my babe comes home today…

August 12, 2010
wooo-hoooo!
he’s been gone for exactly 24 days.

THREE WEEKS + THREE DAYS.

pfewww.

that’s the longest we have been apart from one another,

in SIXTEEN YEARS.

yeah, longest we’ve been apart since we’ve been married, engaged,
and the time we spent dating.

dearest army spouses:

we have no idea how you do it.
big big KUDOS, to you all.

here’s a picture he sent me about a week ago…

while working, here, he takes breaks with the guys to play a little volleyball..

.....

back to school…

August 9, 2010
i get so excited for the kids, all FOUR of my kiddo’s go to school this fall.
and I will be returning to school too,
with a 20th century art history class & a digital pre press class.

i love new school supplies!

seriously, my heart beats faster when i see them arrive in the stores!
am i such a nerd???
freshly sharpened pencils. new backpacks. crayons. new shoes. new clothes.
new accessories…new haircuts! i just get so excited! {so do my kids.}

because husband has been out of town, the kids & i decided in july,

to conquer it all while he is gone.

.....

on your mark, get set…

August 5, 2010
go!!!


my kids are always racing.
kj’s famous last words, “last one there is a rotten egg!” as he has already
taken off running…

they race to answer the door when the doorbell rings.
they race to get the mail… everywhere. they race.

our latest race..
as we pull into our driveway,
they yell at me to “stop!!!!”

they all bail out of the suv.
line-up on the driveway,
and race down our driveway, around the corner, into the garage,

.....

it’s a zoo out there…

August 4, 2010
my husband is on his longest business trip, ever.
the longest we have been apart from one another, since we’ve been married.
we’re two weeks + one day down.
and hopefully less than two more weeks to go.

on the day we dropped him off at the airport,
we {me, my kids, plus a few of their friends} spent the afternoon in slc.

our main event was going here.
we love our annual tradition of visiting the animals.

we chose the best day to go!
we were there for two and a half hours in the late afternoon,
there were maybe fifty people in the entire zoo!

.....