Our morning..

Bouncy Burger

Lily Swingin

Ella swingin

Lily loves a boy in his ACUs!

How we spend our time at Fort Bliss

We wake up fairly early (for me anyway!)..hang around the house until 11 and then go to free lunch followed by water time! These are all very out of order and taken from my sisters blog..

This is from today, we went to a little sprinkler park which is my favorite so far!

I hardly have to watch Lily at all here, so we can just sit and chat! ha

This is from awhile ago in the backyard playing in the slip n slide..or when I do it, stop and flop! ha

Jim with all the pool rings at the big pool




Playin in the kiddie pool

Me and Ella

This is another sprinkler/kiddie pool. Lily LOVED it. She went down the big slide over and over again..Ella climbed to the top, got scared and climbed back down. Lily is fearless....

Back to the big pool..me and beth

Random park picture!

More of my favorite sprinkler park..i'll have more pictures tomorrow from beths blog of this park, i only took two on my phone

Jake and Lily in the kiddie pool

Lily

Dunkin her head..I have to watch her at this pool!

Ella on the little slide..I never got a picture of the big one Lily liked..too busy watching her!

another random park picture

Ella at free lunch

Taking a break for a snack at the pool

Free lunch with cousin Joe..she also happens to be wearing his clothes! ha

This picture makes me laugh..we all have our mouths hanging open!

I've been doing beths diet with her..i've lost 7lbs since Sunday (I haven't noticed it,but the scale says so! When working out, my clothes fit better. and you cant work out on this diet because you hardly eat anything..so i'm thinking exercise is probably more for me!) but I cheated a bunch today so we'll see how it goes :)

El Paso Fun

I forgot my camera in Killeen :(

So these are all cell phone pics..my sister usually puts some pictures on her word art site if you need more pictures :)

Before the girls and I headed to El Paso, we had to unload the Uhaul into our storage unit (if you rent from uhaul you get a month free storage!) That was fun...

Sometimes having the smallest grown up hiney in a full car doesnt pay...

I got to ride between the carseats for 9 hours

One of Beths friends has recenty started jogging so I joined her a few times...now i'm on beths diet I havent tried running, because you eat so few calories i'm not sure how i would do
Today Beth and I went out while Lily napped..its really nice having older kids to babysit! She took me to her favorite jewelery store..everything is $1! I got this cute necklace and some fun rings and some other stuff..My shirt is from her other favorite store, it was only 2.99

Lily had a ponytail today..for a few seconds

We spend a lot of our time here..tomorrow we are going to try out the sprinkler park

Slip and Slide!

I got this lovely burn one of the first days here..its now blistering!

Sunscreen is good!

We made it to Texas!

Happy to be out of the car!
Good news/Bad news....we got a house on off post on post housing! Its a 3 bedroom with a bonus room, duplex with fenced yard..it also has a laundry area and breakfast bar (I think) which i'm pretty excited about, i have three barstools i've had for a long time with no where to use them!! The house however is not ready to move in..the people living there now will be out on the 27th, then they like to give the cleaners a week or two to get it clean...we were staying at a hotel in Killeen, but it was kinda rough so we loaded the girls back into the car and drove the 9 hours to El Paso..The girls and I will be staying with my Sister and her family eating free army lunch and playing at the pool until our house is ready!

Here we are at dinner one night at the PX minus my mom who is taking the pic

I've been running with one of Beths friends, Laurie, i'm surprised at how easy it is to run! I thought it would be hard because of the heat, but its pretty nice..I like it better then the cold! (we do run at 9:00pm, so its not terribly hot)

Freedom Run

Last weekend Joe and I ran in the Freedom Run, which is part of the Freedom Festival in Provo but I of course didn't bring my camera..i've been really bad at that lately! Luckily they had photographers at the event so I took these offline. My sister in law also ran the race and she brought her camera so soon I may have a few more pictures!

I blame this on why my time wasn't as fast as it could have been..way too slow of a start!

Joes stats and a pic of him coming to the finish!

Bib Number: 3389
Joseph McShinsky
Draper UT Male
Age Div: 25-29
Time: 26:52
Overall Place: 448
Sex Place: 339

Div Place: 58

My stats and also coming to the finish!
Bib Number:3388
Madison McShinsky
Draper UT Female
age div: 20-24
Time: 31:33
Overall place: 1049
sex place: 426
Div place: 66

My sister in law Jessica

Ella Graduates Preschool

Here she is this morning before school looking so big!

Waiting to go to graduation later in the evening

Outside the church where the graduation was held she found a caterpillar, I think she might have been more excited about that then the actual graduation part! ha

Ella, Alex, little girl, and Wyatt..Ella likes Wyatt :)

WOW! Its Ella!

Ella walking by, Lily got excited

Ella was turned around talking to the little boy behind her pretty much the whole time

Grandma Lyn got her flowers and she was SO excited, I walked them up to her and her face lit up and she said, can I hold them!!

I love this picture!

Lily is a little mess maker and into EVERYTHING!

She made a mess of the tape, and it kept sticking to her fingers...

She didn't like that very much... :)