This Moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
(Inspired by Amanda Blake Soule)

This Moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
(Inspired by Amanda Blake Soule)

Another Journey

Today my husband is starting another journey in his military career, he's taking fights across the country and tomorrow he'll board an Air Force chartered flight to South Korea. Luckily, he'll be accompanied by a few of his buddies, and hopefully he'll be stationed with at least one of them, there's a handful of Army bases in South Korea and the soldiers don't find out which base they'll be stationed at until about a week after they've arrived in South Korea.

It's hard to believe how only about two and a half years ago he fought in Afghanistan for 12 months, then he was back home with us for 17 months, and now he's headed to South Korea for 12-14 months. Obviously, it's not easy for the family that remains behind, but we do what we can in order to support our loved ones. Our children seem to be handling this transition pretty well, of course there were tears as they hugged and saw their father off, but all in all they seem pretty calm, which makes this mama happy. Even our fur-babies keep walking around in the house searching for their "dad". For example, when we arrived home from the airport they were super excited to see us, as they always are, but they kept going to the back door as though they were waiting for him to walk in.

Today the weather isn't helping my emotions much...this gloomy and rainy weather is almost an exact image as to how I'm feeling inside. I very much dislike the fact that my husband is not able to be home with us to celebrate birthdays and holidays, and it doesn't help any with two major holidays just around the corner along with three birthdays and our anniversary, but the children and I are living back in our hometown, so it does make those difficult days a little bit easier to handle.

Birthdays

Since my husband will soon be in Korea for the next year, to be exact he's leaving this Monday, we decided that we should honor those birthdays coming up soon. Both my youngest son and mother-in-law have birthdays this month and Kennon's is in January. My husband and I surprised them with a basic birthday cake from the store.

Halloween 2011

Halloween this year was especially exciting for us because we were able to celebrate with our family. A few days prior to Halloween we took the boys to their very first haunted corn maze. The younger two boys screamed as thou they were going to die when the first character came up to scare us, and Ian was even about to start crying, and to think they had convinced me into letting them go, so I had to reassure them they were just actors. Then the next thing you know Ian is telling the next character, "Hey! My name is yo mama!"

We all had a great time trick or treating with my niece and nephew. My husband even dressed up as a Zombie Army Soldier. He and our youngest son had a plan for him to chase after Ian and Ian would then act as though he really thought a Zombie was real...screams and a fake cry all included. I'm sure you've guessed it...they were trying to make other kiddos scared, such turkey birds.

This Moment

{this moment} - A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Inspired by Amanda Blake Soule