passing the time until you are home;)

Wow what a busy month April has been!!!! Busy is great when you are trying to make the time go by faster;) April held many special days like my birthday which I was surprised to receive an email with a gift certificate to a day at the spa from my wonderful husband!!! April also is our anniversary which once again held a wonderful surprise a beautiful bouquet of lilies and roses!!!! I think the best part of April was getting to spend a weekend with two very special friends of mine. Our first military base to report to was Fort Bragg. Of course I knew NO one when I moved there to be with Michael after we were married, I had just left a wonderful teaching job and left all of my friends and family and the only home I had ever known. So it was very scary to say the least. Long story short I met two women who husbands were also in the same training as Michael and they quickly became our friends, family, and support all in one;) I was very lucky to have been moved here with one of those friends but our other friend stayed stationed in NC after her husband graduated. With all of our husbands away she decided that her and her daughter would make the flight to come visit Jess and I!!! It was fantastic all the kiddos together!! Addison, Resa, and Parker, how fun it was to see them interact and of course to spend time with my two great friends. Seeing Ashlee when we first got to the airport brought on a lot of emotion for all of us, we very soon were all teary eyed, there is a bond between us that is very strong we are all facing the same hardships and really understand one another. It was AWESOME! So of course saying goodbye was rough:( But Parker and I will be making the trip to NC next summer when the hubbies are away again. We also visited Chuck E Cheese for Parker's friend, Ethan's second birthday. Parker thoroughly enjoyed running around playing on everything he was in kid heaven;) As for me I have really been getting into crossfit lately, a style of working out and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I workout with a trainer three days a week and I am now a protein eating machine, I am eating "clean" as she would call it. I am seeing the results and fast. Its honestly been amazing to see how far I can push my body, it has given me so much confidence to realize how much I really can handle, she pushes me and I am LOVING it. It also helps to focus my attention on myself for a bit, because as we all know once you become a mom its easy to lose yourself in your child, I LOVE being a mom but I have to remember myself as well. Even more so when it's just Parker and I, I have to keep my energy high to keep up with my lil monster:) I hope this finds all of you doing well:)