The Cartwright Family: May 2009

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Snow White and the Seven Dancers

Fly To Your Heart - Prima Combo (ballet/lyrical) - Ludovici Dance Academy's Snow White and the Seven Dancers - May 31, 2009 - The Cathedral, New Castle

Landen, Arianna, Talia & Gianna

Dress Rehearsal 5/30

Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day

We started the day with the Ellwood City Memorial Day Parade with Jesseca & Landen. Then we went to lunch at McDonald's.

(Thanks to all who served! We miss you, Daddy! Humvee from 1/107th New Castle Armory.)

Next we went to the playground at Ewing Park and walked the trail to the Beaver River with Jess, Justin & Landen.

Then we went to Moraine State Park for a swim in Lake Arthur.

Great Grandma Stockdill joined the rest of us to finish our day with a picnic at Gram & PapPap's. Arianna, Talia & Landen sprayed each other with the hose. We ate hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans, and watermelon. We also saw the DirectTV blimp fly over their house.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Crazy Girls!

After completely scaring Kelly at the picnic today with a toad, Arianna & Talia stop at Gram & PapPap's house and find snakes in the front yard to show to Mom. Yippee!!

Cartwright Family Picnic

We had a picnic today at Aunt Holly & Uncle Ed's. Aunt Kath & Uncle Roy came home from AZ, Kelly & Caiti from NV, Pat & Kim from IL, and Lindsay & Charlotte from AR met with the rest of us from here in New Castle and down in Pittsburgh.

All 6 of the Cartwright granddaughters all together for the first time. Charlotte Broshears, Rylee Yeager, Arianna, Caiti Pedrick, Talia and Gracelynn Yeager.

Picking wildflowers with Uncle Ed.

Ring Around the Rosy with Brian, Jeff, Rick, and Aunt Kath.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Pittsburgh Zoo

Jaime & Talia went to the Pittsburgh Zoo yesterday for Talia's preschool class field trip. We saw lions, and tigers, and bears... and monkeys and sharks and zebras and fish and...

giraffes and...

elephants!

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

It's a GIRL!

She weighs about 1 pound 1 oz.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

NCRB spring show

We went to the Cathedral in New Castle to see friend Gianna Salvia perform in the New Castle Regional Ballet's spring show.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Ian's Birthday Party

Jaime, Arianna & Talia went to cousin Ian's 6th birthday party. They had fun playing soccer, swinging, and of course Arianna found some kind of animal!

Arianna, Landen, Jason & Alexis playing soccer.

Jason pushing Arianna, Landen, Alexis holding Talia.

Arianna's amphibian friends.

Hello from Iraq

I just wanted to say hello to everyone and see how you guys are doing. Things are doing good here I am not sure if you guys are aware of my location I am at Camp Taji which is about 20 miles north of Baghdad. The violence isnt too bad here we have had only one IED strike as opposed to the last tour we had one everyday. The weather is getting pretty warm as the temperature is getting to 100. Another thing we have that I didnt have last time is we have a burger king and a subway here so when the food at the chow hall isnt good I can atleast walk and get some burger king or subway. I dont go outside the wire much on this tour. In the beginning I volunteerd to do some other work to try and limit or eliminate the enemy threats. So I am a Crew specialist or can be considerd a company level EWO (electronic warfare officer). I also do some intel stuff which is pretty cool. I do the best that I can to keep the guys aware of whats going on out in sector and so the things that happened to me the last time doesnt happen to these guys this time. We live in these little trailers and were able to get internet connection in them. So I try and talk to Jaime and the kids as often as I can. Using the AIM video the kids can see and talk to me. Jaime seems to be doing good she is suppost to be going for an ultrasound on the 20th. Other than that not a whole lot going on with me we have been told that we should be out of here by the end of August or beginning of September and home sometime between mid September and early October.

Take care everyone
Scott

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Yay Jaime!!!

After almost 5 years, I finally got our storage unit cleaned out and reorganized! Boy am I happy and sore!!!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Mother's Day

Jaime, Arianna & Talia spent the weekend with Janet at Treasure Lake, DuBois. We went to the mall on Saturday and got manicures/pedicures, haircuts, and bought shoes, jewlery, and clothes. We finished the day with a trip to the ice cream shop! Sunday we watched Enchanted and went to Eat 'N Park for lunch before heading home. Jaime got a heart necklace from Talia and a new watch from Arianna. What a fun time!