Valentine's Day

OUR LITTLE VALENTINE'S!!!! LOVE THEM SO MUCH!

Hope everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day!!! We sure did miss our man in our life!!! We are now 4 1/2 months away from this 15 month tour being over and I can definitely say I cannot wait!!! I don't know how single moms do it!! Its tough!!! And thats all there is to that!! We didn't do anything for Valentine's day. Just our normal routine like we do everyday!! The girls took valentine's to school to exchange with their friends and thats probably about it!! They have 20 kids in their class so you can only imagine how much candy they got and that they want to eat it all at one time!! NOPE!! NOT HAPPENING!!! haha!!! Anywho, hope everyone had a great day! I get to go visit Dave in about 5-6 weeks and so excited about seeing him and possibly getting to tour a little bit of Turkey this time!!! Time just needs to speed up so that day can get here!!!

3rd Birthday

Ok...where oh where has the time gone haha!!! I am posting about the girls 3rd Birthday that was over a month ago!!! Better late than never!

Ok, so there birthday was on a Tuesday this year. We went to dinner and got them a cake and sang to them at the restaurant with just me and the girls and grandma and grandpa! They had been sick with strep throat and had to get a penicillin shot that day :( Poor babies!! But after that shot and a nap they were almost 100% better!! It was like magic!!

ME AND THE GIRLS ON THEIR ACTUAL BIRTHDAY!!

We had their party at Chuck E Cheese this year! They love it because they just run around to all of the different rides, mainly the merry-go-round ponies ha!! But hey they enjoy it!! We had family and friends and a few of their friends from school came to play as well!!! They had a great time!!! I still can't believe my little preemie babies are already 3 :( So here are a few pictures from their special day!!!

HAMONY WITH HER GRANDKIDS!!

OPENING THEIR GIFTS!!! THEY ARE VERY BLESSED LITTLE GIRLS WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHO LOVE THEM VERY MUCH!! WE LOVE YOU PRETTY GIRLS!!!


ADDISYN WITH THEIR COUSINS LILLIE AND ISABEL!!! THEY HAVE FUN TOGETHER!

ADDISYN DID NOT LIKE CHUCK E. CHEESE

THE TINKERBELL CAKE OUR FRIEND CARRIE MADE!!
THEIR STATS:

ADDISYN:

WEIGHT: 28.5 POUNDS----25%ILE

HEIGHT: 35 1/4 IN---50%ILE

AUDREY:

WEIGHT: 37 POUNDS---70-90%ILE

HEIGHT: 36 1/2 IN-----50%ILE

HEALTHY GROWING GIRLS!!

Working Mom of 3 year old twins

Im linking up to Kelly's Korner blog working moms post. I have never done this before, but I thought it would be neat to enter!

My name is Kristen! I am the wife of an SSgt in the Airforce and a mommy to 2 beautiful twin girls! Currently my husband is on a 15 month tour in Turkey while I am here in Texas with our girls staying with my parents while he is gone! It is tough most days and we miss him like crazy! I was staying at home with the girls, but we live in the middle of no where and we would run out of fun stuff to do, they would get bored with me, and we are just so far away from towns to do any play dates with our friends. So I enrolled them in full time daycare so they can interact with kids their age. In order for me to do that, I started working with our family insurance agency selling home and auto insurance. It also gives me some me time since my husband is away right now.

Here is what our weekdays look like! I take them to school, I work from 9-3. Then I have time to get in a quick workout in before picking them up from school. The best part of my day is when I pick them up from school! They are so excited to see me when I walk through the door they sprint as fast as they can to give me a hug!! Then we rush home, cook dinner, eat, take baths, get ready for bed and probably by 7 or 8 is when I get to sit down and relax. I know with by me working it doesn't give me much time with them. I stayed at home for the first 2 years of their life. But to help time go by quicker while their daddy is in Turkey we have to keep busy. And with the girls in daycare and me working...it keeps my mind off things and the weeks seem to fly by now!!

So with all that said, its tough. Im married, but being a single working mom and trying to raise twin girls so they can have the best life they can have!! So I have to give props to all the single mommies out there that do this all of them time! I don't know how yall do it, but I know just to deal with it and put the kiddos first!! They are my first priority and this is just a little bit of time that will pass!!! Can't wait til our family is back together again!!

Dave has been gone a year in April. His tour in Turkey is up in July and then we are off to a new journey in England for 3 years!! Gotta love the military life!! New adventures and seeing the world!!

Would love to meet other moms out there like me and have the same things in common!!

Busy!

We have been extremely busy around here! Always doing something it seems like and I love that because it makes the time go by so much faster!!!I got to go to the UH football game with my friends a few weeks ago that was a last minute thing and had a blast!!! I will be going to the last home game and enjoy sometime with my friends again at my old stomping grounds!!! I didn't have anyone to watch the girls around me, so I called Aunt Kelly since she lives 15 minutes from UH and she was happy and excited to watch the girls!! They had a really great time with her and I knew they were in good hands!!

Me with my friends Crystal and Stacy!!! Had a great time!!!!

Bellville had the Austin County Fair a couple weeks ago and we got to go to the opening parade. They pretty much shut down the town for this parade so the girls daycare was closed. They really enjoyed it and waved at everyone that passed! I will have to post pictures later because I don't have them uploaded...so look for an edit to this post later!

