A friend of mine invited me to a craft fair and told me that a girlfriend of hers was going to be there with her son. My friend said that she wanted me to meet her other friend because she was pregnant and her husband had just deployed. I thought, "YESSSSSS, finally someone close that will know how I am feeling!" We met up at the craft fair and Kathryn and I got along great. She told me about her husband and I told her about mine. We got each other's phone numbers and decided we would get together soon. In this time of Facebook of course we friended each other. As I was looking at her pictures I thought her husband looked like someone I had met at Ft. McCoy in October of 2010. So I asked her if he had been up there. She checked and he had been. I met her husband while I was visiting mine while he was in a class. My husband and another guy in his unit had to go up there for a movement class and the other guy in his unit saw his other friend so they started all hanging out. When I went to visit we all decided to go out in town. My hubby's friend and this other guy decided they wanted to ride a mechanical bull. It turned out to be one of the funniest things I had ever seen. This guy sat and talked to me while the other two went out to smoke. He told me about his wife and his son and that they lived in Florida. Of course I had to ask where, and he told me. I thought that it was great that he lived just about an hour away from my family. He said that we should come visit so I could meet his wife.
Well...only a year later, and I met his wife. We have hung out a few times and it has been great! I am so thankful to have someone close that knows what is going on and what I have been going through.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Vacation Part 2
I guess I have BEEN uber busy lately and haven't had much time to blog. So here is the rest of our vacation.
We spent a few days with my dad and step-mom then went to my inlaws. While we were at my inlaws we went to get some professional pictures taken of myself and our son. AE Photography did an AMAZING job! They are part of Op: Love ReUnited. It is a program that allows deployed military families to get some pictures taken free of charge. The first time we went did not go well. Our butthead son decided he would NOT crack a smile. The photographer allowed us to come back another day. We left my inlaws and went to some of our best friend's house. We had a blast there. (I'm kinda guessing Karen and Chad enjoyed us there too!) We got pictures taken and finally our son decided he wanted to smile and laugh while we were there. We ended up with some GREAT pictures. Truth be told, one will be put on canvas and given to my husband for Christmas. We then went back to my dad's house. We went over to my friend's house in Chicago. We had so much fun. One of her daughters (she has twins) is IN LOVE with our son! Still to this day she says, "BABY!" when I call. Then my friend came back over to Iowa with me. My dad was having a wine tasting at his house and I knew that 95% of the people there were going to be military. And even though it was a house full of strangers for my friend I know that she felt so close to all of them. I'll never forget her coming up to me with watery eyes saying, "I never thought it would feel so good to hear someone else say, 'When my husband was deployed...'" I have been around most of these people before so it was great to see them again and show off our little boy. You can always tell which ones are the grandmas because they want to hold babies. Needless to say, our son got passed around quite a bit that night.
The rest of our trip was pretty quiet. After 3 weeks of being away from home I was ready to be back in nice warm weather. Our return flights were great. Our little boy is quite the traveler.
We spent a few days with my dad and step-mom then went to my inlaws. While we were at my inlaws we went to get some professional pictures taken of myself and our son. AE Photography did an AMAZING job! They are part of Op: Love ReUnited. It is a program that allows deployed military families to get some pictures taken free of charge. The first time we went did not go well. Our butthead son decided he would NOT crack a smile. The photographer allowed us to come back another day. We left my inlaws and went to some of our best friend's house. We had a blast there. (I'm kinda guessing Karen and Chad enjoyed us there too!) We got pictures taken and finally our son decided he wanted to smile and laugh while we were there. We ended up with some GREAT pictures. Truth be told, one will be put on canvas and given to my husband for Christmas. We then went back to my dad's house. We went over to my friend's house in Chicago. We had so much fun. One of her daughters (she has twins) is IN LOVE with our son! Still to this day she says, "BABY!" when I call. Then my friend came back over to Iowa with me. My dad was having a wine tasting at his house and I knew that 95% of the people there were going to be military. And even though it was a house full of strangers for my friend I know that she felt so close to all of them. I'll never forget her coming up to me with watery eyes saying, "I never thought it would feel so good to hear someone else say, 'When my husband was deployed...'" I have been around most of these people before so it was great to see them again and show off our little boy. You can always tell which ones are the grandmas because they want to hold babies. Needless to say, our son got passed around quite a bit that night.
The rest of our trip was pretty quiet. After 3 weeks of being away from home I was ready to be back in nice warm weather. Our return flights were great. Our little boy is quite the traveler.
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