I don't recommend...

anyone doing this after Sarah and Rob's wedding.

Anna Finally Posts

Hi Everyone,

Sorry it has taken me so long to post - I'm a bit slow. I figured, however, that if Abby could figure it out, so could I! It's been great to read about what everyone is up to and to see such great photos! Jeanine, I was just reminiscing this weekend about how the year I had the mullet was the worst hair year of my life - it's the reason why I grew my bangs out in the fourth grade and haven't changed my hair style since! Well, August and Septemer have been crazy busy me. Work has been nuts but it should be calming down soon - thank goodnes. For those of you who may not know, Joe has started an MBA program at the University of Maryland - he is a part time weekend student. This coming weekend will be his first weekend off in six weeks. Needless to say, his already busy schedules just got busier.

Well, I just wanted to say "hi." Jeanine, thanks for setting this up - it's great. Matt, I hope this post finds you safe - we miss you!

One more thing - for those of you who have asked, I've attached a link to some pictures of me from the Iron Girl triathlon. Registration for the 2008 Iron Girl opens in October - I'll be recruiting some of you Almon women to join me!!

Love,
Anna

http://www.asiorders.com/estf.asp?EVENTID=19392&PWD=&BIB=1925

I love this blog!!!!

I was going through my picture archeives today looking for something and came across this pic. Laura saw this in Sarah's album not to long ago and said we looked like the happiest kids in the world. :0)

The funniest part about this picture is that Laura, Anna and myself (although you thankfully can't really see mine) all have a mullet. Luckily for Amanda and Sarah, this picture was taken prior to their Dorthy Hamill "bowl" cuts.

Bouyea Night Recap

Well I figured I would make my 1st post a recap of the evening. The Bouyea's had alot of sodas. The women were drinking some kind of green conjunction (Calvin thats for you). It looked weird but they seemed to enjoy it. Dont worry Matt jack and cokes for me all night (thanks for driving Jeanine). I ate alot of food. They had some of the best potato skins I have ever had. I think I ate 15 of them (not a Sarah exageration). Sarah had like a billion beers (3). I agree the cake was great. All and all a great time.

Amanda I hope you are joking about a plane ticket to Greensboro. I used to make it to Myrtle in 7 hours and passed Greensboro at around the 5 hour mark. Me and Sarah will stop on the way to our future home in Myrtle where I can play golf year around.

Matt upon your arrival home another 4 hour breakfast (on me this time) at Kiss Cafe. Stay safe and keep doing your thing man! You will me missed at OUR wedding, but I will be sure to feed Matt Head jack and cokes throughout the evening.

We'll Post When We've Recovered

The Bouyeas will draft a post regarding their birthday party when they are well enough to do so. A long night of partying took quite a toll on the 30 year olds. I guess it was good practice for Sarah's wedding. Apparently, we needed the practice.

BTW, I have sent Matt's address to Jeanine. I didn't do it before because I figured 4 or 5 aunts would have already e-mailed it.

Hmmm...

Was everyone under the impression that since this was being read by the whole family, someone would get back to me with Matt's address? Well, nobody did. Slackers.

I have this big box of snacks on my floor at work and I'm tired of explaining to people that I am not a huge pig about to eat 20 snack size bags of chips, bags of candy, etc. And I am also fending people off daily who want some for themselves. Although, once I say who they're for, they usually back off. :0)

Please email me with the address to jeanine.almon@marsh.com

Matt you'll be happy to know that it looks like Britney is going to be the next one going to jail. She hit someone else's car in a parking lot, and drove away without leaving a note. Sucks for her that the paparazzi were there to capture it all on film. To make matters worse, she doesn't have a license. Dumb!!!! And the fact that she drove away without leaving a note used up any remaining sympathy I might have had for her.

Matt's address please

Hello out there...

Can I have Matt's address please? You can email it to me: jeanine.almon@marsh.com
Don't post it on this site.

