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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Labor Day Weekend

I love Labor Day weekend especially since my Birthday usually falls on the same weekend.

CJ also had 4 days off (not all together, duty on my birthday) so we decided to have some fun!

Friday we did our monthly shopping and get a little rest, bur Saturday we started our adventures.

We went to the ZOO! Lil' Man was so excited to see all the animals, he loved the fun train ride as well, but I slacked off and didn't get an pictures.

Sunday CJ had duty and I celebrated my birthday by starting my new calling at Church as Primary President. Then we took dinner to CJ on his ship.

Monday our friends invited us to go to the beach! It was a great day for it too! We went to the beach on Joint Base Little Creek and it was very calm and had great sand.

Tuesday we went to Chrysler Muesum of Art, Lil' Man was not interested at all, but we did enjoy looking at the work. We really enjoyed getting in the much needed family time.

Monday, August 4, 2014

18 months already!

I can not believe my lil' man is 18 months old! He is such a good smash up of me and his daddy. He definitely looks 100% like his dad, but he is a chatter box and smiles like me!

Today he had his check up- 27lbs 74% range, 32.5in tall 57% range and i didn't get his head circumference but it was in the 54% range. He is right on track and growing like a weed!

He has 12 teeth and he is getting two eye teeth.

He can tell you where his hair, ears, nose, bellybutton and feet are at.

He is so ticklish and loves to laugh at everything even if it was not funny.

He waves hi and bye, he gives high fives and loves to put things into the sink.

He gets into everything and breaks all the child locks.

Her are a few pictures to show my love!

This is his favorite cupboard and he is allowed in it, he sits in it quite often.

He loves to eat and the saucier it is the better to paint the high chair and some times even the wall.

He loves getting his picture taken and then he wants to see it. if you want to take his picture you have to be quick.

He always wants to eat his banana all by himself!

Our favorite thing to do is to eat lunch/dinner with daddy on board his ship. He loves getting to sit in his own seat and then watch all the people passing by.

This is my favorite picture!

Abby and Lil' Man are best of friends.

He is trying to be like his daddy and play the mouth harp. He loves watching daddy play and he always climbs on his lap to watch.

I love watching him grow and learn every day!

Sunday, June 8, 2014

We have had a great month since Sailor returned home, full of fun activities for us all.
I posted already about our Easter at Busch Gardens, but that was just where it started.
Sailor was able to take two weeks off and we decided to take an impromptu trip down to Biloxi MS to visit my sister and her husband. It turns out though that my two brothers were there as well for training for work, so all four of us were in the same place for the first time in five years!
We had a lot of fun and my sister was able to meet Lil' Man for the first time.

Aunt Summer and Lil' Man on a leash!

Lil' man was not to happy to wear his leash

but there was to much for him to touch

We got to play in the sand too!

Fun restaurant on the beach

While in MS we had pictures taken! Best part was all four of us together!!

( Why is this special? From Left to Right: E is in the Navy based in San Diego, N married to Sailor based in VA, S married to Airman based in Biloxi MS, J is Airman just starting training) We are all married and live in completely different parts of the country and this will probably be the last time we are together for another couple years.

Even got a new family picture!

We also attended Pungo Strawberry Festival which had a parade, booths and rides. Lil' Man loved the parade. There was a booth selling wooden toys and as soon as Lil' Man saw them he wanted all of the toys, but we settled for a ducky.

Celebrating Memorial Day

The next pictures are of the Patriotic Air show held in VA Beach every year. We love going because you just go hang out on the beach and watch the planes fly out over the ocean.

This picture is of a PF1 Mustang from WWII and F-22 Raptor commemorating those who have and are serving our country.

All in all we have had a lot going on and well it is not slowing down. Late this month Sailor's parents are coming out for a couple weeks! We can not wait!!

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Easter @ Busch Gardens

Busch Gardens held a free day for the families of the USS Truman. We had not gone yet so why not try it out.
The day started off with some drizzle, but it became a great day.

The park had an "egg hunt" which for the little guys since it was raining was just a basket and some eggs. We went with another family and went to Sesame Street (since they were all under 6) to play.
Lil' Man loved playing on all the cool things.

Welcome Home Sailor!!

April 18 2014 was a great day to enjoy a beautiful Homecoming of the USS Harry S Truman!
The USS Truman left in July of 2013, but thankfully CJ didn't join till September 3 2013.
We missed him more than I thought was possible.

Here is our day in pictures...

We arrived at the dock just in time to watch the ship come in

We loved seeing the Sailors on the rail especially when they called Liberty and every one of them started waving and trying to find their families, but CJ is not up there.

Waiting in the cold, but we loved every minute!

Since my husband is a Nuclear Mechanic he had to help shut down the power plant before he could get off, so we had a 3 hour wait AFTER the ship pulled in. So we watched all the beautiful reunions and then had some lunch on the pier. After that we went back to the car for a nap.

FINALLY! I got a phone call from Hubby and he was ready to go, we didn't have the TV reunion but it was so GOOD to see him!!

Our first family picture was in the car..

Yes my sign is correct and well maybe even more emails were sent than I counted. We tried to stay in contact every day whether it was just an email or picture from me. I am pretty sure CJ could watch Lil' Man grow through pictures and videos!

Monday, April 7, 2014

Want to Play Catch Up?

Oh goodness I have not posted in forever and well A LOT has gone on!
February, Oh man!first we were able to attend the beautiful wedding ceremony for my youngest brother. We had a great day and added a wonderful young woman to our ever growing Crazy family!

Then we celebrated Lil' Man's First birthday (Ha, actually posted that), but then we had to say goodbye to all our family. The worst!
I miss being able to go shopping with my parents or spend the day hanging out with my mom-in-law and sister-in-law and all the cousins.

So then my mom and I packed up my Pathfinder with ALL the toys and clothes we collected over the four months and two dogs and a baby and hit the road for a three day, 2,300 mile and 7 state trip back to VA! We had a great time with tons of Mother Daughter time. It was freezing in most of the states and well started frosting in TX at 4 pm and was 5 degrees in Oregon. But my mom was a trooper and we drove 15 hours our final day so we could sleep at my house in my bed!!

The next morning we found out we were going to have to stay in a guest suite for a week because my house had mold and they needed to tear out wall and floor to get rid of it.
Finally back into our house and someone had to come and fix our heater. Oy-Vey!

Now that we had gone through all of this we are finally able to get back to our routine and make some new friends.
CJ is still deployed, but we have met some more friends who are on the ship as well and made some new connections.
We are missing a few of our friends from last year, but Navy is not good at letting people stay close for to long.

So now we wait for CJ to get home...

*some pictures from our trip.