Happy Monday!

Oh my poor neglected blog.

moving on...

Monday was a good day! We got some oh so happy good news! B got awarded a "Below the Zone" promotion. Translation: He got promoted 6 months before he was supposed to. Oh sweet songs of happy joy! Him and another airmen were chosen out of 11 candidates in total.

In typical military fashion, nothing can be simple however. There will be a promotion ceremony at the end of August, and then some more waiting he will "pin on" his additional stripe September 22nd (which marks 2 years of his Air Force enlistment).

Some more good news is he then got nominated for "Airmen of the Quarter." This really happened on Tuesday, but we will just slide it in under Monday.

To add to all this excitement, B got a call on Monday saying we had won a prize from the "Lajes SummerQuest" contest I diligently enter both of us in every time. (We won a prize a couple months ago too, in the "Lajes WinterQuest") It is well worth it, they give away great prizes at times, like a 2 day trip to one of the other islands. However, we usually aren't those lucky winners. B got a call that we won a free pet bath from the Lajes Kennel. Not so many sweet songs of happy joy.

Mason is terrified of anything related to kennel, bath, water and all the above. So we will be giving our certificate away, but at the end of the day we have nothing valid to complain about. :)