I thought this was worth sharing...

The night before the burial of her husband 2nd Lt. James Cathey of the United States Marine Corps, killed in Iraq, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of “Cat”, and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept.

“I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it” she said.

“I think that’s what he would have wanted”.

Life Lately...

Me giving Baby Charlie a bottle at the park

Henry, Aunt Emily, Patrick

These are two of my three wonderful nephews. They are definitely going to be the hardest part of  leaving whenever I leave for the Air Force, knowing I won't get to see them everyday is going to be really hard.
 It's crazy and it makes me feel old watching these two grow up. It seems like not so long ago, I got the little pink slip in Mr. Walkers Algebra class that said "Baby is here, everyone is doing okay," Now there are three of them and they laugh, they run around, they never stop talking, they fight, they call me by my name, and they're starting to do school lessons with grandma. (Well baby Charlie doesn't do all of this quite yet..)






Yesterday, my mom, my sister and me took the boys to Sauder Village in Archbold, Ohio. Sauder Village is a historic village with buildings that you can go visit and learn about how life was for the first people to live in this country. We went through about every building, there are shops, school houses, trading posts, houses, farms and about everything you could imagine you would need in a town. There is a person in about every stop to tell you the history of it and what it was used for way back when. The boys seemed to enjoy themselves, I know I did.
I went to Sauder Village in fifth grade and liked it but I didn't pay attention to the history inside of it, going back yesterday I learned a lot about how things worked, it was really interesting.

Henry in a shop

Amber, Charlie, Henry, Patrick, Me

The boys in "School"

Patrick laying in a WigWam

The boys in a TeePee

PatPat in a shop

Henry laying in a WigWam

The boys towards the end of the day

Giants

Katy, Me, Grandma

This was in Florence, Italy. I know I posted about Florence awhile ago but I was going through some of my Facebook pictures and decided that Katy and I look like giants compared to my grandma. This was one of the best experiences of my life, I can't wait to go back someday. 

Me! in Pisa, Italy. I miss Europe! 

So much truth in this quote, I had to share it. 

This is EXACTLY what I'm doing. :)

European Adventure June, 13th 2010 Die, France

 These pictures are the trip from Entreveux, France to Die, France (dee). We pulled of the road in the mountains on our way to take some pictures with the mountians, there were huge rocks and boulders and it seemed like nothing was really holding them in place, it was really cool to experience because I had never been to the mountains before this.

 This is a citadel in Die, we stayed at a campground not far from here. It wasn't as cool as the citadel in Entreveaux, this one had a lot of wear and tear and were weren't allowed to go inside it. Die really wasn't one of my favorite stops on our trip, it didn't seem like much of a tourist town and I really didn't know much about the things I saw when we were touring the city.