A growing pair

These girls are growing by the minute! It is delightful and scary. So here are some pictures of them from these last few weeks. A picture is worth a thousand words, right?

Have a great weekend!

A week in Wisconsin

Well we are back, again, from Wisconsin. The hubs came home last week and informed me of 10 days of leave he had (for free.) So back home we went. Both drives went smooth, there and back. The first drive we did with one stop and it took 9 hours and 45 minutes. The return trip we had 2 stops, and made it back in 9 hours and 5 minutes. Pretty awesome. It was such a last minute, fun, decision...I had the girls packed, a trip to the park, dinner ate, and even squeezed in a run between 4 and 8:30 pm! The leaves are nothing but oranges, yellows, and reds. The air is so crisp and cool. Jake stocked up on some awesome jerky, cheeses, and pork products. Along with a box of NY strip steaks courtesy of Buppa.(His grandpa) And I managed to squeeze in some rummaging and stock up on my favorite candles. Here are some pictures of a morning Jake and I spent with Isabelle...how my little shorty is growing up too fast.

Rummaging....sometimes you find the GREATEST stuff. Right? So my MIL and FIL found a table at a flee market this summer and got it for the girls, while rummaging no Wednesday I found this for 3 dollars.

A perfect match! 3 dollars for this black chalk board. Isabelle is excited for 'school' :)

Tumbling

Isabelle did a short tumbling class at the YMCA this summer. Her last class Jake was able to check out, she was pretty happy her daddy was able to see her 'moves' since he had been gone a month. Here are some pictures of her last class.

Isabelle really liked tumbling, and we will be signing her up again. Now I am off to see if we are going to enroll her in a part time pre-K program at school. She is growing so fast!

Still Here!

It has been way too long! We are at Ft. Campbell, Ky....still opening boxes. Where did the summer go? Well I am back and ready to blog. For the handful that actually read this. :) It is in the 60's here, rainy day, football snacks are out, and we are enjoying the NFL ticket! We had an awful, awful, moving company-of course we didn't know that until we started seeing our house hold goods come off the moving truck. Lordy Lord, we didn't even open up boxes and could tell we were in for it. I just sent 20 emails with picture's to a case manager for Covan movers. I still don't have the name of the Company which packed us (they are the ones at fault) but plan on getting the name tomorrow. We are enjoying the all the green, NOT the pesty mosquitoes. :) Lydia's Ortho Consult has been delayed, huge bummer. I hope she is up and over her surgery come Thanksgiving...she wants to walk and go so bad...more on that another time. What's new with me? My hair is getting longer, I am trying to grow it out and am finally feeling like it's getting somewhere. I am back to running again. After Lydia's SB walk/run I probably ran about 4 times. Isabelle is growing up TOO fast, my oh my the things we talk about with her. Boy does she have an imagination too. It is crazy and so cool. The girls are doing well sharing a room. And Jake? Well he's happy he has his Miller, his NFL ticket, and that the weather is cooling down. He misses his other half, his Harley :). But he knows it's in safe keeping so it's all good. Have a great Sunday all! Some pictures of the last week we were home!

5K in the am for SB!

I am totally excited for the Spina Bifida Walk/Run tomorrow morning! I will be running the 5K with my little brother and there are a good number of family members from both sides of our family doing the walk. Totally excited to run for my little girl. Wishing Jake could be apart of this, but someday he will. Sadly enough Lydia has had a fever on and off since Wednesday afternoon(due to a shot), but she will be there! She may just be 'cheering' us on from the sidelines. Go Team Lydia! Happy Friday Ya'll

Wisconsin state fair park

Haven't been to our State Fair Park in 5 years, but I took Isabelle yesterday. We met up with my girlfriend and her 2 kids. Such fun, so many perrty cows, horses, baby chicks, n piglets. Not to mention the fried everything on a stick. :) Isabelle and I shared a fried cheese stick, mini cinnamon sugar donuts and a fresh squeezed lemonade. She went on 3 rides and 4 hours later in the heat we were ready to go home. Unfortunelty she woke up just before midnight puking, yep! Long night, she is feeling much better this am...and I am enjoying the snuggle time. It's times like these I am thankful that my job is to just be mom.

A heavy heart

I am in a rut... Missing my man... A wife of a Soldier...leaves a lot of 'missing you' times. So I thought I would write about it. Last night I watched an old black and white with my mom; about 4 Soldier returning from WWll and the how the 4 of them were dealing with life and integrating back into what is considered normal life. One Soldier, a Navy man, lost his hands. He came home with prostheses(sp?) hands, he had to rely on his father and mother for help with certain things...of course there was a women involved. His neighbor, a child hood sweet heart. The beauty of it all was she didn't even notice his hands, she loved him so much and didn't care that she had to help him for forever-she saw right past it. He was willing to let her go, but she didn't want to go anywhere. She still loved him and just wanted HIM. My heart aches and I have to pray to God to take away the fears I have of the unknown with my husband and his job. All the unknowns we have yet to face knowing he is deploying again. Jake has only been gone a few weeks, but having him state side the last 2.5 years makes a month away drag on and on. I am an optimistic though, heaven knows you won't last being married to a Soldier if your a pessimist. If you are, well everyone knows how depressed you must be and unhappy! Seriously! :) Anyhow, When I get down like this I have to stop and look around at the beautiful things I, we, do have and thank God for the daily reminders I have of my husband around me. It makes the time we do have together so much sweeter. Our love is so strong. Always having the want and desire to be in each others arms again. To say goodnight to each other, to wake up to each other...every time Jake leaves for longer than a few weeks, I get to fall in love with him all over again! I literally get butterflies and sweaty palms waiting to pick him up. I blush and get all tongue tied and all I can think to do is hug and kiss him. I am thinking of that today-not the negative, not the scary. It's Friday, another stick, hot, day. Not as hot as Jake is in OK right now, triple digits...He made his E6. STAFF SERGEANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!He waited 1 year and 4 months. He has been short by 2 points (it's all based on a point system) at least 2 times...with that said we are so proud, so honored, and walking on air with Jake's promotion. Thank you Jesus! Happy Friday

(beer cans, courtesy of my 26th birthday party and 4 good friends.)