Farm Trip Aug 2013

Two weeks ago we went up to the Farm with my brother Rick and his family and my dad.This picture up above pretty much sums up our weekend! It was nice and relaxing. Ricks family had bought an RV and they were nice enough to let Hunter and I stay in there.

Hunter loves his Aunt Jenny!! Besides his mommy and daddy I would say Aunt Jenny runs a pretty close third. I don't really have any pictures of him with his Uncle Ricky but he was pretty attached to him too! It was a sad day going home. Luckily he was sleeping when they left.

These little girlies love their momma!

The girls love taking pictures! I can't wait to get the pictures from Jens camera. Sophia got some awesome ones of Hunter! And some pretty awful ones of me. These girls have some natural talent!

The swing was all of the kids favorite thing!

At night we had a campfire and smores and did glow in the dark bubbles! They were so cool!

Care Package #1

Andrews Birthday was just a little over a week after they left so I made sure to send out his birthday package the day after he left. It didn't quite make it there in time but that's ok. He didn't tell anyone it was his birthday so when he opened the box everyone was like what the heck! Why didn't you tell us?

 

 So this is his package! This picture is awful but I think it turned out really nice! I put some cupcakes in there from the bakery, he said they were crushed when he got them but the were still delicious.I also put in some cake batter oreos. I made him some of his favorite cookies- Pineapple cake batter cookies with white chocolate chips. I don't really remember what else I put in there, just some other treat's I thought he'd like like slim jims, k-cups and combos and some pictures Hunter drew for him.

Goals

One of my goals through this deployment is to keep this blog, obviously I'm not good at doing that so I'm going to try. I want to be able to look back at this and think wow I didn't just make it through this I really did awesome.

 The ship officially pulled out of port today. So it's official and there's no going back. I got some pictures of them leaving from other truman spouses on FB. I'm kind of glad I didn't go down, I think it would be really hard to see them leave.

 

 

I mailed his first care package this morning. It won't be there in time for his birthday but it'll be just a couple days late. There's lots of fun things in there but I don't want to post it cause he does get internet access sometimes and I wouldn't want him to look on here and have the surprises ruined. 

 

 

 

 

Hunter is so sweet, he went upstairs and got some fake flowers out of my craft room and brought them down to me saying happy birthday mommy over and over. I love him.

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/military/harry-s-truman-csg-deploys

Here's an article on the ship leaving earlier today. I did already get a phone call from him and I'm hoping to get another tonight. I'm ready for him to come home already!

So back to goals. I need some. Obviously like everyone else I want to lose weight but mostly just become healthier. I want to do a bunch of crafts. I have so many ideas! I love pinterest! I want to travel a lot. I'm going to the farm this weekend with my favorite people besides Andrew. I want to got to TX, NC and AZ for sure and visit family. I want to keep my house cleaner. Also be less lazy. Learn to be more patient with Hunter. I'm trying to figure out some more goals but I still don't know. The biggest thing I'm going to learn but I don't get a choice in it is to become more independent. I have been with Andrew since the day I turned 17 so I haven't really been alone ever. So I'm going to be independent. Exciting, Right? Oh, and get Mr Hunter potty trained!

Getting this over with!

 

Our last family picture- Hunter was already sad, once he saw the sea bag by the door he knew what was going down. Also he only slept for 2 hours cause we let him stay up till 6am having family time.

 

Hunter passed out on the 2 min car ride there. 

Andrew left for his deployment today. And as much as it sucks and it was awful saying goodbye I am so grateful to finally have it over with! I have been dreading this day for such a long time. It made me literally sick every time I thought about it. We even had the fake leaving back in February which was so hard and then they delayed it the day before they were supposed to leave. He's definitely leaving this time. But that means we get to get this over with. Bitter-sweet maybe? I don't know. Overall though today didn't go as bad as I thought it would. I would say the worst part was pulling Hunter off of Andrew while he was screaming and kicking cause he knew what would happen once he let go of Andrew. After they drove off in the van I had to carry Hunter back to the car while he was screaming and yelling at me saying he was mad at me and daddy was mean for leaving. But that is all done with and now we get to move on and get this over with. 

Andrews birthday is in a little over a week so we got him a care package put together and ready to ship in the morning. We even made him some of his favorite cookies. 

I love my little family so much and I am so grateful to be able to snuggle with little bear tonight!

Day 1 down!!

Virgina Aquarium 2013

We were recently able to take a week long vacation in Virginia Beach. We definitely miss living there! This was a very stressful week for us. We hadn't seen Andrew in 3 weeks and until the day before we left to come back home we thought we wouldn't be seeing him again for 9 months. So we tried to do everything possible in our short time. The most important thing we wanted to do was visit the Virginia Aquarium. As I was finally looking through the pictures from our trip it amazed me at how much Hunter has changed in the last year and 4 months since we were there. These are a few of the pictures that I thought were the craziest.

Crazy!! My little boy is growing up!