What a combination! So yesterday was both Christmas and “The Day”.  It was a great day together. We had a deployment ceremony in the morning. We tried to get a picture of Xavier and Santa at the mall but at 10:30a the mall was PACKED with daycares also wanting pictures.  I’m going to try again tomorrow so we will see.  We then went home finished last minute things and just spent time together as a family.  We later went to Miyabi’s for dinner. It was nice and relaxing.  At 8:30p I dropped Geno off at the company. They had to be on a lock down. During this time they load their baggage(and there is a TON), go through customs, then wait for the plane.  Geno called at 1am to tell me we could go to Green Ramp.  We(the boys and I) arrived at about 1:30a.  For a change it was warm in there - last time it was FREEZING!  At about 5:15a they gave us a 15minute warning.  I woke Derrick up - Xavier was down for the count.  We took pictures(below) and we saw him off.  This next year will be filled with ups and downs but in the end Geno will be home and hopefully this will be his last 1 year deployment.  He’s planning on going to a different school, SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment) for flight medic training.  His deployments should then be shortened drastically.

Well, that is the update.  My aunt and uncle are down from Cleveland. They do jewelry shows and I hosted one today. I’ll show pictures of the jewelry I received later!!!

There are more pictures on the Flickr site. Email me if you need access to it.

Here are a few of my favorite’s…

CHRISTMAS

DEPLOYMENT