The 19th is A Big Day Around Here

Archie, our new Labradoodle.

Mackinley 16 months old.

Tayton and Korbin having fun in the hay loft.

Three out of five members of our family birthdays that fall on the 19th of a month. And now so does the new dog. This month, on the 19th Archie will be 4 months and weighs in at a whopping 29 lbs. Mackinley will be 17 months and weighs 26lbs. Korbin will be 8 years 5 months old and weighs in at 55lbs. Oh and lets not forget Kirke, he'll be 32 years 9 months old and weighs in around 180 haha.

There's a lot going on around here. Tayton will be 10 years old next week on the 23rd. He's very excited. Our moving truck comes to take our household goods back to NY where we belong on the 24th. We'll be heading back up there ourselves later in September and hopefully have our soldier home in October. The welcome home signs will be the last thing on the moving truck!!

~Till They All Come Home~

Fake Meteor Showers

We went camping this weekend. We had heard there was supposed to be a meteor shower. A storm blew through fast on Saturday so we went to town for dinner and when we got back the campsite was flooded. After we dried it all up and got settled in around the fire pit for some s'mores we saw something glowing in the sky. We got all excited and I'm certain we shouted out to the whole campground to come and see the meteor shower. Idiots. It was far to cloudy to see meteors AND "the meteor" was way too bright. Idiots. They were those stupid floating lantern things that people make in order to make people like us think there are real UFO's overhead. I'm sure glad everyone else at the campground seemed to know they weren't meteors.

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~Till They All Come Home~

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I haven't blogged in a long time. I do read all of the blog posts that show up in my blog reader though. So this is going to be a boring catch up post....or I'll just throw out a funny story and pretend you haven't missed a year of my life. Yeah, that's gonna work for me too!

I'm constantly making up random stories or jumping into someones story because they paused to breathe for way too long and I toss out some random statement finishing their sentence in some awkward way that might only make me laugh but I do it anyway.

The boys have picked up on this finally!!! and no longer believe every single thing I say. Even better than that is that they are now doing it as well! I'm so proud.

Whenever we go through a big change in our lives or things are stressful Tayton goes through phases of needing to know my every move or he goes into a panic! So I was in the bathroom a couple days ago and I overhear this conversation:

Tayton: (slightly panicked as he noticed I'm not in the living room) Where's Mom?

Korbin: She left.

Tayton: What do you mean she left?

Korbin: (in his evil little up to no good voice) I don't know, I was sitting here and she just ran right out the door.

Tayton: (in his very panicked, high pitch, I'm gonna freak out voice) What? Where did she go?

Korbin: I don't know, she just ran out the door. Maybe she went to Grandma and Grandpas.

Then I walked out of the bathroom.

Korbin: (totally nonchalant) Oh look mom's back.


UPDATE: The kids are old, Kirke's still in Afghanistan and we have a puppy. The End.

~Till They All Come Home~