red, white, and BLUE!

july 4th- independence day

RED is for sunbathing

this is how otto spent his july 4th morning (and practially every morning)... sun bathing on the patio WHITE for the new spence house walls... they just moved to singapore :)

the spence's had a good ol fashion bbq at their house complete with brisket, patotoe salad, and stingray?

some of the ladies at the bbq


chatting over mass quantities of food

otto made a new friend- tyler spence

BLUE is for the mood i am in since dirk has left...

so dirk left two weeks ago for perth, australia to go offshore. he won't be back until mid to late august (in engineer terms this means add two weeks on to that date, so I don't expect him until september)... this makes me a little blue. but i have been very busy at work learning the ropes and all the new terms. the first week of work i got terribly ill and have been sick for two straight weeks... not much fun. especially since there is no one here to take care of me.

i might get to travel to perth to see him if he comes back onshore. i will also be traveling a bunch to keep my mind off not having my husband around. i am planning a trip to ho chi minh, vietnam with some friends next weekend. then maybe china soon to see a sorority sister.

on another note... please keep the garrett family in your thoughts if you know them (they are the ones we went to phuket with) misty's mom had open heart surgery in the states and while traveling back to be with them frankie had a cardiac event which landed him in the icu along with misty's mom. life is too short to not be with the ones you love...