Busy Week!!!

This week is very very busy for us!!!

Monday - school, dance, sign papers in temple with doc

Tuesday - school, tutoring (i teach), mikayla's dental appt

Wednesday - school, dance (til 6)

Thursday - school, tutoring, cub scouts

Friday - school, same day surgery to fix my port...ugh!

So normally I feel like our weeks are busy when Isaac is gone, but this week when you add 2 trips to Temple, the dentist, & cub scouts (not on Saturday)....it just seems like a lot!!!

Any and all prayers are accepted!

Best Buddies!!!

They love each other so much!!!  Paprika was watching TV and Vader was there as a pillow then Paprika became the pillow!!!
                          She was concerned that Vader wasn't making his "pretty face"!
                             She thinks it is the greatest thing when he kisses her!!!!

Staying Busy!

I can't believe my husband has been gone for only 2 1/2 weeks!  Maybe it's because he's not at his permanent location yet that time seems to be practically standing still! I knew I needed to post something new when he told me it had been a while....he's usually the last person to remind me of those things!!!  However, I did tell him that I felt bad for nagging my sister-in-law for not updating her blog more often....now she's posted like 4 new posts that I had to catch up on.

Anyway, here in central TX the weather is appropriate to talk about.  Yesterday it was almost 85 degrees outside.  I wore capri pants and short sleeves to work.  Then today I woke up to a frigid house with the temp outside sitting at 35!  Brrrr....

We ran our errands and quickly came back home.  Actually we didn't leave until 11 or so (cub scouts was cancelled today) and returned home by 1:15.

This week little Paprika experimented with a white crayon and became very frustrated when it "won't work"!  She said, "Watch Mommy!  It doesn't work".  So her 6 year old sister was quick to her (and my) rescue by showing her on a blue piece of paper that it DOES work...it's just white and doesn't show up on white paper!  She even went a step further and showed Paprika how the blue crayon wouldn't appear on the blue paper but it does on the white paper!  Oh how sweet to be so inquisitive!!!  And how lucky to have a sweet big sister willing to explain.

Keeping Busy with Friends

So, Mikayla spent the night with Tonya & kids on Friday.  Instead of driving all the way to get her, Tonya suggested we go skating in Cove.  It was SO fun!  She had her 3 kids, I had my 3 kids, and Maureen had 3 of her kids there.  The picture above is of Tonya and I just before we participated in the adult race!  I think we finished 4th (me) and 5th (her) out of a mere 6 racers!  
These are her girls.  She also has a son that's the same age as mine (Sage).
Watch out Erica!  Kearston is moving in....and Eduardo is pleased as punch!
Just before taking off our skates....we nabbed a picture of me and the kids!

A Tuesday Goodbye!

This picture on the left is of SSG Nutmeg and the kids!

This was Tuesday morning just before he had to leave!

I was able to take him to post!  He drew his weapon....he named his weapon....I'm so upset I forgot it already!

Here we are just seconds before they walked away!

3 year old spirit

So...with all the stresses of leaving, SSG Nutmeg and I toyed with us not "having time" to go to church today!  His destination has changed, the day he leaves has changed a few times, all the details still are not finalized for this deployment!  Crazy, huh?  Well, as we were chatting about whether or not we should go to church, Paprika walks up and starts to cry.  When we asked her what was wrong, she said "I need to go to Primary.  I'm in Sunbeams now.  I need to go!"

Needless to say, we were quickly put in our place as her sweet spirit touched us (it really gave us a swift kick for even thinking of skipping on his last Sunday here)!

So, even though SSG Nutmeg had to accept all the calls and texts during Sacrament and Sunday School, we were still blessed by hearing all the testimonies and lessons shared!

Clean for the cleaning lady????

What is wrong with this picture???  Why would someone clean before the cleaning lady comes??  Well, I don't want her to think we are nasty!  I don't want her to think I can't keep up with the house....except.....why else would I need her??  So, during the last deployment Isaac surprised me with a cleaning service!  It was the greatest thing ever.....seriously!  

So, even before we knew he was leaving on Monday, we had the appointment scheduled for today!!  So she'll be here at 1:00!  Isaac told me what he is willing to pay, so hopefully she'll be under the quote, so I don't have to do this again!  Like I told the lady last time, "We live in our house"!  It has to be functional....not necessarily perfect!

So, I guess I'll do one more walk through real quick....maybe put on some make-up and a bra!

Time for Deployment....So Quick??

I think I'm in shock more than anything.  I cannot believe that we got a call this morning saying that SSG Nutmeg leaves on Monday instead of the 10th!  I mean part of me believes it, but other parts of me doesn't want to believe it!  It's really just me being selfish.  All of me knows that he has a very important job to do, but none of me wants him to be so far away for so long!  I guess my real prayer is that he's safe and returns to us ASAP.  I also pray that his mission is successful.  I also hope and pray that the other guys meet up with him safely.  Isaac is going on the Strat-Air flight which will take him straight to his destination.  The others will be about a month in Kuwait before meeting up with SSG Nutmeg again!  Anyway...I'm still sad, but will hold up for his sake.  He pulled out about 3-5 loads of laundry that he was going to take care of next week while i was at work...but it looks like we'll get that done today and tomorrow.  :0)  

I think maybe I'm a little more emotional today because Baby Spice, Paprika woke up vomiting today.  There doesn't seem to be any apparent reason...I'm just hoping that it stops with her and doesn't go around to all of us, like normal!  

So, here is to a Happy New Year for all of you!