Sweet 16

It is true. She is sweet and she is 16. We got lucky with this one. She is FUNNY she is level headed when it comes to all the peer pressures that come with being a teenager. She loves her brother (and her sister no matter what they think sometimes). She is polite with people and strangers. She is good to her friends. Her teachers love her.

She is all about vampires. She reads constantly. She loves music. Especially women that rock. She also loves musicals and soundtracks. She is in the choir and drama club. She doesn't really watch TV. But she can do some serious texting.

Her favorite food is the potato. My potato salad and hashbrown casserole is her favorite. She will walk to the store herself to buy brownie mix. And I have to constantly buy her apple juice. Her favorite drink.

And my favorite thing about this girl is she is not a sheep. She does what makes her happy. Wears what makes her happy. And above all KNOWS what makes her happy with no outside influences. She finds friends that thinks the same way instead of changing herself to fit into any group. I love her so much for that!


Mommy's favorite smile which I have to admit was a bit cuter when she was 3.

Cameron 'froze' like this so I could take his picture.

One good shot of Josie B. It is all I ask for!

Hannah with her cake. Which was a half dozen ice cream cupcakes at Cold Stone Creamery.

Jason wasn't home for her birthday. He was back int eh states that very day though. So we kind of saw that as a pretty cool present.

This was just a small gathering to celebrate her actual birthday. Her real party will be this weekend!!

Happy Birthday to Miss Hannah Noelle!!

He is home.

Life just does not seem normal at all when he is not here. I try my best to maintain normalcy for the kids. He was gone for 8 months. No matter what I do to try and make up for it there is no getting around the fact that things are so very very different when he is gone.

But the reality of it is when he comes home there is no perfect home coming. It takes work to acclimate. Right now we are still working on it.

One thing I really want to work on is getting back into the groove of this blog and back into the groove of Snapfish!! Pictures and stories are so important! And if we really do move to England I am going to want to make sure everything we do there is documented and shared properly. So back into the groove I go!!