All Things Chrismassy

 A Very PCS Christmas

                                     (luckily, we are mostly

                                       unpacked and decorated)

There's no theme to the decorations

on our tree or in our house.

We just use things that have meaning

to us.

Our First Christmas Ornament

from 2001

From our trip to Disney

(our delayed honeymoon)

Our "girls" ornaments

Madison, Beauna, and Sadie

Our kooky ornament on the tree

from New Orleans

its one of my favorites

Yup, this is perfect for my husband

from our trip to Hawaii

my new Hallmark ornament

it's first in the cupcake series

from our trip to Cancun

and another from Hawaii trip

our Louisiana ornament

from Jamaica trip

The little mermaid was my favorite

Disney movie growing up

from our trip to Cabo San Lucas

Our Wedding Ornament

June 16, 2001

(we look so young hahaha)

It's a tradition in our home to put a

red and a white bird in the tree.

I'm not sure of the meaning,

my parents did it, so now I do it :)

Our Virginia Tech Tree

we had started to get so many

Hokie ornaments that I decided they

needed their own tree

My Nativity from when I was a child

1986

It always has a special display spot

Our Family Stockings

 Reindeer Beauna

Reindeer Sadie Belle

This was just a little bit of our Christmas. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a New Year of Happiness.

God Bless, XoXo

Tiffany

Brian's OTS Graduation Week

Just wanted to share some Pictures from Brian's Graduation of Officer Training School. I sure was one proud wife!

touring the OTS Complex

in front of the Pave-low

Squadron 3 Tiger Paw

Oath of Office

Color Guard

Graduation Parade

My Husband is in the very front

Pass and Review

WooHoo! We made it!

After the parade

<3 <3 <3 <3

We'll we are still in the process of unpacking. Almost done. Phew. You know you're a military wife when you can unpack your whole house in 48 hours. We also put up some more Christmas decorations. I will be taking pictures soon. I'm so happy to be in our new home and have my hubby back. We're ready for a Very Merry Christmas :)

XoXo

Tiffany

OTS Dining Out

I just wanted to share a few pictures from my husbands Officer Training Dining Out on December 15, 2010. It was a formal military dinner to celebrate the graduation of all the Officer Trainees. I have been to a few Dining Outs and this by far was the nicest. The food was surprisingly yummy. We had steak and chicken with sides of potatoes and veggies. We sat with two other guys from Brian's flight and their wives. We had a fun table. Lots of laughing. The wine was in and the wit was out. Hahaha. I'm not much for formal events but I loved being apart of Brian's big day. I was so proud!!!

Ready to go to dinner

At the dining out

Some of the OTS "Tigers"

Hokans, My Hubby Brian, Johnson, Garcia, & Rendini

 I will post pictures from his graduation day soon. We've been busy moving to Georgia and trying to get things ready for the military to deliver our household goods tomorrow. We love love love our new house. We are so excited to get our stuff and to decorate for Christmas. It's time to turn our house into a home. Hope everyone is ready for Christmas and enjoying the season.
XoXo
Tiffany

It's all about {Prospective}



Pack, pack, pack. Here we go again. Ready to move to our next base. Over the years I have learned that military life is what you make of it. There are pros and cons to everything. I am still working on focusing only on the good.

In all the moving, packing and unpacking we go through, the one thing we always carry with us is faith. Faith that our household goods won't be stolen or broken, faith that Granny's quilt won't be lost in the move, faith that our friends will keep in touch, and that we'll make at least one at our next base. Faith that we can adapt, improvise and overcome. Faith in each other, the Air Force, and our ability to suck it up and press on, no matter what. We look at our life like an adventure story. Our outlook will determine a good or bad ending. Sure, it's a pain to pack up and move so often but how many people get to live in as many different places as we do? I love that I get to experience different cultures. One of my favorite quotes is " The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."

The next few days will be very hectic but I am super excited for my baby love to graduate on Thursday and officially become an Air Force Officer. Friday we hit the road to Georgia to start the next chapter of our adventure story.

"Home is wherever I'm with you"

XoXo

Tiffany

Where are all the Griswold's??

Last night I took a drive through the neighborhood next to my apartments and I noticed something. Actually it was the lack of something that I noticed. No one had any Christmas lights up. No one! What happened to the Christmas spirit? There doesn't seem to be as much around now a days. I remember when I was young, my parents would pile us into the car and we would drive around all the neighborhoods looking at all the Christmas lights. I loved the razzle dazzle of the lights and the twinkle in our eyes. It was magical. I want to see homes that are decked out, over the top, and have enough lights that you could see it from space. Where are the Griswold's of the world? ? You might say that's tacky. I say the more lights the better. So everyone, go out and buy those new LED lights and get to it! What better way to blast your holiday spirit than with the sheer wattage of lights that leave your neighbors in awe.

Aunt Bethany:  Is your house on fire, Clark?
Clark:  No, Aunt Bethany, those are the Christmas lights.

I have already watched Christmas Vacation 3 times this month. I never get tired of it. It is my favorite Christmas movie, followed by Home Alone, then A Christmas Story.

In the movie there is this beautiful advent house and I have always wanted one like it. I did some online looking and found that they are pretty pricey, but maybe one day I will save up and get one and it can be our family heirloom.

I hope everyone is having "the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny f-ing Kaye." -Clark Griswold

XoXo
Tiffany