We have a crawler!

Here are a couple of videos of Halle crawling.... she still needs a little work, but she's pretty good at it. She's so fast and into everything before we know it :)

A quick look at the past week

This past week has been crazy... Rusty is now on night shift, which means he goes in at 5 p.m. and doesn't get home until around 1 a.m. We recently found out that we are being stationed at Ft. Campbell, so we have been looking for houses in the Clarksville, TN area. We have found a few, but you really can't tell much from the internet. We are going to have to pick a weekend and go up there and try to find something. It's so exciting looking for houses :) This will be our first house as a family together... I like the sound of that! It is kind of stressful with the whole house hunting process. It's like we have a little over a couple months to find a house, buy it, close on it, and move everything in a 14 day period that they give you. We are trying to clean things out now and get a head start. We have been through the closets and everything around the house to see what we can sell in our yard sale we are having next weekend. I hope that we have a big turn out b/c I want to get rid of everything! What we don't get rid of will probably go to goodwill or something b/c it's not coming back in the house to clutter things up again. I wanted to go ahead and start packing some things now, but Rusty wants to wait until he gets off this night shift, I guess so he can supervise..... Anyway, Halle is a professional crawler now :) She is so fast! She just works those little legs so hard. She was doing just "ok" there for about a week. It seemed like she wasn't progressing any, but tonight she was on top of it. There were a few people who came to the house (all males) and she was crawling to them and just flirting left and right. I have a feeling she's gonna be trouble. I felt like such a proud mommy tonight when she started crawling everywhere. I was like "yay! she finally got the hang of it"! She loves to go to where ever abbagail is at the time. She LOVES abby, but I can't say that about how abby feels towards Halle. Abby is used to being the only one and now she has competition and she gets SOOO jealous of Halle. They will be best friends one day.... I hope. I want to also say CONGRATS to Don and Amber on the birth of little Caitlyn! Her pictures are so cute! She is a tiny little girl! Rusty thinks she look alot like Don, but I couldn't really tell a whole lot from the picture. I can't wait to see her and hold her.... I'm so excited :) My little niece started kindergarden this week. It's so crazy how time flies! My sister cried like a baby... I almost did too when she told me that Madison had her little polka dot backpack on and her Hannah Montana lunch box packed ready to go bright and early. I think she has fun, but she has been pretty secretive about it... she won't tell anybody how her day was. She has shown my mom and sister a few pictures that she has colored, but thats about it. She got sick a couple of days ago with an ear infection and fever so she had to stay home one day already. I miss her so much! I hope that I get to see her, my sisters, and my mom soon. It has been almost 2 months since I have seen them. My sisters are supposed to be coming to visit in a few weeks... who knows if they will really get to come, I hope so! I wished that mine and Rusty's families all lived in the same area or more less the same state... wouldn't that be nice! It's off to bed now for me, I'm very tired, had a LONG day and now it's time to hit the hay!

Halle attacking and growling at Rusty's Hand

I took some videos of Halle attacking Rusty's hand and biting him. She growls at his hand once she gets ahold of it... it is so cute and funny :)

