We survived the deployment, now just trying to survive toddlerhood...

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Day 112

Work Hard, Play Harder! Today we went to the Cincinnati Museum Center and for the first time ever, visited all 3 museums! Whew! We were there for 3 whole hours, crazy!! J had an absolute blast! These pictures are from my phone so please excuse the quality! 










It was 67 degrees today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enough said! Hadley doesn't know what to think of this whole new outside world!!!

















In Bagram, Stu actually did something today! Ha. He flew a quick mission while I was sleeping last night. He picked up a special forces guy that was shot in the leg from somewhere close by in Afghanistan (it was only a 25 minute flight). Afterwards, he had trauma conference and then watched some movies. 

Sadly, the warm weather isn't staying around. Bummer. At least we made the most of it =) 

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Day 111

For your daily dose of Boring Bagram updates....
Stuarts CCATT peeps

Back on the home front...

A glimpse of dinner in our house.... 

J had to clean the dishes

Hadley getting angry when all of her food is gone. Miss Piggy. She had sweet corn & rice (1/2 baby jar), alfredo pasta and some bread. LOL. She may have eaten more than J!


He had to clean the floors too, ha! 



Jackson has been quite creative (with the help of his new friend, Andrea) with his art lately!
 

I worked my tail off today. Im exhausted. I think more bad weather is coming our way tomorrow.  SO excited for 60s... even if it means yucky thunderstorms. Night y'all!


Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Day 110 - SUNSHINE and warmer weather!!!

It feels like SPRING! The sun is shining and the snow is melting! Wahoooooooo!!!!! A whopping 49 degrees, but let me tell you - it feels GOOD! We went out for an afternoon stroll and the kids LOVED IT! 











Back in Bagram...




Yeah. There are no words. 

Monday, February 17, 2014

Day 109

Holy headache. Looking at this screen makes me sick. Pics is all you get.




Sunday, February 16, 2014

Day 108

Here we go again with the teething =(   Hadley woke up in the middle of the night. Just when we were finally getting on a good schedule again....

Grateful for Regina coming over to watch the kiddos while I went to the hospital. There was just enough snow overnight to recoat my driveway and sidewalk and make it very difficult for me to make it up the driveway. On my second attempt and with lots of sliding I somehow managed to get my car into the garage without hitting anything. 

Made it to church (only a few minutes late) to hear the conclusion of the marriage series. I so wish Stuart were here. This whole deployment thing really stinks - but - it is strengthening our marriage. When he left we were in a little bit of an I have a cranky baby moved to a new city don't have very many friends and have no life sort of kind of rut. Thats totally not going to be the case when he returns! 

Jackson decided we would have lunch at Burger King today. Probably due to its playground and very close proximity to church. He ate his entire burger and most of his apples - so he definitely earned his playtime.  Afterwards, it was nap time and then we spent the rest of the afternoon playing. 

I forgot to take a lot of pictures today. These are of the kids playing on my bed this morning. Hadley loves to crawl all over it! 






Stuart sent me pictures last night! I totally forgot to mention the most important thing about his new room - its safer! Its on the second floor, as opposed to the third. Apparently the thicker, more solid walls only go up to the second floor. This helps protect from the rocket attacks. 


His room


Him being crazy

He was going to have a mission tonight but there were plane issues - as he says "plane broke in Germany". I find this hilarious. The German team is going to come pick up the patient tomorrow instead. Its a 20 year old who overdosed on clonazepam. So sad. 

We survived another day. God is good =)