VP-26 Photos

For the halfway point of deployment, the girls wanted to send a photo to the guys.  We dressed in black and blue and met downtown for a photo.
 

 Me, Palen, and Shamby

Palen and I

Happy Birthday to me!

I turned 34 today - good grief!  I can hardly believe I'm that old :)  TJ sent me these delicious treats - but he told me that he had ordered them and I needed to go pick them up - haha!  Then as I was leaving the store the cashier told me "Ma'am - your husband said I'd know when you walked in to pick these up because your tall and gorgeous"  Awww, he's so sweet!

  I have an awesome church family that loves me too!  They threw me a birthday party and it was fun to be with friends that night.

 The kids played lots of Wii and Brena was super happy about something!

Birthday Dinner

The kids and I went down to The Landing to get some dinner for my birthday.  We had a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant right on the water.  It was a perfect January night in Jacksonville!

 There was a group of people doing jump ropes, so Brena being the socialite she is walked right over and asked if she could join in.  She jumped for a long time.  I tried it, but uh - things aren't the same as they used to be when I jump!

Deployment #4 blues, ugh

It's late on a Friday night.  I just held a little girl who cried for almost an hour because she misses her daddy.  Man, I miss him too.  I wish I could just cry like that and have someone hold me.  Instead, I just get to cry by myself.  We are not even 2 months into this deployment yet...we're close to the two month mark, but we're not there yet.  It doesn't make sense to say that it's gone fast, but it has.  But, in the same thought, it seems to have been going so slow.  I hate all the things that come up that I really, really need Tj around for.  I do however have a very strong testimony of home teachers.  I've had to call him more than once.  This last time was on Sunday.  My kitchen faucet all of a sudden decided it didn't want to turn off when I would push the handle down.  So, I had water gushing out the faucet.  He came over right away.  He said he didn't know how to fix a faucet - or figure out what was wrong with it, but he would try.  I prayed and prayed he could fix it.  45 minutes later - he fixed it completely.  To say I was grateful would be an understatement. 

The worst thing by far has been a few weeks ago when I was rear-ended at a stop sign.  It was a miserable experience that I do not care to remember.  I'm still having neck pain 2 weeks later from that.  I wanted to call my husband so bad when that happened, but I couldn't.  It happened on a Saturday and I wasn't even able to get a hold of him to tell him about it until the following Monday.  I hate that.  I hate that I can't just call him when I need to, or want to.  I just want a neck rub from him, that would be wonderful.

I don't want to think about what can happen in the next 4+ months...