Christmas letter 2009
Dear Friends, Family, and people who I perennially annoy with my exaggerations and bold faced lies…
It’s time for the Brough Family Christmas letter. I’ll skip the lengthy preamble and start with the updates.
Eli is 6 years old, and quite the ladies man now that his front teeth have grown back in. He has cut quite a swathe though the female population in his kindergarten class and is an unrepentant playboy. His current interests also include Lego’s, viva piñata on the xbox, and of course his longtime goals of world domination.
Becca has spent the last year putting up with my crap (or maybe more appropriately the lack thereof, since I haven’t been around for most of the year). With Eli in school for 3 hours a day, and me on the other side of the world, Becca doesn’t have to get us dressed, tie our shoes, or make us snacks all day long. She works out, edits home movies, cooks wonderful creations, and she makes me wish I were at home with her instead of playing Army on the other side of the world.
Here is the recap of the year:
After spending the holidays in Utah, we went back to Kentucky for a month while I attended the Army Reconnaissance Course, which culminated with the worst ice storm the region had seen in decades.
Graduating the course ended our six-month stint at Ft. Knox. We then started preparing ourselves for a deployment to Afghanistan. This of course consisted of a lot of denial while we attempted to simultaneously live life to the fullest and ignore the dates on the calendar and eventually the ticking of the clock.
This deployment has taught us that no matter how much we drive each other nuts, we prefer to drive each other nuts from a distance close enough to give each other hugs.
Regardless, I’ve still been able to accomplish some of my personal goals:
· Promotion to 1st Lieutenant (I can’t believe it’s not butter!)
· Lead men in combat and bring them back safely
· See my family for leave
· Find Osama Bin Laden crap…
We still have a bit of a haul in front of us, but we are freshly energized after I was able to come home for leave over Thanksgiving. For those of you who are with your loved ones this Christmas, be thankful and let them know that you appreciate them.
Love
The Broughs
