Its A Sad Day

Its a sad day here at the Humphreys... We lost one of our family members today. We had to put our dog Sorrel down today..... The last couple of weeks her health has really been going down hill. We think she had cancer. She wasn't eating anymore and was having a really hard time getting around... So we decided to put her down... It was kinda hard on some of the family, but it was the best thing for her...

Well on the brighter side, we had a great Christmas here... I got couple of war books and alot of clothes... My mom got me a light purple dress shirt with a tie and brown dress pants... She said that she couldn't bring herself to buy me anything on my list... I guess I just want stupid stuff... I wore the outfit on Sunday and we went to the pioneer home that day... All the old ladies there kept telling me that they liked my outfit... So I was glad mom got me it instead of what I had asked for... I kinda prefer it that way... Bek gave me the best present.... She made me a scrap book of all our adventures with the Hammetts.. It almost made me cry looking at the pictures... Those were some of the funnest times... I got the family Little Big Planet for PS3... Its the funnest game ever... You have little Sack boys or girls that you bounce around threw different obstacle courses... The other night tobi, aimee, and jock stayed up tell 3 in the morning playing it... It was so funny to watch them play it... They could hardly play they were laughing so hard... You just hafto play it to understand.. I'll see if I can find a video of it to show you... I got jock another airsoft gun, so we have been having little wars in our house.. We made a little action video using the airsoft guns, so if you want to see it go to tobi's blog... Well I better go, today is jo's b-day and its almost time to eat....

Here's what a sack boy looks like... Aren't they cute?? :) You can dress them up and change there color... The best game ever....

We just woke up in these picture and are waiting for dad and mom to tell us when can go in and see our presents from the parents.. All our gifts from mom and dad... Playing airsoft!!!! Come On!! Come On stick your little terrorist head out!! There you go!! Your MINE!! Jock showing off his battle wounds.... Boy!! we really do look like terrorist... :)

What's Your Christmas Traditions??

This week has been kind of crazy.. One day some girl is mad at me and calling me a sexist and the next day there's a guy trying to set me up with a girl... But I'll save that for later... Me and Jock went Christmas shopping today... It was a lot of fun, I think we went to almost every store in town.... It was fun watching jock pick out presents for people.... He is really into Christmas... The day after we put up the tree he had all his presents wrapped and under the tree... I think so far he's the only one who has put presents under the tree.... He has even made sure he got Aaron and Lisa a present.. O HEY Smith!!! What do you think about trading me cars??? You would get the better deal if we did.. :) mines not beat up.. LOL I like your heater... Anyhow Aaron left for Juno today, so I picked his car up at the airport for him... Its a little nicer then mine, just a little... Jock was going threw Aaron's glove box and we found some track in there.. So I told Jock to grab a couple out for each of us and that at the next store we go to, we had to ether give them to some one or set them somewhere where people would find them.... So we went to B&N, he was getting someone a present there... When we got back out to the car he asked me if I had gave my tracks out... I was like arrgh I forgot... He did the little shame on you thing with his finger... I was like did you??? He got this cute little grin on his face and just nodded his head yes... It was really neat.... Okay I better start talking about what I originally meant to post about... Christmas traditions.... My family has a lot of them... But recently there has been some in the family and not yet family who have tried to destroy them... :-( ARRGH So far I have been able to battle and succeed in keep them around but I fear that I'm fighting a losing battle... So I wanted to share them with you before they are forever gone... LOL The first of our traditions is no listening to Christmas music till after thanksgiving... Which bub and Lisa have tried to ruin this year... The funny thing about that is that bub usually doesn't listen to Christmas music till the week of Christmas (that's usually because it take him that long to get in the holiday spirit).. But this year since his girl wanted to listen to it before Thanksgiving, he acted like he was really into christmas music and him and Lisa were trying to force it on us... It was embarrassing... We always make it a big deal when we set our tree up.. We get a lot of snack foods and Jo makes apple cider and mom makes dip for chips... Then we put on some Christmas music and spend the rest of the night decorating the tree.. The next one has kinda changed, but in the past when we were all younger we would hang up candy canes up for every day of December leading up to Christmas... And each morning we would take one down and eat it.. It was really exciting for us little guys to watch each day is the number of candy canes got smaller and smaller... By the time Christmas came around eating candy canes had gotten really old... Now that we are older and have had our fill of candy canes we have changed it to on December first we get out our stocking and everybody in the family buys small little treats or fruit that we stick on them for each other every day until Christmas... So its kinda cool checking your stocking to see what kind of treats are in there for you that day.... Another tradition is that we make cookies a lot of cookies but aren't allowed to start eating them till Christmas eve.... Let me tell you that gets kinda hard waiting tell then for cookies, when every night someone is making a different kind of cookies and you cant eat them for another week... Its almost torture... This year mom and the girls have been really letting the ball down when it comes to making the cookies... (I better start cracking the whip in them).... The next tradition is that on Christmas eve mom make some really good food and bek or jo makes some punch and we finally get to break out the cookies.... Then we open all the presents under the tree... The only presents that aren't under the trees our the ones from mom and dad... We first argue about whether we are going to start with the oldest or the youngest... The youngest usually when that fight... lol.... I love my big family, it the only way to go.... :-) I never really cared who started because I'm in the middle, so it will take just as long ether way for it to be my turn... We usually stay up till midnight playing with are goodies... Then the parents make us go to bed.... That night when we are all in bed mam and dad set out the gifts they have gotten for us.... They don't rap them, they just set them out in little piles for each kid.... Then some time in the early morning (usually to early) one of the younger kids to excited to sleep gets dad to wakes up the rest of the family... We are all confined to are rooms until every body is awake and ready to come out... Then dad tells us that we can come out of our rooms... The lights in the living room are out and we all you can see is the outline to each different pile of gifts... Then some one throws on the lights and we all stubble over each other as try to figure out and make our way to our piles still half blinded as our eyes a just to the light... After we get done checking out what everybody got we eat breakfast and just lay around the rest of the day eating cookies... So thats about it for are christmas traditions.... What's are your christmas traditions??? Please leave a comment or do a post on them to... Everybody seems to have different ones... Okay I better explane about being called a sexist or was it male shovenist pig??? :-) No i think it was just called a sexist... LOL But I think I have been called a male shovenist pig before... Anyhow it happend at B&N Some of us were sitting around the fireplace and I was talking to Lisa and I mentioned how I thought that girls shouldn't get there drivers license till there eighteen... I think Lisa agreed with me LOL... Well there was a girl there who we knew, I won't say who it was, but I new here but never really talked to her... Well she got alittle upset about my comment and tryed to start argueing with me... Well her arguement didn't change my mind so I think that just made her even more mad... She said that it was proven fact that girls mature three years sooner then guys... I was about to her --- well i'll save it for later what I was going to say, because that was when I looked at Lisa and she gave me the please end this NOW!!! look... Anyway If I had said what I wanted it would have really made her mad... So I just smilled and let it die at that... Well later Lisa and Kriss told me that she said I was a sexist... Ohwell ive been called worst... Well I better end this, Its already getting to long... Merry Christmas You all.....

