Go grab a cup of coffee

and sit down, because this is going to be a long one ;)

Most importantly, after 130ish days, our family is whole again!

 Soccer season ended a while back, and whew, glad that's over! The season initially got off to a  slow start, and getting Ambrose on the field require a whole lot of threatening and bribing, which made me rethink my choice of enrolling him in soccer for another season. However, as the season went on, he did improve, and by the last game, he required no threatening and only the bribery of a medal and cupcake. Successful season indeed ;)

 While John is gone, life takes on a real life Groundhogs day like quality. I did the same thing over and over and my sole focus is to get out on the other side of the deployment with my sanity in tact and my two beautiful boys happy and healthy. So, for me, it's key to find some kind of structure to our day and ways to fill the time outside of our home (because while inside, we all go stir crazy).  So, we were outside a lot!

Here are a couple pics of our Halloween. Ambrose was an astronaut and Bram was a scarecrow.

Well, that's it for now, because my Internet is taking 20 minutes to upload each picture, and for Pete's sake, I can't sit here any longer.