Thought you all might like to read an update on this. I took all of the good advice received and did write to my cousin's son. It took quite awhile for a reply (he explains why); I just received this a few days ago. He is supposed to be home by Mother's Day. I don't think he'd mind my sharing with you:

Thank you for the email. It is good to hear from you I think the last time I saw you was in Rifle Colorado quite a while ago. Well I am doing well here and am getting excited to go home. Sorry it took me so long to respond to your email. We are usually pretty busy and it is kind of a hassle for me to get online. I am stationed in Fallujah on the South part of the base and it is usually an hour or so journey to get to the mainside of the base where the Internet is. Then we usually have to wait in a line to use, so my Internet access is rare.

The weather here is starting to get pretty warm. We have had the past few days at about or over 100. Today it was really windy and dusty all day. It is starting to get pretty warm here and will only get warmer, so I am glad that I am at the end of my deployment so that I won't have to deal with the heat. We did have a few months of pretty chilly weather, the months of January and February were usually at or around freezing during the day and even colder at night. In the beginning of January we did have one day that snowed, as you can imagine it doesn't happen that often here so it was neat to see. The snow didn't stick and it only was a light snow that lasted maybe an hour, but it was still snow.

We have had plenty of the things we need here. In my room we had a junk food box that was always overflowing with candy and treats from care packages. Most of the time we had more than we could handle.