Fort Benning Infantry Museum

We spent the day at Fort Benning's Infantry Museum. It is a beautiful facility and an incredible museum.

 

"Follow Me" memorial honoring the foot soldiers who "win the last 100yds. of any battle".

These next photos aren't the greatest since the museum required me turning my flash off and I really only know how to take automatic pictures;) However you can see a little bit of how the museum is set up. You walk through a very life-like setting of the 8 most famous battles in US history. Ellie was scared by all the artillery and shelling noises, but honestly it WAS scary. It was overwhelming to feel a tiny bit of what it would be like to truly be in battle. I can't even imagine.

Distinquished beyond their years and experience, Grace and Ellie were promoted to Drill Sergeant and were permitted to drill a new recruit (He was in actuality a Lieutenant headed for duty in Germany who was good enough to be bossed around by our little General). Grace didn't make that great of a drill Sergeant, being "soft" and too kind-hearted. Ellie on the other hand...well let's just say she may of found her calling. Yelling out commands and critizing the new recruit's performance was right up her alley. She made him do 80 push-ups after the first 20 were "too slow"!

Ellie revelling in her temporary power.

A great day for everyone that will not soon be forgotten.

Life in a Hotel Room...

What do 6 people do when they live in a Hotel room?

They swim.

They play lots of Horse-opoly.

They play video games in bed.

They watch Gracie knit lots of things.

They ALL drink lots of free coffee.

     

(Actually this picture shows the end result of us waiting in the car for Ellie. She said she had to go to the bathroom. Well, after 10 minutes mom went looking for her to find her chillin' with her cup of coffee and baby. Apparently Lily kept her up all night with a tummy ache and she really needed a coffee;) John says all we need to do is get her hooked on smokes and our amazing parenting will be complete!)

UNBELIEVEABLE

I can deal with lizards crawling all over, killing snakes, and pigeons that will steal your sandwich, but this was a little much. Yesterday was a day of biblical proportions. At 11am we were overcome by subterranean termites. In about 30 seconds our whole sunroom was SWARMING with the little suckers. They started coming through the cracks of the door. Then they started OOZing through the walls and ceilings. I screamed at Jack to get my Dyson and started sucking them up as fast as possible (gunslinger style). The girls wetted down towels to seal the cracks; Grace kept getting distracted because she wanted to look at the bugs to discover if they were male or female!!! I'm like "Who freakin' cares, KILL THEM NOW!" Then Ellie starts screaming, "Mom they're upstairs in my room!" OK we're moving and buying new stuff.

Needless to say we needed professional help. I am now in Georgia, staying with John while my house is being bombed with poison. As if the day wasn't bizarre enough (packing clothes as fast as possible while shaking bugs off of them!) the neighbor calls right as I'm crossing state lines at 10pm and says their cat somehow got locked in my house! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? UNBELIEVEABLE. No it doesn't end there. I hit a possum 20 minutes outside of Columbus. So now I have about 5 billion insect bodies carcasses in my house, people I barely know cat hunting in my house, and possum guts on my bumper. AWESOMESICK,SICK,SICK!!!

The Move

OK mom, this post is for you, because I'm pretty sure no one else cares where I've decided to put my couch! Our move went great. Thankfully we were able to wait until the weekend when John was home to move into our little place. Some people from Gulf Coast Community showed up to help us move (some of them I had never even met before). What a blessing God's family is! They got us all moved in and a sweet family even brought us a delicious dinner. It was such a blessing.

This is what these two think of moving.                  Our teeny-tiny kitchen.Our front porch/sunroom/garage complete with hammock and boogie-boards!

Can you believe Geraniums in February?

We are slowly settling in, learning the roads, where the grocery store is, and how fast the water heater can drain:)

Mom, I'll post more pictures when it's less messy. -Love Me