quick update

AH! April has been such a busy busy busy month. It's crazy how fast time flew. Caleb is scheduled to deploy at the beginning of next week. =( It didn't really hit me that he was leaving until the end of last week while I was shopping for groceries. I was in the dairy aisle at Walmart when I looked at the expiration dates and read 4/28, 4/29, and 4/30. I realized the next time I buy milk, he'll be gone. My lips trembled and I had to hold back tears as I didn't want to have a breakdown in front of other shoppers. We'll have to finish packing for the deployment this week, but we have really been blessed with all the time we had these past couple weeks. We'll also have a date night at my favorite seafood restaurant this week, so I'll be looking forward to that. =)

I wanted to post a couple weeks ago to show our landscaping and gardening skills! We had a HUGE meadow of weeds in front of our house. The base provides landscaping, but they only mow our lawns and leave us to do the gardening. I've never been much of a gardener, but our house really needed some tending to. I wish I could post a before picture of the house with all the weeds growing wildly, but we forgot to take one. We spent literally 10+ hours pulling weeds all around our house, running to buy mulch, and running back to buy more mulch, and carrying the piles and piles of weed and pine needles to the trash. It was quite a day!

Here's a picture from a couple of proud gardeners after a hard's day work. (I even trimmed the little palm tree in front of the door) 

 We had family day with Caleb's squadron last week. Caleb's marines pooled together $60 to put him in the front running to be in the dunk tank at family day. It was pretty fun to see him get dunked!

He also collected the most money from people purchasing turns to dunk him! Is that a good thing....or a bad thing....? haha! 

One of the people who dunked him! 

Last week we drove to Jacksonville, which is a little over an hour to do some shopping and to meet up with friends for dinner at a sushi place.

Our friends, Lucy and Robby. 

Caleb and me. 

We stopped by a frozen yogurt place called Brrrberry for dessert! 

I also forgot to post pictures of my birthday! I felt so incredibly loved by all the wonderful wishes from family and friends. My sister surprised me with a HUGE bouquet of pink and lavender roses from a local shop here in Havelock! 

That night, we went to bible study and one of my friends made a really delicious carrot cake for me. It's a secret family recipe, but I'm trying very hard to get her to share it with me =) 

Happy 27th Birthday! 

Our friends' two adorable girls from small group. They love dressing up in princess costumes too Laura! =) I wish they could play with Sal, Daisy, and Taylor! 

Making my wish! 

Hope everyone had a great weekend. We took some family pictures with a local photographer this weekend so I'm really looking forward to sharing it with everyone. 

Love and hugs to all.