From a Facebook friend...

You know your in a relationship with a pilot when…

Your bedroom has a half packed/unpacked suitcase in it whenever your partner is home...

No matter what you are doing with them they have to stop and watch a plane fly over and try to identify it!

When you tell people you are married to an airline pilot it's more like "omg! How does that work? What does he fly, you must to get fly a lot.... people generally assume you lead a glamorous life with the ability to travel anywhere you want... HA! As if!

Your friends think you have an imaginary partner, and secretly think you're a bit bonkers LOL

You can look forward to him coming home.........love that feeling.......

Your friends and family think it is strange that you don’t know where you husband is going and that you don’t keep a schedule of his overnights. You know your pilot will call you.

Your conversation before you husband leaves is .. “is this a 3 day or a 4 day. Am or PM?

You actually know what, “clear left, clear right”, “trip-trade”,“dead head”, and other pilot lingo means and you begin to talk to your friends that way.

Now how many of you can relate to this life we lead? It definitely has it's up's and downs!

It's a long one....

It has been a while since I have done a post. I just haven't felt it lately. Nothing much has been going on. I debated a while before even writing this post, but figured, what-the-heck it's my blog and my journal so I'm going to write it.

I have felt so down, and out of it lately. With Tanner being the only one home during the day, my day is well...boring. I don't DO much of anything. Sure, I do the basics, laundry, straighten the house, feed both of us lunch and breakfast. I take care of the basics of tending to the other kids. My house stays fairly clean...but I have several hours of nothing time. There are SO many things I SHOULD be doing, but don't have the drive in the least.

Then I hear ALL the time about how busy so many moms are, and I would start to feel guilty. What am I doing wrong? Why aren't I running around like a chicken with it's head cut off and non stop busy? So the guilt builds and then I give up and just don't do anything because I figure why try.

I thought maybe winter blues...but um...what winter? Finally I had a wake up call. I woke up the other morning and thought NO MORE! I'm tired of living like this. I'm tired of feeling like I have no purpose and no energy. So I am taking control! I'm GOING to do productive things with my time. I am going to have a positive attitude with my callings.

I have put my self on a schedule. I have certain time to do things and I still leave myself down time. No more just sitting in the house all day. I am going for walks, not more just wishing I could do a project, I am going to find a project to do. (Dreams of refinished dressers dance in my head). I AM going to come up with creative ways to help my kids in school. I AM going to spend a few mins every morning to do some spiritual studying. These things need to happen. I DO have a purpose!

One thing that has kept me steadily going is school. I am, well I'm not sure what semester I'm on. 3 I think? The classes sort of all blend together. I take one class at a time, and two classes a semester. Each class is 5 1/2 weeks.

I debating on posting some of my projects because they are slightly laughable. But I have made progress, considering I didn't draw AT ALL before I started school. So here is a little of my work:

From my perspectives class:

From my basic drawing class: I couldn't use a ruler hence the few not-so-straight lines.
From my fundamentals of design class: I had to show some form of symmetry. This is called Formal Symmetry...just in case you were wondering.

From my basic drawing class again.

Each of my classes has pushed me farther and farther out of my comfort zone. But I am loving it. It takes a lot of work and makes me think. I am glad for school. I still feel like it was a good decision.

So I am off to conquer another day! I am going to make it worth while....no really my list is huge today with a HUGE birthday party for Todd coming up and Tanner's birthday tomorrow. Busy busy!

One year older and wiser too....

Well time for my annual year review and thoughts. This year has been a good year to us. A little hard in some ways but we've made it and have enjoyed the ride! Many milestones were hit this year which has been awesome! We:

Stayed warm through super cold weather and my foot finally healed after one heck-of-a sprained ankle.

Todd finally has a job with benefits...first time in our married lives!

Tanner was potty-trained. NO kids in diapers! Wahoooo!

We survived our first tornado season.

Tate turned 8 and was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Managed to stay some-what cool through a record breaking hot summer.

I am now a college student.

Tobyn started Kindergarden. (which just leaves Tanner and I home durring the days)

TC turned 12 and received the priesthood.

Todd passed his 1 year probation check ride.

We made it through first year pay.

We got TX license plates which makes us officially Texans right?

And to usher in the new year we no have NO children in Nursery.

I really am very happy. We couldn't be more blessed. Besides all of the mile-stones I have witnessed many miracles, big and small, that have kept us going this past year.
I can only hope for as much with 2012. We will meet a few more big ta-do's this year and I am excited for them!

A few things to look forward to are:

We will turn 3-0 this year. Not old...yet...but crazy to think about!

I will be a mom of a teenager. What?!

Another one of my children will be attending middle school.

How come all of these things have to do with getting older....?

I will also work on my new year resolutions, which consist of being a little more patient and loving, little more spiritual, little more organized and little more forgiving of my self and those around me.

May we all have a wonderful 2012!