R&R with Chris

To have Chris home was the greatest thing ever! It had been 9 months since we last saw him and it was time to see him again. This had been the longest we'd ever been seperated. His family hadn't seen him in over a year and they were all very excited to see him again.

We all went to the airport on saturday the 7th to see chris when he got in. His flight didn't arrive until about 5:45pm so we had all day to get ready. And all day to be anxious! I know I was! Sean and Kayla were SO excited to see daddy! Sean has such an expressionable face!

The time had come and we say Chris walking down the hallway. Sean took of running after him and kayla followed! You could just see how hard sean was squeezing! Poor kayla lost a shoe on her way to daddy and started crying. But daddy picked her up and she was instantly better!

I was next of course and it was so good to kiss those lips again! It's so great to be able to hug him again. Bitter sweet though... knowing that we'll have to say goodbye in 18 days. We soaked up all we could while we were together though!

Chris made his rounds hugging his family and friends! We all talked for a little bit then decided to get going. The plan was for Sean and Kayla to stay the night at my parents house and chris and I would get a hotel for the first night back. And that is exactly what we did!

Chris said bye to the kids for the night and we went our seperate ways! The first thing we wanted to do was find a hotel. After we did that, we went out to eat. Chris wanted a good steak so we decided on The Texas Roadhouse. It was SSOOO good!

Anyways... the next day we went to the mall and went shopping. It was so nice to get out just the two of us! After shopping we went to get the kids! They, or course, were excited to see daddy again! Sean liked to beat him up and Kayla joined in too.

We did so much while chris was here. He made sure to see everyone he could. Our big family time was a trip up north. I had made reservations to an awesome hotel called The Great Wolf Lodge. It's a hotel made to look like a log cabin with stuffed animals inside. It had a HUGE indoor water park. When we got there we put all of our stuff in our room and got our swimsuits on. The kids wanted to go swimming as fast as they could. It was a really nice place. They had a great area for the little ones that wasn't too deep. Kayla got on the slide right away and kept on going! Sean took a little more coaxing, but he liked it too!

We sent Sean down the bigger kid slide and by time he got to the bottom, he was crying. He wasn't able to keep himself sitting up, so he got scared. Poor guy... Kayla wanted to go down it SO bad, but she was too small to go by herself and they wouldn't let us put her on our lap, so she couldn't go. She wasn't too happy with that.

Chris talked Sean into going on a tube slide with him. I wasn't too sure if Sean would do it or not. They ended up going on it 3 times before they came back to the table! Sean LOVED it! It was a two seater tube, so Chris would get in the back and put his legs over the front hole. Sean would sit on his legs and hold on to the handles on the side. Then Chris would hold on to sean's life jacket and away they went! Sean wanted me to go with him, so we did. I was a little nervous though, because I didn't want him to fall off. I didn't like it because I felt like sean was going to fall..... if I would have remembered to hold onto the life jacket the whole way down instead of just at the end, I probably would have liked it a little more!... Oops. :) Sean had a good time either way!!!

The hotel also had this interactive game called "Magic Quest". You purchase a wand and the game and you go around the whole hotel looking for the clues you have in your book. It's a lot of fun. You have to swoosh your wand at the object and it makes magic! For example, it can make a picture glow and talk to you, or a treasure chest open up. Eventually if you do all of the quests, you have to help the fairies, the princess and fight the dragon. We didn't get to the last two quests. I think the kids were getting a little tired of always doing something.

We headed back to Hastings, but made a pit stop at this place we like to buy jerky. It's a town called Dublin. They make some awesome jerky! We stopped there for lunch and to get jerkey and then headed on our way.

I guess I've kinda given you a play by play of our R&R, so I will stop. The rest of our time was great. We went Geo caching with my mom and dad and hung out with chris' parents as much as we could. I think we all enjoyed having chris home. I know he was happy to be home.

Then sadly, the time came for chris to have to leave again. His flight left at 6:30 in the morning. Because it was so early, we decided to leave the kids at home and just have that time be the two of us. My mom stayed the night at my brother's house so that way she could be there if the kids woke up. I saw him off and that was that.

Saying goodbye after R&R is harder than saying bye when they first deploy. The positive side of things is that as of today we don't have much longer and he'll be home for good. From this deployment at least!

Well, I hope you all enjoyed the blog. I have another story to tell, so stay tuned!! Thanks for reading!

