My how things change. I'm about to be 28, my oldest daughter, Madison is almost 9, my son, Alex is almost 7 and my youngest daughter, Emma Ree is almost 4. My baby brother just graduated highschool along with my cousin. Wil, my brother who just graduate is leaving for basic training for the Marines in about 2 weeks. My other brother, Caleb is married and has 2 daughters, Aidyn Ella 2 and Penelope Harper almost 6 months. My baby sister Emily, is 12 and so grown up. My other sister Megan, is married and pregnant with my nephew Angus Keller.
Seems like just yesterday I was living at home and going to school. Doesn't even seem like my hubby, PFC Kevin Martin have been married for 9 years. But we have.
It's all just crazy to sit and think about.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
I love these stories!
I got these stories from www.nrapublications.org My family are a bunch of gun people. So I love reading these stories.
Armed Citizen
It was a terrifying night that refused to end. Edith and William Stevens, both in their 80s, had already scared away an intruder. According to the sheriff’s department, deputies completed an investigation and left, but two hours later the couple heard gunshots outside their home and glass breaking. William got his handgun and investigated. Finding an intruder in the hallway, he opened fire and the intruder returned it. “Had Mr. Stevens not had that handgun, I don’t know what could have happened,” said Maury County, Tenn., Chief Deputy Ashley Brown. The couple locked themselves in the bedroom and tried to phone police, but the lines were cut. The intruder, who police believe was after money for drugs, fired once more through a window. After discovering the intruder had fled, the couple phoned police from a neighbor’s house. (The Daily Herald, Columbia, TN, 02/10/08)
Suddenly awakened by the sound of someone rapping on a window, Matthew Kovschak called 9-1-1 and grabbed his .357 caliber handgun. According to police, Kovschak warned the prowler that he had a gun and police were on the way. The noise stopped, but only momentarily. Kovschak heard a commotion and then he saw a hand reaching through a broken window pane trying to unlock the back door. After one more warning, Kovschak fired four shots, twice striking the female intruder. Police believe a second suspect fled the scene. (The Ledger, Lakeland, FL, 01/22/08)
When Eric MacFarlane saw three teenagers kick in his neighbor’s door, he got his pistol and told a neighbor to call police. Fearing his neighbor’s small children were endangered, he ran to the scene. Police say two of the teens immediately fled, but MacFarlane found one in the doorway. “I told him to step back and lay down if he wanted to live,” MacFarlane recalls. “Then I talked to him about what direction his life was going in.” The teen said he broke in for money. MacFarlane told him he’s lucky the decision didn’t get him shot. “I just hope this young man has learned a lesson,” MacFarlane explained, adding that he doesn’t believe in violence. “[MacFarlane] did a really great job,” said Midwest City, Okla., police Capt. Sid Porter. “We’re probably going to issue him a commendation.” (The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK, 02/21/08)
Upon witnessing a man yelling at a woman and pushing her into a van, a passerby tried to be a Good Samaritan. Police say he asked the woman if she was okay and told her she didn’t have to get into the man’s vehicle. While stopped at a traffic light moments later, the van’s driver confronted the man. Both men exited their vehicles, and the van’s driver knocked the Good Samaritan to the ground. Two women, including the woman the victim tried to help, exited the van and began stomping on him. A passing motorist witnessed the scene and quickly stopped. He drew a firearm and ordered the three suspects to halt the beating. Police received reports of a man holding people at gunpoint, but quickly determined he had a concealed carry permit and arrested the three suspects. (Ann Arbor News, Ann Arbor, MI, 02/14/08)
Elwood Pickett just wanted to be a good neighbor, so when two young men asked to use the phone, he handed it out the door. Then he grew suspicious. “They used the phone and left, but when they came back the second time, I was ready for them in case there was trouble,” the 80-year-old Pickett explained. He handed the phone out a second time, but he says one of the men “pushed through like an elephant and pounded me with a knife. He... stabbed me half to death, and I thought it was time.” But it wasn’t. Police say Pickett, a World War II vet and lifelong hunter, drew his .38 caliber pistol and fired three shots, striking one of the men and causing both to flee. One suspect went to the hospital; the other to jail. Pickett was badly injured but is recuperating. (Hood County News, Granbury, TX, 02/13/08)
Armed Citizen
It was a terrifying night that refused to end. Edith and William Stevens, both in their 80s, had already scared away an intruder. According to the sheriff’s department, deputies completed an investigation and left, but two hours later the couple heard gunshots outside their home and glass breaking. William got his handgun and investigated. Finding an intruder in the hallway, he opened fire and the intruder returned it. “Had Mr. Stevens not had that handgun, I don’t know what could have happened,” said Maury County, Tenn., Chief Deputy Ashley Brown. The couple locked themselves in the bedroom and tried to phone police, but the lines were cut. The intruder, who police believe was after money for drugs, fired once more through a window. After discovering the intruder had fled, the couple phoned police from a neighbor’s house. (The Daily Herald, Columbia, TN, 02/10/08)
