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hello world its been awhile, I did survive ODS flew home drove with Steph and the Kids across the country and arrived in Charleston SC. We closed on the house latter than planed but got in and it is nice. Our last home was small but had lots of storage this house is big with very little storage. so far I like the latter. adding storage is way easer than adding floor space.

that was the catch-up paragraph.



About thee weeks after we arrived the bishop called Stephanie and me in for an interview where he called Stephanie to be the RS president. now I was a little surprised but also have great faith in wife's many talents and wonderfulnesses (I don't believe the the spellchecker did not mark that as wrong) She was set apart today with one counselor the 2nd is forthcoming. So I have lots of faith that Stephanie will do a great job and I have always tried to support my fantastic marvelous and all things nice wife. I will have to admit I have slight feelings of worry. I have not had to share Stephanie before. I guess with the kids a little but when I am home she does an excellent job of making me feel like I come first. Now I know there will be many times when I am home with the kids and she is out using her super powers for the betterment of other people and I am not 100% sure I want to share. I support I love and I raised my hand today to sustain her and I will but I will miss her too.

The last few days have been better. we are now wearing uniforms most days and I don't think they would make us do sand angles in uniforms that cost around $200 but I could be wrong. PT is every morning now and they make as tough as they can. So I still get exorsize. Well I have some home work to do before I go to bed so best of luck to all of you.

ODS First Week

Well here I am at Officer development School. In Newport RI it is very windy here I do have a room with a view a beautiful view of the bay some times there are sailboat races that look really neat. I don't have a lot of time to look at the sail boats the first week they run you pretty hard. wake up between 0400 0430 and most nights we were let go around 2000 "8:00PM" lights out at 2200 "10:00PM" lots of little silly rules to obey and if you mess up the whole team dose push ups for it. It is supposed to teach team work. I'll let you know how its working next week. I did get a uniform and it looks OK. dress uniforms don't come til the next week or two.

I did do a PFA or physical fitness assessment sit ups 51 push ups 38 1.5 mile run in 13:58 I should do better in all areas by the time I leave here. I think I will. the food is not too bad I have lost weight but not a lot one pound or two is all I was hoping ODS would drop me 10 pounds or more. it might still well I had better finish things up I have to muster for Chow in 30 min or so

ENS McRae

On and Off = more work

So the house was listed we got two offers accepted the second one only to have it fall after inspection. We are off the market for a week so I can fix all of the things the inspector found wrong. How fun for me! We are also in the process of making an offer on a new home down south. I think in order for the financing to go through I need to figure out my school loans. I am also trying to understand everything I need to do for the Navy as I leave for Officer Development school in three weeks. So little to do and so much time. no stop that reverse it. Thank you.

House is listed

Hello. As of Tuesday we are officially on the market. MLS # 29100933. We listed for $199,000 that will give us very little in take away money but hopefully the house will sell quickly. We have started working with people in SC to find the next McRae Manor. we are thinking new construction in a neighborhood called Royal Oaks. The Ashley plan is the one we are looking at the most, with the additional room over the garage or as the say in Charleston F.R.O.G. (finished room over garage). When we first started looking for homes in the area we saw includes FROG and wondered what they were talking about. The bad thing is the earliest we could move in would be November. So temporary housing would be in order.

The picture of Sterling has little to do the the post I just thought it was cute. Stephanie took it. If I looked hard enough through Mom and Dad's pictures there might be one of me in same wheel barrow at about the same age.

Graduation Presents

So I had some extra $ the last day of school and was tooling around the bookstore looking for something. For what ever reason I decided to get books for the kids thy offer free gift wrapping so I had them individually wrapped and brought them home. Kaith received UP, in a book version. Trevor got the latest Sandra Boynton CD Book combo "Blue Moo", Miriam got a new copy of What do people do all day, and Sterling got a board book of trucks. this picture is not staged when we sent the oldest kids to bed that night this is how we found them a few minutes later. The best graduation present ever, encouraging reading in the next generation priceless.

Graduation and hot jets

I am officially graduated it happened a few weeks ago and a week or two after

graduation my senior project got off the ground under its own 18 lbs thrust jet engine.

First Flight

I don't go to officer development school until September so I have the

summer off, well I have been trying to do 4 years of house projects so the house will sell before I need to be in Charleston SC. I'm not sure you can call that off. We hope to have the house on the market next week the Realtor is taking pictures Monday so wish us luck on a quick sale.