!

Veronica Mars-Oh how I have missed my sweet Veronica! Her and Logan are broken up. Tonight he saw her kissing Piz, he was jealous. Serves him right for throwing that party for Parker. They will get back together. It's almost fun watching them be miserable without each other though.

MY SISTER GOT A JOB! YEAH sister! She will be working at a restaurant called either Tavern 29 degrees OR 29 degrees Tavern. I can't remember. She's excited, so I'm excited for her.

RED: It's my power color. Don't get me wrong. I still love orange, but red makes me feel confidant, sexy, and powerful. Wore red earrings yesterday, and a red necklace today. I totally rocked the red!