Where to begin?

It has been such a long time since I have posted anything, blogger went and changed on me! It's all new and they didn't even check with me first! Sheesh! For one, I'm a spell check junkie and I can't find the flippin' spell check! Help!

Thank you to all my bloggy friends who have emailed to check on me. You guys are awesome! I've decided it's time to claw my way out of my hole and find my way back to the bloggy world. There have been so many things along the way that I have wanted to share, but the thought of back-tracking, well...it is not going to happen. I will start fresh from this point forward.

As is so common in our little family, things have changed again. LK feels safe at the FOB in Afghanistan and we have decided that he will continue to work there. Our plans to spend 7 weeks with him in South Carolina have changed. The new plan: we are meeting in Orlando at Disney World to spend 5 wonderful, fun-filled days. After Disney, we fly back to Portland and will have a week and a half together before he deploys again. Unfortunately, my plans to meet up with some bloggy friends near Greenville just can't happen. :(

For now, we are very much looking forward to seeing each other at Disney on December 4th. Disney twice in one year! How cool is that?!

And now I will leave you with a few photos of our beautiful Princess.

Thank you all for your kind birthday wishes for Princess. Her birthday party was so much fun for everyone. I realized how much I rely on the Lizard King. There were so many things that he would have thought of that I forgot. I miss him so very much.

I know I have been very absent from posting here and reading the blogs I regularly read and for that I am sorry. I am dealing with a lot of overwhelming emotions. I hope you can understand.

Looking at my Google reader I have 68 posts to catch up on. The thought is overwhelming, but I hate to miss any posts. I may have to this time. We'll see.

I know that today won't be the day and we leave for Jamaica on Tuesday. I may come back to a couple hundred posts.

Thank you all for hanging in there with me. I will be back to my old self one of these days.

6

At 10:53am today, Princess turned 6! I can hardly believe that 6 years have gone by and that this very grown up little girl is sitting right in front of me. She is such a beautiful combination of the Lizard King and me. We are truly blessed to have such a special person as our daughter. We learn more and more from her each and every day. She has changed our lives more than we could ever imagine.

This is the first (and only) birthday that LK has missed. This is a hard time for all of us. He and I were just emailing about Princess' birth day and LK said that it was a great day. I responded that it was life changing. (Well, duh!) LK then said, "I sometimes wonder where we would be had she not come along. Not just physically, but emotionally. She definitely did complete the family." I responded, "She certainly did... Life would be so very different without her. I truly believe that we would still be together and happy and in love, but we would not have grown into the people we are now had she not come into our lives."

Happy Birthday, Princess! Daddy and I love you more than we could even begin to say.

Did I mention Jamaica & Afghanistan?

On September 22nd we are joining our friends as they renew their wedding vows in Jamaica. The Lizard King was just home for a visit about 2 and a half weeks ago. The plan was that he would meet us in Atlanta and we would fly together to Jamaica. We were all looking forward to spending a whole week together.

The Lizard King emailed me on Monday with bad news, ugly news and good news.

The bad news: he was leaving for Afghanistan in a week. Yes, my bloggy friends. They need LK's expertise in Afghanistan. They asked him to go over. It will be a shorter trip and he assures me that he will be safe.

The ugly news: he will not be able to go to Jamaica with us.

The good news: he is spending a long weekend with us.

He arrived yesterday evening.

Right now I am trying to focus on the "I get to spend time with my husband" part. I'll think about the Jamaica vacation without him later.

Wardrobe Wednesday

Oregon rain is on it's way. I love this time of year.

We live about six blocks from Village Home (our homeschool school) and we don't have activities that we have to drive to after we're done classes. Won't it be great to walk there and back?!

Of course we'll need some good rain wear if we're going to stay dry and there is no way we're carrying an umbrella. As if!

So I had this brilliant idea. Princess and I should get matching rain wear. Of course this was easier said than done. Can you believe they don't make Hello Kitty rain coats for adults?! They don't even make pink rain coats for adults. Sheesh!

I settled on matching (sort of) rain boots. And yes, they are both Hello Kitty!! I had to order mine because they didn't have them in the store, but they should be here soon. Yippee!!

My boots:

Princess' boots:

How cute will we be?! I love it!!

Perhaps by next week I can post a WW photo of the two of us all decked out in our new gear.

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