Lunch at Olive Garden

I have got some truly wonderful and amazing women that I have had the privilage of not only getting to know but become friends with over the last year.  These awsome gals from ASA are the best support system you could ask for.  We're all navy wives (and some army) and so we get the struggles of deployments and the frustrations that come with being a military family.  Every so often all of us San Diego girls get together for lunch of other fun activities which are always a lot of fun.  Today was one of those days.

Wendy is leaving to return home and we got the chance to meet Kathrine for the very first time.  So we met up at Olive Garden for lunch.  It was a lot of fun.  I made sure to bring my camera and so we got some great photos.

 The ASA San Diego Girls: (left to right in back) Janny, Kristen, Sarah and her daughter Katty, Kathrine and her son Daniel, Krsitina.  (Left to right in front): Nicole, Wendy, Marriah, Kaden, and me holding Annabelle

 Since today was also Jay's birthday I got some White Chocolate Cheesecake togo in honor of it. 

 Us at Lunch

 Marriah, her husband and their baby boy Felix

 Wendy's little boy LJ

 Wendy

 Kristina

Kathrine and her son Daniel

 Marriah and Nicole

 Sarah and Katty

Me

Kristen

Lunch was great.  The company was wonderful and we're already talking about doing a few more of these get togethers soon.

Water everywhere

I've basically given up on getting caught up from my trip last month.  For those who haven't heard the news, SO CAL area has been slammed for the last week with rain.  And it was a lot of rain.  We started getting rain on Monday and up until this morning we were still getting rain.  What had once been only 4 storms turned into 5 and that last one was bad.  I love the rain, but this got to be even too much for me.  We had tornados, thunder, lightning, massive amounts of wind, hail and loads of rain.  Thursday night was one of the worst nights of the storm.  The wind was horrible and the thunder actually woke up Kaden. 

 I took these on Monday morning of the storm.  This is our front yard, right outside Kaden's window.  We had our own mini lake.

 The rain was just coming down like this all week long.

 On Friday morning as I opened Annabelle's blinds this is what I see across the street.  The wind was just that powerful as well as the rain that just kept coming.

 Ten minutes later Kaden asked me to see if it was still raining, it had tapered off some, and the same tree was now broken.  The wind just snapped off the limbs of the tree.  Throughout our part of the neighborhood there were 4 trees all affected like this or worse just from Friday's storm.

In between storms the maintence crew was scrambling to get all of the damaged trees cut down and out of harms way before it once again started raining.

Today we're actually seeing the sun and I can't wait to get out of this house for a lunch get together with my fellow navy wives.  It will be so nice to get out of this house for once this week.

Oh, and before I forget today is Jay's birthday and I'm eating some dessert at lunch today in honor of it.  He's still deployed and we miss him like crazy, but he'll be coming home soon and we'll celebrate all that he's missed at that time.