A Peek into Our Lives

It has been more than a month since I've posted, yet I don't have much business-wise to report. I really haven't been making things much. As I think I explained previously, my beloved husband joined the National Guard in February and has been gone since the end of April. He left with an unfinished house and I have been working on keeping my sanity togther, parenting two small children while pregnant our third, and slowly getting our house put together. Not to mention it's summer and we go to my parents' cabin on Big Sandy Lake most weekends.



We also had the big parade this year again. I rode with the kids in the rescue boat behind one of the rescue trucks. The kids have fun waving at people and we're toward the front of the parade so we get to go home first. We had 5 kids this year including mine, so it was a bigger turnout than usual.

Our big news is that my husband graduates from basic on Thursday and we're leaving tomorrow to go see him. It's a 12 hour drive with no stops, detours, potty breaks, or road construction, so we're leaving at 6am tomorrow. We're hoping to be south of Chicago by rush hour. I got a new dress for the occasion, my friend at Goff Couture made it for me. I'm very excited to wear it, my son said "It's like a princess!"
And maybe that's the best description, since it has princess seams. She added godets into the skirt so it's a little fuller and in case you're wondering: Yes, it twirls. Very well. She does beautiful craftmanship and I hope to do more work with her in the future. The picture isn't very good, I know, but there are no photographers in the house today so I propped the camera in the windowsill and used the timer feature. You get the idea.

We have had a busy week - we got a new water heater yesterday and the carpet was installed in the bedrooms as well. Today I moved the beds into the bedrooms, where the kids are currently napping. We did a bunch of shopping and bought some new things to play with in the car and at rest stops to get us through 24+ hours in a van with 7 people. Today I have to finish packing, pick up our Peace Fleece at my mom's office, drop the kids off so I can go get a hair cut, and then head to a meeting, come home and finish loading the van. All in all we have a lot of stuff going on, but it's all good stuff so I can't complain too much. I gave the little man a hair cut last night too. I had been letting it grow and get a little shaggy because my husband dislikes it. I wanted to get a good picture of it all curly and cute, but figured it had better get cut before we go down to see him. Here are before and after shots:



And lastly I leave you with the Ice Cream Face. This is my beautiful daughter. We were eating ice cream before bed last night and in between bites this was the face she'd give me.



Waiting for more.