Damaged Goods

Well, once again I was wrong. Isabelle's been complaining about her eyes and I thought she was just faking. Yesterday I took her to the doctor and it turns out she does need glasses. We had to hurry into town to lens crafters after school because I wasn't going to have time for at least a week otherwise. We found some really cute frames and she looks beautiful. It's hard to admit it when your kids aren't "perfect", especially when you know it was your bad genes that caused it! Oh well, that's life.

what???

why am I posting on your site Ki?

howdy all, I'm new at this, so cut me some slack while I figure it all out. Hopefully I will eventually have something interesting to venture forth with. Only time will tell.

New Orders

As most of you know, Scott has been assigned to a unit that stays State-side during deployment. This has certainly been a blessing to our family and we have truly been grateful to Heavenly Father for bringing us here. We have seen many of our friends face deployment and watch their loved ones leave to fight for our country and it has made us appreciate even more the time that we were given. It seems that it is now our turn to serve as Scott has received word that he will be going to Iraq for six months this June.

While we would all prefer that he stay home we are willing to make this sacrifice, it was always something we expected, even when Scott first enlisted. Our country is at war, it wouldn't be reasonable to expect that he, an Arabic linguist, would get through his career without going away. And the timing is as good as it can be, I am not pregnant and we don't have a very small baby. It will mostly be the summer, when the kids are healthiest, our schedule isn't so hectic and life is just a little easier to deal with. Plus, we have the advantage of going home to visit for a while. He'll miss a few birthdays but be home for Christmas.

I feel pretty peaceful about the deployment, whether it be because of all of the reasons I already listed or just ignorance and denial. We'll discover which it is soon I am sure! I am grateful mostly that it is only for four to six months and not eighteen like everyone else we know. We will certainly miss him but it isn't going to cause as big a disruption in the family. Another positive is that he will be stationed at Ballad, (I have no idea how it is spelled), which is the largest and safest base in Iraq. I feel that Heavenly Father is continuing to bless us and watch over us. I know that he will keep us all safe and our family will be reunited again. I so am grateful to Him for that.

While Scott is gone we will hope and pray for his safe and speedy return, especially that it be for only four months instead of six!

Getting Started

Hey all, I am going to be closing my myspace and switching over to blogging because I am tired of the vulgarity that other "friends" use. This way it is really MY SPACE and I have total control over what's on it and who sees it. I even get to edit YOUR comments if I want so no funny stuff!! Not that I ever figured out how to do much on myspace as far pictures and videos but I am hoping to be able to provide just as much yummy pictures of the kids here, if not more. So far this has been really easy actually, but I haven't gotten to the pictures yet so we'll see. So that's it for the moment but I am going to be working on much more!