Growing Up

Have you ever had one of those moments where you look at your kids and you want to cry because there isn't anymore baby left in them at all?I love that my kids are growing up healthy and happy...but for some reason I get sad when I realize how fast she is growing up. KalieAnn is growing up soo fast!! Saturday we got a package from my friend Jenn for KalieAnns birthday. She got her a Really cute outfit...childrens size 5. Mitchell pulled the pants out of the bag and we looked at each other "Those are huge!! They probablywont fither till next but extremely cute!" KalieAnn grabs them puts them on and THEY FIT! Before I forget Jenn thank you bunches for it! Back on subject...It was just one of those moments where I was looking at our daughter and realized how tall she really has gotten...thenthe next thought..Hannah has been following KalieAnn pretty steady...a good four to six inches shorter than her. Hannah is now starting to wear some of KalieAnns old 3T clothes!! Thats when the realization that not only is KalieAnn getting big..but so is my baby Hannah. Then on top of ALL that I noticed Alayna's 3 month pajamas are getting small on her too. All that wasleft that was clean in her drawer was a 6month pajama outift. I put it on her expecting it to be huge on her..of course not...It Fit!!!!! Its a little big for width wise but length it fit perfectly....well now that I have that out of the way...I have a couple things regarding KalieAnn to update on.

First thing First. I went to drop her off at school this morning and I was handed her proofs for her school picture. They turned out so cute but why soo expensive? Can anyone please tell me that? Its ten dollar a sheet and they consider an 8X10 one sheet! Or its 26 an image to get put on CD and theres two images! If they weren't cute pictures we'd be set...I wouldn't even worry about it but they are absolutely adorable!!! I scanned them and put them on here so you could see how adorable they really are.

Just so everyone knows My Mom made that dress!!

Second update. Mitchell...whats theword...it was just on the tip of my tongue...dis something...disconnects? from this unit on the 15th of March. So I was talking to my friend Brooke about our girls and schools. She gave me the information line on Camp Pendleton to call about getting KalieAnn in schools. She also informed me that I need to do it now because they have wait lists. So I called and they got me connected to the School Liazon. She told me that ifI got KalieAnn on the waitlist now that by the time we move out there she should be able to slide right in and finish the school year. Heres the REALLY great news!! The cut off datethey haveout there for kids to start kindergarden is December 2nd which means KalieAnn WILL..theres no MAYBE IFS OR BUTTS..she said WILL be starting Kindergarden next year!! For those ofyou wondering why it was such a big IF..out here in Minnesota the cut off date is September 1. With her birthday on the 1st of October if wewere tostay out here she wouldn't be starting kindergarden till she is almost 6. All because of a silly birthday! So I'm thrilled!!!

Orders

Our order have finally come!!! Mitchell hasn't received them yet but the Sgt. Major called and told Mitchell we're heading to Cali! Its nice to finally know where we are going!! I've been having mixed feelings about it...just because I know he will be deployed again. When he went to Iraq in 04' it wasn't easy and I didn't have any kids then! I hear it goes faster though when you have kids. I'm just VERY thankful to be getting out of here and close to family again! My Mom and Dad are already finding parks close by that they can take the girls to. I keep thinking to myself "Yay we'll get to feel like a couple again!" The last time we were able to go out on a date was back in March when my Mom came out to visit for Hannah's Birthday. Usually we get to always have one in November for the ball but this year I won't be attending. Why you ask? It's way too expensive. It would cost us over $400 to go to this thing. They want $60 a ticket...so there would $120...then you add $36 a kid for child care since we don't have the luxury of having family or very many friends in the area...plus its two and a half hours away so it would have to be an over night stay...which also adds the cost of a hotel...$99 a night. you add all that up and you get $327. Not including the gas and food it would take or a dress! Its expensive and right next to Christmas and then moving two months after that! Its almost like the higher ups forget that we aren't made of money!!! Unfortunately its mandatory for Mitchell to go and they get paid back for the gas..food and hotel later on. So what we are thinking about doing is joining him at the hotel since we will eventually get reimbursed for that but I won't be attending the ball. Who knows I still might just stay home. So we will see that's still all up in the air. Right now we're getting ready for Halloween!

We went to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday at Berry Hill farm and got all our Pumpkins. Mitchell got a ginormous one that weighs more than KalieAnn and Hannah combined. KalieAnn and Hannah hada blast picking their pumpkins! However it really showed that KalieAnn can be quite the Girly Girl. Mitchell asked her if a pumpkin was a "KalieAnn Pumpkin?" and she responded at first "No, thats Mommys." He told hershe should pick it up and she responds "But its Dirty!" It was also funny to think about the difference in weather from last year when we went to this year. Last year the girls are in tank tops and shorts..this year we were in pants and a sweater. Well I must go make lunch my stinkers are telling me they havea rumbly in their tummy's!