Thanks for the fish!!

Oh, I keep forgetting (silly me) to intorduce the newest memeber of our family- ODIN THE BETTA FISH!!

Mike's parent's neighbor's sister used Betta fish as her center pieces at their wedding (THIS I MUST SEE!!) and they had them ALL left over. So, we stole Odin. 

Here he is, in all his glory!! (And yes...Mike named him)

I think...

So, today I decided that I will continue to go grocery shopping with my mother.

When I go with her, I tend to only buy the things I need and less of the junk I want.

Huzzah for only $54 spent on food today!! (Mom, we'll pay you back next paycheck)
I LOVE MY MOMMA!!

To Bishop John H Whitaker

Yesterday I attended part of the funeral for Bishop Whitaker of the Fallon 3rd ward (I say part because I was so sick I had to leave and go home). What I did see was beautiful. I really love LDS funerals. They are full of so much hope and peace for the loved ones left behind. It was my first funeral since Halycon's and brought my total of funeral attendance to three. Bishop's eulogy was given by his 5 sons (the youngest is 15, like my brother Ty) and impossible not to cry through.
The past year has been very hard for the Whitaker family and the 3rd ward. Last December, Bishop was hit by a tree limb during a service project. At first it was said he wouldn't survive and then that he wouldn't walk. Bishop attended me and Mike's wedding with help from a walker and by November, the was walking with a cane. But he got strep and while in the hospital for it, it was discovered that he had cancer. On December 16, they said he had only 2 days to live...but he made it until the 21st because he wanted to be at home with his family when he passed.
Bishop was only my bishop for 5 months. But he was the Bishop who was there for the Bice's when Haly passed and the one who helped Mike come back to the church. Mike had said in the past week that he was the man who helped Mike get where he wanted to be. See, all Mike has wanted since he was, like, 20, was to get married and have a family. But none of that was able to happen until Mike came back to the church because, only a month after he went through the temple, he found me. So, you could say that it was  part Haly, part Jeff and part Bishop Whitaker that helped Mike and I come together.
So this is my thanks to Bishop Whitaker. Sometimes I thought he was a bit grouchy but given everything he was going through while I knew him, it's understandable. He helped make a world of difference in my husband's life and I know without a doubt that he and Sister Whitaker will be together again along with their kids and grandkids. It's horrible moments like this, when a family loses a father so young, that the gospel helps make bearable.

Let's throw in a couch...

So this one day at work, I was just chilling, minding my own business when a co-worker (Charil Smith) comes up to me and asks "We have this couch we don't use anymore. Would you and Mike like it?"

For free-dollars and free-cents? Well, heck yeah we would!!

No one said it would be an easy fit into our house.

We went and picked it up with the Bice's truck and help from Mike's friend Brian. 

Getting the couch into the house was a lot easier said then done.

In the end, we had to take the front door off the frame AND the legs off the couch...yeah. Wheew!!

Our other couch sits in the den and is used as a bed for guests (aka Christopher).

But here's some photo's of our couch moving fun!!!

No door...couch outside

Mike and Brian getting the couch into the house

Old couch, new room

Oops. Silly me. I don't have a picture of the new couch in the living room.

Sooo...that will just have to wait until I find my camera :)

What is a CAG, you ask?

Just kidding...no one really asked. But, just in case someone, somewhere, actually reads this and wanted to know, I'm going to tell you...

CAGs are Carrier Air Groups that come to NAS Fallon in groups ranging from 150 guys to 300. (The 300 guys groups are the ones we like!) If it wasn't for the CAGs, I think the NEX would not exist. Anyways, they come out here so the pilots can train to fly and bomb out at our bombing range. And, you can't have a pilot without all of his crew men...thus the total guys is around 300.
Oh, a huge by the way...have any of you ever seen the movie Top Gun starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmar? Well, if so, would it surprise you to know that Top Gun is no longer located in Miramar, California? NOPE!! The Top Gun school is now located at NAS Fallon in little old, Fallon Nevada. Is having Top Gun located at your base anything like is was shown in the movie? Well, for a little ol' Sales Clerk at the local Navy Exchange...nope again.
Anyways, when they come to town the pilots fly, they bring their crews to load bombs and clean the planes and then they run amuck through out town. But work hours go WAY up. We get CAGs from all over the US and we even get some foreigners in too. Like last month we had about 50 Germans. I like the guys from out of country because they are polite to the working people. Most of the American guys are kinda  jerks because our Navy Exchange isn't as "cool" as theirs and they think Fallon is stupid with nothing to do (which is kinda true...)

So that answers they question of CAGs!!

I ♥ JET NOISE!!!

Nothing much to say...

Mike and two other guys were let go on the 29th day of their employment at Gabbs Mine. Basically, it was like a smack to the face along with: "Thanks for working for us for 29 days. But we're going to let you go because tomorrow your over time and medical would have kicked in and we don't feel like paying."
We're hanging in there. I've picked up a lot of hours at work thanks to store inventory and the CAGs that'll be showing up on the 2nd of January. Mike's back to looking for a job and we're back to our old plans A and B...
Plan A: Find a job.
Plan B: If a job is not found by January 31st, Mike will go to Salt Lake, get his CDL, and drive truck.

Weren't we just here a few months ago? I could cry.