hello

well it is timw again i guess to update every one on my status here. I have 32 days left and it is not going by as fast as I was hoping that it would but that is because i keep couting I think but that is ok. timw is all relative anyway right. I have been starting to excersise again with the P90X excersise program again and i can tell you that it is nothing to mess around with, it really works you and I can feel the difference. i think i might be close to my original goal weight which is a good thing, my goal weight was 190 but i have recently changed it to 185 but i think that no matter what i feel better about myself in that aspect because the last time that i weighed myself i had lost 21 pounds so I am happy for now with that I guess. but i still have 4 weeks left in this place so i am not done yet. I have learned a lot but am still learning thingts that I should already know but maybe one day I will get it right hopefully. well that is all i just wanted to make another update with me in Qatar so there it is. i will talk to you all later. I love you Tracy and miss you so much, I will talk to you here shortly. Bye.

Theron Joel

In the right place at the right time

Yesterday was one of those days that you knew Heavenly Father truly played a big part in. My sister Robin is up visiting us and we had plans to go into St Louis and Monday evening I looked at her and said hey we should go to Nauvoo tomorrow and go to St Louis some other time. So yesterday we got up and headed up to Nauvoo, when we got there we went and ate lunch and then headed to the visitor center, after touring the garden we decided to head back into the visitor center to just hang out for a bit. We where really sitting on a bench when this women walked up too me and said I know you. I was so confused I wont lie. Well to make a long story short, it was TJ's Aunt Tammy and Grandma Quon. To be 100% honest we have never even meet TJ's Grandma before so it was a totally amazing experience. You just knew that the Lord had a hand in, we where really suppose to meet them!!

A REAL EYE OPENER

well I have to say that this week was a blur....not that I am complaining or anything it just means that time flew by this week. I hope that the rest of my time here in Al Udeid Qatar goes by fast and that I can rejoin my family sooner than later. I have to tell you all though, this trip has been a real eye opener to me and I have learned a lot of really neat, cool, and useful things about my job, my life, myself and most importantly my relationship with my wife....I wont go into details, I'll spare you, haha. But no in all seriousness, this has been a really good learning experience and I feel that it has, in the end helped me to overcome a lot of things including myself for the most part and realize what is most important in this life and I have really been able to refocus and reprioritize my life in a way that has worked out or at least is starting to work out a whole lot better for my family and myself. I feel like I am the luckiest man alive because I am married to the most patient woman in the world I think. I know that my wife loves me and that she is in this all the way, not that i didn't know that before, but i really know that for assurity now. I only hope that when I get home that I will be able to show her the love that she deserves and that she needs to know that I love her and that I too am in this all the way right beside her because I really and truly am in this right next to her. I love you Tracy Lorene and that will never change. I miss you so much and cant wait to talk to you and to tell you that face to face. Oh how glorious that day will be here in about 40 days, YES, i am excited. well that is all for now so I will talk to you all later and Tracy I Love You Forever and Eternity.

THERON JOEL

Dont know what I'm doing

well all, I tried to get on here to post some photos but it seems that i dont know what I am doing so I am going to have to once again trust in my beautiful wife to show me up again and tell me how to do it but that is ok I will learn some day, I hope so anyway. well it has been another day in the DEID or Al Udeid or desert or sandbox which ever you prefer so yeah it is coming to a close here in i do believe 43 days and counting so i am happy about that but it will be better when I am home with the family and friends and familiar home so yeah. Anyway I am just wanting to get on here and update everyone, I am doing ok and I am alive so that is good. Another day where I woke up on the brown side of the dirt, HAHA. so I am going to bed now and I will talk to you all later.

TJ

Another Day in the eyes of TJ....

Well i have not been on here in a few days so i just wanted to get on here and update my status
:)~ i now have, do believe, that i have 45 days left until i can come home. Yeah Me. But the time here is going by at a decent rate and i hope that it continues to go faster and faster so that i can see my lovely wife and kiddies again soon. I love them so much and miss them more and more each day. But anyway, I finished the first book out of the TWILIGHT series and am hookef on it, i plan on going to get the second book tonight from the library here and start reading it, I borrowed the TWILIGHT movie from someone at work so i am probably going to watch it tonight after work and after i get done working out. So that brings me to something else, I have recommited myself to working out for the last six weeks that i am here so that i can reach my personal goal of getting down to 185 lbs, I went to the gym today and i have officially lost 21 lds since i have been here, i weighed 218 when I arrived in the desert and i am down to 197 Lbs so I am excited. So when i reach my goal weight, I am going to start to try to put on some more muscle since i really dont have anything else to do here in the desert besides Talk to my family and work and church and working out so yeah that is one of my goals to better myself while i am here to be better before i go home. But anyway that is what is going on with me so just updating like I said. well will be on here tomorrow to give you all another update so for now it is goodbye from TJ.

Oh by the way Tracy I tried to capitalize all my stuff just for you. Haha. I love you and miss you always. Your Loving Husband and Eternal Companion.
Theron Joel.

