The Last Three Day's

Ski got food posioning on Wednesday night/ Thursday night. It was just horrid for him. I went to work then I went and stayed with my best friend Tabby. I talked to him all day and night, by 7pm he was able to eat half a bowl of oatmeal with no side effects everything went away.

I on the other hand went to Tabby's around 6PM and went shopping with her and got her a new entertainment center (which we got into her car and it hasn't come out yet). We decided that carrying it up 3 floors was not a good idea at 9PM. We watch some tv then finished the season of Everwood and man we should have watched it slower. If you don't know what Everwood is, its a show about a big time New York docotor whose wife passes away in an accident and he moves his 15yr old son and 9yr old daughter to Everwood Colorado. He opens a small clinic and gives away free medical services. When a girl needs Dr Brown to do a brain surgery on her boyfriend he does and he wakes up. It is about these to families coming together and learning more and more about their family. To sum it up season two isn't on DVD yet.

The next morning we went to the mall to hang out before I had work. We found amazing sales at Bath and Body Works and VS.

I really missed hanging out with her and we are going to plan on spending more time with each other!!!

Pondering

So the girl that appointed me the Leader for Colorado Springs for LFATO, is changing her mind a lot in the past two days. One minute she is reading up on how to become a non profit. So I start coming up with ideas of how we can get donations for care packages and for the fees of the organization. When I tell her these ideas Ski and I come up with and are excited about because they may work, she doesn't like them and tells me to just try to get money. Well I am spending more money then I am making. I have spent 12 dollars on flyer's and 5 dollars worth of stamps mailing this information out to my family hoping they will help. She also wont give me the soldiers address so I can send them the care packages my group does. I have to send them to her so she can send them out. Which to me is just weird :).

I am thinking of starting my own thing and have my family and friends write letters and get care packages together. If they are interested in and I think I have enough people to help boost the morale of soldiers I will be dedicated to do doing it. I will also give them the address of where we are sending letters and packages so they can be independent with when they want to send things.

I am looking for some feedback. I think I can do it and I have Ski's support but I have my doubts. So please please give me feedback.

The Colorado Springs LFATO team!

I have the greatest husband and friends I could ask for. I have seen a huge turn out for Letters From Across The Ocean. Its just thrilling for me to see I can make an impact.

I have gathered a team of awesome people its small but it will grow. I have my husband, Janna, and Kandy! In two weeks we are going to get together and have a official meeting of what we want to see happen in Colorado Springs to spread the word of this great organization that Tiffany has started. She is the owner of LFATO and she is stationed in California, with her reaching out to have a group in CO is great for her to actually get this up and going!!! I just love them all!!!!

Letters From Across The Ocean

I have been helping out a friend of mine Tiffany with writing letters to soldiers overseas. It has been very rewarding for me in a way no one can understand. Today I was given a great opportunity!! I was asked to be the leader for Colorado Springs, for this organization. This is a huge start for Tiffany, this is one step closer to becoming a nonprofit organization. I am so excited and would love it if we had more people help out with letters and donations along with getting more people to write!

Here is the website for more information!
www.myspace.com/lettersfromacrosstheocean
www.lettersfromacrosstheocean.bravehost.com

Please please go check this out and see if it something you want to do. All we are are asking and hoping for are more people to write these soldiers and give them your support!

This past year

Most of you know this past year was hard on the Quinones family. In April we lost a brother, uncle and father Kurt. He passed away due to heart failure and we miss him terribly. It is a shock that it will be a year since we lost him.

Also Ski and I decided that going back into the Army was the best thing for both of us. He started the process in May and he is still going through the process after getting a congressional letter, and 3 new recruiter they set him with one that hopefully will make it easy to go back in. We are just waiting for an appointment with MEPS this week and will get his orders in the very near future. It has been a long 9 months of crap. The first recruiter he had left and when she left they delted all her files so they had to rebuild Ski in the system.

Over Christmas my dad's store was flooded with an inch of water through out the store. The nail salon next door had a pipe break. Matt the manager called dad to have him come to the store on the 23rd of December. The fire department sucked out the water as best as they could and we got the carpets cleaned. The downfall was that non of our boxes were insurable because of the water damage. It was the mositure in the builidng that ruined the boxes.

Ski lost his friend SPC Christopher Fox on September 29th while in Iraq. He is now even more eager to go back in. Even with this tradegy he gained a good friend. On January 17th 2009 another one of Ski's took his own life, he was getting out of the service with server PTSD and they gave him a new medication which brought him down more. This was hard for Ski as well, but in all the darkness we found some of our old friends and military family. I just hope we stay incontact with them.

Hello

I made this site so my family that don't have myspace or facebook can read what I have been up to. And its my way of keep my family update on things going on in my life. I try to stay in contact with them but e-mail usually works the best for us so I am hoping this works even better. We shall find out!!!