20120517

Good Morning!

We got some more big news yesterday concerning Joe's upcoming deployment! Before I let you all know here, however, I'll need to privatize the blog. So... could you please email me (or attach a comment to this post) with your email and any family members' / mutual friends' emails who might not check often enough to email me before I switch over, but who would like to have access to it from time to time? Then I can get everyone possible on my "list" so that you can still see the blog. All you will have to do is sign in with your email. Feel free to give me numerous emails of yours, I can put any number of "members" on my list. Better too many than not enough.

Thanks!

Love, Us.

20120507

We got big news this morning! We will be moving once again in just over 2 months... but not as far as Missouri to Texas again... just a couple miles to post! We are SUPER excited! Now, Baby #5 won't be sleeping in our closet, and maybe we could even have a library/school room! Okay... I am a little too excited. But, I must say, this is one thing that is a good fit for me and the army. I LOVE to reorganize, and I actually enjoy packing and unpacking. I know, I'm crazy! I've even passed on that love to little T!

But, on to our last week or so.

To start, we received some long-awaited packages in the mail a bit ago, and after some handy-woman work by yours truly, the kids had brand new, custom made by their very own Opah, school desks! We love them! They were soon filled with art supplies, books, and papers, and the first projects done on them were some very special water color pictures.

David not only colored a GORGEOUS picture... he also decorated himself from head to toe!

The kids are getting really excited for their trips coming up! When thinking about Michigan in July, Therese was reminded that on our last plane trip to Michigan she had made her new cousin Gus his very own rosary. She decided that this year she wanted to do some work ahead of time, so her and David worked on making rosaries for EVERYONE! I think they are half way done now!

David had a milestone this week - he can now put on his own pants... and enjoys doing it very much. He is quite good at it... it just often ends up being "backwards day" here for him!

We went to the zoo again last week and had a blast!

Elephants!

A Sand Cat! She looked cuddly!

Yikes! Really big Python!

But their favorite animals of the day: local mama duck and her two duckings! They were swimming in the  "moat" around a monkey island, and the kids chased them around and around their circle as they swam!

It was a beautiful, hot, day here, so we ended our time there at the Zoo's splash park!

Oh yeah... we did say goodbye to the sea lions after that on the way to the car. They were very friendly!

Well, that is it for now!

Love, Us.