Sincerely,
Rachel and family!

Our Space A adventure!!

Hello everyone! I know there are a certain number of you that are saying to theirselves "It's about time you posted a new blog!" :D I know I know.... No excuses!! Well here it is for you all!

Right now were are in michigan!!! It is ssssooo nice to be home. I can't belive it's been over a year since we've seen everyone. That's just crazy. We decided to try out Space A to get here. For those of you who don't know what that is, it means Space Available. Military members and their families can use it. You have to go to an airforce base (sometime other branches) and get on the list. I tried to plan ahead and put us on the list a month before we were leaving. I figured that way we would be at least towards the top of the list when we finally did fly out! Well it paid off, because when we got to Ramstein Air Force base we were the first civilians on the list. EVERY TIME!!! I say every time because it took us two days to get out of there. That's not bad, and also is normal.
Since we didn't have our soilder with us, and that he's deployed for 15 months, we were category III. That means if there is anyone in cat I or II they get the seats before us. The sometimes frustrating part was when they posted the list right before they called roll call, we would be at the top, but what you don't see are the soldiers that came in and signed up last minute that have priority over you. Now, I didn't get mad about that though. The reason is because most of the soldiers are coming home from either a deployment, or on R&R, or have just been away for a few months. I know if I was their family waiting back home for them, I would want my soldier to have priority over a family that was just going home for leisure.
Ok, I'll back up a little bit. My good friend Aimee was generous enough to drive me the 3 hours to ramstein. We left after church on sunday, March 1st. That meant that we were going to be getting in late that night. Lucky for my Aimee is part of a hospitality house ministry and she knew some friends that had one in Ramstein. They were super kind and allowed us to stay the night at their house. We rolled in about 10pm. We of course stayed up a little trying to unwind and then decided to hit the hay since we had to wake up early. The thing with space A is that there may be 6 flights going to the east coast and an hour later there are only 2. That's kind of what happened. When we got to the base the next morning (the 2nd) there were only two flights going out. I missed the first one by a long shot, so we had to wait around for a couple of hours. The airport had this great family room provided by the USO. Those people are AWESOME! We were able to 'rent' a movie (my ID card as hostage) for the kids and relax in the family room. When the second flight came up, we went downstairs to check the roll call and I missed it just on paper. They didn't have that many seats. So by about 10:30am our day was over. That was the last flight going stateside that day! So we decided to head to the first American restraunt I had had in over a year, Chili's!!
We ate lunch and then went home for a nap. Aimee and the kids were already in the room trying to sleep when I got done with the shower. Sean wasn't cooperating very well so Aimee decided to take him Antique shopping with him! It was so nice of her to do that and let me sleep. She's awesome! Kayla and I slept for a while actually. When I woke up our hosts were super nice and got us something to eat. I called Aimee and told her we were awake and she started home. Apparently while she was driving around, sean fell asleep, so she just kept driving around so he could get a good nap in. Isn't that so nice?!
We didn't want to intrude on the families birthday party for their daughter so Aimee took us to this restraunt she knew of in the area. Aimee and her husband Brian were prior military and stationed in the area. We went to a castle there and then to this awesome restraunt. I can't even remember the name of it, but MAN their steak was good! And I was lucky to have the hookup with Aimee there! They remembered her and gave us a ton of extra food at no cost! Super cool!!
Well, then next morning we woke up bright and early, got the kids in the freezing car half asleep, and started it all over again. The first flight was suppose to go out at like 0630, but when we got there it was delayed an hour. Then another hour. That was pretty much the start of my day!!
I was trying to get to the east coast. ANYWHERE on the east coast. My parents were going to pick me up, so they decided to leave sunday and drive to pennsylvania. That was about 5 hours from Mcguire and Baltimore both. It was another 11 hours to Charleston. We didn't really want to go to charleston for obvious reasons. It was SO far away. But we were all on agreement that I would just get to the states and we would deal with whatever needed to be done. With that said, there were two flights with their roll calls 15 minutes apart. Both flights had about 25 confirmed seats on them. The first flight was a C17 (military cargo plane) to Charleston. The second was a civilian (the only civilian flight out of there) to Baltimore. Being on the top of the list with 25 available seats I was almost positive I would get the charleston flight. The thing was, I didn't want my parents to have to drive another 11 hours. They had already been on the road waiting at a hotel for 2 days. BUT, if I gave up my charleston seat, I wasn't promised a balitmore seat. And that ended up being the last flight to the states that day. SO, I took the charleston flight. I just needed to get stateside. Aimee called Brain, who called my parents (at 0100) woke them up and told them where we were going. They got dressed and started on their 11 more hours of driving. Bless their hearts. As for Aimee, she had to drive back home and wanted to get there ASAP since brian was sick. I understood and since I had my tickets, I felt comfortable with her leaving.
So there I was, with my two kids, a small carryon suit case, two backpacks, a diaper bag, a car seat and a double stroller. Did I mention that security was on the second floor and the elevator was broken? Thankfully Aimee helped me get upstairs before she left and I figured I'd just stay there until we boarded. Not too long after that they called our flight to start checking in. It was a little tricky getting all of us and our stuff through security, but we managed and made it to our terminal. The kids were getting a little restless, but for what they had been through those last couple of days, they did AWESOME!!