Favorite Day of the Week....

well today is perhaps my favorite day of the week and that day is Sunday!!! i love sunday. unfortunately i have to work tonight but that is ok i guess you cant win them all huh. oh well. i just wanted to get on here and pass a little note to Tracy and tell you that i love you and miss you and wish that i could be there with you but i will soon though so it will be ok. i went to church today and the sacrament talk was very good, it was on faith, hope, and love. it was very good. the sunday school lesson was on pride and that was even better, i learned a lot and i feel that i was able to get a lot out of church today. well i am going to bed for now so that i can get some rest before i have to work tonight. good night i love you Tracy.

~TJ

hello from Qatar

well it is now 48 days and some change until i am able to join my lovely family again and to enjoy the many things that i once took for granted like being able to caome home every day and see the family that i have come to love with everything in me and to kiss my wife and pick up my kids as they run up to me as i walk through the door after a long day of work or even after i just go somewhere and come back. i love my family and i never want to be away from them again because it is not fun missing out on all the small things that i never thought that i would miss. it is amazing to me to be able to have the love that i have and the marriage that i have and be who we are together as a family, i really am feeling the blessings that my father in heaven has blessed me with and the small little acts that i never knew would mean so much to me, but they are everything to me. i love you tracy and i am counting the days when i can hold you in my arms, that is what will be the best day of my life when i can be rejoined with you and our children. i love you and miss you oh so much every day more and more the longer that i am gone. i hope that these 48 days and some change....haha..... go by fast and that i get to see your face and kiss your lips and finally after a long period away from you, place my hand on your cheek and tell you that everything is alright now, i am home. i cannot wait to see your face and hold you in my arms again. i love you. Theron Joel...... :)~

Ward Temple Trip!

So today we went to the St Louis temple as a ward activity, everyone went with their family and the missionaries talked to the kids about the importants of going to the temple! After we went to a park right next to it and had a BBQ. It was a little warm but still all in all it was a great day!!

Love....

You know sometimes I find myself just going through the motions of the day since TJ has left... I really don't think you can truly understand what it is like to be a military wife until you go through a deployment! Well I have to say it has been a real eye opener...me and TJ had learned so much about each other and about our relationship! I long for the closeness that you have when your husband gets home from work...or when you lay next to him at night! You learn to over look the silly things like not turning his sock right side out before throwing them in the laundry basket! :-D (yes it really did drive me nuts) But to try to make sure that we both know how much the other loves and misses each other...we try to write love letters (emails mostly) to each other often....something I hope we can continue to do when he gets home! Well let me just tell you TJ is such a better writer than me!! He truly is my best friend and am truly counting the days til we are back together! (51...just in case you where wondering...haha) But I am truly a lucky women!! Girls let me just remind you...it could be alot worst if he wasnt there driving you nuts!! Count your blessing!! But this is my latest note from TJ...

I love you Tracy and I always will. I hope that you never forget that. This is what I think of a lot and I just wanted you to hear some of my thoughts,

The time passes as slow as the swing of the pendulum on a grandfather clock,

It seems to drag the closer it gets.

I imagine the day, every day I rehearse it in my mind,

When I see the one that I love and her expression upon my return.

I think of her hands as I would gently hold them in mine,

As I touch them for the first time in a while.

I imagine the feelings, the emotion that will be the rush through our veins,

To smell her elegance as we embrace,

To feel her skin against mine.

I dream of the day that I can see her,

How she will look to me and how I will look to her.

What will be going through her mind,

If it is joy, happiness, worry, doubt, love,

Or will there be nothing but relief.

I can't see not seeing her when I walk down the walkway of that place.

I see in my mind the smile of gladness in her eyes as we meet again,

I hear the acceptance in her voice and the love in her heart.

I know that it is real and that it will come to pass,

Yet the seconds tick as they pass and seem like hours.

I love her with all of the tender feelings of emotion that runs deeper,

Deeper than the emotions of my heart.

I cannot look and not see her,

I cannot think and her not be there,

She is as much of a part of me as my breathe,

I need her to live and be.

I love you, YOUR HUSBAND, ETERNAL COMPANION AND BEST FRIEND IN LIFE,
Theron Joel Shields

Four Months and Counting...

Ok so today I was looking at some pictures of the kids from right before TJ deployed and I noticed how much the kids have grown in the past four months....I think he is going to be shocked when he gets home.....what do you think???

(These pictures were taken the Sunday before TJ left!)

(These are current pictures...sorry they are fuzzy they where taken with my phone)

Playing dress up....

Ok so Lily is getting to that age where she like to dress up, you know change cloths 20 times a day, put on shoes, and even let you play with her hair...I know I know there was a while where I had to hold her down just to brushed it! :-)

So today we did not go to church, Peyton is sick (runny nose, crusty eye, fever, pulling at the ears) I am thinking ear infection, but since I am in Primary I didnt want to get other children sick. But....since we have not missed church in I can't tell you when, I really did not know what to do. So I decided we where going to have a lazy stay in our PJ day! :-)

So Lily wanting to play as she has started doing....so she first put on her shoes on the wrong feet! :-) (Look close at the picture)

Then she brought me the hair brush and let me fix her hair (we had to do the whole side pony tail...haha)

So then I ran to the bath room real quick and I came back and Lily had taken one of her markers (the pink one of course) and put lipstick on Peyton :-) Oh boy poor Peyton....the things to come for him!! HAHA