Boarding

Life has been rather busy lately.... I had to work tens and elevens this week, so that we can get caught up for Christmas... So I'm sorry its been a week since posting... But I'll make it up with this post with a lot of pics and movies.... Anyhow we just got home from the Older Toziers house... They wanted to have us over one more time before our family gets torn apart by marriage... I thinks just a trap and that's it way over rated (marriage:-)... Its going to be a better sweet Christmas this year knowing its going to be our last one as a family... MOMMYYY!!! KRISS IS VERBALLY ABUSING ME!!! Uhhmm sry about that... Now where was I?? Oh ya the Toziers had us over tonight.. It was alot of fun, bro Tozier told stories of his younger days out in the wilderness... Very interesting!!! I went boarding for the first time this year.... I didn't really want to go, but Mike begged me to come... He said he would go if I went... I guess Kassandra isn't good enough for him any more... :) LOL Just so you people know I was joking there.... Anyhow it was me, bek, mike, kassy, bub and go figure lisa tooo.... It turned out to be funner then I thought it would be... Besides the part where Lisa ripped my earphone out of my ears leaving the little rubber dealeo that goes on the end stuck in my ear... Reb had to pull it out for me, because I couldn't, it just kept going in deeper when I tried to get it out... lol its all good :)

Here Sam these movies are for you... To show you what your missing out on... Sry that there blurry, but that's the best I could do with my phone... And I didn't know It was going to come out sideways...

December 7th 1941

67 years ago today Sunday December 7th the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor... It threw the US into WW2... Because of WW2 405,399 Americans died of all causes, and 670,845 were wounded. 130,201 Americans were captured and made Prisoners of War (POWs). So lets not forget... Here's a brief history of the attack on Pearl Harbor...