We didn't have to wait long and they started getting us to our bus that was going to take us to our plane. I don't know if you caught this, but we managed to get on a C17. You know, one of those huge military cargo planes? I was actually looking forward to it, because I had heard that if there wasn't much cargo then the kids could just run around once we got to alltitude. I was pretty excited about that idea!
We got all the way to our plane and sean said "I can't belive we're going to fly on that. That's so awesome!". It was too cute. Then our driver informed us that we weren't suppose to take off for another 2 hours.......... so we all had to go back to waiting in the mail area. That meant another trip through security. Once we got back to that area, I realized that I was now on the first floor and I needed to be on the second. Lucky for me, God is always looking out for me. Most of the people on the flight with us were soldiers. Coming home from being gone for about 4 months. Now that might not seem long to those of us who have done or are doing 15 month deployments, but any time away from loved ones is hard enough. I was very greatful to have them on the flight with us. They took good care of us. Once I got the kids out of the stroller, two guys just grabbed my whole stroller, bags and all, and carried it up the stairs! After the two hours, they called us again and off we were, going through security. I was trying to get all of my stuff and a soldier just grabbed my suitcase from me and said "I'll get this". That was so helpful!
We got through security and to our terminal and we weren't even there literally 5 minutes and they told us we were delayed another 2 hours. Once we got upstairs again we found out it was another hour on top of that. So the kids and I decide to use th family room again and I asked one soldier if they called us and I didn't hear if he would make sure they didn't leave with out me. He of course said yes. Before going to the family room, I called my parents to let them know what was going on and I also emailed chris to keep him in the loop. And of course I couldn't leave our my friends in germany, since I knew they were all wondering what was going on with me as well. Once all the phone calls were over, we went to chill in the family room.
After the 3 hours they called us again and off we were. By this time the one soldier and I had a system going for how we got me and the kids and all of our stuff where we needed to go. I didn't even have to ask anymore, he just grabbed the suitcase and off we were! Sometimes I would just catch back up to him at the terminal!! :) We actually got on the bus this time. We were all waiting anxiously to see if we would get OFF the bus.... and we did! WOOHOOO!!! We're actually going!
Once we got on the plane they handed out ear plugs (it's pretty loud) and I got the kids situated in their seats. Kayla was in the car seat on one side of me and sean was on the other side of me. I don't think we had even took off yet and kayla was knocked out! Poor kids were pooped! I don't remember the sequence of events on the plane too much. There came a time where I was so tired that I don't really remember. I do remember that the kids and I played with their coloring books for a little while, then we had all fallen asleep for a while. Then kayla woke up and sean slept in the car seat and I played with her. Also, a soldier had given us their sleeping back in case we wanted to lay down. OOHH!! I almost forgot to tell you something I thought was hilarious!! Ok, so there were maybe 10 of us on the flight that were civilian. Everyone else was Airforce or Army. You could totally tell these guys had done this before. As SOON as we hit altitude and they said we could take off our seat belts, our flew the sleeping bags and little mattresses and man, did they find every nook and cranny to fit into. Now remind you, this plane was FULL of cargo, but these guys founds ways to sleep anyway! It was just so funny to me to see how fast they layed down! :) After a while of trying to stay awake, I finally gave in and layed down. Sean was getting kind of cranky, but I think it was because he was so tired and couldn't find a comfy spot. I had already layed down with sissy in the sleeping bag and were trying to sleep. After alittle bit of trying to get sean to calm down, I figured out that he was probably cold. I switched spots with him and let him sleep with kayla in the bag. Of course as soon as he finally fell asleep. We started landing in Gander Canada. We had to refuel. So I had to wake the kids up and get them in their seats.
We stayed in gander for about an hour and then we just had another 4 hours to Charleston. Man was it awesome when we finally landed. It was such a relief to know that we were stateside and that my parents were waiting for us!!! the kids were super excited too! Once again, the guys helped me get all my stuff off the plane and onto ground. I couldn't thank them enough. I wish I could have done more. But I have decided that since God always sends someone my way when I'm traveling alone, I'm going to be prepared this time. I plan I having a huge ziploc baggie full of cookies for anyone who helps me. Homemade of course. I think that'll be kinda nice!!
My parents drove us back to the hotel where they suprised me with my grandma!!! Bless her heart, she had taken this long trip with them. I wonder if she would have came if they knew they would be traveling all the way to south carolina!! LOL :) Either way, I was very glad to see her! We all stayed up way later than we should have, but finally went to bed around 1am. The next morning we woke up with a half an hour before breakfast closed and we didn't want to miss that, since it was a hot breakfast!! :)
We all ate and then started on our way home. Well, we took a little pit stop at the ocean to go 'treasure hunting'. Since we only live by lakes, we couldn't pass up a look at the beautiful ocean!!! It took us two days to get home, but we finally made it. I was and am so thankful that my parents were so willing to just come and get me from anywhere. I wish it wouldn't have had to be so far away, but that's what God wanted and who's argueing with the Big Man? Not me! :)

