First Night Ryan Was Gone

I have been really lucky as an air force wife. Ryan has not really left me for a long period of time since we were dating. He had the back surgery and couldn't deploy or TDY so he has been around. When I heard he was going to be leaving me for five weeks I was really sad. Now I am seeing how the other half lives and I don't like it! I have ALWAYS been a scaredy cat for as long as I can remember. I really don't know if I want to share this bit of information but what the heck....I slept with my parents until I was in the seventh grade because I had chronic nightmares or would just scare myself....After that when my sister and I shared a room and I had a nightmare we would share a twin bed...hers or mine! haha! Because I am such a scaredy cat that is how I talked Ryan into us getting our first dog, Lou. He is an American Bulldog and he looks pretty scary (he scared the cable guy the other day and the cable guy asked me to put him up....he does his job). I told Ryan I needed a big dog to protect me while he was away. So he got me Lou. Ryan left on Sunday and it was weird. I decided at about nine I was going to lay in bed and watch a movie to get me tired. The movie ended at about eleven and I just could not fall asleep. At this point I had turned on the bathroom door and cracked it so I had a kind of night light. I then decided to allow both dogs to get on the bed. Winston snuggled close to me and lou laid at the bottom of the bed...so I just pretended Ryan was in bed with me and it made me fall asleep a lot quicker. However, getting used to new house noises takes some time. I heard this noise and both dogs raised their heads. I immediately thought someone was in the house and grabbed my cellphone and typed in 911 and was ready to hit dial if I heard anything else...haha but I didn't...After that it took me about thirty minutes to reassure myself that no one was in the house and to just go to sleep... my body finally listened to me...I have now took a step down I don't keep the bathroom light on all night and don't freak out if I hear the house settling BUT the dogs do sleep with me and the t.v. stays on all night...I think I am doing a little bit better...by the time Ryan gets back I will be a pro! :) I am trying to talk him into us getting a security system :) We shall see!

Getting Settled!!!!

Well Ryan left after we had been here only a week to go to Bic...Bic is a school that he has to attend for five weeks out in Texas to pretty much get familar with the air craft he will be teaching airmen to work on. I was a little upset that he was leaving when we had only been here for a week. First off I am a scaredy cat and HATE being by myself...ESPECIALLY in a new house and new state...It just makes it that much worse!!!! Secondly, that meant I was left with a 18 month old who is at that into everything stage and a whole house to unpack...Not really my cup of tea! But one thing you learn when you are a military wife is the military just doesn't care..You deal with it and you move on!

The week Ryan was here had to go back and forth to work which kind of stunk because I wanted him here to watch Kale so that I could be super woman and get this house unpacked. Well that didn't turn out in my favor. However, I was super woman and minus a few boxes I had this whole house unpacked in three days. I was SUPER proud of myself. I managed to play with my son and keep him occupied while unpacking the whole house by myself in three days! Just call me amazing! hahah jk! It is amazing how much you can get accomplished in one day with no cable and no internet!

Getting back to the house though...I had never seen it in person until we got here. I couldn't come when Ryan came and looked at it because our dog was really sick. So as soon as we pulled up I jumped out of the truck and high tailed it to the door. OH MY I am IN LOVE with it! The colors look so great together. I love the darker carpet color...it is a tan which is perfect for having a kid! Ryan couldn't have done a better job picking everything out! It was pretty much love at first sight. I am actually sad that I will have to leave this house in four years and move on to another one! The neighborhood is WONDERFUL! It is very kid friendly. I swear every evening I don't think there is less than 30 kids riding their bikes all around the neighborhood. However, what is even better are there are boys that are kale's age all around us. There is a girl with a son that is a little older than Kale diagonal from our house and then right next door the couple has a 20 month old little boy...Not to mention they are both mine and ryan's age. We really lucked out with the neighborhood and the house. I could not be more pleased. I promise I will take pictures soon!

Now as for the town....I love it so far...I just need to figure out directions...It did take me like 5 years to find my way around Valdosta so I figure I never will find my way around here...Thank heavens for GPS!!! It is a life saver for me.....the mall is no better than Valdosta...which I was really disappointed about. However, the town does have a Kirklands and a Bed Bath and Beyond and quite a few more stores that Valdosta didn't have and when it comes to going out to eat for dinner.....this town has WAY MORE options which I am stoked about! All I have to say is HELLO OLIVE GARDEN!!!

Everyone seems really friendly here and I have already made a couple friends. I am super stoked and can't wait to see what kind of memories this house and town have in store for us to make!

A taste of the family humor

This is why there is never a dull moment in our family!!!


