My blessings

I was reading in my journal of the things that I have been keeping up with in our family and reading my "facebook posts" that tend to keep my alaska family more informed then a blog. However, I always feel the need to also put some stuff on here. I have been having a wonderful month with my children, I truly enjoy being a mom, its the best thing ever. My heart aches when I find out about mothers who have lost their children, especially mothers who dont have the gosple in their lives to understand that they can and will be with there children again. There is a mother on the news who killed herself and her kids because she drove the car into the Hudson river. I just cant imagine something like that. There is another mother who lost her one year old today because of drowning. She rushed her baby to the hospital but it was too late. My heart breaks for her. It reminds me to cherish my children, to truly take in each minute with them. To enjoy each and every bit of them, especially the crazy times because I know that I will miss them when they are gone. I went to do the laundry last night and thought to myself, will it ever end? And then I smiled and thought "No and I am going too cherish each adn every little piece of clothing that goes through my washer and dryer because that means that I have 3 amazing blessings that are in my life." :) Here are my blessings:

OH MY GOSH!!! I AM SOOOOO GIDDY!!!

Noah is coming home! TONIGHT!!!! Okay I have to go get ready. I got a phone call a few hours ago telling me that he was coming home today!!! YIPPIE!!!! I am so giddy and excited I cant even contain it. :O) WOOO HOOO!!!

(maybe now Ill get back into blogging.) :O)

Noah is offical

I forgot to tell everyone the good news. Noah is an offical controller, has been for a while now, but now he can work with out anyone else working with him. He does not have to assist anyone, he can do it on his own. YEAH!!! He is almost done with the majority of his training as well and can work anywhere he wants, as long as they will have him, (an why wouldnt they, he is amazing) He also had his yearly PT test and passed it, YEAH!! He has lost 18 pounds which is a shocker, we have been portion controlling and he has lost that much weight, when I have lost only a pound, what is up with that? :O) He is also going to be up for BTZ (senior airman below the zone.) which means he gets to put on his next strip, SRA in November if he makes it, which is also a pay raise for us, so that will be nice. Anyway, just wanted to give you the good news.

Daddy and Mommy to be

Well here you go. This is me at about 23-24 weeks pregnant (I am almost 26 now). I have people at the store asking me how far along I am and when I tell them they are stunned, they all say I look a lot farther along then that. I feel like I look huge, even Noahs shirts are starting to get tight around my tummy :O). But yall be the judge of how big I am, seriously let me know what you think, because I am not used to having to judge a pregnant belly. I have only gained 13 pounds, which is a little less then usually by this time, and its all belly as Noah says. I feel like I have gained weight in my face too. But maybe thats just me! So there is me and Landon! He has gotten to where he moves a lot and I can see my belly just going up and down. I will watch him move from one side to the other and just see my whole belly shift. 105 days to go, thats if he is born on his due date. I cant wait to see him and hold him. Then I will have my two favorite men with me. :O)

I told Noah that I had to get a picture of this, or no one would believe me!!! He can iron, all by himself, and probably does a heck of a better job then I could ever do myself. People are always commenting him on his uniforms and how well dressed he is. People are also paying him to iron their uniforms for them, cause he is so good at it. He takes pride in making sure he looks his best. He has for as long as I have known him and its no different now. He is hoping to get the best dressed coin at their next "inspection" he almost got it last time, but another guy beat him out. He is doing all he can to make sure he gets it this time. I am so proud of him and how hard he is working and the pride he is taking in his job. He really enjoys what he is doing, and can't wait to come home and really get to work in the field and have home cooked meals :O). I think he looks as handsome as ever and since he is just so wonderful on top of that is makes him even handsomer (if thats even possible).