New Orders

Well the wait is finally over. . . Chris got his orders on Friday. We're staying in Norfolk. He got orders to the USS Enterprise. Which is where the movie Top Gun was filmed. But the wait to see where he'd go was almost tortorous! Not being able to say where we'd be a week from now was starting to take its toll on us. The Enterprise was exactly where we wanted him to end up. We knew a little more about that ships schedule than any of the others.

Chris being on a ship is going to be so different. We've been married 2 years and he was only on a ship for a few months. I've definitely been a spoiled military wife. Having him come home every night, eat dinner together, go to bed together and wake up together is not at all the norm for a military family. So it's going to be a big change for all of us. For now we're just going to relax and enjoy our weekend.

Here are some pics from the last week or so. .

Kisses for Daddy! This has to be the most adorable picture ever! She was leaning down to give kisses to her daddy! Chris is saying "awww" as she was doing it. That's why he looks so funny here. Definitely my favorite picture!

She loves to sit up like a big girl. You can sit her down and turn Mickey Mouse on and put some toys in front of her and she'll sit like this for hours! Once in a while I'll sit her down and leave the room and when I look back in on her she's fallen over and is laying on her back. But you'd never know anything ever happened bc she just falls over and resumes playing like nothing ever happened.

I was obviously oblivious to the fact that my picture was being taken! Rylee on the other hand was all smiles! I think I was engrossed in Storm Stories. They were telling a story of a 2 families that were neighbors in Greensburg, KY. There was a tornado headed straight for them. The one family was a mom, dad, and a 9mo little boy. The family next door was a dad and his daughter. It was kinda intense bc the mom and little boy were home alone. The dad was a truck driver and was on the road. He happened to be on his way home so it was flipping back and forth between the dad trying to get home and the mom trying to decide where they should go because they didn't have a basement. Long story short. . . both sets of neighbors made it out alive and well. The tornado did hit and wiped out the entire neighborhood.

Who would've thought someone sucking their thumb could be so cute! She just started doing this over the last couple of weeks. She kind of sucked her thumb as a newborn, but this is taking thumbsucking to a whole new level! Although, she really only does it when she's tired or hungry.

She's just kinda giving me this look like "what are you doing now?"

I could never watch TV this way. It would kill my neck. But this is how she watches TV if she's not sitting up. I betcha can't guess what she's watching???? MICKEY MOUSE!!!!

She just got done eating (as you can see all over her face) when Rocky walked past. Although he wasn't paying a bit of attention to her she obvioulsy thought he was amusing!

This was after church last Sunday. We came in and I sat her down so I could get changed and when I came back in she was talking to Rocky who was laying on the couch. We have no idea what it is about him, but she is so amused by him. Most of the time he's not even paying any attention to her. He's usually trying to get my attention so I'll pet him. Even when he eats she just stares at him like he's the most interesting thing she's ever seen. Ok, so we bought this jumperoo like 2 or 3 months ago and couldn't wait to put her in it. We just knew she was going to love it. But she had her own opinion. . . she hated it! She cried everytime we put her in it. Plus she wasn't quite long enough to touch the ground. So we kinda set it aside for awhile and just recently decided to give it another try. She loves it! She bounces and giggles and looks at us like she's wondering where the heck this toy has been all her life.