Lucy and her hippo

She's definitely a Lehman! Check out these super cute pictures of Lucy sleeping with her hippo.

Jimmy in L.A.

Well, Jimmy is TDY in L.A. right now. (TDY means "temporary duty" or business trip in Army terminology.) He's there for a Beckman Coulter lab conference. He'll be gone for about 2 weeks, so I'm at the house all by myself.

Here are some things I have done this week that I haven't done in over a year...

-make a real dinner (from scratch!)
-took out the garbage
-cleaned the litter box
-cleaned up hairballs
-filled the car with gas
-went grocery shopping by myself
-killed a bug

Pathetic, I know, but it just makes me appreciate Jimmy more AND reminds me that I can be very independent if I want to be. Jimmy spoils me way too much!

I've been staying late at work because it has been extremely busy and I've been working out about 6 days a week, so time has been going by really fast. In addition, I'm on the Board of Directors for the Fort Lee Spouses club and I've taken on a lot of responsibilities there. I've been busy, busy, busy! I just look forward to Jimmy coming home!

UVA vs. TCU

Our friend, B.J., is currently working on his PhD at University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He was nice enough to invite us to a UVA football game against Texas Christian University. Though the game was pretty much a blowout, we had a great time! We sat in the student section and tried to blend in with the undergrads. UVA has a football tradition called "guys in ties and girls in pearls." It was very unusual because most everyone comes to the game all dressed up!

Da Band


Student Section on the lawn


Game play

An Early Celebration

My birthday this year falls on Labor Day, so I really enjoyed having a day off! We decided to celebrate my birthday LAST WEEKEND and took a day trip to DC. Jimmy was nice enough to take me to the Museum of Natural History in Washington DC and IKEA. We had a great day!

IKEA was fun, we just walked around and daydreamed about having a house of our own in the future and talked about how we would decorate it. We bought much needed new bed linens (finally!) and some kitchenware that needed to be replaced (finally!). I love IKEA.

The Museum of Natural History was incredible and I enjoyed myself very much. I was most excited about seeing the Hope Diamond and all the dinosaurs. There was a mammal exhibit that was awesome too. Now I've now been to all the Smithsonian Museums in DC except for one, The Museum of American History. I'm hoping to get there in October when we're in DC for the Army 10-Miler (which, by the way, I'm getting really nervous about!).

**There are no pictures of Jimmy from our trip to DC because Jimmy didn't like his outfit and refused to be photographed, he he he!**


My traditional birthday cookie cake! I always tell Jimmy that the only thing I want for my birthday is a chocolate chip cookie cake ;0) I think Jimmy picked out the exact same design as last year, he he he.


This is me sporting me new, shorter haircut and the hippo. (I cut about 6 inches off my hair about 4 weeks ago.) Yes, I still love hippos at the age of 29.


This reminded me of our kitties, specifically Lucy (aka Snout)


The mammal exhibit; the lion reminded me of Rudy.


My birthday present from Jimmy... I ended up donating it to the Museum of Natural History and they now call it the Hope Diamond ;0)


More jewelry from Jimmy that I ended up donating.


Dinosaurs!

August in Review

Wow, it's been a few weeks since I've posted an update. Things are going well in the Lehman household. We have been enjoying the last few weeks of the summer. We recently went to Charlottesville and went tubing down the James River. The weather was perfect and the water was so warm! We had a blast and I would have to say it was one of our best tubing trips ever. We are thinking of going white water rafting soon, but we haven't made plans yet... hopefully we'll get a chance to go as summer is almost over.

Although we've been at Fort Lee for more than 2 years, I finally decided to get involved with the Fort Lee Area Spouses Club (FLASC). I guess it can be described as a social club for Army wives. I never thought I would be the type of "Army wife" that would participate in an organization like that, but have been pleasantly surprised so far. I'm now on the Board of Directors as the Scholarship Committee Chairperson, so I'm excited and ready to get more involved. I just hope I'm not spreading myself too thin with too many volunteer projects. What's cool is that I'm heavily involved with the Holiday Helper Program and since FLASC is a sponsor, the overlap will be a benefit for me.

I helped out with a Charity Golf Tournament for our Holiday Helper Program this month. I had fun, but it was very hot and humid. I've never been golfing before, but decided that the only thing I like about golf is riding around in the golf cart and the cute outfits you get to wear ;0) I didn't golf, but a friend and I drove around in a golf cart for about an hour; it was fun!

This is Phil and I after the ribbon cutting at a new building. I was "in charge" of the ever important gold scissors for the ribbon cutting ceremony so I decided to give him a haircut. Phil is the marketing guy that got Jimmy and I on the cover of the magazine.


The organization I work for has many programs to support Soldiers and their Families. One such program is the New Parent Support Program and they teach seminars on parenting, host playgroups and story time, etc. Anyways, they recently acquired an "Empathy Belly." My friends decided it would be fun for me to try it on! I'm not sure how much it weighed, but I looked like I was 9 months pregnant. It even had giant boob attachments! It was heavy and my back hurt only after about 15 minutes of wearing it around the office.