9/11

Wow... what an emotional day.........  10 years ago our nation suffered immensely. I am thankful and proud that my husband stepped up to the plate and became a U.S. Marine. I'm even more proud of him that he not only wanted to serve in the reserves, while he attended school, he now wants to go active duty to further serve his country. Proud doesn't even begin to describe it. It's definitely been an emotional day. I can't believe it's been 10 years..... What a sad, sad tragic event our nation faced. So many lives lost, so many heroes that day, so many lives that are forever changed. We will never forget.

2 years ago today, we lost our first baby..... All day today I just kept looking at Griffyn and being so incredibly thankful that I have her. It makes today so bittersweet. While I don't have my first baby, I have a beautiful angel watching over my baby here with me today. I can't believe it's been 2 years ago already. It doesn't feel like it's been that long ago. While it was awful to have to go through what we went through that day, and then to have to go through it again on March 4th with our 2nd baby, I feel so incredibly blessed to have the beautiful baby girl I hold in my arms today. God had a plan. He always, always does.

We went to church this morning. It was wonderful as always. I love how I feel being there, how I feel afterwards. I know I've said it before, but it just feels like "home" when I am there.... I love it. I feel so lucky to have found a church that I love so much. I was thinking today, while sitting there, about how much I'm going to miss that church and my church family when we move away. Whether it be somewhere else in KS or across the country. I really will miss it...........

We went to the fair today! It was awesome. We just kinda walked around, didn't look at a whole lot so I'm looking forward to going back and being able to check everything out. It was still a ton of fun to go through! I always get so excited about the fair!! :) Justin made it home from drill this evening. He was exhausted. I won't get into too much detail, mainly because it will just make me angry again, but he didn't learn much about his AD paperwork this weekend. He is giving it until the end of the week to have an answer, or for AJ to be able to see it in the system, and if it's not there he'll request mast then. *sigh* I'm honestly getting to the point of being soooooo over it. Maybe I'll go into more detail about it tomorrow, but I'm just too tired to get into it tonight. We'll see. Bottom line, we're still waiting, we aren't any further than we were before. They said 6 months or less and it never takes that long, and we are at the 6 month mark and still at square one. Frustrating doesn't even begin to describe it.

I got 2 new books for G today! I was pretty excited about it. I got "Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see?" and "You're my little love bug." :) There were soooo many other ones I wanted to get, but books are kind of expensive! Even for little kids!!! I did come home and order "Love you forever" from Amazon. I think after seeing the prices even at Walmart, it might be cheaper to just order them, even after paying shipping. :(

Justin is working Mon-Thurs. this week. :P Kinda sucks, but he is getting on his new crew so he pretty much had to, to get on their schedule, after being "off" (at drill) this weekend. So he's working days tomorrow and Tues. and then back to nights Wed. & Thurs. Kinda sucks too because he should've switched back to days starting tomorrow! But because he's switching crews, (they are currently on days) he is going back to nights... :P So he won't be back on days until middle of Oct. :( Bummer...... Also found out he has drill the first weekend in Oct (usually it's the 2nd weekend of the month), so that means we won't get to do anything the weekend before our anniversary (Oct 4th), and he won't get to go to our niece's 2nd birthday party. :( He's also working ON our anniversary, and since he's working nights we won't get to do anything on that actual day either.... :( Sad..... but I'm sure we'll get to do something at some point. :) The USMC ball is on Nov 5th!! Pretty excited! Only issue we have right now is we don't know where G is going to stay... :( My parents have to work that weekend so they can't watch her and Justin's parents are going to come to the ball so obviously they can't either. Sooooo we'll have to see what we can work out. Guess I need to order my dress soon, too!! :)

Well, not much else to update on. I'm gonna go in and snuggle with my hubby. So glad he's back home. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and I hope you remembered all those that were lost 10 years ago today as well as all of our military in the states and overseas. SEMPER FI!
1. I am thankful that my husband is one of "The Few Good Men". So proud of him.
2. I feel unbelievably blessed to have my baby girl here to hold in my arms today. Makes the ache of 2 years ago a little bit less.
3. I am thankful for all the people STILL voting for G's picture!!! She's currently at 146 votes!! WOW!! That is amazing!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!! :)
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