Bye-Bye

This morning Kyle left for the field. Luckily he is there for less than a week, but I always hate to see him leave. He did do a very nice thing and call the doggy babysitter for me. I think he wanted to come home to a sane wife. So, I just got done dropping the dogs off, Cary's (aka doggy babysitter) kids are on summer break, so I know they will be very spoiled. They will be in doggy heaven. So it is just the lil' dude and me, we had to say "bye-bye" to daddy and the dogs today.



I do have some exciting news...I bought a plane ticket for Gunnar and I to come and visit in the states. I will be leaving Aug. 22 and staying until the time Kyle gets back from this month long field problem. I am excited to be able to go home and show this cute baby off, but sad that Kyle can't come and that we have to be away from him for so long. Now,I wonder who the lucky one will be that gets to sit by me and my baby...haha, I can't wait to see their faces and know they are thinking "I have to sit by them for 10 hours, are there any other seats open?" If you notice the day I am leaving is approx. 4 days away from the start of school for teachers here...so, that means I will be a stay at home mommy this year. This was a long, drawn-out decision, but I know I made the right one to stay home. I will be plenty busy with Gunnar, my master's, and the mini dog kennel I have happening here at my apartment.
I would also like to say I am excited because this weekend we are going to have some visitors. Our good friend Tim, a soldier Kyle was deployed with out of Ft. Campbell is coming to visit for the weekend with his new wife Sarah. We look forward to seeing Tim and meeting his new wife. Suesse our dog is in love with Tim, so she will be really excited to see him. They are over here traveling all over Germany, Tim grew up here. Their lives have been exciting lately as Tim got out of the Army, they got married, Sarah graduated college and got commissioned as an officer in the Army National Guard, talk about some life changes. The got married on the beach in St. Thomas, it looks so beautiful!

I finally got our pictures back that we took at least a month ago. I am pretty disappointed to say the least. We only bought one picture because I felt silly getting our pictures taken and not even choosing one. The idea was to get Gunnar's photos taken, but the photographer had no idea how to shoot a newborn and kept wanting him to hold his head up and smile...sorry, wasn't happening then, now, yes, then, no. I hate this picture, but it was the best. Gunnar has a floppy arm and my hair is in my face...oh well, we will try again before Kyle leaves for this next deployment (but I think we will try a different photo studio). I hate it so much I won't even scan it, you just get a picture of a picture.

Well, I think I should probably get something accomplished, since my day has been taken up being the dog wrangler. I really want to watch the Bachelorette but for some reason it keeps coming up with an error. I know it is a dumb show, but it is the finale, and what else do I have to do with my time (haha, not homework or anything like that).