Maddie lost her First Tooth!

Right before Easter Maddie lost her first tooth!  It was a rough one.  It didn't want to come out, had one roots that wouldn't let go, but we finally got it!  She was so excited!  Everyday she looks in the mirror to see how much the new big tooth has come in.

Spring Break Visitors

Grandma, Aunt Sara and the boys came for a visit over Spring Break.  We did lots of playing, coloring,  lots of snacking, and lots of having fun!

Mommy and Me pics

My good friend who has just gotten into photography took some pics of me and the girls to surprise Eric at the end of March.

Sorry I haven't posted in months!!!

Oh my goodness!  Sorry I haven't posted since mid December!  

Here is a quick recap of what has happened!

Christmas- was lovely!  We hung around the house and enjoyed a peaceful Christmas.  We had our annual Christmas meal with our friends.  The girls and Mommy and Daddy got lots of goodies.

January- Eric left for deployment in mid- January so we soaked up as much family time prior to him leaving as possible.  Eric's old squadron had a mishap 2 weeks before he left so we spent a lot of time at the squadron and going to memorial services.  Definitely not how we intended to spend our last bit of time together before he left, but it was important for us to be there to support the families and for Eric to have closure before he left.  The girls have been handling deployment like troopers!  The day after Eric left, it snowed 9 inches!  So they were out of school a few days.  

February- Once we got back to school, we worked on getting back into our routine and figuring out what our routine would look like until Daddy get home.  Right as we were getting in the swing of things, another snowstorm happened!  More school missed.  I ran a 14k race over Valentines weekend.  I didn't train much with all the snow and deployment happenings but my time was about 10-15 minutes faster than last year so that was encouraging.  We had a Mother/Daughter Tea at church that was lots of fun too!

March- We had more snow last week and missed 2 days of school (it was the icy roads more than snow this go around).  I am running a half-marathon on Sunday so that will be interesting.  Thankfully we have awesome friends that are keeping the girls for me so I can do it.  Eric is doing Mustache March at work so he is growing a mustache.  The girls and I will be ready for that to go at the end of the month!

We are still doing really well, we get to talk to Eric often.  We are almost to the 2 month mark and each girl has had one big "I miss Daddy" cry.  Not too bad!  I was expecting much worse.  We are still hosting bible study at our house so we have things to look forward to.  Abby is taking piano lessons and Maddie is still taking ballet so we stay busy!  I'm still busy with church and we are starting our preparations for summer and VBS.  We have a big Easter event that I'm also helping head up so we will be going full steam ahead until Eric gets back!  

Maddie's Dance Recital

Maddie had her first dance recital at the beginning of December.  She stays one day a week after school to practice.  It was super cute and she had a great time, she liked the costumes the most! Here is a video link: http://youtu.be/ZYRO3TRppg8

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was full of fun!  Mom, Gary, and London came for a visit!  Lots of fun was had.  The girls played Twister with everyone.  Lots of food was made and consumed.  The morning of Thanksgiving, Eric, Abby and I got up and ran a race at Mt Trashmore.  Abby did the mile fun run and then hung out with Uncle London while we did our 10K (6.2 miles).  Then we came home, got cleaned up and had some of our friends from church come over to spend the holiday with us.  We had 4 other families join us so the house was full which was great! Here are some pics!