Pottery Hollow!!

So now my mom and sister is up for a lil visit and Monday for FHE we went to Pottery Hollow!! Lily painted a hair brush, I painted a platter, my mom painted a bowl and Steph painted a platter! So here are some picture we had a great time...the kids did really good until the end! :-D

Dad Came up for a visit!

So back in June my dad came up for a day!! My kids where in Papa Heaven!! :-) So I thought I should share some pictures!!

It Is Almost Time......YES

well as you all can tell I have not been on here in a few days.....well it is almost time to come home and I want more than anything to get on that plane and just throw up the dueces to the Deid....HAHA.....I am so ready can you tell. I am ready to pack all of my stuff and bring it to the terminal and put it in the bin and wait for it to get loaded on the plane and then a few hours get on board myself so yes I have already planned it all out......because i work at the terminal I can get on the plane first and get the good seat and just sleep the whole way home or until I cant sleep anymore.....ok I probably wont be able to sleep anyway because I am going to be so excited to be home....I need to stop talking about all of that cause I am just making myself more anxious and I am anxious enough right now ya know.....The coolest thing happened to me about two weeks ago or maybe it was three, I don't know, but anyway I went to church a few weeks ago and when I got there I started to look around at all the people and who all was there to see if there was anyone new that I could introduce myself to and as I looked up at the front of the chapel I noticed someone who I had not seen dince i was about 14 or so, it was my bishop that I had when I first got baptized and I went up to him and asked him if he remembered me and he did, so we eat lunch together every week on wednesday and sunday so I was really excited....he was blown away that i was here and that I was in the Air Force and so it has been really good to remanice with him and see him again.....anyway I am now in the teens, I have 19 days until i am eligeable to come home. so stinking exciting.....well I think that I have been on here long enough rambling on so I will get off of here so bye for now......I love you Tracy and I will see you very soon.....I miss you tons and cant wait to kiss your lips again and hug you and hold you and our kids all at the same time and never let you all go again. I love you and will talk to you soon.


THERON JOEL

Answering Prayers

I have had a good last few days and the last couple of weeks have flown by and I am so glad. I hope that the rest of July goes by just as fast so that the date that my plane comes will come a whole lot faster. I have had a cool experience with prayer here lately. I can attest to Heavenly Father answering prayers. I have witnessed just the little things that he has had his hands in and i am greatful that he is always willing to answer prayers even the small ones. The message From President Eyring that says basically to look and ponder about the times that you have witnessed Gods hands in your life everyday. I have kind of been looking for those small things and I am noticing that He is there more than I ever realized that He was. It is amazing how much He is truly and really there. I have seen a few things that have amazed me, it shouldnt amaze me as much as it has but it has and I am grateful. I just wanted to say that I love you Tracy and I miss you and hope that July goes by as fast as June did or even faster. I have a feeling that it will. I love you and the kids more and more every day I hope that you know that. bye for now

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