Muchas Gracias,
Jeanine

P.S. I was hoping for a recap of the Bouyea 30th Bash by one of the Bouyea's themselves. Warning: I have pictures and video, that will be posted if someone doesn't beat me to it. Thanks for inviting me!! It was lots of fun and I think that was the best store birthday cake I've ever had. We need to remember that for future family gatherings that require a cake. I think my favorite highlight of the evening was Mike's outfit and his serenade to Matty Nebowitz (sp?.

Hey Y'All

Kenny and I thought we would drop everyone a line from our new home, Winston-Salem, NC. Or at least we hope it is our home. Kenny has the job part down, now we just need a house and perhaps a job for me. Hopefully the former will come before the latter, because it would be a tough commute from Salisbury and well, I think I would enjoy some time off. Please keep your fingers crossed that we find the perfect place tomorrow. Matt, maybe you can put in a good word with your roommie?

Anyway, we are excited about the adventure and looking forward to getting settled. In case anyone wants to start planning their vacations to visit us, we should be ready to welcome visitors by November. Matt, when you get home we're just five hours away!!! We're already counting on a trip (further) South.

Oh funny - the waitress at the restaurant we went to tonight commented when she saw our licenses (I guess they card people down here for milk ;O) ) that she was from Salisbury. Turns out she is 25 and went to St. Francis De Sales. She said "Funk" sounded familiar but she couldn't be sure. What a small world.

Can't wait to see you all at the event of the year!!!

Best to all,

A&K

Big mouth women

I knew the true Almon women would come ouit of the woodwork.

Now the useless babble will never stop!!!!

I should think before I talk

TGIF

In my attempt to procrastinate at work, I thought I would make a quick post. Nothing very exciting going on with Rob and I, other than we are getting hitched in T Minus 3 weeks. For the most part, I am calm and collected with moments of shear panik. Hopefully there won't be any freak events that cause the DJ not to show and hopefully my dress will fit when I put it on. All of my wedding related nightmares have revolved around these topics.



Bubba would be excited for the wedding also, but he isn't allowed to participate. When I leave for work, he sometimes presses his nose against the front window inbetween the blinds. This makes it even harder to go to the office. It's like his last ditch effort to get me to stay home. One of these days it is defintiely going to work.

Matt- it was great to hear from you. Hope things are going okay and that whatever you are working on over there is going okay as well. Jeanine is busily working on your wedding face, so get ready for an onslaught of dates when you get home. I'm sure the face will be a very popular dancing partner for my friends. Hopefully, we won't leave you at the bar again this time around, or then again maybe that is exactly where you'd want to be anyway!

Posting due to reprimand

Since Uncle John has reprimanded the woman on this board for not posting, I thought I'd better get on the ball quick. To be honest nothing really exciting has been happening to me so there hasn't been much to post about. Calvin is back finishing his last two semesters of college and is out of the house from 6:00am to 10:00pm, and we are also on a strict budget for future home buying purposes so I've been alotted about $10 per month spending money. Not a lot of fun happening with that.

I expect there might be something to post about in the aftermath of the Bouyea's 30th Birthday Party which is happening this weekend. Just a hunch, but I think there might be a story or two coming out of that. I'm bringing a camera too to capture those Kodak moments.

The celebrity world sans O.J. has been pretty quite lately. I love that everytime the press interviews OJ's girlfriend she digs him further and further in the hole. She better be watch out. He's not the type of person you'd want to make mad. As long as she stays alive though I feel I can laugh at her stupidity.

