End of 2nd grade

Kendall completed 2nd grade at Mary Fay Pendleton on May 29, 2014. My sweet, oldest girl did great changing schools from North Carolina and excelled at math this year! As it is a base school, she has said several "see you soons" to friends she made this year. Amazing to see her get into chapter books and she loves to read to her brother! We are so proud of you Kendall bug!!

She received bulldog of the month for May too!

I have a summer birthday so I understood when she asked for me to bring a birthday treat in the last week of school!

Of course little sister liked help h out!!

What an outstanding young lady you are becoming Bug!!

Brought to you by the letter "T"

Trouble

I firmly believe I am getting my paybacks for the first two children being such good 2 year olds. Kymber....oh little girl I love you so but you are a Troublemaker!! It's a good thing you are so cute!

This is an entire bottle of baby powder that she dumped an HOUR after my deployment cleaning fairy had left!

Can you guess?

Can you guess who got Kenzie the "I only cry when ugly people hold me" shirt? Here's a hint....if you guess my dad you are wrong!!

Wine of the week

A gift from my love

Ben's view

Brought to you my the letter "B"

Beautiful Baby.

God's most wonderful creations on this earth.

Health Journey

A few of you know that I have been trying to figure out what's wrong with me (ok insert your jokes here) for the past few years. I have been experiencing horrible muscle and joint pain, extreme tiredness, a mental fog, irritability, along with a few other things.

I had a new doc in NC that started screening me to rule out fibromyalgia. All my tests came back normal except for my Vitamin D levels which were crazy low. She wanted me to start Vitamin D supplements to see if that corrected some of my pain issues. If not, well she was inclined to diagnose me with fibromyalgia. (I know those that have ever wrestled with being sick and not knowing why can sympathize with just wanting a diagnosis.)

Then life got in the way of treatment....in the form of pregnancy. Now that Kenzie pie is here, I am on the road to trying to be well. 

Yesterday, I started my first of 8 weekly doses of Vit D. I am hoping to chronicle on our online journal the journey. I am hoping it will help me keep a record of my symptoms and hopefully relief of pain.

I am actually hoping maybe some of our friends and family might have experiences to share as well. 

So my first dose was yesterday, Friday, May 30th. I'm hoping to check back in next week!!

A picture a day.....

Sparring

Kendall and Isaac are so very excited. They have a karate tournament on June 1st & they finally got to spar. Bonus?!? They got to spar with each other. They will compete in forms and sparring at the tournament. This mom is still a newbie at terms and rules so this should be interesting!

Wine of the week x2

Baby girl

This sweet pumpkin is staying up more during the day. She is so strong at sitting up and pushing up. I am torn between cheering her on and begging her to slow down. Trying to savor these baby moments of our last born.

She even had chubby hands!!

My little boy

I received a project from Isaac yesterday. Sweet flowers for his mama. I love their gifts like this. I noticed that his hands are almost as big as mine. When did that happen? How did my chubby baby boy end up a stout and solid almost 6 year old?!? I'm thankful for our little space here online where I can journal our everyday moments for the kids to look back and see/remember all the little moments that made up our life as a family!

His very first book report & oral presentation. I hope he doesn't suffer his mamas fear of public speaking!

Ben's view

This is the sand storm that Ben experienced the other night. He had just swept out their office spaces so I'm sure it was a bummer to have his hard work undone.