Monday, January 5, 2009

It's Me


OK Dad, this is for you...Josh was playing around with my camera and snapped a few pictures of me since I'm always the one taking the pictures. They turned out pretty decent so I thought I'd post them since you didn't get to see me on the family Christmas card and if I had a recent picture of Mark I would post it too. Not much has changed in the year I have been gone except probably my hair color...a little more grey and I've gone with red highlights and think I'm going to stick with this color for awhile. I really like it! I am back to running in the gym on the treadmill...up to 3 miles and have to say I'm REALLY excited about that accomplishment...before you know it, Stephanie and I will be running a marthon together when I get back to the states!

8 comments:

Stephanie Given said...

You are beautiful Melissa!! I love your hair. It is sooo cute. And I love the color. You can kind of tell you have changed the color a little. It looks great and you look great too!

Mark will be excited to see the new pictures!
Love,
Stephanie

Barbara said...

You do look good and am I seeing "skinny"???? So proud of your hard work. Know it is hard, but you will be so happy in the end. Good luck to the Gators tonight. Love Mom PS Will show your Dad all the new pictures this evening.

tuttie said...

Melissa, you look wonderful, you did not use your editing powers on those pictures did you, if so please edit some of my pictures,the last ones aunt kathleen sent our were terrible. I love your hair, and wish I could run 3 miles, we missed stopping by sumter on our way back from vivis this year, cant wait for you to return. Well onto the next pictures

Kat said...

I too enjoyed talking to you and am so proud of all that you and Mark have accomplished in this short tour.Im so happy you/Mark,Hunter,Josh,Hailey,Rylan have kept all of us informed,thru email,blog,videos,pictures,telephone.It is always a joy and blessing to hear from yall. You look great, and so does my great niece and 3 great nephews.We wish all of you blessings, a successful tour in Iraq for Mark. Thanks for sharing all these moments with us. Love Aunt Kathleen

Melissa said...

Hi all, thank you for your sweet comments, no my pictures aren't photoshopped, that's me! I still have a LONG way to go!

awholelotofschmidt said...

Hey there! Sexy, sexy!!! Love your hair. I really like it that length. It is very flattering. I am going with your mom...I do see skinny in this pic. Good Job. Keep up the running and I will run the marathon with you guys, kay?

Unknown said...

Hey Melissa! I have been keeping up with you guys on your blog. You look great and the kids have grown so much in the year since leaving Sumter. Nothing much has changed here. Take care and keep up the great work on the weight loss.

Love, Heather

Amy Niebuhr said...

Hey Melissa!! I just came across your blog. How are you doing? You guys are in Japan? We are in Korea. We are pretty much neighbors!! I can't believe your kids. They have grown up so much. They are beautiful. Please tell Mark we say hello.