That's it for now. Thanks for posting Matt, it's always great to see you pop up on the board. Even though you did have to harass me about the Eagles. I'll give you a pass for your first offense.

oh almost forgot who won that eagles/skins game?

just thought I'd add a "little sporty competition" trash talk to this blog

Ok so I'm actually back at my original base now. I've moved into a chu which is basically a trailer. Picture a normal redneck trailer (this should be easy for most of you) divide it into 3-4 seperate rooms then put two people to a room. Work is going ok...enough said about that. I'm happy to see all the very important things going on back in the states like OJ can still threaten to kill people and probably get off, Britney is fat and losing her kids, and i'm sure her side kick Lindsey is up to something (Amanda any news?). I mean that is much more important than France wanting to go to war with Iran, Bin Laden doesnt' like Pakistan, and the Iranian president wants to head to the trade center to see his work personnaly. Ok enough of my bitterness toward the media. We actually had a reporter in our TOC (small command post) when i was out at Kalsu (other place i was) and she is great friends with a girl i went to highschool with her mom taught me math (mom she was friends with Ashley Hare). Very small world. Tanner i'm really not sure how you have been arrested and tazed yet but nice funkfest. Just to upset my dad i am doing this whole fantasy football thing for the first time ever in my life and won my first two games. Not really sure how or why but who cares. ok well its 3am here so i'm heading to bed but hope everyone is doing well and thanks for the packages that you all have sent...oh and let grandmom and pop know that my roommate is the chaplian and that he is a catholic priest. I figure i don't even have to go to church now.

Talking Almon Women

For such a cool site, very few seem to be using it.

Where are all those big mouth Almon women?
In any other forum you cant get them to shut up .

Matt needs something to read at night.

Additionally, Amanda I do not rember you & Kenny getting approval to move out of town.

Kenny when are we going fishing??

Cousin Lunch!

Hey Guys,

I know it is REALLY early, but I am thinking about thanksgiving already! Probably because I still get super excited for it every year and it is starting to feel like fall here! The leaves chaning and all that! Anyways can we PLEASE talk about making the cousin lunch on Friday. I am flying back to Portland on Saturday at 7:00 pm. Speaking of which anyone else in the B-more area have to be a bum like me and leave early?!?!?!
love you guys and miss you!!!

I am counting down the days till we get our groove at Sarah's wedding!!!
Tanner I loved the picture and the rally! Glad to hear it was a success!!!

Emily

TV Sports suck

You TV sports people need to get a life !!!!!!, and do real sports not watch them. It does not count to have a 6 pack, under the keg you built above your belt!!

NOW for the real sports, fans::

A new record was set in Matt's car Sunday at the drag strip , WoW, ( where were you Anna & Amanda?? thanks fot the support you said you were comming up to the track).

Big fish is starting this week, be sure to sign up.

E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!

GO EAGLES!!!! Just thought I'd add a little sporty competition to this blog. If the Eagels don't win tonight the city might riot, in which case the military may need to deploy here to keep me safe. I will put in a special request Matt's unit to come to my rescue (I have pull on these types of issues). Well...on second thought...Matt might be safer in Iraq.

Way to pull one out yesterday Ravens Fans.
Booooo!!! to anyone rooting for the Redskins!!!!
Joe, I guess your Patriots can win on their own after all. But, I still want our Superbowl back!!!! :0)
Mike, I can't say anything about the Giants yet, for fear being in the same boat.

heard from matt

I Heard form Matt on Saturday by phone
can not compete with the "Funk Rally" that Tanner gave but will try
Actaully he told me had yet to back on the big base but was heading thier that night
He is not sure how i screwed things up but i am sure i wll do it again
He told me he is still working 12-14 hours
with his return to base he thinks things will be even more busy until he "catches up"
he did say it is still 100 degrees but a little cooler
still no specail request
he had been working out and his shoulder is hurting
when i asked him about going to the PT he said that PT doctor was 40 miles off the base so he has not gone in 2 months it is not a safe ride
YEA ARMY
i got an email this morning and he is on base and living in a "chu"
not sure what it this is- he said it is smaller. cleaner and more privacy than the tent all good
saturday he thought he would be in a trailer at the bigger base but i guess he got this instead
he did yell at me for the picture on the blog WHICH I DId NOT POST JEANINE
so now you are in troubl I told on you
it is in english thank you sarha and he enjoys keeping up with the news
keep the stories coming
it does take a long time to get on the blog and i quess his free time is short so we will not hear form him as much as we want but the blog does give him time to smile
and reminds him of home
Thanks to all
love
god keep
mom, aunt mary

FUNK RALLY IN HOLLYWOOD!!!

