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Reminder of November Contest

November 10, 2006 on 6:00 pm | In Contest | No Comments

November Contest

November 2, 2006 on 2:00 pm | In Contest | No CommentsHello,

Our sponsor, Southern Star Mortgage, licensed in 27 states specializing in loans for military members and helping them get down payment and closing cost assistance is promoting this contest in celebration of Military Family Appreciation Month.

Send us your story about being a Military Family and what it means to you!!!

This includes everyone.. military members, spouses, dependent children, parents, grandparents, siblings and significant others. We want to hear your story! 

We’ll take submissions from now through the 14th of November at midnight PST. The Southern Star Mortgage Board will vote on the submissions and choose a winner. The winning submission will then be published on Spec Ops Angels and the winner will receive a gift certificate. Be as creative as possible.  

To qualify in the drawing you must be a registered user of Spec Ops Angels. Send your story to denise ‘AT’ specopsangels  ‘DOT’ com

Looking forward to seeing which story wins! ~ Denise

1st week of November

November 8, 2006 on 11:11 am | In Uncategorized, Contest | No Comments

Hello everyone,

I really haven’t had anything to write about but I wanted to say hi.

This weeks #’s for the site were really low

114 page views for the last 7 days and 307 page views for the last 30 days.

Hopefully, the numbers will go up with the help of webmaster TE from Specialtactics. TE is placing a link to the site on his main page and in the forum. Thank you again for your help TE.

Another way to help get the word out is by going to www.milblogging.com . This site provides free advertisement for milbloggers but the catch is you must have votes to get listed. We need just over 40 votes to get on the list. So if you like the site please register at milblogging.com. After registering, sign in, then go to resently added, scroll down the list to Special Operations Angels, click on that and add us to your favorites.

I have received emails from a few readers. I’m really glad that you are enjoying the site. For the site to be successful it’s important for the readers to leave comments/emails. Then the site can bring it’s readers the resources and information that are important to you. This site is “OURS” the spouses, families and significant others of AFSOC. Your opininon is important.

Okay now on a lighter note….

I explained earlier this week that we tend not to be able to celebrate events on the right days. Our anniversary is Nov 13 but DH will be out in the field. I wanted to do something for him that he wouldn’t do for himself. Since DH’s job here lately has been extremely physical I wanted to give him a day of relaxation.

After a few days of researching I decided to send him to Ten Thousand Waves in Santa Fe. I thought it would be great because DH loved being station in Kadena AB. The spa feels like a Japanese onsen. Now the problem was getting him to the location without telling him where he was going.

After brain storming, I decided to make it an assignment. You know like “James Bond”   I woke up that morning before DH so that I could get into my CAPS uniform. I had already made up orders for him and placed them in an envelope. When DH woke up he found me standing next to the bed. He asks ” Do you have a funtion today?” I smiled “No Sir” “You have been assigned to a mission… Should you decide to accept”. At this point he is sitting up in bed laughing at me. He read his orders and agrees to followed them. Of course the whole time he is getting dressed he is trying to get information. So to throw him off I told him that he needed his swim trunks. Then I asked him how long it took him to swim 2,500 meters. At this point he looks at me and said “your kidding right” I responded with “It’s for a good cause” Now I have him thinking he is going swimming. Technically, he is since he has a hot bath appt. Before DH leaves on his hr drive to his undisclosed location DH said ” I’m only going because I love you and you owe me big” I smiled thinking If he only knew where he was going After DH returned from osen we went out to dinner. DH enjoyed his gift and was thankful. DH even told the guys about his weekend. ( That’s not like DH)

Share with us a story about your family. Send it to Denise ‘AT‘ specopsangels ‘DOT‘ com. The deadline for stories is November 14th midnight (PST) The winner will receive a gift certificate from our sponsor Southern Star Mortgage and will have story published here on Spec Ops Angels.

Looking forward to seeing who wins 

Take care ~ Denise

Deck the halls with…..

November 8, 2006 on 9:29 am | In Contest | No Comments

November 07, 2006

100 families to get homes decked out for Christmas

By Karen Jowers
Staff writer
 

A decorating company wants to make the holidays a little brighter for military families whose loved ones are deployed during the holidays.

Christmas Décor, a Texas-based holiday and event decorating company, will select 100 families of service members deployed overseas from nominations online and will designing and installing their decorations for free.

The deadline for applications is Dec. 1.

The value of the decorations will depend on the families selected, because costs vary from house to house. But Christmas Décor has done decorations that are worth more than $50,000, according to company spokeswoman Brittany Roth.

Families can nominate themselves or another military family. The company has 375 franchise locations in 48 states. Families living in the other two states — Hawaii and South Dakota — cannot be considered for the contest, because it is too far to send a decorating team from another franchise, Roth said. For the same reasons, families living overseas cannot be considered.

Nominators must submit an essay of 350 words or less describing why the family should receive the Christmas decoration treatment; space for the essay is included in the brief online application. None of the information submitted will be used for marketing or other reasons, Roth said.

If selected, the family will be contacted by a Christmas Décor designer from a nearby franchise, who will design a custom holiday display for their home and suggest options for the family. A crew will install the decorations before Dec. 15.

At the end of the season, Christmas Décor will return and take down the display.