Oh yay, my friends!!!!!

I've been meaning to tell you that I had the wonderful privilege of seeing both of my best friends this spring.  My friend, Missy Kennedy came to visit while Chris was deployed and I saw my friend, Amy McCullough while we were down at Disney.  Here are some pictures!!  I think the ones with Missy are still on my camera--I'll add those later!

Phew........Disney!

Here are some pics from our recent jaunt to Disney World.  We had a wonderful time and the boys loved meeting all the characters.  Cal LOVES Minnie Mouse and I really thought he would faint when he saw her in person!  They seemed to enjoy all the little rides, especially the flying ones.  Michael was scared of the trolls in the Maelstrom ride at Epcot.

We went to Animal Kingdom the first day, Epcot the second, and Magic Kingdom the third.  Magic Kingdom was so crowded that the other two parks seemed deserted.  All in all, Disney is a really great time, but an extreme amount of work with 4 and 2 year olds!

So, the reason I say "Phew........Disney" is because we are just now recovering 1 1/2 weeks later because both of the boys got this stomach bug right as we got home--guess there were some great germs on all those handrails--yuck!!

Okay........I feel this is becoming a pattern.

Once again, I sit here wondering where all my time has gone as I realize I haven't posted to my blog since New Year's Eve!  Wow!  Would you like to know where all the time went?  I was consumed with the boys--having to do everything for them and all the house stuff while Chris was deployed for 67 days--like they say on the bear hunt:  phew--we made it!!

Now that we have our family life back to normal we are in moving mode.  Our house is on the market to rent or sell, we are sorting, organizing, cleaning, donating our stuff and preparing to greet the packers on April 28th.  If all goes according to plan, we should be packed and loaded by May 1 and heading up to NJ shortly thereafter.  We are going to try to live on base since we'll only be there one year and we won't know about that until we get there.

I have also become obsessed with sewing purses using patterns and fabrics by Amy Butler.  I made 8 purses while Chris was gone!  I am also going to try to make some new rag type quilts for the boys beds--we're going to try and put them in the same bedroom up in NJ!  That should be interesting. 

I hope to do better at updating more regularly--sorry!  We'll keep you all posted on our new contact info when we get it.