Holidays are in the past

Well the tree is down and the tinsle away. LOL! We spent an awesome Christmas in FL for 2 weeks. It was good getting to play with the kids and the fam damily. New Years was lame kids were projectile vomiting so the parents (Michael and I) got to tend with that all night. WooHOO! Ring in the new year. Then by the 2nd when we were leaving to come home and go thru fort rucker on the way I was proejctile vomiting YEAHAW! Then Michael that evening. It was miserable. we are amped up new year so much stuff happening. Michael got offered all 3 jobs LOL! Oklahoma, FAA in Jacksonville, FL, and of course the supervisory GS 12 job in Arizona. I think we are gonna do Arizona while we wait of the FAA and their stupid class date. They are both amazing jobs Oklahoma ehhh. I am getting ready to be the big 27 OH the age is dragging me down. I am graduating in like 4 months. I am so excited. I cannot wait to start working when we move to AZ. ultimate goal is of couse to get back to NC don't care where just NC. Life is muy bueno. Isabella will be 18 months old in a few days and she is a PIP! Oh goodness she is so much like me, Hannah is the most beautiful ballerina I have ever seen. my angel bug. Its all going by in the blink of an eye. By the time I graduate I will have a 5 year old, and a 2 year old I cannot wait for them to see how hard their mommy has worked and how its all so possible. They make me a better woman. Well thats the excitement need to get ready for church. Love you all. Happy 2012

December

What an amazing month this has turned out to be. Michael is home for what was susposed to be his vacation his base he was working at in Al Asad Iraq closed and midwest was sending him to Kabul, Afghanistan. This decision has never rested well on my heart I don't have how much they were paying him it was not worth his life. So he was home on vacation planning to go back on Sunday and we got a call from a job in Fort Hachuka Arizona starting at GS 12, score. He is getting all the stuff done for that its really good pay and in the United States. Well he is also in Tennessee today being interviewed for a job in Jacksonville, FL center airport...awesome job. Of course anyone who knows the FAA knows these jobs take FOREVER so my husband upon completion of his paperwork for this army job will be going to Arizona. I am so excited for him hes an awesome well-roudned controller with pretty much everythign you can do or get in his career except running his own facility they were stupid if they didnt pick him.

School is out for the holidays and when we go back I will be in my final semeseter at USM and I will have my BA with honors in Criminal Justice. Hopfully when I join Michael in AZ I will be able to get on with the FEDS.

Christmas came a little early to the Boones in anticipation of him leaving to go back before Christmas we called Santa and he agreed to bring the kids their presents early. LOL! OMG there was so much stuff. SO MUCH! We spent all day opening boxes it took them 35 min just to unwrap all their gifts. We will be going to FL next week to spend christmas with the family as a family. I am pretty excited about that. Isbella is getting ready to be 1.5 yrs old an OMG she is a handful but she is SO smart really that is unbiased she is so smart. Hannah is over 4 and  half and she is the sweetest, kindest person I know but she is also hell on wheels. It has been an interesting and reflective year. I am so thankful we are out of the military (mostly, temprarily retired LOL!) we don't miss it we don't talk about it we just act like tse 10 yrs don't exist. My husband served 2 tours in Iraq in the military nd served his country honorably but that par of our life seems like forever ago I am so excited for 2012 things can only get better. I am excited about AZ a new chapter, I am excited about this FAA job in Jacksonville. When we walk with the Lord we stay in the light. Many blessing to everyone during their holidays we will be spending ours together as a family.

Thinking outloud

If I were to get in my car and drive, where would i go how would I survive?
I'd like to say I'd bring a map, but really who needs that?
A car, some gas, and crazy tunes
Up, Up, and away maybe the moon?
The destination is not important, its the ride that counts,
The laughter, the snacks, the epicure.
At the end of my rainbow I will come back
Because no matter where I go
My ruby red shoes lead me home.
Theres no place like home-thats a fact!
I;ll remember the tornado that lead me away
But in the end my heart says stay

End of October

Well October what a long 31 days. Aye! One month less to our future goals. Schools almost over 1 month of this semester left, one semester to go! YEAH! Lots of big things happening. The FAA has referred Michael for jobs throughout Florida and throughout North Carolina both places we would love to be NC more than FL as long as it isn't that crap hole SJAFB, losers (sorry, not our amazing friends there we love you). Until then hes been over there like 80 days and I am missing him every minute of every second of everyday, I just want him to be home with me we are never apart so this sucks. His base will be closing December 3rd and we are unsure weather we want to continue on over in Afganistan or not, by then we should hopefully have some answers from the FAA, I am unfortunatly stuck in Mississippi until May the 12th for grauduation.

