Walking!

Mason is on his way.  He is 11 months old and walking!  It started on Friday last week when he took his first two steps.  Now almost a week later he is walking halfway across rooms!  He's doing great!  He is the first of the three boys to walk before their first birthday.  It's so cute to watch him toddle around.  He is so proud of himself.

Dominic seems to be doing well.  He got taken off of his mission to Africa this week but will probably get another chance to go soon.  He says he has a long mission tomorrow.  He got our package.  We sent more candy and snacks.  Also razors, and DVD's.  

I will be spending the day doing laundry.  I am falling behind this week and need to get back on track.

Happy Anniversary!

Today is Dominic's and my 9th wedding anniversary.  

Happy Anniversary babe!

I love you more everyday.

Frozen like popcicles

We had a major cold front come thru today with freezing temperatures and rain.  It would rain, sleet and as soon as it hits the ground, car, tree leaves it freezes.  Our cars were covered in 1/4" of ice.  I couldn't even open the car doors today.  I looked on the local news channel to see that most places were closed including schools.  Christian got to stay home today and the way things are looking right now, maybe even tomorrow.  We'll see.

Its been a tough day.  Mason woke up at 2 am last night with a poopy diaper.  I knew that he wouldn't just lay back down after I changed him so we came out to the living room and watched cartoons for an hour and went back to bed at 3 am.  So far today, he has slept 15 minutes in my arms.  That's it!  He just cries when I lay him down.  He doesn't have any teeth coming thru so I really don't know what's going on with him.  He doesn't seem to be getting sick.  I guess its just one of those days.

I made some homemade chili today that we've had for lunch and dinner.  It was perfect for a day like today.

Pictures Dominic Sent

Price and Dominic

Dominic's bunk.

Dominic in front of one of Sadaam's old palaces.

Dominic listening to his iPod.

Birthday Laughs

I finally got the email I had been waiting for. Dominic saying that he got the birthday card that we sent him. I guess it has been there for quite some time but that and several other pieces of mail that I sent him were on the bottom of a stack of papers (or something). According to Dominic the ladies that are in charge of getting their mail aren't so good at their jobs.

For Dominic's birthday I took his truck to have nerf bars installed. For those of you that don't know what those are, they are the bars on both sides of the truck that you step on to get in the truck. Without them, its very tough for the boys to get in and having them makes getting in and out of the truck much easier. We had talked about getting some and both decided it would be a good idea.

I took the truck to a local truck shop and had them installed. They did it in 20 minutes which was great considering that I had the two little boys with me at the time. When we got home, I took a picture of the truck, printed out a copy and put it in his birthday card. I wrote "Happy Birthday Babe" on the picture right above the nerf bars because I knew he wouldn't notice them right away.

So he sends me an email saying that he got the card but that he showed the picture to someone else and they complimented the nerf bars. He said he never even saw them :) Dominic never has been one to LOOK at pictures. He usually just flips through them, so I have to say, I am not surprised that he missed it. He loves them and was very happy.

No good news?

Okay, so today was all about bad news I guess. I won't go into all the details but it was one thing after another.

Dominic had a really long day flying (14 hours) and said he felt like sh*t. I'm not exactly sure what that meant but hopefully it doesn't mean that he's getting sick. I know he was tired.

I got a phone call from Christian's teacher followed by a phone call from the director of Sylvan. Neither one of them had any good news. I had a talk with Christian.

I'm ready for this day to be over. I will wake up renewed! I hope.

See, I told you!

I told you he loves me! A bright and shiny package showed up on the front porch this morning. Okay well the box itself wasn't bright and shiny but you get where I'm going with this.
I knew that I could be expecting a gift from Dominic for our 9th wedding anniversary. He told me it would be coming. Dominic bought me an 8G iPod in my favorite color, yellow. I was so surprised and excited. I just wish I could have called to thank him.
I have been playing with it all day. I can't wait to get all of my favorite songs on it.
Thanks babe!

He loves me, he loves me not

He totally and completely loves me. Don't get me wrong, I have never doubted Dominic's love, but in this time away from each other he proves to me daily how much he truly and completely loves ME! He defends me, respects me, comforts me, protects me and makes me feel safe. He knows everything there is to know about me. He is my very best friend. Dominic is kind and gentle. He makes me smile. He makes me laugh even by email :) Dominic is a hard worker and is still grateful for my hard work too. He gave me three amazingly bright and happy kids. I am happy to be married to my one true love. Our 9th wedding anniversary is in 7 days. Nine years! We have done so much in nine years. I just can't wait to see what we can be in another nine years.

Long weekend over

Whew!  It was a long three day weekend.  We didn't do much, again, but that was fine.  Yesterday was Dominic's birthday.  He said that everyone had pitched in and got him a PSP game, an AF combat action figure, a zippo lighter, a nice cigar with "Operation Iraqi Freedom" on the tube, a non-alcoholic beer and one of those microwavable cakes.  It was so sweet of them to do that.  

Christian has a doctors appointment later this afternoon to check up on his allergy shots.  They have been wonderful!

Dominic and I talked this weekend.  We made a decision about our vacation.  We are going to spend our vacation in Las Vegas.  We are still going to go to Disneyland also because its only a 4 1/2 hour drive from Vegas.  We will go to Disneyland as a family with the Cash family also.  Then we will leave the boys with them and spend a few nights in one of the casino hotels.  There is so much to do in Vegas that doesn't include gambling, so thats what we will do, plus there are lots of family things we can do there.  We are so looking forward to it.  Dominic is already so tired of flying so I don't think he wanted to fly anywhere, which is fine.  We will be close to the boys if needed, so that will be good.  And we will get to spend time with our friends.  Sounds like a perfect vacation to me.

No Plans

Its Saturday morning and we have no plans for the day, or weekend for that matter.  The boys let me sleep in until 8:40 this morning.  I needed that.  I have trouble going to bed at a decent hour because I like to have several hours to do what I want to do, or need to do after the boys have all gone to bed.  Most often I find myself in bed but still awake at 11 pm.  I need to stop that because I have a hard time getting up in the morning.

I ordered a cord of mesquite firewood that will be delivered this evening.  The best part is that they deliver AND stack it for me.  I wonder how much longer it will be cold.  It didn't get cold until late in the season so we'll see.  

Dominic sent some pictures on Cd's in the mail early in the week.  I am so anxious to get them.  I can't wait to see them and I hope they get here today!  I miss him so badly.  I can't believe that we have 4 1/2 more months to go.  It seems like he's been gone for so long already.  I just can't wait until he's back and we can go on our vacation.

Speaking of vacation, nobody posted any ideas.  We are looking into Alaska still but their summer prices go up big time because that is their peak season.  We are still open to other places.  Also, since we don't technically know when he will be back he says that I can't book anything.  Okay, so that's sort of tough.  Does anyone know if travelers insurance covers full refunds on things that you have already booked?  

The plan at this point is that we will drive to Las Vegas, pick up the Cash family and head to Disneyland for a couple days.  Then drive back to Vegas and leave the boys with Amanda and JR.  They are the best!  They will keep the boys so that Dominic and I can fly somewhere for a romantic week long vacation, just the two of us.  We will fly back to Vegas, pick up the boys and their two girls and drive back to TX.  We will drop the girls off with Amanda's parents and head home after that.  Doesn't that sound like a great vacation?  We will get to be with our friends, have a family vacation and some alone time.  Now we just have to figure out where to go.