Man!!! That was a long one!! Sorry about that! I will write more about Chris coming home at another time! Two reasons really.... 1) to keep you in suspence! And 2) It's midnight and my fingers are cramping!! :)

I hope you all enjoyed our little trip here! I will talk to you all soon!

Love Rachel, Chris, Sean and Kayla!

These pictures are of the kids digging for treasure and Kayla chasing the seagulls! Papa would drop a penny in the sand near where Sean was digging so he would find it. He thought that was the coolest thing ever!!

Catching up!

WOW! WOW! WOW!!

It really has been a while since I last wrote huh?! What can I say, I'm sorry! I hope you all haven't given up on my blog. I will try harder to keep you all informed of what's going on with us!

Let's see... since I last wrote the kids have had their birthdays! Sean is now 4 years old and Kayla is now 2 years old! I decided to do their parties together. That way I didn't ask all of our friends to come over two saturdays in a row. We had a really great turn out and the kids had a blast! I decorated the house with two themes. My dining room was Iron Man for Sean and my living room was Cinderella for Kayla! Sean's Iron Man cake was made by the commissary and I made Kayla's cinderella cake! I wasn't sure if it was going to turn out well or taste very good, so a friend of mine made a sheet cake and brought that over too! We had plenty of cake so that was good!

The kids and I have taken a couple of trips also. One trip we took was with the hospitality house here in Graf. We went to Rothenburg and had an english speaking tour guide. It was very fun. I love to learn the history of a town and Rothenburg has GREAT history. When my parents come to visit this septemeber, I want to take them there for the "Night Watchman" tour!
Sean and Kayla did really well during the tour. They were able to walk with the group, so they liked that! One place that I thought was really interesting was a church that we went into. There is a wooden hand carved statue of "The Last Supper." They say that inside the bubble that's in the cross are three drops of Christ's blood. Now I will leave that up to your own interpretation, but I thought that was just a cool 'fact'.

Other than trips, some more news is that I started selling Partylite! It's a bunch of candles, home decor, and even some spa stuff! I love selling it and my business is doing really well! I am book solid up until the day befor I leave! It makes my schedule a little hectic, but it'll give me some spending money for my trip back home.

Speacking of... I'm going to be going back to the states for two months! I am so excited!! We will be leaving around the 2nd of march. I say 'around' because the kids and I will be taking a Space-A flight so we're not sure when we'll be flying out or even where we'll be landing! My parents are going to be on stand by to come get me. I have about 4 friends here in germany with all of my contacts back home and their numbers. That way when I do finally fly out, there is a way to get ahold of SOMEONE and tell them my flight schedule!! :) It'll be fine, but maybe a little hectic. God has always been there to help us with our travels before and He'll be with us this time too!

