Ben's graduation from Bootcamp; Fort Sill Feb 2012

In February 2012, I traveled to see my wonderful husband graduate from army boot camp in Fort Sill, OK. I had my brother and sister and law (Casey and Britt) come out to Overton, NV to take care of Shay while I was gone. I was gone a total of 11 days and it was a wonderful trip with so many great memories! 

I flew from Las Vegas, NV to Phoenix, AZ.. My awesome Aunt Audra lives there with my two cousins, (Dawn and her son Baby Eddie) ! I was able to visit with all of them for a few days which was nice to catch up cause I hadn't seen them in a long time. I even got a running hug from Dawnie :) It was a sweet surprise to be missed so much! After those couple of days, Aunt Audra and I packed up her car and headed for Oklahoma! :) We were in the car for two days! Here is to our adventures...

This was just before I left.... I caught my brother Casey, watching Tinkerbell with Shay. It was pretty funny how he was so into it! :)

I made a little chart for my baby girl, so she knew that I was going to be coming back and that I wasn't just leaving her and not returning! She was able to cross off each day that I was gone and that was how much closer I was coming back home to my little girl :) !
I love her so much! She is my everything!

 I took these two, minutes before I left to head to Vegas! :) I love my sweet girl!

 I love how happy she always is! :)

 I love how happy she always is! :)

While I was in Phoenix, we took a little drive over to see where our great grandparents were placed in the wall. they used to live in Sun City, AZ... This is a picture of Dawn, Eddie and I by where they are placed in the wall!

This is Audy and I the day that we took off on our adventure to OK, it was so much fun!!!! We had a wonderful bonding time! It was full of goofiness, giggle and lots of stories.... OH and lots of junk food! He-he! The perfect accessory to a road trip!

We hit some snow on our way to Oklahoma!

This is one of the beautiful shots that I took while we were driving.... SNOWWWWW!!

We came across this little shop while we were in New Mexico, it had some really interesting and beautiful things inside! We had lots of fun, while we were checking it out!

We spent the night in San Antonio, TX! We woke up to snow on our car! :)

Aunt Audy and the snow covered car1 It was super cold when we got inside as well! :)

The icy road we had to take and were only going really slow for a long while!

WELCOME TO LAWTON, OK!!!!! We finally made it, and cant tell you how excited we were! Only downfall, was that we weren't able to see Ben till the next day :-/

This was the day of Ben's graduation and it was so much fun! We were the purple girls! :)

 

We went to see a movie on one of our last days, we saw.. The Vow :) It was a pretty fun movie and we had a great time spending family time together. 

We had a great time, and I wouldn't trade the memories for anything. I am so proud of my soldier for all his accomplishments and his perseverance to excel and do great. He really is a wonderful man! Thank you for your service, my sweetheart! :) I love you!!!!

Always,
Deanna