OK, So I thought I better at least blog that we are all OK b/c I have received many e-mails asking where we are & if we are OK. Since I last posted we just got so busy with the end of school activities, then summer came and we have been so incredibly busy.
Then this week I finally got all ready to start back to blogging & found out my computer is acting up trying to handle the thousands & thousands of pictures we have on here...b/c since last year getting our new Canon 30D & taking a million digital pictures instead of the "old" film pictures that I mainly had been taking up until that point...So, Paul is going to get me some more memory & then I will be ready to jump back in here.
This past week was registration for school...I can't believe how quick this summer went! I will tell you all about & share pictures soon...I promise!
Well, we had to wait until Paul's parents were here to tell them in person...they visited, we told, so now I can blog about it...Paul will be heading out of here the evening of the 2ND of September for a one year tour to Afghanistan. He will go to Ft. Riley in Kansas for training first & then head on over. His job will have him in small teams embedded with the Afghan Army. We go to a deployment briefing tomorrow...to make sure we get all our paperwork in order, etc. They are having a little class for Jakob & Rachel as well. There are only 13 of them going together and only about half are married & with kids. So, hopefully I can meet all the ladies tomorrow & we can form our little FRG and set up some activities to do together while our husbands are gone. I am so fortunate that I have the BEST neighbors in the world so they will be a big help while Paul is gone as well as the support of all my friends I have made in the Moms Club here in eagle River.
I am coming to terms with this...I have been in a little denial for awhile...thinking (hoping, praying) that things would change b/c we all know things change ALL the time with the military...you can NEVER really make any def. plans until the last minute. So, maybe next week Paul will say he really isn't going...FAT chance...but, I can always hope, right?!
I will miss him so very much!!!! I am hoping the time will fly by though since he leaves soon after school starts & we are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO busy during the school year that I can't even think straight...so that should help! I just mainly am sad about how much he will miss of the changes that will occur with the kids...esp. with Baby Sam...I can't believe he will be 1 next month! He will be so different when Paul returns! All of them will change! I will take a ton of pictures & keep on top of this blog so whenever Paul gets a chance he can check out what we are doing! Then when we do get a chance to talk on the phone the kids will not have to fill him in on the details...phone calls are usually short and sweet when they do happen...so instead they can spend the phone call talking about how much they miss Daddy!
We are going on a little family trip down to Valdez this week...I LOVE it there...it is so beautiful. Our last trip there was 3 years ago, I can't to explore it again!
I will get back on here...sometime...I promise. Just need to fix my computer so I can access my pictures to post. Also, we want to spend our time doing family stuff this remaining few weeks. So, probably right after Paul leaves I will get back on here.
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I look forward to keeping up with you and the family!! I know you are busy!! You are in my prayers too!
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