A special gift!

I thought that I would share with everyone a little bit of a special gift that I recieved from my wounderful daughter. When I got a 4 day right before I got shipped over seas to Afgahnistan I got to spend 4 days with my wife, daughter, mother, father, and brother-in-law. We decided to stay in N.C. at a beach house and it was a wounderful time together. At the end it was sad to leave but I recieved a special gift from my daughter and keep it with me always. My daughter and I have a love for cheese and she found a rock that looked to her like monster cheese our favorite cheese to eat together. she found 3 or 4 of them but I kept the first one that she gave me. I have kept it in my right pocket ever since the day she gave it to me and everytime I reach in to my pocket I feel the rock and remember my daughter and how much I love her. I have not gone a day with out haveing the rock in my right pocket and I will not stop doing it till I get home and am safe with her again. Why the right pocket you might ask. Well ther is no real reason for it except that was the pocket I chose to put it in and just stuck with it. Now my wife and I share alot of things to but I keep her in my heart always and never leave with out putting her there every day.(I have my daughter there too.) I love them so much and can not wait till I see them again.

Fourth of July!

Yestarday was the fourth of July and I am in Afghanistan but we still celibrated with decorations in the chow hall, and July fourth food. At around 2100 they let off 20+ lum. round out of the cannons. I forgot for a few sec. so I ran out of my hut and looked around to see what was going on and then I relized it was July fourth. So I slowly walked back to my room and listened to the rounds go off one after another for like 10 min. I have been doing very well over here the days are very hot and the nights are just hot. We do have air conditioning though in our rooms so it is not to bad unless we go out on missions which we usually do but have not done to much lately. I hope things pick back up so that the time goes by just a little bit faster. I have however been at the gym alot more now that I have more time. I even had a few interpretors come up to me and tell me that I was looking good ewith all the wieght I lost and they hardly know me. That makes a person feel reallly good to hear that and I get it like every day so I am feeling really good about myself these days. I even have people coming up to me and asking advice about working out. Me of all people I just tell them what I have been doing that is about the best advice I know to give them. Anyway I will be leaving for Qatar for a few day of R and R at the end of this month. It will give me a break from here and they have lots to do there I am told. Well that is all I have for now.