Orlando Adventure '09

I have been meaning to update on our Orlando adventure we went on about a couple of weeks ago. We had SOOO much fun! We went to SeaWorld two days, Downtown Disney one evening, a Pirates Dinner and Show on evening, and we did little activities around the resort we stayed at. We played candy bingo one day and Halle won a Twix :) Me and Sara also did a "stuff and fluff" activity for the girls. It was kind of like Build A Bear. I stuffed Halle a moo cow and put guardian angel where the heart goes and put in a little device that makes the cow moo when you squeeze it. They came with little birth certificates and everything. I named her cow Clara Belle like off of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse b/c Halle LOVES that cartoon in the mornings when she wakes up. You should have seen me and Sara when we first got there for the activity. We wasn't sure about it at first when they started bringing the bins of stuff out. After we looked in them, we were like little kids ourselves. We were the first two sitting down in our kiddie seats waiting for the activity to begin. We rumaged through the bin that had the animals in it and we were grabbing at all the ones we thought were cute so we could have our first pick for the girls. When they put the outfits out we were the first ones to go through them. It sounds mean but those other kids didn't stand a chance with us there haha :) It was fun! We also went for snow cones one day and Halle and Gabby LOVED them! I think they ate most of ours... SeaWorld was probably the best thing. Even though it was scorching hot, we all had a good time. The girls were exceptionally good. There were a few times when Halle acted like a crazy woman, but you are going to have that with any 5 1/2 month old. We saw the Shamu "Believe" show the first day and that was my favorite thing of all. Those whales truly are amazing creatures. We also fed the dolphins and petted them, but I only petted a couple of them b/c I'm a chicken (yes I know it's crazy how I would be scared of a dolphin right?). We also went to fed and pet the sting rays, and no I didn't pet them. My heart was racing 90 miles and hr. They sensed my fear b/c they kept coming up to where I was standing flapping their fins or whatever you call them against the wall for me to reach down. We also fed the sealions which was fun. We did SOO much stuff that it's hard to name everything so I will just say how great it was and move on to downtown disney.... Of course the girls were the hit of the town. They both wore their little minnie ears and people couldn't get enough of them. Everyone who walked by would ooo and ahhh over them. What can I say we have some cute kids :) We all got pearls out of oysters and Sara got earrings, Kelly got a ring, and I got a necklace. They are all so pretty! I was neat to watch the lady dig the pearl out of the oyster.... you were waiting to see if you got a big one or to see if you got one of the rare black pearls. We all got white ones and I think Kelly got the biggest :) It was sad to come back home after a week in Orlando. It always sucks coming back knowing you are going to have to unpack. It sucked for me b/c once we got to Sara's I still had to drive 3 1/2 hrs to get home. It was raining so bad for the first hr that I could barely see the road. I was so scared. I pulled over one time b/c I was so scared. I hate driving in the rain! Anyway, we made it home safe and sound and Rusty was happy to see us. Halle was especially happy to see her daddy and Abby. Abby is her new best friend. She's always wanting to be around her and she squeals when she see's abby walk in the room. It's so cute! I can't believe that she will be 6 months in a couple of days! I felt her gums today and I felt a little hard spot so maybe she will have a tooth before long, yay! She bites my chin and I tell her after she gets that tooth in she will no longer be able to bite mommy's chin. I got her some teething biscuits the other day at the store and she loves them. She goes to town on them with her little gums. She is getting to be a daddy's girl more and more everyday. She gets so excited to see him walk through the door. It's sweet :) I know he LOVES it. I hear him saying dadadadada to her. He wants her to say dada so bad. I promise she said mama before we went on vacation and even while we were on vacation, but now she won't say anything or even coo that much. I don't know what's going on with her, she's being a booger I guess. I am taking her for her 6 month check up and shots next week... I dread it! I hate when she has to get shots. I feel so sorry for her when she's laying there all happy go lucky and all of a sudden she gets stuck with a needle and she puckers up really big and those big blue eyes fill with tears and she look at me like help me mommy.... ahh I can't stand it! I am about to cry now! I love my buggie SOOO much! Oh, I almost forgot to tell everyone who doesn't already know that we are going to be stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY. We plan on living in Clarksville, TN though. I am excited to be closer to my sister and mom and dad, but we will be further away from Kelly and Sara and them and thats makes me really sad. I want Halle and Gabby to grow up being close... guess we will have to plan MANY trips to see them and they better come to see us too :) We are looking at houses to buy, but we also talked about renting. Rusty plans to deploy March 2010 and I thought about going to live with my sister who is in Murfreesboro, TN while Rusty is away. Then again I thought that if I like my job and Halle has a good daycare and I have friends who understand what I'm going through b/c their husbands are gone too then I might not want to move. I don't know it's a big decision to make. I have a lot to think about!