That weekend we went to Dave's Aunt Kelly's house to visit!! The girls really enjoy going over there and I know that they all enjoyed having us and spending time with the girls!! I guess we waited too long for all of them too meet because they all love each other!!! The girls really loved playing with their 2nd cousin Michael!!! He is so good with them!!! We will definitely be visiting them more often since we are moving to England in 8 months!!

We are going to Corpus the same weekend as them so we can all be there at the same time, Dave will be here, so he will get to see them as well, then we will spend Christmas at my parents on Christmas Day since Dave will be heading back to Turkey the day after :(. But we are excited he at least gets to be here for a short time and spend Christmas with family!!! And that is all that matters!

We miss Dave so much!!! He has now been in Turkey for 7 months. Such a long time and he has pretty much missed the girls entire year of being 2. Which is hard for us and especially him. 2 is an important age I think because they change everyday and are learning so much right now. They didn't really talk all that clear when he left and now they can have an entire conversation with you. So crazy! I took a picture of the girls yesterday and so didn't realize how tall they were and how much taller Audrey is than Addisyn. Oh well! At least Dave gets to see pictures. When he comes in December, that will be the last time he sees them until his tour is up July 1st. They will be 3 1/2 already by then!!! So hard to think about it like that.

So besides all of that!! I have been working and it has made this month fly by and I love it!!! I am hoping for the next 8 months to do the same and I know it will with the holidays coming up, then I will be going to Turkey for another visit hoping to tour a bit this time end of March/April, then he will be done and off to England we go!!! Im getting excited to start another new journey and all be together again! So until next time! Look for the picture update from the Austin County Fair Parade!!

FAMILY PICTURES

WHILE DAVE WAS HERE, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BEST TO GO AHEAD AND GET OUR FAMILY PICTURES DONE SINCE HE WON’T BE HERE WHEN WE USUALLY DO THEM IN NOVEMBER. SO HERE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITES!!! ITS LATE, SO I WILL DO ANOTHER POST IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS ON DAVES VISIT WITH US!!!!

Excited!!!

So we are getting very excited about Dave coming to visit!! I am trying to be overly excited so that the girls can be excited when they see him for the first time in 5 months!! Dave flied into Houston airport Thursday at 1030 am!! He is actually leaving Turkey at 2 in the morning our time..So we are praying that everything goes smoothly and he will have a safe flight!!



We have been very busy lately, the girls are enjoying being in daycare, I am working full time now at my moms insurance office! I went to a 3 day crash course to take the insurance licensing exam and I passed the first time around, which can be hard to do!!! But I did it. Now I am just waiting for my license so I can sell!! So right now I am just learning what I have to do!! Hoping it will all work out!! Its keeping me busy and helping the time away from Dave go by a heck of a lot faster than it was, which is AWESOME! Anywho, here a couple of pictures I took of the girls with my phone..So until next time..I will have a better post while Dave is here!!

Addisyn! They thought it was so cool to hang their head out of the sun roof!

Audrey!!

Audrey eating a burger with mommy!




Addisyn!!! Loves to cheese to the camera!!

GREAT VISIT!

I had a great time visiting Dave in Turkey! We didn’t really do much, but I knew that going there because of his knee. So really we just hung around and just spent some time together!! I never really adjusted to the time change. They say it takes about 2 weeks to get onto some kind of schedule with the 8 hour time difference. Well I was there 2 weeks and never did haha. I would sleep til about 11-1 everyday…such a waste of the day…then I would be up all night. It was horrible!!! I told Dave that when I come back next March to visit again, that we will do some tours that they have available to go see things around Turkey!!! It will be a lot of fun, plus his knee should be a lot better by then!! And then he can drive us around too with all the crazy drivers and no rules they have there haha!! I didn’t like that at all and I got very frustrated really easy and I was driving a stick shift…and it has been about 10 years since I have really driven one.. so yea that was not fun haha!!

So a really BIG THANK YOU!!!! To my parents for watching the girls so that I can go be with Dave!! It is much appreciated and I can never say enough thank yous!!! Love yall!!!

I was so happy to be back and to see the girls and to see their reaction when they saw me!! I was a little nervous because I didn’t know what they would do after being gone for 16 days. When I walked into their classroom to pick them up, Audrey was standing by herself watching the kids play and Addisyn was getting her hair fixed by one of the teachers. Audrey saw me and looked..and said “oh my mommy went on airplane, where my daddy?…then she goes mommy!!!” and ran over to me!!! It was awesome!!! Then Addisyn ran over to me after getting her hair done and gave me a tight hug!!! I missed them so much and I can just imagine what they will do when Dave comes for a visit!! They aren’t going to want to let him out of site probably!!! I know they miss him so much and he misses them!!! When they aren’t with you its like something is missing from you..that you feel naked haha!!! IF that makes any sense!!! We are now back on a routine and im enjoying being home with them!! They are at day care and im hoping to start working soon so that they can stay in day care since they are loving it so much!! It will also help this next 10 1/2 months go by quick too!!! ON a good note, hoping Dave will be on leave September 7th so that he can come home and see his babies for a much needed visit!! Dr gave him the approval to travel!!!

Addisyn took this picture of Audrey and I!! Pretty good!! So glad to be back with them!!

And Addisyn was happy I was back because she loves to take my phone and just snap pictures and she always has it facing her instead of the other direction!! So my phone is full of pictures like these haha!!

Audrey is obsessed with babies right now!!! She is ready to go and will make a great mama one day!!

And last but not least!! Going to say some extra prayers everyday for the much needed rain that the state of Texas needs…Its getting really bad. This is my parents pasture…brown grass and look at the pond…very very low….pretty SAD