brookover October 24th, 2008
I missed Jim’s call Monday. He e-mailed to say that the phones were down. They finally were back up yesterday and he called last night!!!! It was so good to hear his voice. He sounded good. They will be in Kuwait for probably two more weeks. They have to wait for vehicles & equipment from another base before they can go to the one his company is assigned to. He said it was in the 90s. They aren’t doing much–they’ve been to a range to qualify on their new vehicles and done PT but mostly they’ve sat around, napped, played cards, etc. They are eager to get to their new base and get going.
I had considered setting up a separate blog for posting about Iraq but I’ve decided to keep them here. For posts that I don’t want public, I will be making them password-protected. I’ll use the same password each time. I will try to send that password out by e-mail this weekend to those of you I have e-mail addys for. If you don’t get the e-mail, please e-mail me and I’ll send it to you. E-mail addy is jtbrookover@gmail.com Jim’s e-mail address is brookove@hotmail.com When I have an address for him, I’ll post it.
brookover October 19th, 2008
Strike 1
And Strike 2!
Elizabeth had SO much fun bowling! I was worried that she wouldn’t have much fun after having talked about it for two months. No worries there though!
brookover October 17th, 2008
Left earlier than originally planned. No surprise there, eh?!
He’s Off pictures
brookover October 14th, 2008
Deployment is this week. I’ll try to update over the weekend or early next week. In the meantime, a few pictures of my adorable children. 
E on her first day of preschool
What it means to parent a boy, I guess!
Ben climbing the stairs while Jim vacuums
Playing in the playroom with the party hat E insisted Ben wear. She always picks out pink things for Ben, usually pink sparkly items or pink skirts/dresses. Jim doesn’t care for her choices!!
brookover August 17th, 2008
Jim should be home in about 10 days! This “trial deployment” has gone very smoothly. I hoped it would go well so I’d have that confidence boost going into the deployment. Jim has enjoyed the training. He said its been good training and his soldiers have done well with it.
Elizabeth starts back at Awanas this week. She’s very excited.
Ben’s two bottom teeth are fully in and he’s working on the top two now. As you can see in the pictures below, he’s pulling up now. Elizabeth gets so excited when he does and says “Good job, Buddy Brother!!”
I’ve uploaded some new pictures & videos.
Look at me! My boy is pulling up & standing!!
Jim’s Kids Elizabeth has a couple old Nintendo controls that she likes to play. She decided to get one out for each of them. It kept them occupied for a good ten minutes.
I’ve moved the videos again. :) Just from one Google location to another, so there shouldn’t be any problems viewing. If there are, please let me know! I don’t remember which ones I’ve already posted, so here’s the link to the folder of videos.
Videos
I booked our trip for December. We come in on the 22nd (hopefully to snow!) and leave on January 13. I’m really hoping for a big snow during the trip! I don’t need two feet like we got back in 2004 when I was home for Christmas but I’d take one foot!