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The August Visitor's of the Month

I'm going to preface this post with the fact that I just looked at the calender and realized we will be leaving in exactly 4 weeks from today. A new sense of panic and being utterly overwhelmed with the looming task of packing the house and the looming reality that we still don't know where we will end up in the next couple months$ has left me where I often find myself when I feel this way... sitting in front of the computer, procrastinating, and blogging :) You may be seeing a lot of me in the next few weeks, but most likely not since I can't procrastinate forever :(

We have been so blessed to have so many visitors over the last year. It seems as though we have had a visitor on average once a month! And it sure has helped us feel a little closer to home. The visitor's of the month for August were... Tyson's family! Robert, Jodi, Eli, and Ira came out to see us and the sights (but mainly just us... right??) We saw some of the main DC sights, but since they have been here before we were able to see some other things as well.

The guys made a trip to Gettysburg one day, and instead of torturing the kids with a long car ride, Jodi and I hung back and chose to indulge ourselves at the Amish Market instead... And we did just that, cake, pie, bread, pretzels, treats, and snacks! It was delish as always.

Robert, Jodi, Ira, and I went to Mt. Vernon early Monday morning and of course had an enjoyable time there, Tyson, Eli, and the kids met us after we had lunch with one of Bob's high school friends and we walked around the Mall, squeezed in a museum and then hit up 5 guys for dinner. Once again... delish :)

Read this sign... seriously... this guy walked 5 miles to spend the weekends with his family. Next time I complain about Ty taking so long to get home, I think I'll just keep my mouth shut :)

Another day we made a trip to Fort McHenry outside of Baltimore. This is the fort where the 'The Star-Spangled Banner' was inspired. We all thoroughly enjoyed this Fort until the rain really started coming down. The light drizzle turned to the biggest rainstorm Tyson or I has ever been in, so sadly we didn't get to walk the inner harbor with them. Somehow we made it home in the rainstorm... 25mph on the freeway and still couldn't see, returned home to find a beach toy bucket which had an inch or so of rain in it before we left... completely full! It was crazy! And thanks to Eli and Ira, we were even able to enjoy a 'double date' that night with Robert and Jodi after the kids had gone to sleep.

Jodi has way better pics on her facebook... I'm going to have to steal some when I get a chance :)

Let the games begin...

We are driving back... here's the rundown... no job in WA (still looking!) a potential job in VA, and military orders are done the end of November. So at this point in time, it looks like we are moving back. While somethings have settled some, MANY things are still up in the air. (like where we will live, where we will work- to name a couple) Please keep us all in your prayers as we still are trying to find the best situation for our family! Until then...

Let the games begin...

repeat this minus one entertainer and my chauffeur plus one driver/entertainer (ha... we're taking applications!)


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We've been tagged

I went downstairs this morning to find this on our garbage can...





The culprit... my one and only hubby.



When asked about the said white trash tagging of our garbage can, his only response was... "in case there's ever a dispute over ownership of the garbage can, we will win... at least the lid."



Guess a can of spray paint should never be left unattended in our house :)



Speaking of spray paint, this very spray paint was used to spruce up an old shelf that was decidedly removed from our LARGE (one of these days we will be fully 'dejunked'!) yard sale pile... its new life will begin soon in Micah and Hallie's room as they are getting a new reading corner for their birthday! :)

Love these kids

I can't believe they turn two in less than a week! People really aren't kidding when they say it goes fast!

Present.

As so many others, I've been seriously slacking on blogging this summer. I have no excuses, ok I have 2... not having a functional camera when pictures are really my main inspiration and simply, I just haven't made it a priority. I'm so far behind on so many things, that I've slowly been trying to catch up, and as a result haven't been blogging about current happenings. Does anyone see the vicious cycle coming????


SO before I forget, here's the present.


I'm not a huge fan of fall, it means the end of summer, it gets cold and dark. But I'm really making the effort to enjoy fall this year, and I have to admit it's been a little easier then I thought. Maybe it's partly we were restricted with Hal's cast or maybe it's the fact that I'm really trying to enjoy our time here since it may quickly come to an end. (Again, that's a completely different post, it would be SO nice to know what's next for us!)


It's going to be gorgeous here in a few weeks with all of the leaves starting to fall and change colors. And I have to admit it's much more comfortable outside now that the humidity is down!


Here's a glimpse of what I've been enjoying of late.


Waking up to deer eating in the lawn for the last 4 mornings...



The gorgeous skyline with swiftly moving clouds...



Random pictures and drives in the neighborhood...



And beautiful red barns all over...

Hallie and the GPS

Randomly somewhere along our cross country drive Hallie became afraid of our cherished GPS. She was fine with it one day and cowering in the corner of her carseat the next. So now when lil' Maggie spouts off the next direction, Hallie stops whatever she is doing and immediately cowers into her carseat. (Works great if she's screaming before a nap!) However, she's recently started this instead...

Silly girl!