April 1, 2006

• Well this has been an interesting week of events for me, but God is in control which is awesome. I had a much needed conversation this week that went well. It may not have happened like I thought it would or have planned, but all in all in the end, there is a better friendship than before which is great. The downside of things is I got into an accident with my car. I rear-ended this little old lady in the stop and go traffic on 64. My back is still sore and my ego hurt and soon my wallet will be hurt by the increase in my insurance but hey it’s only money right? Things could have been worse in both situations, but one thing I learned is, God is still in control. I’ll admit that on Wednesday afternoon I was bummed about the car.

  
  

  
  

  Lets get back to the real reason I’m making this post. My best friend and brother graduated from Boot Camp in South Carolina @ Fort Jackson. His real true friends from all around went down to South Carolina to see Josh at his graduation.  It was like a giant circus on the road all cramped into the vehicles.  The ceremony was great, as you will see from the pictures below:
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Can you spot which one is Josh??
  
  

  
  

  Here is where Josh ate all his meals. He can’t stand to look at this place, so I had to include it on the little tour.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  We beat his parents to the company C barracks, and began waiting for Josh to arrive after the ceremony. We were standing there looking around when we begin to hear chanting coming down the paths behind us. We turned around and saw the Charlie Platoon walking our way. We couldn’t have been closer and it was totally God as Josh ended up walking right past us and I was able to get his picture. Then his Drill Sergeant decided they needed to show off a little in doing some PT as you will see below. As soon as he dismissed them, I saw Josh looking for us and he made this bee-line for us and ran straight to me were we hugged each other for a while. It was so good to see him again, and I couldn't be more proud of him.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  

  
  

  Now for those of you that were worried he would loose his sense of humor or his personality don’t worry he’s back better than ever minus his hair (it will grow back soon).

  
  

  
  
  

  
  

  After his parents got there to sign him out, we all went to Texas Roadhouse to eat lunch. Josh’s personality was well known among the battalion because everywhere we went, they all wanted Josh to either sing or act for their family members. We later went back to his mom’s hotel room to hang out for a while and catch up on things.

  
  

  
  

  Later that night we went out to Ruby Tuesday to get our grub on and well talk more. You don’t realize so much goes on in 9 weeks but wow a lot has happened and changed since then. What do we do after dinner except go back to the apartment to take some more pictures and such. I’ll have to post these later as It will take forever to upload them using my cell phone. I’ll probably end up creating an online picture album for this trip so everyone can go check them out whenever they want to.

  
  

  
  

  If you want an update on where he will be in the near future, or how to get in contact with him let me know and I can share that information with you. Sorry there isn’t anymore information in this post as there was a lot that went on. Keep checking his xanga for some updated information as he will be posting soon. If he doesn’t get to post before he goes into his AIT, I’ll probably post the information here on my xanga. Either way one of us will keep you all posted so you can send some Josh love his way. I know when I say this, I speak for Josh, he would like to thank everyone for their prayers during this time of his life.

  The sky.... Twas a beautiful day!!!
  
  

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