My Veteran

So today I had a special day with my favorite Veteran! We heard that Applebee's was offering free meals to Veterans today so we decided to go out for lunch. We knew it would be busy so we held off till 2pm. Sure enough we get there...PACKED. Applebee's is located near a movie theatre and the adjoining movie theatre parking lot had a LOT of overflow vehicles parked in it. WOW. So that was not going to work, we were hungry. Josh remembered that there's a pizza place (called the Pizza Joint) nearby that has 50% off on Wednesday for military. What luck- it's Wednesday! So we decided we would go there. Not free food, but close. :) So we get there, turns out 50% doesn't start till 5pm. It's 2:30 by now. We say, just forget it, we'll have pizza. It was super good! However it was full price. So now we've filled our out-to-eat quota for November. Probably not a bad thing.

So we headed home, passed the Applebee's again on the way back and what do you know 3:30...even more packed. DANG!

For supper we made one of Josh's favorite meals. Pancakes. I've included pictures. I'll let you guess who's is who's. Josh really likes making pancakes, if you can't tell! He's great at it, too. Very yummy! Side note: Josh is wearing the shirt the nurses gave him after my surgery last year. I got one, and he asked if he could have one, too. Sooo they found him one just big enough to be adult sized. ha ha ha. (It says, my operation was bearable at Children's Mercy Hospital.)




We had an excellent day together. One thing I love about the military getting time off on Federal holidays is that we get just a little bit of extra family time to make up for the reason he is a vet to begin with! God has given us so much to be thankful for, and I'm thankful to have insight into a lifestyle I never gave a second thought to before becoming an Army wife. I'm glad we have this day!

I'm proud of you honey! Thank you for following the Lord and serving Him and us all at the same time! I know there are many sacrifices and frustrations, but you handle it well and I'm so thankful to be YOUR wife! LOVE YOU!