We took Logan down to Salt Lake on the day after Thanksgiving to watch them turn on the lights and the big Christmas tree at the Gateway. It was really fun! She was so involved with everything that was going on around her, I don't think she even noticed that it was cold!!!!!

It didnt take long for Logan to realize that she had her Daddy back! She didn't want to let him go once she realized that he was her Daddy and that he was HOME!!!!! She loves him so much! It's so tender!

I love this picture! You can see on my face how relieved I am to be able to hold him again! I was bawling!!!!!!! Logan didn't quite know what to think. . .

These pictures tell so much! This is when we were waiting for Adam to come home and watching for him in the hangar. They didn't let us go out and watch them land like they do when the guys come back from places like Iraq. I was also slightly bummed, because the guys flew home on a commercial plane, so they are in their civis! It doesn't look like he's a military man, it just looks like he went away for a little but! We were very excited to get our Daddy home safe and sound finally!!!! Yay! Welcome home Daddy!

My baby misses her Daddy!!! This was the stinkin cutest thing in the whole world! I put our wedding video on to see what she would do. She stared and stared and stared. She kept reaching out and touching Adam and talking to him. I tried to get in on camera and finally got this adorable picture. You can't see her arm, but you can tell it's reaching out. OH!!!!! It broke my heart! EIGHT DAYS UNTIL HE COMES HOME!!!!! I'm gonna make a paper chain!!! We love you Daddy!!!!!

I discovered this thing online called Shutterfly. It's a place where you can store pictures and get pictures printed and sent right to your house, and also digital scrapbooking stuff! It's so fun! I had a coupon for a bunch of free stuff for my first purchase and this is one of them! It's a poster 11' x 14'. It's so cute! I got a bunch of pictures printed of Logan and her Daddy to put in a cute little frame that is actually a teether. It has these little plastic sections that protect the pictures and she can chew on it and look at the pictures! It's my way of helping her remember Daddy! She loves it! Anyway, this is for Daddy. I hope he likes it! Love you honey! Hurry home!

I think I could go crazy today. Would you like to come with me? Hehe. I have a huge pile of laundry and dishes in my sink. But today, I chose to hang out with my little Logan. We had so much fun! We stayed here most of the day. And now, I am sitting here, blogging, looking at my apartment thinking, why didn't I take better advantage of her naptime? I wanted to just do nothing. She keeps me SO stinking busy. I watch Jon and Kate plus Eight a lot and I love it! But I just don't know how she does it! I can hardly keep up with my one, let alone 6 of the same age! Holy cow! But, really, there is nothing better than being a mom. I would not trade it for anything in the world. However, I have decided that I am going to take up kickboxing. Merely to save my sanity! I sometimes get so much on my brain that I need to get some energy out! And, hey, baby weight doesn't just melt after you give birth, ya know!!! Okay, maybe for some people, but not for me!!! I have goals. Dreams. Oh how I'd love to get skinny before pregnant again! Okay, I'm gonna go to bed now. Adam, if you read this, I love you so much and I can't wait to kiss your face again! Come home soon and come home safe!!!!! Jenn and Lola:)

HI DADDY!!!! Mommy and I are having a really fun night! We hope you got to your next location safely!! We can't wait to hear from you! Tonight when Mommy got a phone call from someone, I climbed up in her lap and waited for her to hand me the phone so I could talk to you. I was so sad when she hung up and I didn't get to talk to my Daddy!!!! We love you so much and hope you are doing well and sleeping warmly!!!

We had such a fun day today! We had a couple of errands to run this morning, and then we just came home and hung out! I love Mommy-Lola time!!! It's so great! We miss you Daddy!!!!

Is this not the funniest thing?! She has ATTITUDE written all over her face! She is getting so big I just can't handle it. She does so much stuff on her own. Except for put herself to sleep. She is upstairs right now "putting herself to sleep." I absolutely HATE letting her just cry and cry but what else can I do when she is so exhausted and just WON'T go to sleep!? She is so confusing some days. It breaks my heart, though, to just sit here and listen to her. It's not like I have a ton of space where I can go, like, to the basement or something and not hear her! Ah!!! It kills me!

My little puppy dog!!!! We dressed little Lola up as a cute little puppy dog for Halloween tonight. I hurried and got some pictures on here so Daddy could see them as soon as he wakes up tomorrow morning! She was so cute!!! We had a couple of little wardrobe malfunctions, so it wasn't exactly how we thought it was going to be but it was so cute still!!!!! Oh, she is so cute! She even sticks her tongue out just like a little puppy!!!! We love our little puppy dog!!!! Happy Halloween Daddy!!!!