Japanese military leaders recognized American naval strength as the chief deterrent to war with the United States. Early in 1941, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, had initiated planning for a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at the beginning of any hostilities that the Japanese might undertake. The assumption was that before the United States could recover from a surprise blow, the Japanese would be able to seize all their objectives in the Far East, and could then hold out indefinitely.
By September 1941 the Japanese had practically completed secret plans for a huge assault against Malaya, the Philippines, and the Netherlands East Indies, to be coordinated with a crushing blow on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. Early in November Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo was named commander of the Pearl Harbor Striking Force, which rendezvoused secretly in the Kuriles. The force of some 30 ships included six aircraft carriers with about 430 planes, of which approximately 360 took part in the subsequent attack. At the same time, a Japanese Advance Expeditionary Force of some 20 submarines was assembled at Kure naval base on the west coast of Honshu to cooperate in the attack.
Submarines of the Advance Expeditionary Force began their eastward movement across the Pacific in mid-November, refueled and resupplied in the Marshalls, and arrived near Oahu about December 5 (Hawaiian time). On the night of December 6-7 five midget (two-man) submarines that had been carried "piggy-back" on large submarines cast off and began converging on Pearl Harbor.
Nagumo's task force sailed from the Kuriles on 26 November and arrived, undetected by the Americans, at a point about 200 miles north of Oahu at 0600 hours (Hawaiian time) on December 7, 1941. Beginning at 0600 and ending at 0715, a total of some 360 planes were launched in three waves. These planes rendezvoused to the south and then flew toward Oahu for coordinated attacks.
In Pearl Harbor were 96 vessels, the bulk of the United States Pacific Fleet. Eight battleships of the Fleet were there, but the aircraft carriers were all at sea. The Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) was Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. Army forces in Hawaii, including the 24th and 25th Infantry Divisions, were under the command of Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, Commanding General of the Hawaiian Department. On the several airfields were a total of about 390 Navy and Army planes of all types, of which less than 300 were available for combat or observation purposes.
The Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor and on the airfields of Oahu began at 0755 on December 7, 1941 and ended shortly before 1000. Quickly recovering from the initial shock of surprise, the Americans fought back vigorously with antiaircraft fire. Devastation of the airfields was so quick and thorough that only a few American planes were able to participate in the counterattack. The Japanese were successful in accomplishing their principal mission, which was to cripple the Pacific Fleet. They sunk three battleships, caused another to capsize, and severely damaged the other four.
All together the Japanese sank or severely damaged 18 ships, including the 8 battleships, three light cruisers, and three destroyers. On the airfields the Japanese destroyed 161 American planes (Army 74, Navy 87) and seriously damaged 102 (Army 71, Navy 31).
The Navy and Marine Corps suffered a total of 2,896 casualties of which 2,117 were deaths (Navy 2,008, Marines 109) and 779 wounded (Navy 710, Marines 69). The Army (as of midnight, 10 December) lost 228 killed or died of wounds, 113 seriously wounded and 346 slightly wounded. In addition, at least 57 civilians were killed and nearly as many seriously injured.
The Japanese lost 29 planes over Oahu, one large submarine (on 10 December), and all five of the midget submarines. Their personnel losses (according to Japanese sources) were 55 airmen, nine crewmen on the midget submarines, and an unknown number on the large submarines. The Japanese carrier task force sailed away undetected and unscathed.
On December 8, 1941, within less than an hour after a stirring, six-minute address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Congress voted, with only one member dissenting, that a state of war existed between the United States and Japan, and empowered the President to wage war with all the resources of the country.
Four days after Pearl Harbor, December 11, 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. Congress, this time without a dissenting vote, immediately recognized the existence of a state of war with Germany and Italy, and also rescinded an article of the Selective Service Act prohibiting the use of American armed forces beyond the Western Hemisphere.

I made it back

I got back from ninilchik last night... We had a good time and got alot of work done... It was good to get to know Jason alittle better... He's a great guy... Its was kinda weird hearing a guy I don't know that well talk about what a great girl my sis was, but it was also really neat... We got his house all plumbed in and hooked up a pressure tank and water heater... I think he was happy with what all we got done... Lambert had us change out his water heater too... So ya it was a long week... The roads weren't that great on the drive back... It was raining going threw Anchorage and the roads all the way to denali park were covered in snow, but once we got threw the park the roads were really good the rest of the way... The fan for the heater in my truck went out on the way to ninilchik, it had been going out for awhile now... You would have to kick the fan to get it to come on, but it finally just died on me... So we had to put a new one in... We were in the parking lot of home depot at soldona... It was cold and windy and we had a hard time putting it in... It took us an hour and a half to get it in and working... No fun at all... Well least I know how to change out my heater fan now... It was hard on our way back to drive by alyeska... You could see the lights and the ski lifts working... I almost cried, but i kept back the tears.. Today it was really warm and it was snowing hard.... It would have been a perfect day to go boarding... Hey Sam you should fly up here next week and go boarding with me...=) It would be a blast!!!! Okay I better go to bed, so I'm not sleeping in Sunday school tomorrow.... I'm going to try to do a post about the date that will live in infamy tomorrow... Anybody know what that date and day was about??? Huhh anybody know??? without looking it up.... I'll give you a clue, it has something to do with Hawaii... Well if you don,t know then your a sad pathetic being... It had one of the greatest impacts on the history of our country... Okay I better stop talking... Night all...