DH's journey off to Romania!

Okay so as of last night DH has left for Romania! So before we headed over to put him on the bus with everyone else I said "girls pose with your daddy one more time"



Destiny "mommy I want to take a picture"
Me: "okay take one of daddy and I together"

Kiley " me too! I want to take a picture!"
Me " uh okay take another picture of daddy and I"

So we get there at 7:45 pm put his bags down and FYI this was not everything he took with him, times this amount by 3 and thats what went on the ISU's ahead of him, this stuff was what he was taking with him. So I thought I would grab a pic of Kiley who chose to sit on his stuff while he checked in at 8 pm
Kiley "wait I'm not ready!"
Me "okay get ready then"
Kiley "Aren't I cute? Now let me see that picture!"

After that I chased them off to go play with the other kids. The buses didn't get there till 9 pm at which they only loaded there things onto the buses and then at 10 pm they decided to load the soldiers on the bus. We did a lot of standing around talking. But when it came time to say the official goodbye Destiny broke down into tears, completely depressed! I sucked it up for the girls sake and none of the other parents were tearful after all its only a 4 month mission, right? Okay whatever it still sux to be away from him for so long. Thankfully we have web cam! After the buses left Kiley started crying too so I did what I could and took them both to the shoppette and got them some ice cream to drown those sorrows into. There were smiles after that along with the Pirates of the Caribbean movie! We just couldn't sleep yet. the kids were out by midnight but I still felt wired and I struggled to sleep and even then maybe got 2 hours of sleep the whole night.

So today we are completing our housework and laundry in hopes of a beautiful day tomorrow so we can finally go swimming! We have had so much rain and clouds lately. Did I mention I have serious anxiety today? I mean it, I can't stand all the idiots today. I am definitely staying in today or I could get myself into trouble. Hopefully no one rings my doorbell....

A finish, WIP and July 4th

Okay as promised here is what I have completed on my 2008 EMS Rose sampler. Please forgive the fact that it is so wrinkled. I carried this everywhere with me during all the trips in case I felt like stitching or had a chance for it.I also in the meantime since I had no desire to stitch, I crocheted! I made a pair of purple and pink fingerless gloves and then just had to make the hat to match. These patterns cam off of Susies site again. Though I did make a few adjustments. These I think will be gifted to my older sister as a mommy gift at her baby shower. (Just for my notes: The fingerless mittens I used a J hook and did 26 rows and for the hat I did 40 rows and used Carons 1 lb baby yarn.)And also here is a slide show of the fun we had on July 4th. The fireworks pictures came out all wrong but oh well! Enjoy it anyway. DH had staff duty that day so he had to miss the festivities but that didn't stop the girls and I from having fun! They wanted to throw balls and see if they could dunk the commander at the dunk tank. Kiley missed her two throws but ran up and dunked him anyway! LOL Then Destiny was up and hit him on her first try! So proud! She missed the 2nd time and so ran up and dunked him again! There were guys up there who had 5 balls and missed all 5 times! Okay well with the rain pour and beer, I'll not say anything else about them, lol. EDITED: okay slide.com is giving me issues so I will try and add a slide show later on.

Wow 2000 posts on my blogroll in a month! But i am reading through them. sorry if I don't comment on every single one but I am reading them!

I also found out that we may not get Fort Carson, Colorado as we had hoped. DH hasn't ever been deployed and so they want to send us to Fort Bragg, Carolina where he will deploy in a matter of months. I really hope we can get things fixed soon. The guy who does the orders is trying to help us out. In the meantime DH leaves tomorrow night for 4 months to Romania for training. He should be back in time for the kids birthdays though.

Also DH and I celebrated our 7th anniversary on the 6th of July! It was nasty out and we had no babysitter that could be trusted to properly care for Destiny so we spent the day having a movie day and having subway for dinner. I know it doesn't sound like much but it was really nice. We all cuddled underneath a blanket on the couch and just enjoyed the day.

Happy stitching everyone!

My last 3 weeks and some finishes.

Sorry I have been absent so long. I had no idea that my mother would keep us so busy each day. We went everywhere in Germany that we could go in a 3 week period. So much fun! We went to Legoland, Europa Park, Coburg Castle, Neuhaus Pegnitz Fortress, Bamberg Castle along with downtown, Rothenburg and many other places as well. We had over 1,000 pictures and over an hour of video combined. I'll try and pick out some fun things to show you all. We also recorded the dolphin show at the Neurnburg Zoo if anyone is interested in watching it. Here is a photo of my mom and the girls in their new dresses that nana brought them. ^_^
Crafting things:

I did complete section 8 and 9 of my EMS Rose Sampler and am currently dragging on part 10 but I don't have a photo to show you all yet. I'll try for my next post but I am also crocheting some fingerless gloves trying to get back in the mood to stitch again. My mom made sure I was too tired to do anything but crash when we got home so no stitching in the last 3 weeks. I also know I need to post a new photo of my TUSAL as I am a week behind so next time my fellow readers!