Chris will be taking R&R while I'm home as well! We thought that since we probably wont be able to go home when he gets back from Iraq, that we would meet stateside so he can see his family and friends again! I cannot WAIT to see him again. It'll be about 9 months since we last saw him. The kids are SO excited! We've made plans to go to this hotel called "The Great Wolf Lodge." You should look it up online. It is so cool. They have a HUGE indoor waterpark that we can swim in from 9am to 9pm if we want! It'll be nice to have family time just the four of us for a couple of days! The grandparents might come up and see us for a day... we haven't really talked to them about it yet!!

Well, I think that is about it for us. You're all caught up. I hope you all enjoy the blog and the pictures! Have a great day!!

The Browns!

Just another day at the Brown house!

Hi everyone! The kids and I have been having a lot of fun lately. We've been wrestling on the couch and doing arts and crafts. It's been really fun!!

I was at the px one day (big suprise) and looking through the kids clothes (another big suprise!) and came across the super girl pajama set! It was a 2T, so a little big, but I just had to have it. It went along perfectly with sean's super man pajamas. Of course as soon as we got home and I showed sean, we just HAD to put it on kayla and Sean just HAD to run and get his set!! They're just so darn cute!! Both are a little big... at least they'll have room to grow!! I think they'll still fit them when Daddy gets home! :)

Another one of the pictures is of Seany and Kayla playing. They were wrestling one night and were having such a good time together. I love to watch them play. I just had to whip out the camera and takes some pictures! You can definately tell they love each other. Most of the time at least! You'll have to excuse Kayla's crazy hair!! It was the end of the day!! ;)

The last picture is of the kids licking the beaters!! One of my favorite things to do as a kid! Who am I kidding, I still love to do it! I just don't get as many opportunities because the kids or chris get them! But I just do what my mom use to and I get the bowl!! :) I had gotten a sweet tooth and decided to make a simple chocolate cake! The kids of course wanted to help and I love to let them. I think they only like to help enough to get the beaters though! But who can blame them! It's
so much fun to be able to spend even those little moments with the kids. I hope they remember those times when they get older, like I do!

Thanks again for reading our blog! I hope you all enjoy it!

Rachel and kids!

Hello!

Well, we haven't been up to too much, but still trying to keep busy. Halloween has came and gone and the kids had a ton of fun. We went to a haunted house that was just for kids! Sean loved it but wanted to go to the scary trail!! He's just like me! We went trick-or-treating to the new housing area (netzaberg) and the kids loved it. I liked it too since sean is old enough for me to stay on the sidewalk while he got up to the house and says "trick-or-treat!" Kayla got a lot of attention in her costume. Everyone loved 'finding' nemo!! That was sean's costume from a couple of years ago when we were still in clarksville!

Chris and I have been able to keep in touch on a regular basis still. We're very blessed to be able to chat as much as we do. The kids were able to see daddy on the webcam last night. They always love seeing him. It makes me really happy to see them get so excited to see daddy!

Chris is doing well. He's ready to come home on leave already. Sadly, we still have a little while to go. Other than that, he's doing ok. Not much going on at work. He works nights so he doesn't have much to do. He's been doing his classes and is almost done with his first one. He's waiting on someone to be his proctor so he can take his tests.

I will try to keep you all updated more often! Have a great day!

My soccer dude and little artist

Hello everyone,
In my last blog I talked alot about sean playing soccer. He's still playing, although some days he participates more than others. I know that's just because he's only 3 1/2 and his attention span isn't very long. He likes it though. He really likes his coach Mrs. Renee. We've gotten our uniforms now and we've had about 3 games. I think we have about 3 left! The very first game sean played quite a bit. It was a lot of fun but rainy! It keeps us busy and keeps sean's mind off of daddy being gone.


Kayla is doing really good too. I don't think she know to miss daddy, but she definately likes to see him on the webcam! She gets so excited and points to his picture! I know it makes chris' heart melt and sink at the same time! As the title of the blog says, she's my little artist. She LOVES to draw. You can watch her concentrate on what she's doing. Sometimes it's long quick strokes and other times it's short curvey ones. I love to watch her learn!
Other than that, we're keeping pretty busy still. Our schedule is the same, but I'm going to incorporate some Partlite into it. I'm going to be a consultant starting towards the end of october! I'm really excited about it. It's something I can do whenever I want and can make a little more money. If anyone is interested in hosting a party you do not have to be in germany to do it. You can host a cataloge party if you'd like. Just let me know and I can give you a call sometimes. Don't forget to give me your email your phone number! :)
Have a great day! Love Rachel, Sean and Kayla!

