BOOHISS!

Well the day finally come and he is gone. It's tough to know that he will be gone for so long but we have handled it much better this time than last. After I dropped him off last time I was driving away sobbing like a crazy person and Paige in the backseat telling me, Mommy it will be ok, which made it worse. We are adjusting! The girls are doing good with this. Paige is being very mature and understands why Dad is gone. Izzy I don't think she will realize until next week or so. She walks around the house saying Dad, Dad. When I get her up in the morning that is the first thing she says as she is looking past me wondering why I'm getting her up and not Dad. Which is really funny to me because I get her out of bed 95% of the time.
Well anyway he is on his way and we miss him terribly, we will keep all of you posted on his adventures and on what we are doing back her. Paige starts school next week, soccer and gymnastics have started already so we are going to be plenty busy with her. Izzy will start Mom and me gymnastics in Oct when she is old enough so something to look fwd to for her as well. Fun times ahead! Please keep Mike and the rest of the guys in your prayers. Until next...

All Back Together

We are all back together again! Paige spent a week in Wa with Grammie Bonnie and Gpa Ron visiting with everyone. She went to the zoo with Papa Mike, Auntie Marti, Uncle Erik, and of course Mr. C (Colten), Gpa Ron took her out on the boat with all of her cousins and a ton of other fun things that she didn't tell me about because she was too busy playing. She had such a great time that today she asked "when can I go back for another visit because Grammie said it would be ok as long as I asked my parents if it was ok." I thought that was really funny that she is already packing her bags to go back. Mike also went out there for the weekend for a quick visit. He was able to see his grandparents and uncle and aunts along with some friends. Now they are both home and Izzy and I couldn't be happier. For the next week Mike will be on leave so you probably won't hear from us until after he leaves. Hope you are all doing great and we would love to hear from you all before Mike leaves on the big boat trip.

Izzy's 1st Birthday Party and Paige's big trip

The Barnyard party! Just before everyone showed up we took some pictures on the John Deere tractor. We had a lot of fun, it was hotter than you know what so we mostly stayed inside. Most of the kiddos that came were in the 0-2year range so they all played very well together. It was crazy to have Paige be the oldest at a party.



The party was a Barnyard theme we had a barn cake and a cow pinata. Izzy's cupcake had a farmer on it and we had a few other that had cows, pigs and sheep on them. No I didn't make the cake or cupcakes, I leave that to the professionals. Izzy didn't really enjoy opening the presents so Dad would open them then Izzy would want to play with it right then. We did learn in the opening of the presents is that Izzy doesn't like to share! She got mad at one of the kids and put her little hand out like stop and gunted at him. What a turd!


Her she is opening her first present, she didn't really care after this one but sat pretty still and was completely done by the last one. She loves every thing she got, so thank you to everyone. She has played a little with every thing today. I love watching her with the shopping cart because her little head just barely sticks out above it. The train is something that she has played all day with she loves the noises it makes, and I like it because it isn't very loud. I just want to say a quick thank you to everyone that came to the party it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed visiting with all of you. I feel like we should do stuff like this more often with all of us. For those of you that couldn't make it, we wish you were here!

This is this morning before we left to take the Grandparents and Paige to the airport. We took some quick picture with the girls and this is the only good one that I have. Paige is going out to Washington for a week to visit with everyone out there. Mike is flying out on Fri to meet up with her to visit with his Granparents. The will both be back on Sun. I'm doing good right now but in the morning might be different Paige always sneaks into my room in the morning to wake me up. This is the first time that she has been away from me, before this it has only been overnight. So just me and Izzy during the day for a week, what will we do?



Her is my little girl just before her big trip! She was so excited, she was walking around with her carry-on backpack on all morning. After dropping them off at the airport Mike kept asking if I was if I was ok and I am I just miss my little stinker. Paige I can't wait to hear all about your adventures at Grammie's. Have fun, we love you and miss you!