Mark on AFN

AFN is the military TV network that we have access to while stationed overseas. Mark's band Touch and Go has caught the eye of one of AFN's reporters and as a result there have been a series of spots. Here is the latest one!



I am posting tonight from my parent's house in Utah. We just arrived tonight after one heck of a long trip. The girls were amazing and we flew and made it without a hitch or delay. Well, except for one MAJOR hiccup, I. FORGOT. MY. CAMERA. SERIOUSLY. Would have loved to have left something, anything else home, sans children and passports of course, but not my electronic baby. Hopefully pictures will still make it to the blog, either by mailing my camera to me, or splurging on a new one. There is an argument out there debating how many cameras a girl should own. Looks like I might be defending the part that says a girl should own more cameras than hands she can hold them with. Sounds like a good argument to me.

I know I keep saying that Mark is finally FINISHED with his dissertation, but tonight I make it officially official. While in Chicago last night we stayed at a hotel because our connecting flight wasn't until the next day. The girls and I were exhausted and fell into bed as quickly as possible. I'm standing dazed as Mark pulls out his laptop, opens a mega Diet Pepsi (we are not traitors my dear friend Diet Coke, but that was all there was to choose from, and I must say this particular hotel, I'll not name names, is now on my "avoid at all costs" list, really, who serves Diet Pepsi anymore??) and pulls up his dissertation. What in the world?? Well, final corrections from the admissions office on the layout of the paper needed to be done and today was the deadline. So after spending the last night in Germany tossing and turning with very little sleep, then enduring our 8ish hour flight, lugging our bags everywhere and taking care of the three of us, he stayed up into the wee hours and met his deadline. That is pure dedication folks. What did we do to celebrate?? Well, I treated him to his first stateside Diet Coke in the airport of course!