August 13, 2008 Cont'd

Well the rest of today was all about running errands. I took the boys to get their hair cut at Nixa Barber and Style. I got their hair cut back down to a fade because it's been pretty warm here and they've been sweating a ton. Well the owner there, Jimmy, saw my shirt and started talking about his son who is also in Iraq. When we finished talking he told the girl that was cutting the boy's hair to ring it up so she would get paid of it but not to take my cash, that this haircut was on him today. It was so sweet. It's really nice to feel sometimes how much people appreciate the sacrifice that Army families make. When we were done the girl that cut their hair took a pic of us in front of the barber pole. It had an Army Strong sticker on it, but you can't see it in the picture.

From there we went to go get the boys lunch at Arby's. Well when we were waiting at the intersection, a firetruck came up with it's lights on so everybody stopped to let it go through. Well everyone stopped besides one Wrecker Truck who decided to keep going. He slammed into this little green car that was in front of him. But the bad thing was after he slammed into this little car he stopped......... AND THEN KEPT GOING!! He went forward until he was away from the car completely. This turned the car around in a complete 180 until it was facing the opposite direction it was going in in the first place. I was absolutely stunned. We went ahead to go get the boys lunch but then on the way back decided they may have needed witnesses so we stopped to tell the cops that I had seen the whole thing. He took my statement and told me that the girl was 6 months pregnant. The stupid guy that hit the car was sitting there staring at me while I gave my statement to the cop. I totally didn't care though. He mowed that poor little car down and I wanted to make sure they knew it.

We went from there to mom's hospital, to Target (YAY TARGET!) and then to Cheddar's......again. We are always at Cheddar's. It drives me crazy. I do NOT like it there. We had some appetizers there and then went to Wal Mart and back home. The day was pretty uneventful other than the MASSIVE car accident. But I did get some cute pics along the way. :)

Also, Zeek has been feeling under the weather the last few days. He is getting sick easily because he has not been sleeping well. I ask that you all keep him in your prayers, that he would get better soon and start sleeping better. He is getting ready to start taking some business classes in the next week or so. He is looking forward to that. Who knew that this deployment would be such a good time to get college credits and promotion points. We are so very proud of him. He is doing a great job!