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)