This past weekend went by way to quickly!  It was a nice long weekend since Geno had a four-day, well technically a 3 and a half day.  He had to go into work for a few hours on Friday because one of his soldiers was going before the E-5 board.  

We went to the farm again this weekend. This time, Tanya (our neighbor) took pictures of the boys for us.  I was pleasantly surprised that Derrick came along with virtually no protest!  He even warmed up to the camera after a little nudging. 

Saturday and Sunday Geno and I were practically bums!  We slept almost the day away on Sunday.  I was able to get a lot of laundry done but it’s now in piles in our closets…lol!  I told Geno that would happen.  Hopefully, we can put them away before they get dirty!

Yesterday was productive though.  After dropping Xavier off at preschool Geno and I headed over to the base gym only to find out it was closed for the training holiday.  So we decided to use our neighborhood and took a nice walk. After a little relaxing and eating breakfast we headed out on the missions for the day.  We had lunch at Beef “O” Brady’s. It was pretty good and they had a few items that looked really good. I had a hard time picking which one I wanted.  After the filling lunch we headed to the NAPA store.  It turns out that just because a Jeep is “Trail Rated” doesn’t mean it’s indestructible.  It turns out we did something to the “Idler Pulley” and it needed to be replaced. NAPA was the only place we could find that had the part in stock (since it is a new model) and it didn’t cost $50, which was the price the dealership wanted to charge us.  We headed Petsmart for name tags for the dog and cat, then Cold Stone for a small ice cream snack, AE to exchange a sweater of Derrick’s and to Laser Tag to find out prices for Derrick’s birthday.  We also ran into Linen N’ Things. They are going out of business and Geno and I wanted to see what we could find since we are in need of a few things.  We left there spending a little more then we had planned but we were able to get some good deals.  The main two things were new nonstick pots/pans and a new Spot-Bot.  The pots and pans are for when we move to Europe - they were just such a great deal I didn’t want to wait.  They will stay in their boxes until we get to Italy.  The Spot Bot was to replace the one we have. For some reason it broke and it only had a 1-year warrenty.  The one year was up last month, go figure.  We bought a few other “wants” but at 20-40% it wasn’t to bad.

Today I have a BioChem test that I will be studying for here in a bit.  I am feeling pretty good about the test though. 

Derrick and Xavier are off from school/preschool today for Veteran’s Day. Geno is at work, since he was off on Friday, and he’s in school for HazMat training.  Our neighbors, thankfully, will be watching Xavier so that I can go to class today. 

Well that is about all that’s going on for now.  Here are a few of my favorite pictures that Tanya took of the boys. The whole day is on Flickr if you would like to look at all of them.