Check these beauties out!

Yes, I know it's beyond comprehension how exciting our gardening posts are but seriously, wouldn't you be proud? :)

He got frocked!

Today we can officially call my sweet Todd a Gunnery Sergeant! I am so proud of him! Today was the promotion ceremony and I got the great honor of pinning on Todd's new rank. It may have been the most nerve-wracking thing I have done in years! :) The entire command came out to watch and afterwards everyone came up to congratulate the new Gunny. My husband is awesome! ;)

Everyone in formation. All the DIs are in front.

Todd and his two fellow DIs were being promoted.

The boys with Master Guns and the Major

Pinning on his new rank

Happy day!

Aloha from Rhode Island!

This summer the entire Coyer Clan jetted off to Maui for a fabulous family vacation. Toddi and I originally planned on going but with his schedule and my new job we soon realized that it just wouldn't work. Boo...sadly in Rhode Island we stayed. Well today we got such a fun surprise! Our mailbox was full of fun Hawaiian goodies. We received yummy chocolate covered macadamia nuts, a cool key chain with my Hawaiian name and a post card. We couldn't have been more excited! Thank you Don and Barb ::sends hugs:: for bringing a little Hawaii to us. We hope you had a great trip! We really wish we could have been there :(

Who wants to BBQ?

Whoever I put in charge of that intervention has some serious explaining to do! We bought a new patio set! Really though, its been so warm outside recently that it would be a pity not to sit out on our deck and enjoy it, so we feel this purchase was completely justified. Also with so much family coming in a few weeks (yay!) what kind of hosts would we be if we can't offer them a place to sit, right? :)

Fabulous!

Fabulous!

Cute hubs munchin' on a hot dog. :)

Yes, those are twinkle lights wrapped around the deck. I believe it was my dad ::waves at dad:: that raised the question as for the need of the twinkle lights. Well here is my answer. You were at our wedding, we love twinkle lights! They are pretty and look very cool at night and I think they are fun, so there!

The Greatest Appliance Ever!

Tonight Todd and I took our sticky cranky selves to the PX and purchased what may have been the greatest invention ever....a window air conditioner. Oh my goodness! We brought it home, placed it in the window, turned it on and I kid you not, the clouds parted and birds sang. It was that profound. This little device has improved our lives immensely. We spent the next 3 hours laying on our bed in air conditioned bliss discussing why we hadn't done this earlier.
Now if we just throw a mini fridge in there we'll definitely never leave that room again.

best purchase ever!

We are Master Gardeners!

Toddi and I really can't stop patting each other on the back. We are so impressed with our glads! They are about two and a half feet tall and it looks like they will bloom just in time for our family's visit. Perfect!

hey there!

A Tale of Two TVs

WARNING: Asking a Costco employee to 'check the back' for a particular TV that will look just fabulous in your bedroom WILL leave a 15 minute window for your husband to sweet talk you into agreeing to purchase an additional TV for the living room.

It happened.

Car salespeople have nothing on Todd.

You have been warned.

Television #1...of course permanently tuned into the History channel

Television #2....permanently tuned into the Discovery Channel...huh, who would have thought? :)