Christmas Care-Packages

It's the most wonderful time of the year.....(are you now singing the song?? Good that's where I was going with that).  Anyways, the Christmas season is upon us once again and I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering where on earth this year has gone??  Seems like I was just in Hawaii bringing in the new year.  The good part about this year going by so fast is that means we are nearing the end of this deployment!

Speaking of deployment, this blog is dedicated to Ricky's Christmas presents!! (He already knows pretty much everything in there since he requested it, so this is no surprise to him).  When Ricky was home in October on his R&R (& Part 2), he told me not to send out any more mail because there was a change he would be switching bases and he didn't want lost mail out there.  So I've been waiting very patiently for his new address and was a little saddened that it took so long.  Mainly because he now won't have his boxes until after Christmas, and I know he appreciates them whenever he gets them, but who doesn't like to open a present on Christmas day? Especially a soldier that won't have many presents to open.  But anyways, I have his new address, and his list of requests and here is the final product!

Of course I went with a Christmas theme! I added some of our most recent engagement pictures so he could hang them up on his wall.  

Christmas candy! The only thing he requested out of all this were the sugar coated fruit slices at the bottom and the Life Savers.  The rest is just stuff that I added to make it more festive.  Notice the little camo stocking on the left? Saw that at Reasor's and HAD to have it :) I got a matching one for myself.

More yummy snacks.  He requested all of these things, even the Easy Cheese. Oh and the Oreo's had to be double stuffed :) 

Some essentials. Some of this was still from when people donated stuff for his boxes.

Here is box #1 filled to the top

And I had to make a box #2 because all the stuff wouldn't fit into one.  This one got some shiny garland in it too :) 

All ready to go!  

He still isn't at his new base yet but will be within a couple weeks.  And hopefully the boxes won't be too far behind him!