Master of Masters?

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From the time I was in middle school, I always knew in my heart I would go to college. I spent most of middle school and high school trying to figure out HOW I was going to go to college. Enter the Air Force. Skip ahead 15 or 20 years and I'm closing in rapidly on my Bachelor's degree.

I will be the first person in my family to go to college and attain a degree.

When someone from school posed the question to me, what about staying and working on your master's, I laughed it off. No, I have plans that include moving to Washington, but what was really bothering me was do I even have what it takes to get a Master's degree?

In all that time growing up and in my adult years, it never once even dawned on me that I COULD get a Master's degree.

This is the story of a girl who has fought her way through a world dominated by people that didn't believe in her. A girl that grew up thinking that girls could dream big, but that is all it would amount to, a dream and not reality. Yet here I am and this isn't just a dream. This is happening.

What would I do without your guidance and your hand in this?

Where would I be without knowing that God is leading my steps, clearing the way, making the crooked path straight.

I don't want to think about that.

Right now, I have to focus on getting things accomplished. Paving a path so that my daughters don't grow up believing all they can do is dream and not achieve.

On with the rest of my day.

Here are some of my snap shots.


Dingo was begging to get off the leash. I gave the birds a head start....


He went after a duck and initially, the duck flew away, but once Dingo got in the water, the duck came back with a vengeance. The girls and I were all in hysterics.


What do we have here?

I don't know. It is some sort of Millie invention......

Autumn says, "Aren't you a bit young to be building things?"

HA HA!!!


Millie found this toad today.


Autumn helped her catch it.


After we had some fun with him..... The girls released him together.

On to your pictures.








Two things about this photo:

1. Millie says, "I see your underwear!"

2. Why doesn't daddy ever smile?





Everything looks so cool there.

I wish I was there.

I love you.

Your favorite wife and airman. xoxo



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