Keeping Busy.

Well, It's been about 73 days since chris left. But who's counting right!? The kids and I are trying to stay busy and we're doing a really good job of it. Maybe a little too busy sometimes!
Sean started school on the 3rd. He really loves going. It's part-day preschool so that means he goes M-W-F from 8:30-11:30am. It's not too long, but it's good for us so far. I think I would miss him too much if I had to leave him all day. It's been good for Kayla and I because I can run erronds while Sean's in school and also, Kayla and I get some quality time! My goal is to start working out during those three hours also. I had to quit my other excersize classes so I could go back to PWOC (protestant women of the chapel) and I'm really missing the workout. I want to try to get Kayla into hourly at the same time that sean's in school so I can go to the gym. If that doesn't work out ever time, then I'll just take her with me ane we'll go for a walk or something else.
Besides school, Sean is also in soccer for the first time. He really liked it the first practice, but afte that he wasn't really into it. I kept bringing him and with encouragment from the coach and other moms we're still going. Sometimes he doesn't always do what the others are doing, but Coach Renee said not to worry. She's super good with Sean. I think we're very blessed that she's our coach, because I would have given up by now if she wasn't there. She really takes time to try to get sean involved and excited about playing. Next monday we get our uniforms! They're going to be blue and our team name is "The Giants." All the kids got to put what they wanted the name to be in a hat and Kayla picked one out. Sean of course wanted to be called "The Iron Man" and apparently so did another kid, so I thought we had a good chance, but two other boys wanted The Giants! It's all good. After the end of every practice they all put their hands in and say "GO GIANTS." It's so cute! Next wednesday (the 10th) is our first game! I'm really excited for it. But also quite nervous because I have no clue how this age works and if sean will even be interested! I've been showing him pictures of me playing soccer back in highschool, so he can get excited! I hope it works. I really want to show chris! My friend Casey said that she'll come too and video tape it for me since she has a digital video camera, it's a lot easier to put on the computer!
So, besides school, and soccer, I also have PWOC every thursday moring and then whenever I have anything to do with the FRG I do that also. So my weeks look like this. Monday is school in the morning then soccer practice at 5pm. Tuesday is usually free, wednesday is school in the morning and soccer games at 5pm, thursday is PWOC in the morning, friday is usually free too. Saturday is free also and then sunday is S.S. in the morning with church afterwards, come home eat lunch put the kids down, get up and back to the church by 3:30 for AWANA. It's a crazy week, but I really wouldn't have it any other way. I'm usually home in the afternoons and evenings. That's when I relax, get FRG work done, play with the kids and have dinner. It's also when chris calls! :)
Something really exciting that is happening tonight is our compnay VTC (virtual teleconference) It's when any families that want to participate meet at the battalion and we all take turns having a video teleconference with our soldier! We get to see them and talk to them. Some people don't have webcam and if you're like us, we have the cam but you can't talk at the same time because it's too slow. I'm really excited to go so that way the kids can see chris too. Usually they're sleeping when we get online. We have 9 families that are participating so that means we each get about 23 minutes with our soldier. We're in a room by ourselves, so it's private. Chris and I are the last ones to go, but that's ok since I have AWANA before hand. I want to be able to get the kids food so they'r happy when we talk to daddy! :)
I think I talked about Sean and I now, so here's a little about Kayla. She's is getting to be so funny! I really think this is the best age. She knows what it means to be funny now and she loves to make us laugh! A couple of weeks ago she had Sean's vampire teeth want wanted me to put them in for her. It was so funny because they're entirely too big for her face! She's also a good listener I don't think Sean listened as well at her age. It's amazing to me, but I'm definately not complaining! :) I can't wait to see her grow even more, it's just sad that chris has to hear everything by phone or pictures. I know that's the military, but it's never easy. And second deployments are NOT easier than the first. Exspecially when you have another child going through it too....
Other than that, we're enjoying our time together. It's been a little rainy the last couple of days so we've been staying inside and having friends over. I love to be around people. And the kids love having all their friends over to play with too.
Well, that's about it for me. I want to say thanks to everyone who reads our blog. I hope that it keeps you guys informed and connected to our lives at least a little. We miss you ALL terribly and can't wait to come visit next spring! Love to all,
The Browns