Quiet Christmas...

Hello Everybody,

Just a few thoughts as we get ready for Santa tonight. This Christmas seems rather strange to me. It is my first Christmas in 23 years that there will be no Children at home on Christmas morning. No bright eyes and big childish grinns when they see all the gifts that Santa left. The fun the excitement, the noise of children. I feel a little sad. But on a brighter side. Sherryl and I will get to celebrate Christmas together alone for the first time since we met. It is still kind of strange, not to have any kids, living at home. They call what I'm experiencing "The empty nest syndrome." I got one in Iraq, one in California and one that lives here in the Salt Lake Valley.

Ya, Whatever I miss my kids!

It's too QUIET around here!

Christmas Fun!

Hi Everybody! Here are a few cute christmas gifs. Just double click them to view, then right click them and save, then use them where you want! Merry Christmas!

Soo...Eric and I just put our deposit down on our apartment on Saturday. We plan to move in around the 13th of January. Pretty exciting. :D We just can't wait. It'll be nice to have a place of our own.

Other than the future move we are doing really quite well. Eric is working at a company called L33t Game, it's a pay-to-play center where customers can come in and pay for hours to play various gaming systems. Anything from the computers, to XBOX, XBOX 360 and when they can get some in the store, they will soon be offering paid time on the PlayStation 3. :)

He pretty much loves it. The way that he puts it, "He gets paid to play video games all day."

Despite what he loves about his job I would have to say my favorite thing is that his store is just 3 stores down from the title company that I work at. So it makes commuting a whole lot easier. :)

Since August I've been working for a title company, I started out as a receptionist and now I have collected the responsibilities as an escrow assistant as well. I learn so much everyday. I have to say, I love it. :)

There's a little update in our lives We'll definitely make sure to put up some pictures once we get settled in our new place. :)

I hope everyone is doing well and that you all have a great holiday. :)

Destiny

1 Week 'til Christmas!

Hello Everybody! Well It's almost Christmas! Can you believe it? 1 Week from today. This year has gone by so fast. We have been to two company Christmas parties, got trashed down at Henry's Inn. All in the last 3 days. Boogey 'til you puke! It's been alot of fun. Sherryl and I, Wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We also are praying for a more Peaceful 2007, for the whole world!

New Puppy Soon!

Well as you all know our buddy Mac passed away. It just isn't the same around here without the little guy running around. So I decided to get Sherryl another teacup poodle. My friend's (Kirk) brother's teacup just had two pups on Thanksgiving day. One male and one female. So I called Craig (Kirk's brother), told him what had happened with Mac. And we are now the proud owners of a little male teacup poodle. Sherryl will be naming him. We get to go to Idaho to pick him up sometime between the seventh and the twenty third of January. He just opened his eyes for the first time yesterday. Sherryl was really exicited. Here's a few pictures.

The passing of a great friend!

I'm so sorry to say that a great friend and family member of the Garrett's has passed into our Lord's hands. We will miss you Toymaker Homerun Hitter McQuire (Mac)! 10 years old

hey guys, Just thought that id stop by and let yall know that im doin okie dokie over here in Iraq. Its not nearly as bad as they would have you think and most likely worse than id ever tell you guys that it was :P

I've gotten sucked into this blog thing and i created my own that i will be updating periodically wth short inputs of happenings here in Iraq. Just a little way of lettin y'll know what im up to. Hope everyone is having a good day... and on that note, i leave you with this little bit of trivia to chew on...

"When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's third largest city."

ok ok one more for ya...

"The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or any other Italian place for that matter), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."

Take care yall

Oh yeah the link to my blog is www.somnioblivio.blogspot.com

Josh

Thanksgiving Trip

On our way back to Utah after Thanksgiving at Grandma's in Idaho, We decide to stop off at the Air Musuem Next to Hill AFB.

Here is a Picture of Kel, Katie, and Nate standing next to a F-4 Phantom Jet.

And Here they are walking up to the largest Cargo plane there.


It was great to get away, But it was still good to get back home....


I hope everyone is doing well.

Kirk

BREAKING NEWS!

FOX Breaking News
Saddam has escaped!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We here at the Garrett Ranch want to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving!

We are headed for Elko Neveda Thursday morning about 5:00AM emmmmm....... Turkey!

Just wanted to tell everyone





From the Lindsay's

I figured it out

This is the picture I was trying to email you, it wasn't saved as a jpeg file da. Now you can see this is the picture that was taken by the newspaper guy much better than mine as you can see. Don't you just love the ghost

Zacs Picture

I'll slowy get the hang of this LOL
Now tell me he's not cute....

My first Blog

Hello Eric and Cheryl, we miss you guys. It seems like it’s been forever! This is my first Blog ever yahoo! We are all just fine here at the Sumsion/Nebeker household. We had a great Halloween check out our yard Josh did most the work. I’m a grandpa now Zac is the cutest little baby boy on this earth I swear. OK I’m a little bias but dam he’s a cutie check out the picture. Other than that I work too much I guess that’s always been the case for me someday I’ll relax.
Later for now
Brian, Shauna & Josh

Hello From the Lindsays

Hello to all from the Lindsays........ We are doing OK here in West Jordan. Nate started Kindergarten this year And Katrina is in Sixth grade. Kellen is a Junior at Copper Hills High School.

We have shared some wonderful experiences with Eric & Sherryl and Josh, Erin, and Eric Dale.

"It is by chance we met . . .By choice we became friends."

Welcome Family and Friends!

This blog was started so everybody we know can keep up with each other. Post a few pictures and a few words. Let us all know what is happening in your worlds. It's really easy to use too. You can insert pictures too!

You can set up your own blogs too!

Sherryl & I are doing just fine here in West Valley City, UT. All of our kids are grown and gone now. It's really quite here most of the time. Kind of erie quite...

Josh has gone off to war in Iraq. He Left on 11-11-2006. He will be in Iraq for 365 days.

Here is Josh's e-mail address and his physical address in Iraq.

E-mail - SSGT Joshua S. Garrett Somnioblivio@gmail.com His Physical Address must be written as it appears here exactly.

SSGT Joshua S. Garrett
JIDC
APO AE 09342

Please send him e-mails as well as hand written letters and packages. The physical correspondences are the most appreciated by our troops. It's something they can touch and keep with them from home. And please pray for their protection and quick return home.

Thank you,
Eric & Sherryl Garrett
Proud to be an American!

Well, I hope we can all have some fun and keep in touch. This is a private blog so only the people I add (invite) as authors can post or comment on a post. So lets have some fun and see some pictures too! if you have friends or your family wants to join in, just send me the e-mail address and I will add it.

Eric