I completed June's Ornament of the month. Their golden apples and pears but since they do not fit my christmas decor I sent them home with my mother as they do fit hers. ^_^

Also here is the Fair and Square Exchange squares I had sent to Janice. She did receive them but its taken me this long to get them posted to you all.

Stitching and family visits

Here is my Rose Sampler as of yesterday. I'm almost done with part 9 and I have to redo one of the initials because I stitched a G instead of an H as when I was looking at the letters I forgot about the missing I part of the alphabet. And then I am off to finish up the last 3 parts though I think I will do the border up first on those three parts so to help keep me from having to frog any. And Round 13 of my Fair and Square exchange has arrived! Pretty huh? Thank you Janice! She said that this came from one of the issues of The Gift Of Stitching magazine. See these? Yep, knitting needles! Destiny had expressed an interest in learning how to knit so my mom when she arrives today is going to teach her during her 3 week stay with us. She said then at least she has someone to pass her knitting books and supplies too. I get her crocheting stuff and then her little bit of stitching could go to anyone of us kids. No worries though my mom only turned 50 this year so she has years to live! ^_^And the MOTH arrived with her spouse Tuesday night leaving us to finally get home at 1 am so Destiny missed school Wednesday and as Thursday was a short day we just took her by to pick up her things and the extra insulin from the nurse for the summer. And anyway the MOTH and her spouse graced us with their presence yesterday afternoon. They brought the girls each a purse with matching sunglasses and also a pink and black baseball glove and pink baseball to match so of course they had to throw it around in the house! Yikes! I soon kicked them all out of the house with that thing as I have too much breakables!

Well, I am off as my mom arrives at 1020 this morning and its about 200 K to the Frankfurt airport so I am going to take my rose sampler with me and try and stitch in the car. I have been up since 0445 so I may take a nap, depends on my mood I guess.

Happy Stitching and have a great weekend! I'll try and blog during these next three weeks but as both sides of the family are in town, I don't know how much time I will have. June 19th we find out if my sis is having a boy or girl so be sure to check out her blog if you haven't done so! It's here

EMS Rose Sampler and Batista's results

So I pulled this out last night and this is what I got completed. Its part of part 8, I am hoping to finish part 8 tonight.

Batista saw the vet yesterday and his diagnosis is a flea bit him and he had an allergic reaction and the hole he chewed was where the flea bit him! Plus by making that hole, he gave himself an infection. So she gave me anti-itch shampoo, anti-itch pills, 10 days of antibiotics, and Frontline. Total = $109.00 USD!!! It was those anti-itch pills, they were $48.00! I was in shock! I tell you I think a cone would have been cheaper! Oh, Batitsta is officially 6 months old and weighs now 53.3 lbs!

Happy Stitching!

TUSAL and tinkerbell

So yes I am late this month. Here is my TUSAL this month. I did take the picture on the correct day but am barely getting it posted today.

I am also working on my fair and square exchange squares but its dragging along as I just dont feel like stitching anything. Instead I am crocheting or attempting to make something from it. I'll show you all here if it turns out right. I do apologize for my lack of blogging, the pollen here this year is absolutely horrible! It looks like we have snow in our yard, its that bad. Then you mix the heat in with no air conditioner and yep you guessed it, I am not doing anything! LOL. I am taking more allergy meds lately and it seems to knock me out or make me groggy to the point where I just can't do much of anything. It sux! I have so much I want to be doing.
Tinkerbell graced us with her presence this weekend as well!

Batista wasn't feeling well Friday and just laid in his kennel not really eating and only drinking a little so I pulled him out of his cage at 8 pm and took him outside so he could go potty. He practically crawled outside like every step just hurt. So when I brought him back inside he laid under the table and on his back. DH noticed his lower abdomen had a hole in it! He had licked and knawed on it creating the hole plus he was all dark red! So we called around on post and off post looking for an emergency vet to be open. You know what Germany gives you? one number leading to another number leading to another number and so on. So no way we could take him to get help. So I was crying as yes my first thought was my puppy has an infection and I can't get him in anywhere until Tuesday because its a 4 day weekend and everyone is closed till Tuesday. I sat with him Friday night until he fell asleep. He did get up and moving around on saturday and the hole has healed up but he is covered in a red rash on his adomen. He saw the vet tech yesterday who said this is not normal (duh! did I really need a tech to figure this out for me??) And I need to see the vet himself which means making another appt. Did you know the vet only works in the a.m. 3 days a week? Must be nice! So Batista goes on Tuesday May 2nd to see what this is and what its causing. In the meantime I am not taking him to the dog park or allowing him to play with other dogs. If this was caused by another dog then I know who it was from as he plays with one other husky on this post as of recently. Though the tech said it could be allergies too.

Fair and Square Spring Round

Here is my spring round from Renee. Do you all remember me raving about the new helga mandl design in the new issue of the gift of stitching magazine? Well here is part of it! How cute is that bird?? Thank you Renee!