blogging round two...or round three

There is a children's song that holds the lyrics "second verse, same as the first" which I feel applies to my second (maybe third) attempt at blogging. A LOT has happened since the last time I wrote a blog post. My husband deployed, our boy turned one, husband returned home (five months later), pleasantly surprised by number 2 pregnancy, traveled to Hawaii, baby girl born, ran some more half marathons, boy turned 2, lots of family vacations, husband deployed & returned home, boy turned 3 and girl turned one! See, what I mean, it's a busy busy life for us, so my blog posts will hopefully keep you updated on the happenings of my life, and some "look backs of my most memorable moments" of the past two years. As for now, here's the weekly "life in pics" photo dump. Enjoy!

family fun time...

friday nights = family movie nights :)

just another lazy sunday afternoon

daddy & his baby girl

with piston deploying in the next few days, we've tried to slow down time and spend as much "family time" as we can. somehow, piston's work seems to creep it's way in, but we're all pretty adaptable whenever that occurs. 
both miles & courtney have loved having daddy home, even when he has to go into work on his "week off"
true military kids in the making.

hot air balloon glow

today we drove an hour to longview, tx to watch the hot air balloon glow. there was a kids land park, that had at eight inflatable bouncers, one was a blue train that miles named "thomas"and played on for the entire time at at the airfield.  after the "all glows" set up by the balloon pilots, the night came to an end, where miles was ready to "go home & night night." it was a fun little roadtrip for us all.

miles and his favorite bouncy train

the "thomas" inflatable

beautiful hot air balloon

becoming a southerner

when do you get to call yourself a southern gal? is it when your baby has a little "joe dirt" mullet you can't bring yourself to trim? is it when you don't mind humidity? or is when, you just love to go to crawfish boils?
answer-all of the above.
our neighborhood had their annual crawfish boil. it was a nice way of getting out and meeting our neighbors, since we are still fairly new to the neighborhood. the HOA board members put brought out pounds and pounds of crawfish. it had to have been at least 300 lbs. now, that's a lot of crawfish. chris is not a big fan of eating crawfish, but i on the othe hand, love it! oh, and i love the potatoes and corn that come along with it. guess, this okie may be turning cajun.
miles and his first crawfish

yummy!

mj & mommy at our neighborhood park