Waiting......and wishing!!!!

I know this was the title of another post I wrote, but this is for a different reason. Missy is due tommorrow, and she wants to have the baby now, so I have to tell her to have patience! I know that being pregnant is tiring, but that is overrated. I'm kidding of course!
Anyways I'll keep waiting and see what happens tommorrow. In other events around Iraq, I got back from my couple weeks stay in the IZ, and even though I liked it there, it is good to be back "home" away from home! I finally got to fly on a clear day, and not at night, because I wanted to see what it looked like around here from a birds eye view, and it is cool, but the city looks more rundown in the neighborhoods than I thought. The palm trees are getting their luster taken away, because I've seen so many of them, and I love palm trees, but these aren't as green, because of the dust in the air leaves a good brown layer on them! Nothing like the Carribbean though. I put 6 more pictures on the site, and I hope they do paint a good picture of the area. I take pictures of EVERYTHING, so nothing exciting to everybody, but I have some from every vantage point! I want to thank everybody for the replies and emails, and if I haven't gotten back to you, it's because my online time has been scarce and slow, so I have to choose who to reply to, and usually it's my wife and the hierarchy here that I have to report my status to! We also have a lot of planning to do during missions, to schedule people for the next month, because we have so many people leaving this month and EVERYBODY and their brother wants to get their PDHA's done! So we try to take care of them, and get all the details as far as dates ,and when we have to be there, and scheduling flights ad all that jazz! We call a place called Catfish Air, which schedules all the helicopter rides in Iraq and figure out ways to get where we want to go!
I also want to address my English in the posts I have been writing as I have reviewed some of my past ones, and I want to apoligise for my grammar, and misspelling. I write my posts real quick and I press publish, and send it before I proofread it, so I don't think I'm that dumb, but I think everybody understands what I am saying!
For my sister in law Tammy Petersen, who emailed me as to identifying some abbreviations we use, I will put some here so people can sort them out!
FOB=Forward Operating Base
IZ=International Zone
ABN=Airborne
PDHA=Post Deployment Health Assesment
LZ=Landing Zone
BCT=Brigade Combat Team
MWR=Morale Welfare Readiness
VBED=Vehicle Borne Explosive Device(Car Bomb)
IED=Improvised Explosive Device
HMMV=Humvee
APC=Armored Personnel Carrier

If you have any other ones I will be happy to put them up as they come up. You know that is just military lingo, and that is how we identify things, so bear with me!
Check out the new pics, and pray for my wife and kids for the next couple days.
Later,
Erik