Lots of news

It has been a while since my last post but life has been in full swing in the Galvin household. Baseball season is still going on for the boys, only 3 games left, then it is onto flag football. This is the first year Brody can sign up and he is excited!!



Brody got to play catcher for the first time this weekend. Due to the heat, they only make the catcher wear the face mask. By the time he could actually see the ball it was already past him. He even was down in the catching position while the batter was swing (this is T-ball, there is no pitch coming in!) It was cute to watch and I think he had fun. Batting is his favorite thing. While standing on third, the batter hit the ball so Brody ran home. The catcher was waiting for him with the ball. So Brody ran waaaaay out of the base line, almost to the backstop and into the dugout, then came back towards home plate. The catcher was chasing him the entire time. He finally touch the plate and as far as knows, he was safe! School has been good also. He actually fell asleep one day and when I went to pick him up he was still asleep. The teacher tried to wake him but he was sound asleep. That day the walk home took a really long time!


Hunter has been doing well in baseball. He has gotten to the point where he is bored of coach pitch and is ready to move to the next level. Joe and Hunter practice pitching at home so hopefully he will be ready for next year. In one week, Hunter is "trying out" for swim team. Everyone, who can swim 2 laps with 2 different strokes, make the team, the try out is to see what level you will be swimming at.




Joe ran a triathlon today. It was a 10K run, 30K bike and 175M swim. Because the swim was in a pool, they started with the run. Joe finished in 1hour 5minutes. The next guy was no where by Joe, he completed the swim with the pool all to himself. He is still waiting to hear if he made the Marine team to run the Marathon. They are cutting back the number of runners that they send so hopefully he is fast enough to represent the USMC. He leaves for the Philippines on the 10th and will be gone most of the month of October. If he makes the team, he will fly to the states from there instead of coming to Oki first. I just figure that I won't see him until the first of November.


I have been substitute teaching. I also just worked out a contract position with Marine Corps Community Service (MCCS) to work in the Health Promotion department. It will be alot like substituting, I will get an email of a "job" (health fair, talk to the Marines about injury prevention, or other things)and I can decide to work or not. This way, when family comes out to visit, I don't have to worry about taking time off of work, I can just say no to the job. I am also the yearbook coordinator at the boys school- I did a yearbook in middle school so that apparently makes me qualified to do this.

That is all for now, we are hoping for cooler weather soon but I don't know how lucky we will get. Just to let all of you State fans know, the CMU flag was flying high and proud in Okinawa a few weeks ago!!

Brody, The Kindergartener

Today was Brody's first day of Kindergarten. He talked the entire way to school and even while walking Hunter to his classroom. He was very excited. Joe and I walked down to get them after school (the USMC had Monday and Tuesday off for Labor day)and that was a different story. Brody was pooped! He said it was too hot to walk, we lived to far away, we were walking too fast, anything he could complain about he did. He apparently got his second wind when the neighbor came down to play because he went off without one complaint!
Joe told them to smile without opening their mouth

Joe was in DC for a case that he was assigned to while stationed at Miramar (the crazy man or Jessie for those of you who know about it). He left the first say of school and came back on Sat. evening. I had gotten tickets to attend Okinapa- which is a wine tasting event held yearly here. Joe of course, was going to miss it, so I brought my neighbor with me and made it a girls night out. All of you who know me, know that I love things at are free. I don't care if it is a pencil, if it is free, I want it. At the wine festival, one booth was giving away free biking shirts. So I had a friend go up and ask for one by saying that his wife couldn't make it and he wanted to give her one. The wine people gave him one and he turned and gave it to me. I have no idea what I will do with the biking shirt, no I am not going to start biking, but I might just have to so I can wear it around!! I was going to model it for you and picture the shirt that way but it is a small and last I checked, I am not a small, so I didn't think that would do the shirt justice!

Kickball and the first day of school

The neighborhood had a big kickball game the Friday before school started. Flyers were sent out to tell about the game and lots of people joined in for the fun. We play kids vs. adults with the kids getting 6 outs and the adults getting 3. It was alot of fun and the weather cooperated too- not too hot. We even ordered pizza to have delivered to the field. I started taking pictures but then the game got intense and I could no longer safely play with a camera around my neck and a beverage in my hand (it was water people!!!)


Hunter started his first day of school on Monday, August 31. He has Mrs. Falk and seems excited about the school year. Brody doesn't start school until Sept. 8 due to the teachers doing home visits the first week of school. So there will be another post stated " The First Day of School" but this will be for Brody's first day.