The kids are doing amazing. Hannah is 4.5 now and so smart. Shes well past where she should be for Kindergarten next year. She loves singing and she loves her ballet/tap. Shes an amazing child when she isn't driving me crazy with her attitude she is all girl and so much like her momma LOL Her dance instructor said she is so observant. Duh shes gonna be brilliant like me also! Isabella is 17 months old now. My baby! She is SO smart I cannot put it into words she understands everyting she is speaking so well. Isabella is going to be my wild child. It is amazing how much they love each other. THere is such a bond between them. I love to hear Hannah whispering things to her and Isabella giggling. Amazing children I am so blessed.

Life is so busy here I am home with the little terrors all morning then I leave go to school till 945 at night if I get out early I go to the gym and run. I just bought a new running stroller for the kids are are taking it on its maiden voyage tomorrow. I am excited but I think they are more excited. I am hoping to jog a lot of the 4 miles. we shall see my legs and arms are so tired from the weights the other night i think monday I will start back to Insanity it really provides the best results in a short amount of time. But they are draining exercises. I am just pleased with the 50 lb weight loss but it just leaves me craving more, it obsesses me. literally!

Monday is trick-or-treating and I cant wait to take the kids I am sad Michael will miss it but hes with us in heart. WE are so looking forward to November. We have Michaels 30th bday on Thanksgiving my old man, my moms birthday, my brothers birthday. Whew! lots to come and of course Thanksgiving. I have so much to be thankful for. Well I have to get off here life doesn't wait for me to blog. Kids are all tucked into bed, its crazy cold here BRRR...i have my fireplace going and my jammies on. I think I may even make apple cider. Fall is here baby.

Awesome

The memo may not have been gotten my kids are amazing, awesome, wonderful, smart, beautiful! Just saying.

Long October

I love the smell of cinnamon apple candles and pumpkin spice. Fall is a particularly warm time of the year even if the weather outside has the first inclination of cool air and falling leaves. There has always been something about Fall that brings that chestnuts roasting on an open fire feeling to our hearts and homes. Baking starts, decorations begin, arts and crafts, festivals, and fairs. Yes indeed fall is in the air. It has come to the Boone house, it seems a little less cozy and warm without my husband here to enjoy it with me but all the same blue jeans for the kids knit hats and jackets have been bought in anticipation of the cooler weather ahead. Michael has been gone for over 60 days now, and just 68 days until he comes home for Christmas vacation I cannot wait to see that man of mine. I miss him dearly. This is for the birds. However, the kids and I are doing well and him being gone has only made me thinner lol! I am now down 55 lbs (depending on how much coffee I drink in one day). I am enjoying getting back to pre-hannah weight but idealisticly i would like to loose about 40 more lbs. UGH! seems like it will never end. WE just passed midterms for college, and that mans 1.5 semesters left till graudation on May 12th. May that is going to be one buy month. Hannah will be 5 in April, Isabella will be 2 in May, I graudate in May, Hannah has her first ballet/tap revue in May, and Maria will be having baby #2 so in May I will be an Auntie again...I told her I would come up for a few weeks with the kids and help out. WOW! If I make it thru May we will be doing good. I do not anticipate Michael staying in the desert past graduation which will be nice. The money is great but we need him here. I am hoping he only stays until I graduate. Thats about all thats going on. Kids flew for the first time this month to NC and back that was interesting. We are preparing for pumpkins and costumes. Feeling like Fall and I may bake some apple bread. YUM!

And its Fall

Well another season has left and a new has begun. The temperatures really don't feel like fall here in MIssissippi. So much has been going on MIchael has been at his new job in Iraq for a month and a half now. It seems like eternity I miss him SO frecking much. BUt I am almost done with school so then we can move and he can work here in the states. It has been tough I have no help here the kids are of course a blessing but a handful all at the same time. I have 5 classes this semester and I feel like my cup is too full. Thats ok it will all pay off so soon I get to apply for graduation in like 2 weeks. YEAH! Gosh Isabella is a chatter box now shes 16 months old, Hannah is excelling at ballet and tap and they are both getting ready to join Kindermusik which I am stoked about I wanted to start her on classical piano apparently maybe a little to young. We are flying to NC this weekend coming for a quick trip. I am going to be an Aunt again Maria is pregnant what a blessing the Lord is great. so we are going to go celebrate, ther is a wedding to attend, then the big Cleveland county fair. Quick trip but thats all my schedule allots. We are going to Georigia for Thanksgiving rented a cabin and gonna do Calloway Gardens, and of course Michael will be home for his first vacation for Christmas which I am so excited about haven't told the kids not going to just gonna suprise them at the airport. We are truly blessed. We have joined a new church and are really enjoying it. Anyhow I am sitting her ein my bed listening to The Civil Wars because they are AMAZING! getting ready to chat up Michael and go to bed thank the Lord for another great day. God Bless.