Yo Matt to the power of FUNK! What's goin on my man? Oh yeah, this is your cousin T to the power of ANNER (Tanner). Anyway, I just wanted to say hey and let you know a little bit about a rally I organized in Los Angeles in honor of all things Funk. Basically, it took place this morning at Funk Brothers Auto Repair in the heart of Hollywood right off the Sunset strip. The event was a huge success. We had a moon bounce, a slip and slide, and hot air balloon rides. It was so neat man, seriously, the moon bounce was off the hook for sure. We then had a protest where everyone in attendance held up signs proclaiming the awesomeness of FUNK to everyone driving along the Sunset Strip. Natually, we ended the day with a glow in the dark dance party. It was super swell man, I wish you could have been there. Anyway, I meant to take a bunch of pictures to send your way but I was just having so much damn fun on that moon bounce that I was only able to take one. The picture that I have hopefully attached to this blog shows Funk Fest 07 at the peak of it's awesome glory.

Anyway man I hope you are doing well wherever you are at. We definitely miss you over here so hurry up and finish up the war so you can attend Funk Fest 2. You didn't hear this from me, but word is Funk Fest Two will feature not just one, but two, that's right, two magicians. Now if that's not motivation to head on back to America I don't know what is.

Oh yeah, aside from Funk Fest 1 you are really not missing too much over here. I think the Orioles lost like 72-3 a few weeks ago, or something like that. If you review the footage I think it's pretty clear the the entire Orioles pitching staff was replaced by Koala Bears in the third inning, so I guess they did pretty good considering. Oh yeah, another big thing was that some NFL quarterback killed a bunch of dogs. I hear he has since found Jesus so overall it's a pretty uplifting news story. Unless your a dog I guess. In entertianment I'm not too sure what's going on. I'm pretty sure Britney or Paris or Lindsay probably had a mugshot taken. Superbad was a pretty funny movie, I think your brother could learn a lot from the cops in that movie.

Shoot, I gotta get to bed. Sorry. Anyway, I hope that all is well with you and that you enjoy the photo of Funk Fest 07. You shoulda seen the reactions we got when we held up our other sign which read "honk if you like funkin!". All I can say is that people in LA definitely are down with the power of funk!

Take it easy Matt,
Tanner

Hey All!!

Hey Everyone!

I got a call from Matt yesturday sadly I was in work and could not have my cell on me. Big sad face!!! But it was still nice to get a message from him! Laura I had not heard the Daisy story yet. That is awesome and I really believe in "signs" like that, I am glad you guys had a good time. And just so all the cousins know. Anna is one-upping all of you, she has a ticket to Maine at the end of October. Dont worry she will have a great time and then everyone else will want to come!!!

I love you all

Em

Daisy in Lake Placid

I think a lot of you have already heard this story but I thought it was a "feel good" story that might lift everyone's spirits. My Dad took my family to Lake Placid--one of my mom's favorite places--last month so that we could all be together. As you know, daisies were always my Mom's favorite flower. Anyway, there was no garden at the house he rented for us. However, in the rocks, there was one and only one weed--a lone wild daisy. Coincidence, maybe, but this isn't the first time we've experienced something like this this year. So, when you are thinking of Matt or worried about Uncle Mike or trying to get through anything else for that matter, keep your eyes open--you never know--you might just see a sign that Aunt Sharon is right there with you.

Grandmom and Pop are thinking of you

I thought it would be neat to tell Grandmom she is "on a blog." I got this picture from my "Anna and Joe" wedding files. :O)

I hope I can figure out a way to bring this to them this weekend!

does this work

ok so i have no idea if i'm posting a comment here or what. I think you can thank Sarah for fixing my computer and figuring out how to change everything from German to English. Things are going ok here but nothing really exciting to report. The army just came out today and is offering me 35,000 dollars to stay in for an extra 3 years...10,000 a year is a nice raise. thanks to everyone who has sent packages and letters already. ok well going to keep this short b/c not sure if i'm doing the right thing or not. talk to everyone later

Yay!!