Saturday morning after cracker barrel nick asked me to get on facebook and delete a picture. He is new to facebook and doesn't know how to do all that. At first I was freaked out because he said you will know which one it is. I kept thinking to myself what can he be doing that is so bad in a picture....well this was it. I would want it off my facebook too if I was him. I took it off his facebook....but not before saving it to my computer so I could show my parents who thought it was hilarious! This was 2 years back when Nick went to a church retreat. HILARIOUS! What is also hilarious is how burnt he is~ His stomach is almost as red as the shirt...that had to hurt!!! BAD!!!

A Weekend With Family

Kale giving nana some sloppy kisses!!!!! my kitchen looks so plain since everything has been taken off the walls and packed!
Kale sitting with papa watching his shows!!!
Nana and Kale!


This whole weekend Kale was just not into the picture taking!!! Boo :(

Saturday morning my parents drove up from Atlanta. My brothers car has been acting up and my dad came to pick it up and take it back to get checked out. It also meant I got to spend a little more time with my parents before the BIG move. Saturday morning when they got here we went to eat at cracker barrel (yummy). I adore breakfast it is my most favorite meal of the day. I love taking Kale out to restaurants because he is so good. I never have had a huge problem with him or had to take him outside. I think he has so much stimulation around him he stays occupied! My mom loved getting to see him and he showered her with kisses as soon as he saw her. After breakfast Ryan and I came home because Kale needed his nap and my parents went to my brothers house to get some stuff done there. That evening they came back over and we grilled out. I love being around my family they are so loving and funny. We always get in some great laughs when we are together. It was so cute because we were all laughing about something my dad probably said and I guess Kale felt left out so he started laughing too! It was too cute. He was all about getting nana and papas attention this weekend. He would "show out". Not in a bad way...you could just tell he was trying to impress them. It was too funny! That night we all just hung out and Sunday we went to lunch at the Smokin pig (yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I love love love love love that place. My mom bought me, her, and my two brothers a shirt. Now I will always remember one of my favorite restaurants in Valdosta. My shirt says gettin piggy with it. Which is pretty much what I do when I am there. I swear I love their food so much. Yesterday I ate so much while I was there that was my only meal of the day. I was not hungry anymore. They give each person enough food to feed a small army! After that we went to Taylor's house for a while since it was my last time hanging out with my brothers and parents for a while. Kale was not so good there. It was way past his nap and you could tell he was just pooped but I wanted my mom to get to hang out with him and I wanted to hang out with her. It was sad when we were leaving Taylor's house. My mom started tearing up. I mean I will be eight hours away from her now, which is not horrible but its double how far we are away now. Also, my parents have no more vacation time so who knows the next time we will get to see them. Not to mention we definitely wont get to see them as much as we do now. I just know that I need to get used to it though because in four years I probably will be even further away from mom. She keeps hoping that we will get orders back to Valdosta but I mean who really knows. Ryan and I kind of would like to get our over seas tour out of the way and go to Europe for four years. I think living in Europe would be so amazing BUT I really don't think I could be that far away from my family for four years. That is the thing I love about my family...how close we are. Everyone I have dated has always freaked out about how many times a day I talk to my mom. I mean its ALOT!!! But she is my best friend and I love her! I love how close my family is and how much my parents love each other. There love and our closeness truly is an inspiration to people around us. I know my friends have always made comments about how close my family is. I just hope that mine and Ryan's love is as much of an inspiration to Kale as my parents have been to me. I also want Kale to call me like 13 times a day when he leaves home....wishful thinking eh?

Shopping Extravaganza!

