I'm still alive...

I know, I know, where have you been, Sarah. Depressed. Just haven't felt like much of anything lately til now that is my hubby brought it to my attention that i have not written in ages. He said he checkes it everytime he gets the chance to get on the internet. By the way Ben is now in the sandbox as we call it and has been for about 3 months now. He is doing very well and recently was PROMOTED!!!! I am SOOOO Flipin Proud! He has such potential! I know he will continue to do well. Also the Hubby and me where chosen to be in the Febuary issue of MilitarySpouse magazine. I entered a contest a month ago, you had to submit a romantic story something your husband has done for you and well OUR STORY WON!!! I have to admit i do kinda have a hopeless romantic on my hand with Ben he has really always been that way. So anyway they emailed me and told me my story was one of the ones chosen. And our story along with our photo will be in the upcoming issue! I'm super excited! I must say it is a REALLY SWEET story but I'm not going to spoil it. I'll fill ya in once its out. Sorry gotta leave you hanging!

Its been an interesting ride so far being without Ben. In all he has been away from our home for 6 months. WHOA!!!! Ya i know CRAZY! Our house is very boring without him here. Sure the kiddos are running around and are definitely loud at times but i miss my husbands loudness. And boy is he loud! I miss his goofiness. I even miss fussing with him about trivial everyday stuff like turning the movie down, we don't need to feel like we are the on the set of the making of the movie when the car skids across 6 lanes of highway while shooting at the bad guys chasing them, or snapping off the little hooks of the plastic hangers so there are no hangers for spaghetti strap shirts, or putting a completely empty tea pitcher back in the frig. Why do we need to keep that cold again? OHHH Benjamin! You make me laugh! You are so silly and i miss you! I think you need to come home now! I love you and you make me proud!

Enough said...

Love knows not it's own depth until the moment of separation.
-Unknown

Y not go swimming...

So I took the kids to the Y today to swim because it is SOOOO HOT here! I didn't get any shots of my oldest, she was messing around too much and half the time wasn't even in the pool so I don't think she will go next time. I couldn't believe she was out there splashing away like everyone else.

Don't drop that hat...

I feel SO emotional here lately. I cry at the drop of a hat. I'm really getting tired of it! I guess i'm depressed but its really not like the other times I've been depressed. I'm not really all that down, well at least not all the time. I don't know but i don't like it at all. I hate having my emotions all over the map and boy are they. I'm a big 'O' mess. But this too shall pass...right? Got to keep pressing forward. Here I go!!!!

My girl is SIX...

So Rylee's 6th birthday was great!!!! She had a blast! Here are some shots from the party.

She can really skate, she really surprised me.





yes that is a Flat screen tv(Thanks Honie, Tiny,Tatee and Georgia)
Me an Aria
No one was exactly sure what kind of creature this was.

So that night the kids spent the night with my mom and a friend while I went out to celebrate a friends Birthday her is a shot from the begining of the night. I look Horible!! We were kinda looking down at my other friend taking the shot i think thats why i have a crazy double chin. AHHHHH
OH MY GOODNESS! I promise I don't have a double chin in real life!!!! But my friends sure are beautiful, aren't they?

And so am I...

I really don't feel much like writing tonight. I'll have some updates tomorrow about our weekend. All i really want to say tonight is, I MISS MY HUSBAND!!!! Oh my goodness do i miss him. This STINKS!!! He brings so much joy to this house of ours and to my everyday. Its so tough being on my own. Don't get me wrong, I'll survive. Its just not ANY fun being apart. I'm so excited to get to go see him before he leaves stateside but at the same time am not looking forward to saying good bye yet again. I'll make it through this and me and the kiddos will be fine and I'm still glad that he is in the military. I'm just SO proud of him and he is doing so great out there. He really loves what he's doing, but he HATES being away from us. I can hear the sadness in his voice when i tell him about the kids. But I'm so glad that he is doing something he enjoys he's never liked his job here in town but always stayed because it was such a good job and we all now how hard those are to come by. So it really makes me happy when he calls me and tell me something great that someone has asked of him or something he has done. I can just feel him beaming with pride and so am I.

Busy Bee...

BUSY BUSY BUSY! Yesterday was my daughters 6th birthday! She was very excited i went ahead and gave her gifts from me and her daddy. Highschool Musical was from Daddy and i got her the frog habitat since we have our new family member the tadpole which by the way now has his back legs. The kids think it is the neatest thing! Also our son of course had to get somthing too.

We went and had lunch at McDonalds and look what Rylee just so happen to get.

Once we did that we had to take Charis to the Dr for shots! She is a bit behind on her shots so i took her in at 5 months. They told me she was the exact hieght and weight of a 7 month old. WOW she's a big girl!!!


I hate taking them for shots!!!! But she has recovered.