Down by the lake, we got some pictures that I am just inlove with!!! These pictures will be my life savior this entire deployment. Every one was so happy and it was a great great session!!!

Predeployment Vacation

We took a few days off and headed to Mrytle beach. It was soo much fun that we did not wanna leave. It was a pretty chilly but the indoor pools were nice and warm. It was great memory making!!! I cant wait to plan the R&R get away!!!! OM Goodness. Am I already thinking about R&R?? (R&R is a two week break Brandon will get to come home to us)

Our Last Deployment

The last deployment was a year ago. Our troops were deployed to Haiti. It lasted only about 2 months. I was about 4 or 5 months pregnant with Elli when he was deployed. We had a rushed good bye in a Taco Bell parking lot. He was one of the first soldiers from his unit to deploy and it was a last second scheduled flight. We made the best of it.

Making Daddy Faces

"Hey kids... Make a face that Daddy makes!" HA HA.

These are the best daddy faces I've ever seen. Almost every one I talk to tells me how much they look like their Dad. Yep, these faces surely look like their Daddy. ;)

Daddy I've grown

While you have been gone, I have turned 9 months. I can sit up on my own, but I still dont want too. I can crawl on my hands and knees, but I still prefer to drag myself around. I pull up on things, and Mommy "Eliyana, your gonna get hurt." She never lets me in the fireplace or push any of those buttons. I am eating more then you can even imagine and Mommy is way to slow about shoveling it in. I've decided spoons were pointless and now everything is a finger food!!

Snuggle time

I love this picture. Its such a cute cute capture. When Brandon went to Haiti, I had all the kids (minus Elli since she was not born yet) a pillow case made with his face real big. I think this time I will make a pillow case of a casual picture just like this for all four of the kids. They loved them and called them their "Daddy Pillows." I think this will be Elli's. Ha Ha... unless something better comes along in the two months we have left.

The Chair

This chair. This poor poor chair. It has been through it all. It went from a family of two to a family of six. It has rocked sick children, served some time out, and rested the tired. It is Brandon's chair. He rocked Caden as a baby, Caden and Dillin as a baby, Caden, Dillin, Adaliya as a baby.....I think you get the point. Let the tradtion continue... 6 years later and 4 kids.