Suddenly awakened by the sound of someone rapping on a window, Matthew Kovschak called 9-1-1 and grabbed his .357 caliber handgun. According to police, Kovschak warned the prowler that he had a gun and police were on the way. The noise stopped, but only momentarily. Kovschak heard a commotion and then he saw a hand reaching through a broken window pane trying to unlock the back door. After one more warning, Kovschak fired four shots, twice striking the female intruder. Police believe a second suspect fled the scene. (The Ledger, Lakeland, FL, 01/22/08)
When Eric MacFarlane saw three teenagers kick in his neighbor’s door, he got his pistol and told a neighbor to call police. Fearing his neighbor’s small children were endangered, he ran to the scene. Police say two of the teens immediately fled, but MacFarlane found one in the doorway. “I told him to step back and lay down if he wanted to live,” MacFarlane recalls. “Then I talked to him about what direction his life was going in.” The teen said he broke in for money. MacFarlane told him he’s lucky the decision didn’t get him shot. “I just hope this young man has learned a lesson,” MacFarlane explained, adding that he doesn’t believe in violence. “[MacFarlane] did a really great job,” said Midwest City, Okla., police Capt. Sid Porter. “We’re probably going to issue him a commendation.” (The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK, 02/21/08)
Upon witnessing a man yelling at a woman and pushing her into a van, a passerby tried to be a Good Samaritan. Police say he asked the woman if she was okay and told her she didn’t have to get into the man’s vehicle. While stopped at a traffic light moments later, the van’s driver confronted the man. Both men exited their vehicles, and the van’s driver knocked the Good Samaritan to the ground. Two women, including the woman the victim tried to help, exited the van and began stomping on him. A passing motorist witnessed the scene and quickly stopped. He drew a firearm and ordered the three suspects to halt the beating. Police received reports of a man holding people at gunpoint, but quickly determined he had a concealed carry permit and arrested the three suspects. (Ann Arbor News, Ann Arbor, MI, 02/14/08)
Elwood Pickett just wanted to be a good neighbor, so when two young men asked to use the phone, he handed it out the door. Then he grew suspicious. “They used the phone and left, but when they came back the second time, I was ready for them in case there was trouble,” the 80-year-old Pickett explained. He handed the phone out a second time, but he says one of the men “pushed through like an elephant and pounded me with a knife. He... stabbed me half to death, and I thought it was time.” But it wasn’t. Police say Pickett, a World War II vet and lifelong hunter, drew his .38 caliber pistol and fired three shots, striking one of the men and causing both to flee. One suspect went to the hospital; the other to jail. Pickett was badly injured but is recuperating. (Hood County News, Granbury, TX, 02/13/08)
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Charlie Daniels for president!
I fond this sometime last year and loved it. I say Charlie for president!
Subject: Charlie Daniels Letter to the Hollywood BunchAn Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch
Ok, let's just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid, unrealistic children had your way and the U.S.A. didn't go into Iraq. Let's say that you really get your way and we destroy all our nuclear weapons and stick daisies in our gun barrels and sit around with some white wine and cheese and pat ourselves on the back, so proud of what we've done for world peace.
Let's say that we cut the military budget to just enough to keep the National Guard on hand to help out with floods and fires.
Let's say that we close down our military bases all over the world and bring the troops home, increase our foreign aid and drop all the trade sanctions against everybody.
I suppose that in your fantasy world this would create a utopian world where everybody would live in peace. After all, the great monster, the United States of America, the cause of all the world's trouble would have disbanded it's horrible military and certainly all the other countries of the world would follow suit. After all, they only arm themselves to defend their countries from the mean old U.S.A.
Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled mugwumps, get your head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers burning. Do you think that a trip to Iraq by Sean Penn did anything but encourage a wanton murderer to think that the people of the U.S.A. didn't have the nerve or the guts to fight him?Barbara Streisand's fanatical and hateful rankings about George Bush make about as much sense as Michael Jackson hanging a baby over a railing.
You people need to get out of Hollywood once in a while and get out into the real world. You'd be surprised at the hostility you would find out here.
Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long distance truck driver that you don't think Saddam Hussein is doing anything wrong. Tell a farmer with a couple of sons in the military that you think the United States has no right to defend itself. Go down to Baxley, Georgia and hold an anti-war rally and see what the folks down there think about you. Please visit Clarksville, Tennessee and the 101st Airborne and talk that SHIT, please visit those Real American's. You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste of protoplasm I've ever had the displeasure to hear about.
Sean Penn, you're a traitor to the United States of America. You gave aid and comfort to the enemy. How many American lives will your little, "fact finding trip" to Iraq cost? You encouraged Saddam to think that we didn't have the stomach for war. You people protect one of the most evil men on the face of this earth and won't lift a finger to save the life of an unborn baby.
