Kids miss their Daddy! - May 2010

The kids still have their daddy dolls from the last deployment that will follow along with us when we go places. Well, this year we went to Build a Bear and made deployment bears. The kids picked out their bear and dressed it how they wanted. Matt also put in a personalized voice recording for each one. When we finished making their dolls, Mason asked Matt where his doll was because he wanted Matt to have one with him and Sydney's voice in it to take with him. This is how I found Mason sleeping one night and had to run get the camera. He and Sydney pray for Daddy to come back home and the time to go by fast. So sweet!

VPK Graduation -May 2010

As I was ironing Mason's cap and gown, I just kept thinking "before I know it, I will be ironing the real cap and gown." He's done with preschool, people! We are on to elementary school!

Matt Deploys on the Truman - May 2010

Matt finally gets to deploy on an aircraft carrier. What a whole new world! It's amazing and he's happy to be on it. The food is so good and they have every type of food you could imagine. How is that you pay the same mess bill on a frigate and the food is horrible? This was us hours before he deployed.

TPC - May 2010

Well, it's that time of year again when Pop Pop and Annie come visit us and go to the TPC Sawgrass tournament. We took the kids for a practice round day and it was not as much fun as they had anticipated and were asking to go home within 30 minutes of being there, But I think we were able to drag it out for about 2 hours or so. Check out their outfits....would you believe that I had a 15 minute battle with Sydney over wearing those shorts? She wanted to wear a dress or pretty skirt instead. This choice of outfit was not girly enough for her. Ha, ha.

My Birthday - April 2010

The kids took me to Cracker Barrel. Yum, yum! It was fantastic. They were the sweetest children to me all day that day. No fighting, teasing, arguing, etc. I must have gotten a thousand kisses and hugs from my babies that day! Was a great birthday...just wish it was more than the three of us.

Sydney in Hats - February 2010

Well, we all know that Sydney loves her accessories. She just couldn't resist wearing my new sun hat around the house. Kentucky Derby, here we come!

Disney World - April 2010

We went to Disney World with the kiddos for one last time before Daddy deployed. Had a blast and went everywhere! We stayed up two night in a row for firework shows and the kids were in heaven. Mason even went on bigger kid rides like the Dinosaur ride at Animal Kingdom! Matt and I went on it first to preview it and it was pretty scary so we thought he wouldn't like it. However, even though we warned him that it was fake but scary, he wanted to go on it. He bragged about how he went on a scary ride and wasn't scared. He talked about it for weeks afterward.