Archive for September, 2007

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Paul is at his unit

Paul has arrived at his new unit. 215th Support Battalion at Ft. Hood. There he is getting acclimated to the what and where for. They are expecting a lot of equipment to come back from Iraq this winter so he will soon have his hands full repairing tanks that have been over there for 18 […]

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Monday, September 17th, 2007

Ducks beat Fresno State

This is only really news because Mark and I were there to see the game. It was our semi-annual invitation from the football mad parental and fraternal units to join them in worshipping at the altar of little-boy football.
My gorgeous mother made me put little “O” tattoos on my fingernails. To match my new Duck […]

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Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Justin is on his way to college today!

His new wardrobe is quite stylin’ according to Justin’s MySpace bulletin.
Here is is at a Duck game prior to his departure. This is not how he looks normally. He seems to have some sort of growth on his chin. I hope he is planning on seeing a physician soon: 
 
Picture stolen from his MySpace page […]

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Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Pv2 Carleton has arrived at his new base

Paulie got to Texas yesterday. He says he has about 3 days of inprocessing to go through before he joins his unit.
The POS, I mean his truck, behaved fine for the trip.
Here are some pictures he sent from “the road”: 
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere 
Phoenix 
El Paso in the middle of the night 
Yeah, I’m guessing […]

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Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Wow. The Ducks beat Michigan.

Big time. 39 to 7. In Michigan. Their biggest defeat since 1968 or something like that. I wonder just how loud my family in attendance was screaming??
Read all about it!

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Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Fishin’ with Paulie

We took the Paulie and Sarah fishing at Promontory Park today on Paul’s last day in Portland before he heads to Fort Hood, Texas for his first assignment. It was a nice, relaxing way to end his visit. He seemed to need the time to decompress after several days of the usual behavior of […]

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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Pv2 Carleton is home!

A bunch of us turned out at the airport to greet him on Saturday night. Some of us may have been inebriated. I know– it’s hard to believe, isn’t it? No names will be divulged, because we wouldn’t want to embarrass anyone. Especially not M… no, not anyone
Sarah, Paul, and Shawnathe family at the […]

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