Happy Mothers Day!!

We hope all of you fantastic moms out there had a great Mother's Day. I hope your husbands spoiled you rotten, because you deserve it!!!

This is me on top of a Iraqi Police station providing overwatch for our patrol at one of our stops. Most everything now a days is handled by the IP's so we have been interacting a lot with them.

Ramadi, Iraq

Myke you are always asking me what I do over here. This is what I do in between movies and sleeping. This is a mounted patrol through Ramadi early one morning. It is pretty empty this early.

Race for the cure

Today my sister walked in the race for the cure. There were thousands of people there walking for friends and family and because they are survivors themselves. The walk was a 5k, I think. She has been training really hard to be able to do it and she did great. She finished in just under an hour. She is very proud of herself and so are we. Good job Nina, the rest of my family is hoping to join her next year. We have a few family members that are cancer survivors and it is really hard to watch them fight it. She did an awesome job and we are all very proud of her.

36 Weeks

We went to the doctor today and we hit 36 weeks today. The baby sounded really good and I measured perfectly. I also gained a pound, yay, the nurse was happy. He checked me today and I am a 2 1/2 almost a 3 and he didnt say how thinned out I am. Instead he tried to tell me I was a 12, funny funny. But we could go any time now, but we are hoping to make it to Monday the 18th. We are having regular contractions, but I am feeling okay. We will be working hard to get the rest of our Spring cleaning done before next monday, that is what will more then likely put me into full labor. But we will take it easy and he will come when he is ready. Wish us luck. Also good luck to my sister Nina, she is walking for brest cancer in the morning, I'm sure she will do really good.

The Zoo!!

So today we yet again got nothing done at home, instead we went to the zoo. We are getting very far behind on our spring cleaning. But I decided that the boys needed a day of fun too. Haylee would have gone anyway because it was her school fieldtrip, but the boys never get to go anywhere. Aaron's mom was going to go with Haylee instead of me, but I called her and said lets all go so we didnt have to miss out. We had so much fun!! We couldnt find Haylee in the beginning so we went and saw some animals and ran into her on the way. The boys loved the monkeys, they are all just like brothers, they reminded me of Payton and McCoy wrestling around with eachother. I think McCoy's favorite was the elephant he didnt want to leave. We saw everything and we did everything. We rode the new carousel, McCoy loved that, Payton didnt enjoy that as much because he couldnt ride a wolf. Then we went and rode the train and McCoy slept right through it. Good thing everything for him was free I would hate to pay for a ride that he sleeps through. We hiked all over that zoo several times to make sure we saw everything. We are all so tired, the kids all slept on the way home which was nice to not hear fighting in the back seat. But I am glad that we went and we all had a good time. Thanks to Cheryl for going with us and for driving. We had fun, just no one tell my doctor. I go there tomorrow to see how this little guy is doing, hopefully behaving himself.

Spring Cleaning

Here is a Spring cleaning update. It is coming slowly this week. I havent been feeling very good the last couple of days, I have been down with a massive migraine. Haylee had a ballet rehersal for her performance of Sleeping Beauty and today we went shopping with Aaron's mom. But we are starting to feel quite a bit better so I am hoping to get some more stuff done. Inbetween Pay's docotors appointment tomorow and my doctors appointment on friday and a baby shower on Saturday. We are pretty busy but we have to get everything done before the baby comes and we are getting very close. I hope I can at least get his laundry done and put away. I hope we get it all done, wish me luck.