Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Florida!

Friends and family from near and far, we appologize for not writing to you all in a while. The holiday season, as you all know, can be a very busy time. We enjoyed many firsts this Christmas: our first Christmas together, our first Christmas in Florida, and our first Christmas without our parents. Though the second and third of those could be a sad occasion, we made the most of it and thouroughly enjoyed the day together with just the two of us. My exciting gifts of the year were Racquett ball gear including glasses, balls, and racquets. LeMar's best gifts were a train set and some much needed jeans and shoes. I didn't get the puppy I was childishly hoping for, but I did get an adoreable puppy ornament for our tree.

May God bless you all in the coming year. LeMar and I are are constantly praying for health and the continuation of our steady incomes. Why? Well, we are expecting an addition to the family at the end of June. We are having a baby! I am 13+ weeks right now which makes the due date June 27th. Please join us in our prayers for health and financial stability. We are very excited about this upcoming year and the birth of our baby. May God bless you and keep you in 2008!


This picture was taken at 11 weeks, 4 days. The baby was measured at 5.6 cm, and we heard the heart beating at 156 bpm.

On the road again

We just got back from a glorious 4 day weekend in the Big Easy with the Turley & Pollard sides of the family. We had a great time visiting with all the relatives, at the Battle of the Bands, and at the Bayou Classic. We decided to pull for Grambling over Southern, so it was a bit of a disappointment when Grambling lost. However, the final score of the game worked out for us in the pool we had going and we made five bucks off of Southern's victory. Traffic was a bear getting back this evening. We got kicked off of I-10 just into Mississippi after a long hall of bumper to bumper traffic only to be sent into more bumper to bumper traffic on the the new route. All in all, our 5.5 hour trip took us 7 hours.

This wonderful delay now leaves me with an 11 hour turn around as I prepare to go to Tampa for a conference this week. Monday and Friday are travel days, so I will be home Friday night. Well, I better get on with the un-packing and packing.

Has our blog absence been puzzling?

Yes it has!

LeMar and I have been keeping ourselves busy working on puzzles. We had been working on the hot air balloon puzzle for ages. I got the Bear Lake puzzle for my birthday, and we finished both of those on the same day. Then we started going into puzzle withdrawal, so we went to Wal-Mart and picked up the huge puzzle of Times Square. We have loved working on this one together, and I can hardly wait until it is finished!

Heading Home

Though it seemed like it would never come, the last day of class is here! We finish up with a test and a "graduation ceremony" tomorrow morning. I will be home on Friday! Happy Halloween!

Hello from Ohio

Dear friends and family,

I am getting settled in at my temporary home of a hotel (VOQ) room for the next three weeks. My typical week day will consist of 7 hours of instruction, 1 hour of lunch, some evening reading/homework/study, and it seems like a fair amount of racquetball. If you happen to be reading this from a location near the great state of Ohio, drop me a line. I would love to hang out and catch up. Please keep LeMar in your prayers. These TDYs are always more hard on him than on me because the AF tends to keep me busy while he must go home to an empty house every night. If you are in Florida, give him a buzz. He just may get out and do something if you invite him to tag along! ;) Much love and God bless, Em