Happy Anniversary!!!

Good evening or morning..the 9 1/2 hour difference is REALLY jacking Jill and I up. It's 7pm here and 9:30am in Texas. Anyways, i'm all smiles today, why you ask? no...not because it's St. Patrick's Day (missing the beer pretty badly right now) but because it's my wedding anniversary! Yep, Jill and I just hit our 2nd year today. I have to tell you, the last 2 years has been a pretty bumpy road, we got married <------ easy easy...that was NOT the bumpy part...HA! had TWO floods in the house and this blasted deployment to Afghanistan. The good things that have happened though have FAR out weighed the bad. I not only married my best friend but I was blessed with an EXTREMELY talented, smart, loving, sometimes hard headed teenager as a son..hehe, and I was also blessed with my baby boy Brady Patrick who by chance turns 1 year old in less than two weeks and has more energy in his little body than the whole city of Houston!!! :-)
They say that the first 5 years is the toughest part of marriage and that if you can get through those 5 years, that your love and marriage will last a lifetime. Well, I hate to break it but I think God took those 5 years and crammed them all into 3 years...the past 2 years and the third year being this deployment. I'm looking so forward to getting through this deployment and having a nice, easy rest of my life. Am I ready to give up the military? uhhh...hmmm....not sure. Any decisions I make will of course be discussed with my Jill. Even if I stay in, I think i'm pretty much done with the combat zone thing. I've had my fill of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not alot went on today, woke up, went on a mission, had some kids throw rocks at our vehicles as we passed through town...think they were mad because we were not throwing them candy or pencils and played some backgammon on my ipod touch.
Chow was good today, had Sheppard pie for lunch and Irish Pot roast with green bread for din din. YUM!
Anyways, to all of my friends and family, Happy St. Patrick's Day!!! Each of you are in my thoughts. No worries about me, my guys here are watching my six.

To my Jilly Bean....Happy Anniversary Honey, I LOVE YOU!!!!

PEACE OUT!!!

-Jimmy Flanigan