Glad to see the new way of accessing the blog is working better for everyone. Now we just have to get Matt on board. Hopefully Sarah's helpful instructions will help. I'm going to send Matt an email as well with the link and another tip to search for it through www.google.us and see if that works.

Just like to say that I almost had a heart attack about 15 minutes ago because I thought I made a big mistake at work. I was all queesy and felt like I wanted to crawl under my desk and hide. But, as it turns out, I didn't make a mistake at all so now I feel loads better. Just wanted to share.

Hey

This was easier to do than the last time.

Hi Matt. I hope you can read these now. We think of you often and hope to hear from you soon. I'm going to the beach this weekend with friends. It's "bike week" down there so it should be loads of fun - a little wild probably, but fun. I'm sure it will be more fun than that CAR SHOW your dad always goes to. I'll have an "Orange Crush" in your honor!!

Help with German

Seeing that I work for an internet company, I'm hoping I can figure this out. Matt might need to set his language on blogspot to english, it might be defaulting to German on his since he is over there.

http://www.blogger.com/language.g

I will also email this to him b/c he probably can't read these instructions.

9-11

Hi All, Especially Matt

Today is the reason Matt & the others are over there.

Make sure we thank them all for keeping the battle over there and not in our back yards.


THANKS MATT AND ALL OF YOUR TROOPS.


Keep up the good work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Better

Here is the photo !!!!

Why cant this be easer, JOE !!!!!!!!

Matt on a Trip

This is a photo of Matthew & Emily on a caving trip shortly before Matt went over seas

Hi

Hi, This Uncle John.

This is a test

Am I here ?

Exciting

Muhaha...

I'm officially a blogger now, with my own identity.

Thanks, Jeanine.

Working on it...

Hi Everyone,

I have heard some issues have come about regarding people's access to this blog. Some people are having trouble due to lack of trying (Uncle John), others I believe to be sincere (Matt). :0)

In response to these concerns, I have attempted to find a new way for people to access this blog. You should receive an invite to become an "Author" via your email address. I don't know how this is going to work exactly because the instructions to add people didn't really elaborate as to how it was going to work beyond me entering your email addresses, so hopefully it's self explanatory.

Anywho...good luck and hopefully this works better!!!

I'm excited because I bought a pair of brown flip flops yesterday in order to be able to "get my dance on" at Sarah's wedding. It's 2 days and a month away!!!!

Aunt Mary has delivered an approved "Matt Head" photo so his face will be up in the place for all pictures and dancing at the reception. I promise I won't leave him behind at the bar like I did the last time. Whoops!!!

email from matt

hi
i got an email this morning from matt
even back on base all is in german (blog)
he trys to get it fixed and cannot it is a very slow process but lets keep trying
jeanine you did sya you might know how to fix this you might want to email him the old way
he had little to say
still very hot and his days are long
so we keep going and look forward to his time back in the US
Jeanine does have the pre approved picture for the wedding
so we all have to have a good time for him
god keep
mary

Where is Everyone?

Hellloooo Family,

I am sad to see that no one has posted in more than a week's time.

Someone must have something new to share.

Unfortunately, we have no new news from here in Salisbury. I am looking forward to a weekend of R&R so if anyone has any good book or movie recommendations, I will welcome them.

Won't be long now until it's time for air guitar, the "reel-in," and Pourin' Some Sugar!

It's time for Pizza and Ravens Monday! Jeanine, what happened to the Eagles yesterday? Geesh....way to blow it.

Love to all,

Amanda

matt back on base

good morning to all
hi i got an email 9-2
Matt is back on base he has gotten packages from aunt pam and t ans sends his thanks.
tim he got your package and is looking forward to Roosevelt readign why i do not know
em he got yours as well
thanks for keeping this up and i hope soon we hear from matt so he can be impressed with his mother and aunt paula
god keep
love mom mary and aunt mary

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