For my love

Okay so I just read a post on my sister-in-laws blog and she put down a bunch of things that she loves about her hubby, so I am borrowing the idea. We have been married for four years and I thought it would be nice to say some of the things that I love about him...

I love the nickname he has for me.
I love how even though he has black hair he still has blond moments.
I love how he can make me smile even when I'm having a terrible day.
I love how ticklish he is.
I love that I can beat him in Tetris.
I love the look I get when he finds out I used his razor.
I love how he carries me up to bed when I'm really tired.
I love that he reads to me at night.
I love that he doesn't gripe when I ask him to help me clean.
I love the way that he always lets me get my food first.
I love the way he rubs his feet together at night.
I love how proud I am of him.
I love the excited sound in my kids voices when daddy comes home.
I love that we dance in the living room.
I love the little inside jokes we have.
I love how he tries to let me sleep in.
I love the way he takes care of me when I'm sick.
I love the way he always tells me how beautiful I am.
I love the way he comes up behind me and wraps his arms around me.
I love that he always tells me he loves me when we get off the phone.
I love that he puts up with me.
I love it when he draws me a bath.
I love the way he pouts when he's mad.
I love the relationship he has with my mom.
I love the way he looks in his uniform.
I love how nervous he was when Keegan was born.
I love his smile.
I love his dimples.
I love how proud he is of Triston wrestling.
I love that when we are watching t.v. he rubs my feet.
I love how short he is.
I love the way we can just hang out at home.
I love that we can be stupid together.
I love that we miss each other when were apart.
I love how he sounds Australian when he is trying to do his British accent.
But mostly, I love the way he loves me!

Our little wrestler

Okay I know wrestling season has been over for quite a while but I also know that most of you didn't get to see Triston's wrestling pictures. He loved wrestling but he struggled so much, the poor guy didn't win one match. He never let it get him down though and he had great teammates that never made him feel bad about not winning. He actually got complemented by another team's coach for being such a good sport. He went out there and tried his best and was only pinned a few times all season. He went all three minutes in most of his matches and was only beat by points. He was also almost always the littlest kid out there. After the season was over he got a very cool trophy and five ribbons. He was also the only one in his weight class (about 20 kids) to get the sportsmanship medal. We are so proud of him and can't wait till wrestling season starts this fall.


Triston in his singlet (the BULLDOG'S)


Practicing with Daddy


Doing a sprawl (he worked so hard on these)


His wrestling picture


His sportsmanship medal.

He's such a goof

I have been trying for a very long time to get a good picture of Keegan. He almost always has a dirty face. When his face is clean and I try to take a picture of him he looks away. He likes to look at the pictures on the camera so I told him if he wanted to look he needed to let me take his picture first. This is what I got.


The camera's over here, Keegan.


He's just like his dad.


He's being crabby.


This is his tongue.


Finally a good picture!

UN-HAPPY 4th of JULY

For the fourth of July we went to Lunga park to watch fireworks. They have tons of cool things for the kiddos to do, those big inflatable slides, a water maze, a rock wall, not to mention the playground that they have. They also have a live band and all sorts of food. We went last year and had a blast.

We got there around 4 and Ian saw one of his co-workers so we chatted with him for a bit while we were waiting for our neighbors to get there. Once they arrived we found a nice spot on the hill laid out our blankets and watched the kids play on the playground. Lindsay and I went for a little walk and let the guy's watch the kids. Once we got back to the blankets Ian took Keegan for a walk and the rest of us ate.

As we were sitting there we noticed off to the left of us that it was getting pretty dark and then we saw some lightening and a little bit later heard some thunder. We just sat there watching it hoping it would go around us....no such luck. We looked over the lake and about 100 yards from us you could see the rain and then before we knew it, it was POURING down on us. We threw our stuff in the bag (Ian was back with Keegan) grabbed the blankets and took off toward our cars. Triston was holding on to his sandwich for dear life.

