Trophies

Well I've done it...I won second place in a racquetball tournament! This is a picture of me and my friend Courtney with our trophies. Trophies are funny things...all plastic-y and shiny. Here's the comical part. I competed in the women's division of the tournament and played against Courtney, with whom I play racquetball every Tuesday night. We had fun playing each other...it was all smiles for both of us during the span of our two games. You see, we knew we were guaranteed a trophy...we were the only two women in our division :) Hehe. It's still enjoyable to say I won second place in a racquetball tournament.

Paul news: in 10 days, Paul will have been gone for 4 months! Almost 1/3 of the deployment down. He's doing well...currently he and his platoon are moving offices. Very soon, Paul's office and room will be one. One of his jobs is to keep the helicopter landing area free from the hordes of birds that like to reside there. So once a week, he and another soldier go "dove hunting." If you know Paul, shooting guns is something to which he looks forward (although I don't know if the birds much like being a part of his sport :). Because they have a limited amount of shot gun shells useful for clearing out the birds, they have to ration the shells and are only able to shoot five shells per week. Paul usually takes a soldier who has little to no experience with a shot gun and gives them a good ole Smith family lesson (while wearing his Joel Smith Family made leather holster). The student gets three shells and Paul gets two (so the learning soldier has more opportunities to shoot). Paul is an excellent instructor at whatever he decides to teach. I love that guy!