The first 6 months

I've been a little behind on posting. I can't believe its June already. Some days, this feels like the longest year of my life, on other days it feels like time is passing by quickly. Here is an overview of the first six months.

In February we finally received the pictures we had taken in September '09. I discovered a program called Operation Love Reunited, and a local professional photography participated. Because this is such a popular program, our photographer was a little back logged. But it was well worth the wait. We received a free photo session, so long as it was patriotic themed. I absolutely love some of the pictures, here are a few:

Through this deployment I have met 3 amazing army wives-Reese, Diana and Jaimee, and it is so nice to have women to talk to that know exactly how you feel and what you are going through. Diana, Jaimee and I went to Snoqualmie Falls one beautiful Saturday afternoon, shortly after the deployment. We had a lot of fun hanging out, chatting and getting to know each other.

Valentine's Day came around and Reese and I decided to be each others "date". We took advantage of a "spa"day that was provided to military spouses of deployed soldiers. We scooped up some freebie samples and went to Reese's house to make dinner, drink some wine and watch movies. My parent's were really thoughtful and sent me some flowers.

Reese and I also got together and made Valentine's themed Care packages for our husband's. I got a great idea froma fellow Army wife on Facebook. It was taking a deck of cards and turning it into a little book called "52 Things I love About You". As much as we love our husbands, it took Reese and I a lot of time, laughter, brainstorming and of course wine to complete our book. But we did it and our husbands loved it.

Here is the finished product.

On February 27th, Wayne and I had our first wedding anniversary. He didn't call that day and that was pretty hard on me. I was thinking that there would be no way he could forget but as the day went on there was no call and no email. Until around 3pm when I got a call from a lost delivery driver. I was pleasantly surprised when these were delivered:

Wayne was home for two wonderful weeks in April and we fell right back into where we left off, laughing, watching movies, going to dinner and visiting with family and friends. We visited the Fisker's one weekend and brought Bentley with us who we discovered, has no fear. He marched straight into the Llama pen and shortly was surrounded by 3 big Llama's. Wayne and Sue ran after to make sure the little fearless doggy was not hurt. I think he finally realized he was in over his head when he was surrounded.

We also went and visited my family for 4 days. We didn't do a lot, had a nice family dinner and lounged. Wayne had been wanting to attend a baseball game, so I surprised him with the idea and we had a lot of fun. The two weeks went by so fast and just like that, he was gone again.