Friday, November 6, 2009

congratulations lance corporal

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brent graduated this morning and was promoted to lance corporal... he finished first in his class with an average of 99.3%... (only missed one question on one test...)

this morning went something like this:
he was one of three that were honored... they take a few minutes to call out the top three of the class to come forward and present them with a special certificate... they started with the announcement of lc martindale graduating with 99.3%... then pfc ??? with 93.5%... then pfc ??? with 92%...
kind of looks like the picture above...

funny thing... one time when we were playing the newlywed game with some friends (hi aaron and vicki) we got the question, who has the higher iq? and i said myself and brent said himself... we lost at that game... and then as soon as we went home we took iq tests... and of course brent won... i was determined to beat him, but only made it worse on myself, because each test we took, he still won... and of course he was so sweet as to print off our scores just to make sure to remind me who had the higher iq... i should have known...
he is dang smart... and i am dang proud!

to:brent
from:errin
congratulations for graduating and even more for being first in your class which earned you an early promotion! love you and cant wait to see you!!!

*ps... no that is not brent... no that was not his graduation... no we dont even know those people...
**pss... since we couldnt be there i found the above picture from google/some guys promotion at cherry point nc... brent said that another marines girlfriend was there and she took a bunch of pictures... i hope to get those soon...

Thursday, November 5, 2009

love thursday:hair cuts...

thanks auntie karen...
you rescued my eyes from my hair...
and made me look like this...

football, trunk or treat and halloween...

i totally forgot to take a picture of brandon, my brother at his last football game... but of course got one of jones with my parents... brandon did such a amazing job staying so dedicated to football and working so hard to be a part of the stapley football team. i am so proud of him...
why does jones have his halloween costume on for brandons football game... yeah... we got a lot of weird looks walking around... at least he was warm... it was about 40 something degrees that night... anyway... we went to our wards trunk or treat and then straight to the game so we could catch the last quarter... stapley 28:poston 7...
10/28/09
halloween... jones loved it... it was so fun to see him get into trick or treating... his bucket got so heavy that he would go to the door get the candy and then bring me the bucket to hold until we got to the next house... i had so many good laughs...
we were in cali looking for a house for the weekend... so we met up with my aunt and her family and friends for a chili cookoff and other yummy food... there were at least 10 different chilis to try... so good... and i only tried two... then the corn bread... homemade mac and cheese... guacamole and chips... and so much more... it was so good!!! those cali people know how to make some chili...
ps... i have no idea where he found a spiderman bat or to whom it belonged... but he would not let it go...
10/31/09

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

cheers to five years...

love...
there is so much to say... but none of it will tell you how the heart... my heart really feels... thank you for a wonderful five years! i couldnt have asked for better.... and i cant wait for the millions more to come... love you with all my heart and soul!
tu eres mi media naraja y sera para siempre...
happy anniversary love...
xoxox