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.