Freedom of choice you say? Well I'm going to exercise some freedom of choice of my own. If I see any of your names on a marquee, I'm going to boycott the movie. I will completely stop going to movies if I have to. In most cases it certainly wouldn't be much of a loss. You scoff at our military who's boots you're not even worthy to shine. They go to battle and risk their lives so ingrates like you can live in luxury. The day of reckoning is coming when you will be faced with the undeniable truth that the war against Saddam Hussein is the war on terrorism.
America is in imminent danger. You're either for her or against her. There is no middle ground. I think we all know where you stand. I will stand with the soldiers, airmen, and sailors. The hard working men and women of this great country. Not the overpaid, pansy ass, Hollywood wimp wanna be's, and has beens, who can't hold a candle to real American's, the middle class blue collar workers.What do you think? Boycott any Hollywood type that protest against the USA.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
Subject: Charlie Daniels Letter to the Hollywood BunchAn Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch
Ok, let's just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid, unrealistic children had your way and the U.S.A. didn't go into Iraq. Let's say that you really get your way and we destroy all our nuclear weapons and stick daisies in our gun barrels and sit around with some white wine and cheese and pat ourselves on the back, so proud of what we've done for world peace.
Let's say that we cut the military budget to just enough to keep the National Guard on hand to help out with floods and fires.
Let's say that we close down our military bases all over the world and bring the troops home, increase our foreign aid and drop all the trade sanctions against everybody.
I suppose that in your fantasy world this would create a utopian world where everybody would live in peace. After all, the great monster, the United States of America, the cause of all the world's trouble would have disbanded it's horrible military and certainly all the other countries of the world would follow suit. After all, they only arm themselves to defend their countries from the mean old U.S.A.
Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled mugwumps, get your head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers burning. Do you think that a trip to Iraq by Sean Penn did anything but encourage a wanton murderer to think that the people of the U.S.A. didn't have the nerve or the guts to fight him?Barbara Streisand's fanatical and hateful rankings about George Bush make about as much sense as Michael Jackson hanging a baby over a railing.
You people need to get out of Hollywood once in a while and get out into the real world. You'd be surprised at the hostility you would find out here.
Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long distance truck driver that you don't think Saddam Hussein is doing anything wrong. Tell a farmer with a couple of sons in the military that you think the United States has no right to defend itself. Go down to Baxley, Georgia and hold an anti-war rally and see what the folks down there think about you. Please visit Clarksville, Tennessee and the 101st Airborne and talk that SHIT, please visit those Real American's. You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste of protoplasm I've ever had the displeasure to hear about.
Sean Penn, you're a traitor to the United States of America. You gave aid and comfort to the enemy. How many American lives will your little, "fact finding trip" to Iraq cost? You encouraged Saddam to think that we didn't have the stomach for war. You people protect one of the most evil men on the face of this earth and won't lift a finger to save the life of an unborn baby.
Freedom of choice you say? Well I'm going to exercise some freedom of choice of my own. If I see any of your names on a marquee, I'm going to boycott the movie. I will completely stop going to movies if I have to. In most cases it certainly wouldn't be much of a loss. You scoff at our military who's boots you're not even worthy to shine. They go to battle and risk their lives so ingrates like you can live in luxury. The day of reckoning is coming when you will be faced with the undeniable truth that the war against Saddam Hussein is the war on terrorism.
America is in imminent danger. You're either for her or against her. There is no middle ground. I think we all know where you stand. I will stand with the soldiers, airmen, and sailors. The hard working men and women of this great country. Not the overpaid, pansy ass, Hollywood wimp wanna be's, and has beens, who can't hold a candle to real American's, the middle class blue collar workers.What do you think? Boycott any Hollywood type that protest against the USA.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Changes
Let me give everyone a little background on why I have decided to start blogging. On Febuary 21, 2008 I was admitted to the icu of a near by hospital with a life threating illness. I had an infection in my heart that got into my loungs causing something called, ARDS, acute respitory distress sindrome. My loungs pretty much stopped working. At that time my husband was in Iraq. I lived 7 hours from my nearest relitive. Luckely I had a great friend who watch my children until my mom and dad came to get them. To make a long story short. The Army sent my hubby home and I of course made it. But knowing how close I was to dying and leaving my husband and kids at only 27 has changed my whole look on life.
I don't let the screaming and fighting of our children get to me anymore. I love to just sit and watch my kids play. My husband often catches my just staring at him. I'm not sure why I do it. It's like I'm trying to burn all the memories into my brain. I am so scared that I will get sick like I was before and my body is weak from the first and I will die. My doctor says this is totally normal and it will pass with time. But I have to wonder how do you get past something like this? How can I not worry every day that I might get sick again and leave my family? I guess this is just something I need to take up with a higher power then myself.
I don't let the screaming and fighting of our children get to me anymore. I love to just sit and watch my kids play. My husband often catches my just staring at him. I'm not sure why I do it. It's like I'm trying to burn all the memories into my brain. I am so scared that I will get sick like I was before and my body is weak from the first and I will die. My doctor says this is totally normal and it will pass with time. But I have to wonder how do you get past something like this? How can I not worry every day that I might get sick again and leave my family? I guess this is just something I need to take up with a higher power then myself.
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