Yesterday I woke up with pains in my neck and upper back for the second week in a row...not only did have pains but I felt like I had slept a total of five minutes the entire night. I groaned and made my way out of be d and told Ryan this afternoon I HAD to go get a new pillow because I could not take sleeping like that another night! He told me it was fine and he didn't know why I hadn't went and gotten one yet. I tried this weekend but I think everyone in Valdosta and surrounding little areas were at the Valdosta mall and it just was not worth it to me. I asked Ryan if he wanted us all to go as a family and he said that sounded good. Especially since Kale was feeling a lot better yesterday, I thought it would be good to get him out of the house. So we all got ready and went around two. We started off at Harbor Freight :/. Ryan wanted to see if we could get a furniture moving cart..(I don't know the actual word for it) for cheaper than renting it from the moving truck company. They were having a sale on their moving pads and blankets as well. We decided to get some for ourselves since we will be doing a lot of moving in our lives being in the military. The moving blankets were $7.99 a piece and we got twelve. The guy I guess must have read the skew number wrong and rang us up for a 24$ flash light! We spent $100.00 in all when we should have spent $100.00 on the blankets alone. Ryan was tickled needless to say. That was a great start to our shopping. We then ventured off to the mall. I found a pillow and I have to say I slept like a baby last night.....FINALLY! After we left the mall we went to the sprint store because Ryan's phone has been acting up. We ended up getting a new one! Yay for Ryan! We then went to dinner...Kale ate pretty good. We got him some black olives from the salad bar and it was so cute because he was blowing on them because he thought they were hot. It was too funny! While we were at the restaurant I had put bread in the bowl with his black olives. He started taking the bread out of the bowl like he thought it didn't belong in there. I told Ryan that we needed to go get him some puzzles because I thought now was the time. So we ventured off to Toys R Us! We needed to get Jayden a birthday present too since we were going to be missing her birthday party ::::Sigh:::::: ::::Tear:::::: I am so sad about that.! We got her this really cute doll that plays peek a boo....However last night it was really scary every time Ryan and I walked into our kitchen last night it would say I see you. Where's the baby? Here I am. It really creeped us out! We got Kale some wooden sorting puzzles. We then went to Target because my mom said they had some puzzles for a dollar. We racked up on those.

When Kale was going to the baby sitter a while back she had this fridge ABC game that he absolutely loved. Ryan wanted to get it for him so that he would have it at our house. Its the picture above and it is a great game for Kale. It says the alphabet letter and then the sounds it makes and then gives Kale an example of the word. I am glad that we got it so early so hopefully it will help him learn his letters and their sounds!!!!!! I think it was well worth the $19.99.

As we were leaving Target Ryan told me he was never coming shopping with me again because I con him into buying things. I laughed because everything we got besides the pillow and Jayden's present was Ryan's idea. I told him if I was going to con him into buying anything we would have had a lot more stuff for me :) He is such a under-cover shopper :)

Eye and Stomach Teeth

Really? does a little boy get much cuter? He is obsessed with daddy's hats! Especially daddys work hat!!!!
Kale decided he wanted to ride Lou! Poor Lou looks so thrilled!!!
He looks just like the Bucknors in this picture.. He actually looks like a little Taylor in this picture...so much it kind of freaked me out!!!
Doesn't he look just pitiful right here? He snuggled with me all day! I have to say I felt bad for him because his teeth were hurting so bad BUT I LOVED how cuddly he was!
Can you tell his teeth hurt? His hand has permanently in his mouth for 2 days now~! Two days ago Kale woke up at 7 which is SO NOT like him! I mean 8:30 is the earliest this little boy wakes up. When we got him out of his bed he was burning hot! We gave him some tylenol. I knew it was his eye and stomach teeth...not to sound too grosse but I knew these bad boys were coming due to his diapers...These have definitely been the worse coming through! Which I mean is kind of understandable they are like daggers! Sure they don't feel too good when trying to poke through the gums!!! Kale has always been a great teether. I mean he whines more but he still sleeps through the night and really isn't horrible AT ALL! I never really have to give him medicine for teething he just copes with it himself. Well these teeth are totally different. I have a pretty wild child...I mean I guess wild is the wrong word but the kid is always moving always going...I mean he is definitely a job! Well these past two days all the kid has wanted to do is lay in our bed or on the couch and cuddle. He has barely played or anything. I swear someone has switched children with me! He has definitely been whiney and has not been eating at all. I can't even get him to eat his bananas good :( I feel so bad for him and wish I could take his pain away but unfortunately I can't. I can just love on him and try and make him feel as comfortable as I possibly can!!! I have loved the cuddly guy that I have had for the past two days but I am ready to have my wild child my independent guy back! After these teeth that's it! Kale now has a mouth full of teeth! At least I know we won't have to do this teething thing anymore after this. The worst were saved for last and then it is over!!!!

Where's your belly?

I had asked Kale where his belly was in his picture and this is what he did...haha :) I swear I have one smart cookie! He knows a lot of his body parts now...even his belly button which I don't like asking him where that is because after you ask him he plays with it for about 15 minutes!! He can say a lot of the body parts too! My favorites to hear him say are nose and knee! The thing that baffles me is the first body part he learned to point to was his nose and that was a long time ago!!! Now when I ask him where his nose is he points to the side of his head haha and I tell him that's not where your nose is silly and he smiles really big at me..I just don't get how that is the first one he learned and now he is pointing at the side of his head. And when we work on body parts with him we can only do it for so long because he gets bored with it and will start ignoring Ryan and I. I guess that would be his stubbornness coming out!