On Vacation!

What an eventful week! The kids and I flew to my parents house last Saturday, and boy do we miss daddy like crazy!! We will be heading to Vegas this weekend, and then we have some little things planned for the rest of the time. I'm thankful we will be gone for these select couple weeks though because his working hours just got super crazy.

His job in the Navy is an RDC (for the time being anyway) and that is what the Navy calls a drill instructor. He had pushed 5 divisions a year ago and then went on hold for a year, and now he has just picked back up again. The first week or so is known as 'P days' and those days have the longest working hours for all 3 RDCs that are on the push. We will be getting home just after those days are done so while his hours will still suck (7 days a week for sure, and often more than 16 hours a day) there will be some days that we will actually get to spend a half of a day with him. We have to be thankful for even a few hours when he is on push!

The kids have done pretty good. It had been a year since my parents had seen Bubba or Bug, so with Bug especially, the change was pretty shocking! Now she has a head full of hair, talks, yells, runs, dances, pees in the potty... the whole bit. Bubba has always been a wild child. No volume control, loves to annoy his big brother, and has two speeds... fast and faster! My parents are obviously totally smitten with them.

So I am pretty bummed that I had to miss small group this week and Ill be missing it next week as well, but I still participate even from afar! I love my small group girls :)

I am counting down the days until I can be back with my love though. I have no idea how we are going to do the 3 months apart early next year when the kids and I come out here to get the house stuff in order. How the heck am I going to do a deployment?? Ugh. Ive done two already, so I know Ill be fine, but still. I can whine a bit if I want, it is my blog after all! Haha.

My mom just came in a told me its time we moved back here to a move 'civilized' area, lol. She said that Blondie and Bubba were arguing about the pool. Bubba called it a pond (since there really are no in ground pools where we live) and Blondie said it was a pool. Bubba came back with, no... its a concrete pond!! Haha :) Oh I love em.

That's all I'm going to post about today folks! Lots more I could say, but I live by the Thumper Theory, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!" Have a blessed day everyone!

Babe, I love you and miss you something fierce!! I cant wait to be back with you and my Kadence in 11 days! I'm sorry I stressed you out a bit with what went on today, but if I hadn't told you, you would have been upset anyway :). I love you to pieces... see you soon!

-Mrs. J