See!!!!! She is a climber!!!! It's what she does ALL DAY LONG!!!!!!!!!! Now you know!

And just a few to show you all how incredibly cute I am! I love my tongue! It is rarely INSIDE of my mouth! Mommy made this cute blue flower headband especially for Daddy because he said he wanted one that showed off my pretty blue eyes!!! We love you Daddy!!

She loves baskets!!! She loves to pull herself up on them and dump everything out!!! It's another favorite game of hers! It's not so much a favorite game of mine. . .Oh well. I'm now in the process of looking for a fun basket that I can put all of her toys in so I can show her a basket that she CAN dump things out of and it's not really a big deal. Oh, what a day!

Mommy and Logan!! We are best buddies!! Or, buddy-ettes, as Daddy would say!!!! Daddy, we love you!!! Be safe!

This is her favorite game!!!! She is trying to climb up the pillows to get away from the monster growling below her!!! It's the stinking cutest thing you've ever seen in your entire life because she is so intense and this game just lasts and lasts and lasts! You would think she would just collapse but she doesn't! She keeps going!!! It's so funny!!! I love this game!!!!

This surprised me today. I looked over at her and she had pulled herself all the way up to standing at the couch! She has needed help before. She would try to do it herself and get frustrated so I would go try to show her. Usually ending up pushing her up on the couch and playing her new favorite game of "Run from the monster." In which, she tries to climb up the gigantic pillows on our couch to get away from the monster (Mommy) who is growling at her feet. It's so funny because sometimes, I won't even growl, but she'll look at me and scream and try to climb up the pillows anyhow. I love this game! It's usually what we play at night when I am trying to wear her out for bed. It usually only ends up wearing me out!!! But it's a lot of fun and she is so in to it!!!!

Look how big I am Daddy!!!! Logan loves to show off all her new talents! She can crawl, pull herself up on things and loves to just play and play and play! This little girl NEVER STOPS GOING!!! It cracks me up! And it also wears me out! She loves looking in the mirror, anywhere she finds one she will just stare! Now she talks to the girl in the mirror and laughs and carries on. It's so fun to watch! Lola LOVES stuffed animals! Anything! She loves bears, giraffes, her Tigger, just about anything soft and loveable! It's the cutest thing to see her cuddle up to a teddy bear at night to go to bed!

Just as we promised, we took pictures this morning of Logan first waking up. I say "we" because she was very cooperative. She loves having her picture taken, even first thing in the morning. This is for Daddy, who misses it so much that he can't see her bright smile first thing in the morning! Maybe tomorrow morning, there will be more smiles!!! We'll try! We love you Daddy!!!

So I'm the worst ever!!! My cute husband is three bazillion miles away from us and I haven't put any pictures up here yet! I'm in so much trouble! I have tried to post a couple of videos and they are WAY too big and were taking literally an hour to upload, so I gave up! I am making him a promise tonight that tomorrow morning, when she wakes up and I go in to get her, I will have my camera in hand and I will capture that precious moment and then I will not let the camera out of my sight until he gets home! I will be better at taking pictures and posting them on here I don't care how long it takes!!!! I am so sorry Husband!!!! I love you! Love me!
Jenn

So, um, my cute little husband is going away for a few weeks and I don't know quite what to do with myself. It's weird cuz it's always been in the future and I haven't had to worry about it so I think I just subconsciously told myself that it wasn't going to happen. All of a sudden this weekend is an awful lot closer than I ever wanted it to be! I mean, I guess the quicker it comes, the quicker it goes, right? He'll be gone for six weeks to a classified location and I have no idea what kind of communication we will be able to have!! I know they will have email but I will miss his handsome comforting voice so much. I think of how much Logan is going to change and it chokes me up!! But we will make it and we are so lucky that it's not longer this time!!! I'm just going to be sitting here Sunday afternoon licking my wounds and wanting him to quit the Air Force as soon as he gets back. Those of you who know what I'm going thru I know you have wonderful words for me and I would love to hear them!!! I will most likely be blogging a lot more in the coming weeks!! Wish me luck!!!!

We took Logan to the Zoo yesterday!!! It was so much fun! Adam's Mom and Sister were here from Ohio so we decided to head up to the Zoo. She wasn't super interested in the animals but loved being outside and walking around. She is the happiest little baby and loves anything and everything! It's so fun to watch her learn and grow and experience new things around her. She is so fun!!! We are the luckiest parents in the whole world!!!