My new.....um....adventure????

In just a few days (five to be exact) Heath is going to go to Missouri for several weeks. We don't know how many but we are guessing anywhere from 4-12 weeks. The kids and I will be staying here. Doesn't that sound like fun? Sigh. I'm incredibly attached to him and I know it is going to be a difficult time for me. He is going up there because it seems like there is a lot of job opportunities up there. But we could be wrong. So before we just pack up and move he is going ahead to check it out. And if he needs to, blaze the trail. So I really have no idea what is going on with our lives. We may stay here for years or possibly move to MO. Nema of course is adamant that our lives would be miserable in MO. She has already told me that we could never get a house as nice as this one, and we would be WAY too cold, we would miss the beach and we would have no friends. Thanks Nema. But I have made up my mind to be very positive about this. Of course it's not ideal, I like Heath and want to be around him! That's why I married him! But I'm strong and capable and women do this all the time. (I'm thinking about all my military friends.) And who knows, this may be just the path God has for us! Hopefully we will find out soon! Anyway I just wanted to let you know what was going on with us!

Vacation

If you look you can see the fish Levi has just thrown and the sea lion is about to catch!

Levi NEVER gets tired of petting the stingrays....no matter how long we do it.

Ocean Comotion is Londyn's favorite ride.

My crew with the beautiful dolphins!!!!!! I heart dolphins.

These birds were awesome. They just kept landing on us! One landed on Londyns' head!

My favorite part of vacation! We all love feeding the dolphins!

We are now on day 10 of a 2 week vacation. It's wonderful of course. We have been spending our time at Sea World, Aquatica, and Busch Gardens. Sea World has emerged as the leading favorite followed by Busch Gardens and Aquatica is coming in last. At Aquatica we have to be split up the whole time, someone riding rides with Luke and someone else staying with Levi and Londyn. And being the family fanatics that we are, we just like to stick together. I think it's funny because during this vacation I have been able to see just how much that has rubbed off on my children. The people at the rides will say, you can ride this but you all can't ride on the same row, and they will always opt to wait for the next ride so they can. I think this is very cool. I also CAN'T BELIEVE how much we are learning! I told Heath that Luke has had a years worth of science in the past week. These are very educational parks! (well, not Aquatica)

So our daily routine is this: We wake up and I cook breakfast here at the condo, then we go to a theme park for about 3-4 hours. We eat our big meal after we leave. The food at the parks is ridiculously expensive. Then we come back to the condo and swim for about 2 hours. Night time swimming is great because the pools are almost empty. After we swim we eat sandwiches and then the kids watch a movie and eat chocolate chip cookies and popcorn. We are loving movie nights because we just have our little 24 inch TV and so we think movies on this big flat screen are fun. So yes...we are having a blast. I'll post pics soon.

Personal Blog

Wow...I had this idea for my blog that I wanted to write about. It's was how I am REALLY ready to be pregnant again right away but Heath isn't and that is confusing for me. He is always the one who is ready for a baby and I'm always the hesitant one! What is this??? Another idea was how I'm disappointed when I get emails in the mail from What to Expect When You're Expecting and how I growl at them (out loud) EVERY DAY! (because I don't know how to stop the heinous things from coming to me) Emails like, You are 12 weeks pregnant today!!! Isn't life glorious???? Really? I need them to quit already. And other such blog ideas. Then I realized, my oh my how my blog has changed. Most of the blogs I read aren't so very personal. They're helpful. And when I decided to do this blog I intended for it to be like those! More....ummmmm....well, just not so personal. But I'm a VERY open person. And I like it. I don't mind baring my soul to the world, so I do. Maybe it's a good thing that I only have four followers! I had wanted this blog to have helpful tidbits about being a good wife and mother. (What, like I'm some kind of expert? lHa Ha!) I had wanted it to be kind of funny and entertaining. You know, what you would expect out of a good magazine article. But it's not. It's all about me and my family. My feelings and hopes and dreams and disappointments and day to day activities poured out on the world wide web. Geez. Not what I had planned.

Humdinger

The other day we were talking about something and the word humdinger was used. Levi asked, "What's a humdinger?" I said, "You can use the word humdinger when something is really good or awesome." Levi said, "Mommy, you're a humdinger." :)

mommy moments

Today I had a really good mommy moment in the van. We got the kids Happy Meals. Our boys don't like french fries, I know, they are crazy right? So we get them apples....yummy. Anyway, Levi can't open his apples but Luke can. Normally I open all the apples and everything before I hand it to them but today I forgot. I heard Levi ask Luke, "Can you open my apples?" Luke said, "Sure." and he did it. It's not a big deal. It's normal. I expect nothing less. But for some reason today it just made me glad. I was happy that my children USUALLY want to help each other. I was happy that they are best friends. I felt so fortunate to have kind helpful children. I hope they continue grow in love and kindness toward one another. And it made me have a really good mommy moment....I love those. :)

She's still three!!!

Today has been a great day. We went to Disney on Ice for Londyns' birthday trip. It was fantastic of course, done with the typical Disney excellence. We all loved it. The kids have been "skating" around our tile all night. They say they are the Newcombs on Ice. It's too funny. And tonight Londyn and I made her birthday cake and some purple cupcakes. I can't believe she will be four tomorrow. She's so awesome and I love her so much. It has been a wonderful magical day and I'm so thankful for it. Happy Birthday Eve my little 3 year old!!!

I feel so alone...

We are getting ready to go on vacation for two weeks so Heath has to work. AND he has to sleep so he can go to work! I would much rather him take off work for an awesome two week vacation than for me being ridiculous about losing this baby. But that means that I am alone with this mess an awful lot. I cry alone, I cramp alone, I moan and groan and complain alone. It's not pretty. If Heath were there he would rub my aching back. He would hug me when I cry. He would tell me how brave I am and how pretty I am and how proud of me he was. And I would roll my eyes at him and secretly love to hear every word. But, because I love vacation more than all of that I do it alone. And I don't tell him a thing about how I'm feeling because he would stay up all night with me or some nonsense. It's 3:05 now and I can't sleep because of the cramping. Nice. He would be here with me even though he has to get up at 5:00. So I snuck out of bed. I don't like this but it is going to have it's sweet rewards. But for now it will just be me and God. So maybe I'm not as alone as I feel. But I still wish I had Heath.