This last week I had a party at my house to make those flowers for your hair that Anne has been doing. They turned out awesome! They are much bigger than Anne's creations, because they are for adults, but I had so much fun, and so did the girls! The dumb thing about the whole event was the invitations I gave out to people at work and to a couple others... I wrote the wrong address on them!! So only 3 people from work came because they called me to find out where it was. The others either had plans or couldn't find the place. So I may have to do it again. Here's some pics of what I created. (thanks Anne for the idea! I won't sell them, I like them too much!)

Dan leaves on Friday for two weeks. He'll be in SLC, for training. I went to a ceremony with all his army guys. They all stood in the middle of a large gym and stood attention to the commander of their group. He called Specialist Garvin to the front of the group and told him that he was a good soldier and that he was an example to all the other soldiers. He described Dan's good skills and I was surprised to see Dan smiling proudly. The commander then asked me to come forward and he named Dan a sergeant. He gave me a pin to pin on Dan and some velcro pieces representing a sergeant to replace his specialist pieces. Then Dan's sergeant told us to kiss. That was a little awkward, in front of all of the soldiers... but I guess he had to listen.

So, now he goes for training, and this week he takes all of his finals early so he can leave by the 5th.
I'm really going to miss him. I'm glad I'll be able to call him this time. Last summer he was gone for 2 weeks to Honduras and I couldn't even call him!