Can't Sleep....

Well its 2 AM and I am wide awake. I hate when this happens. It is great for you though since I normally have no time to blog with James being gone. It always amazes me how different one person makes in your life. I feel like I am missing half of me. Everything that we do takes twice as long without someone helping. It is just unreal. Kuddos for all the single moms and dads. I don't know how you do it.

It has been a wild two months. So far deployment has gone like this:

1. James left
2. Trip to AL
3. Getting ready for school
4. 1 month of sickness between all parties
• pink eyes, ear infection, viruses, colds
5. School started (missed 3 days already because of the sickness
6. Hurricane Earl (which wasn't anything really, but very well could have if it had came to shore)

I can honestly say that I am hoping that everything is back to normal. Well, as normal as life is for me. ;)

Now for the fun part:

Travis is doing "homework." He is always seeing me do school work at night and on the weekend, so he started asking to do his homework. I used to give him some paper and pencils or crayons. Sometimes I would sit down with him and do actually activities. I finally bought him a preschool workbook. On Wednesday, he said he wanted to do his homework, so we sat at the kitchen table and did two activities. The first one he had to color all the circles yellow and all the squares blue. He did this basically all by his self. He even read some of the directions because they had a picture of the shape and a color crayon. I tried to get him to stop after this page, but he wanted to do some more. The second page he had to find places on a map and then draw a green line from the start to finish on the path. This one took a little more help, but he did wonderful. I am so proud of him.

Now, I know you are wondering where Reese is while we are working so hard. She was also doing "homework."

After we finished our homework, we had a fun time finger painting. I must say that the crayola color wonder finger paints are awesome. I bought Travis the markers and coloring books a long time ago, but was skeptical about the paints. I am a die hard crayola fan to begin with and now am even more so.

Doesn't he look so happy to have to deal with me taking pictures...

Now, lets go see if I can grab a couple more hours of sleep.

Life goes on...

Well, James has finally left on deployment. The kids and I have been out of the house all day. I just couldn't bring myself to stay in the empty house that doesn't look like we live there anymore. Tomorrow is move in day at the new house. At least, that is what I am hoping for. Almost everything in our house is packed up. All my walls are white again. I believe that was the thing that made moving real. It is one thing to talk about it and another to actually put everything back to the way it was when you got here. 

Anyways, here are some pictures from the past week:

It's Summer Time!

Well I haven't done a totally great job with the blogging. I am going to do much better now that summer is here. I wanted to update everyone with some of what has gone on so far. Dos has turned one!! Here is a picture of her on her b'day! I have party pictures up on facebook if you are interested.

We also had a fabulous beach trip with my friend Carla. Here are some "professional" pictures that I took with my new camera. They need to be touched up a bit, but I just haven't had the time to get to that yet.

On a fun note, I think I have decided to take some photography courses. I haven't totally been sold on the idea yet. If we don't get a new house, I figured it would fill all my "free" time while James is gone. Who knows what life holds??? Not me!

New Pics!

Well since we will be having Travis' birthday the day before Easter I decided that I wanted to take their Easter pictures today. We got them all dressed up and here are the results...

Last week I went to a workshop on digital storytelling for school. It was awesome!! I spent the whole day playing on the computer making videos. I decided that it would be easier to put our newest photos in a video format instead of downloading them individually. The two videos range from the snow we recently had to Travis playing Rock Band to Reese walking with her new stroller. She can take a few steps by herself, but she chooses not too. It is apparently too much work right now. I have to go finish some school work, but I hope you enjoy the movies. :)

Crawling into the New Year...

We have had a busy past few weeks. Reese has started crawling and sitting up all by herself. She can sit herself up now. All of this just happened this weekend. She has been trying so hard to get the crawling down pat. She goes straight to Travis' cars. (When he sees her he goes and hides them under the rug at the front door.)
Here are all the promised Christmas pictures...

I finally finished ALL of the 2008 scrapbook pages. Yes, I know I am a year behind and a child short, but I am going to do better! Wonderful New Years Resolutions!