Now being that it is July and it is pretty hot out that rain was FREEZING. We decided that we weren't going to make it to the car so we took shelter under one of the tents. It just so happens that this was the military police tent and standing about 3 feet from us was the biggest German Shepard I've ever seen. Ian got to talking to the dogs handler and found out that the dog is not very friendly and will bite people just for being close to him (note to self: don't do anything stupid on this base). Needless to say I started moving my kids away from the dog and Ian stayed and talked to the guy. He found out that the dog weighed 126 lbs (see I told you he was big) and that they usually work for about ten years. Ian asked what happens to the dogs once they retire and the handler said that they use to euthanize them but now they will let the handlers have first choice to adopt them. If the handler doesn't want to adopt them they will be open for adoption to the military and then to the general public. I thought that was pretty interesting (see you can learn stuff by reading my blog).

The rain didn't seem to be getting any lighter and we were all wet and cold so Ian went and got the car (he can be such a gentleman). We got the kids into the car turned the heat on and went home. Triston was very concerned that daddy couldn't see anything, but most of all he was worried that he wasn't going to get anything else to eat. He was sitting in his car seat clutching onto his very soggy sandwich. We got home, got into dry pj's, ate supper and watched the thunderstorm instead of watching fireworks. The kids were pretty bummed but I recorded the macy's 4th of July show and they watched it this morning.

I'm just glad that the power didn't go out ;-)

Fruit Loops on the floor

Wow it's been pretty busy around here lately. We've had some really crazy weather. When I went to pick up Triston on one of his last days of kindergarten, the school got put on lock-down because of tornado warnings. We had a tornado touch down 3 miles south of us. Then the next night we had a really amazing lightening storm. Ian and I sat out in our backyard and watched it until Triston called us in because he was scared.

Ian has been home for the past week on leave and we actually haven't drove each other crazy yet. We spent two days spring cleaning and I was surprised to find fruit loops on my floor in some very odd places. I think Keegan hides them in his cheeks and then takes them out to put in a hiding place for later. I also think he forgets about this which would explain the fruit loops in odd places. Some of his favorite places are under couches, under his dresser, inside a toy, and (my favorite) in a shoe. I'm amazed we don't have ants.

Today we are going to The Smithsonian for the first time. I'm excited to go but the Museum of American History (the one I really wanted to see) is closed until fall. We are going to the Natural History Museum and the Air and Space Museum. I hope the kids like it. I will let you know how it goes....

Camping

The boy's chasing the geese!


Keegan in the canoe


The big boys from the canoe


Keegan getting ready to roast his graham cracker.

We went camping for one night with our neighbor's and there son. It was so much fun, the kids had a blast. We rented a canoe and took turns taking all the kiddos out on the lake. When the big boy's went out they came back with a beach ball and a goose feather. The big boys also went on a hike in the woods and found some walking sticks.


We roasted hot dogs for supper and had smores for dessert. This was the first time my kids had smores and they LOVED them. The big boys roasted there own marshmallows although they didn't really get close enough to even start to turn there marshmallows brown. Keegan saw all this and decided he wanted to roast something so he got a hold of a graham cracker, stuck it on the stick and tried to roast it. The kids also saw a bunch of geese and gosling's which they all decided to chase. We came home covered in dirt and exhausted but we had fun. We are planning to go again this summer at a different place. I will let everyone know how it turns out.

My first blog

Okay so apparently I'm a little late in discovering this blog thing but I figure what the heck sometimes I have something to say. Actually I have a lot to say most of the time but that's a lot of typing and I have been sitting here for a while already trying to get this thing set up.

May has been a busy month, first we had tons of black outs. We were losing power every weekend and it stayed out for a LONG time. We actually got put up in a hotel because they couldn't fix the problem and we had to go for three days with no hot water, a/c, no microwave, no dryer, and pretty much everything else one needs to get by this day in age. We had lights sometimes but they were very low, so it was like having candlelight. It was so bad that school got canceled, and believe me it's no fun having a six year old and a two year old home when you have no power and it's between 85 and 90 degree's outside.

Next was mother's day and my hubby did pretty good, well not really, he did good for our anniversary but that was in March. I don't think he actually did anything for mother's day. After that it was my birthday and Triston was so excited. He kept counting down the day's until "we could eat cake." See he could care less whose birthday it is so long as he gets to eat cake. He did make me some very nice things at school for mother's day and my birthday though.

Over Memorial weekend we went camping with our neighbors but I'll write more about that when I have my pictures to post on here with it.

Anyways that's all I have to say right now so until next time....