Looking back......

.....to the last decade....since I can't get any pictures to post, which I'm sure is thanks to my crappy internet.....anyway....I have heard so many say that they are glad to see this last decade come to a close and especially this last year, it just makes me kinda sad. All in all, this last decade has been a good one for us. Starting the decade off right, Emily was born in March of 2000. And she will tell you that was the best thing that happened, and she may be right, she's so darn cute! We have lived in 3 states in the last decade......Texas, Georgia, Texas (again), and Virginia. How many moves in each state? Let's don't go there. It always gets John in trouble. Wait...let's just count....once in TX the first time, 3 in GA, 3 in TX the second time, and 2 in VA. Not bad for 10 years, huh? John has spent almost two and a half years away from us with the Army. We've had many happy times in the last decade and not too many sad ones. A couple of jobs hated, a couple of jobs loved. John worked for Scholastic Book Fairs in Georgia. I got to dress up as Clifford the Big Red Dog and Franklin for John's preschool class. That's a good memory. We did have some scary moments. Almost lost John in the lake in our subdivision in Georgia. Very scary!!! I break out in a sweat every time I think about it. Doctor thought Ethan had leukemia in 2004. Emily broke her arm in 2008. Ethan, Our Ethan, I'm not kidding, accused of being a terrorist in the fifth grade. 2005--I had to drive through an ice storm from Texas to Georgia to pick John up when he came home from Iraq. Worth every white knuckled mile (I don't drive well in dry weather, much less bad weather)!!! I'll never forget the look on his face when I first saw him come out of the crowd of soldiers. Tired and weary, happy to be home, the most handsome I'd ever seen him! What else have we done over the last decade......the kids have grown into their personalities, which I gotta tell you, they are not what I expected them to be based on how they acted as babies, but I love who they are so much more than what I expected. We can look into the future at this point and look forward to how much fun we will have with them as adults. If they are not spending too much in therapy, that is.