I am so not good at this whole blogging thing. I started out really well and then nothing. So lets see I left off before we went to Montana for Christmas. So much has happened since then. We had a wonderful time in Montana and got to see all of our family. Both Mark's and mine. It was great to be with everyone. We rarely all get together so it was great. We came back just after New Years and it was the count down to Mark deploying. So did as much as possible with the kids in the time we had before he had to leave. We added a new puppy to our family on Valentines day. It was Mark's present from the kids and I. He has been wanting a hunting dog for so long now. I finally gave in. Our yellow lab is named Daisy and she is so sweet. Her and Harley get a long so well. They keep each other company during the day. I swear I feel like I have 4 kids sometimes...lol. Mark left for Deployment the last week in February. Every deployment is different but this one seems harder than most. We are getting by just fine though. Staying as busy as we can and the time has been going by pretty quickly. I get to talk to Mark most everyday and thats helps to hear his voice. The kids love it when they get to talk to him. Ashlyn is having a harder time this deployment than Matthew. We are almost to the halfway point so that is good. I am expecting some visitors soon and I am sooo exicted. My BFF Dana Day gets here on the 9th for a week. Then My brother Jason and his family will be here on the 30th of May for 10 days and after that my parents get here on the 17th of June for a week. I do have times available in July if anyone would like to come and visit..lol. It will be so nice having everyone here. It breaks up my time and makes the months go by faster. Then Mark will be home sometime in August..woohoo!
Matthew will be starting basketball in June and Mark is so excited that he has taken a liking to it. Now he just has to work football and golf into the mix..lol. Depending on when Mark gets home he might get to catch one of Matty's games which would be awesome. Ashlyn will soon be taking a hip hop dance class once a week. If you know my daughter you know her love to dance. She is so funny. She makes up her own moves so I thought it would be fun for her to be in a class. Anyway, I think I have roughly caught you up to speed on where we are. I will add some new pictures and try and stay on top of posting new stuff.
