Turkey, Football, and Beach Dreams

Ok...here is other update of the happenings in the Jernigan household over the past several days.

We had the priviledge to spend Thanksgiving with good friends of ours the Sala's. Melanie and I split up the cooking and made a HUGE feast. We had two international officers join us to experience their first American Thanksgiving. One was an officer from Kuwait and the other from Panama. It was fun to watch them try all the traditional holiday foods. Melanie was the photographer for the event and she is out of town so I apologize for the lack of pictures.

Dan and I spent the next day at the Sala's lounging off our turkey dinner and consuming leftovers while we watched the CU-Nebraska game. What a game! For all of you who didn't catch it...CU WON!!! We loved all the pictures of the Boulder area and could not believe how much snow is on the ground. It was 50 degrees here that day. How quickly you forget what winter is really like. It is still hard for me to believe it is the end of November.

Our minds have had trouble focusing on winter because all we can think about is the So Cal weather we will soon be enjoying. Yep! That's right! We found out we will be stationed at Camp Pendleton!! Dan will be with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion for the next two or three years! We are truely excited to be returning to a place we hated to leave. I am still not sure when we will be arriving. As per usual I will be moving with Jackson and Dan will be joining us later. Dan begins his school in North Carolina on Jan 28th and will graduate about May 19th. Since that is cutting it a little close to my June 6th due date Jackson and I will probably head to CA no later than the last week in March. The housing situation is still up in the air. We have friends of ours who have been on the waiting list since the beginning of October and they are currently number 23 on the list...a whole two slots less than they were when they signed up a month ago. We are hoping to be able to get into housing but if not we will just rent somewhere for a short while. We will keep you updated on our next big moving adventure as the plan unfolds.

Jackson is coming up on his 1st birthday on 12/10 and is trying so hard to get his first tooth. So he is whining for me to get off the computer and put him down for his nap. Here's to hoping his teeth come in soon...I am not sure how many more sleepless nights I can put up with.