On the move

Well this will be my last post for a little while.  We are in the hotel now and getting ready to get on the road.  The move is going smooth and Ricky will be home soon.

I had all the boys for Thanksgiving and it went wonderfully.  I really enjoyed spending time with all of them.  We all went to see Bolt in the movies.  Here are some pictures I took while they were here.  I will update more from Virginia!

Some recent photos

On The Road Again

Yes, it is official.  We have orders.  We will be moving in the next month or so, AGAIN.  This time we are headed to the great state of Virginia.  I am not sure if I am excited or not.  I will miss my job, all my friends, and my life here in GA.  On the other hand it will be nice for Ricky to be close to his dad again and to see a new place.  I don't think I would have been happy with anyplace other than Hawaii though.  

School is going well for Emma.  She is going full days now.  We love her teacher, Ms Cannady, and both of her para's.  She really loves circle time.  She gets to dance on her knees and sing with the other kids.  She is a little star at her school.  All of the office staff and most of the teachers have to stop in and see her each day.  She loves all of the attention.

Michael is doing well.  He is getting excited about the move and had been online looking up the sea cadet program in Virginia.  He has not decided yet if he will continue with sea cadets or not in Virginia.

Ricky has deployed.  He will be gone through the holidays.  If anyone would like to email him just let me know and I will get you his email information.  I am sure he would love to hear from everyone.

Well, thats all for now, the next time I blog I will proabably be in a new state!

Summer Days

Well, Summer is over and I have not stopped long enough to update our blog.  It has been a wonderful summer but sadly it has come to an end.

We had a great time with the boys this summer, between camps, days at the movies, days at the pool, and afternoons at the park we stayed pretty busy.  They are all growing up so fast.  

Kaylin spent most of his time either at the park playing ball or at the pool.  He is now almost as tall as I am and growing faster than I can buy the clothes.  This is Kaylin's first year at highschool and I am so excited for him.  This year he is playing baseball and football.

Michael spent his summer at sea cadet camps, playing ball at the park, and playing xbox with his little brothers.  He just went into the eighth grade and is taking AP classes.  Michael has been such a huge help this summer with his brothers and his sister.

Nolan is playing baseball this year again.  He is making all A's in school and loved his new frogs I got for him and Trinton.  Trinton made the all star baseball team and is still FULL of energy.  They became fast friends with our new neighbor's daughter Brynn this summer and with Seth and Evan, kids of some friends of ours.  They loved their water park birthday they had with Evan at our house with the huge waterslide in the back yard and a water balloon fight.  Each week they got to pick a new movie for us to all go see.  I think that the batman movie was their favorite.

Emma spent her summer at the pool and watching her brothers run around her.  This summer she learned how to take off her socks and chew on her feet.  Emma has now started school and we LOVE her new teacher, Ms Canandy.  Emma loves going to school and Mommy really misses her.

Ricky had a sea time free summer.  It was so wonderful for him to be able to spend his summer with all of us here at home.  Sadly his time off is over and he is going to be gone until sometime in 2009.

I got a call in July from Mrs Lucy, with an opportunity to go back to work as a SLPA (speech and language Pathology Aid) and to work with Interactive metronome, a program that I have been very excited about since Emma started it.  I started working the first of Aug and have loved it.  It has been wonderful working with the kids and getting out of the house.  I am only working two days a week but it has been just what I needed for myself.

Our summer ended with tropical storm Fay.  Although we suffered a direct hit, we managed to chain ourselves down and not blow away.  Unfortunately not everyone was as lucky as we are.  Even though the base shut down w

e managed to stay home and not see much more than broken trees and lots of rain and wind.

Thats it for us for now.  Hopefully I will have much more to update with soon.

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Camps and Birthdays

We took Michael two weeks ago to his recruit training in Belle Glades, FL.  We got four letters from him while he was away.  In all of them he was very ready to come home but by the end seemed to have been having a good time.  

We left on Friday to pick him up and stayed in a hotel in Okechobee, FL.  I am sure that this town only has people age 55 and up.  All there was in the entire town were tiny trailers surrounding a lake.  Some of the trailers were smaller than campers and they were so close together that you could reach our neighbors house from your porch.  Outside of each community there was a sign that ready, "55+ only".  Thats great news for me because I have no plans on moving to Okechobee, FL anytime soon.

On Saturday morning we went to his graduation.  It was wonderful to see him again.  The kids all looked so cute in their uniforms.  He then got to show us were he slept while he was gone.  They were staying at a camp for troubled teens beside a prison.  Michael is not a troubled teen, thats no why he was there but thats what the place is for.

Michael ate the entire trip home.  He snacked until we got to McDonalds then ate at McDonalds and then snacked until we made it home 7 hours later.  

We are so proud of Michael and all that he has done with his sea cadets.  He really has excelled and stuck with it.  He has been in the program now for 14 months and this makes his 3rd training camp and he still has one more to go this summer.  They are not easy camps.  He has to get up at 430am and run 5 miles every day and then do it again in the afternoons in the hot sun.  He also has to pass a physical fitness test, the same one that they give the men in the military.  It is not all about fitness either, he has to go online and do work as well and it rewarded for his grades in the program.  I can not say enough how proud we are of him and all the cadets who made it through another trough training.

Sunday we got up and went to IHOP for Emma's birthday.  They sang to her and brought her ice cream.  She really had a good time.  Later that day we came home and had a cake for her.  Ricky had to blow out her candles.  She loved her gifts we got her.  This is the first time she has torn into the paper all by herself.  She loves to tear paper now.

Tuesday I take Michael to see his dad and pick up Kaylin so I am sure I will have a lot more to update.  Hope you enjoyed.