So Ken called me on Monday and he had just gotten back from seeing Toby Keith perform. I gave Ken a hard time that I am at home working away and staying home because I don't want to do things without him and he is playing over there going to concerts and have a great time!! Ken said I wasn't going to make him feel bad about this one. But I wouldn't be me if I didn't tease ;) He said it was a great show and they had fun!
Yesterday was the halfway mark for Ken's deployment. At least the part where I haven't seen him. It has been 16 weeks since he left and we have 16 weeks to go. On the one hand it is great.... I made it this long and it seemed to go by quickly. And on the other hand I think... I have to do that all over again?! He gets to call quite often which is great. And I haven't been commited yet so I am optimistic!! I have been blessed that Ken spends all his time in an office on the base. But he hates it of course and would rather be out in all the action. He is MR. G.I Joe. When Ken left I gave him permission to lie about things if he thought I would worry as long as he promised to tell me everything when he was home safe. So a few weeks ago he gave me some story about communications would be down so he wouldn't be able to call for a few days. At first I bought it no problem, but quickly knew it was a cover for him going out and not being able to call for a while. The few days turned into 2 weeks and even though I knew he was out there and not in his office, I felt good that he would be alright. And I was actually happy for him that he got to because he would not be happy to spend the whole deployment in an office!! But once is enough for me. He had his fun and now he has to sit back at his desk :) He sent me a slide show of some pictures that I can't figure out how to get off the video or I would post them. So instead I just included a cute one of me and Ken:)
I think of him and miss him every minute of every day. It is the hardest thing having him gone, but I know we will be better for it in every way. I can't wait to have him home and am happy to be on the downward side. And summer is coming so hopefully it makes the time go even faster than the first half. I never in my life thought that I would wish for summer to go by quickly! ;) But then again I never thought I would be a soldier's wife either :) Life is just full of surprises!!!
Thursday night by brother's band KHP played at Club Vegas in Salt Lake. They sold the most tickets so got to be the headlining show and they did so great that the club is going to book them for a weekend show. Kristian was really excited. Some friends from work came, Tom and Stefanie, and we played pool and had a lot of fun.
So I haven't been the best with blogging and it is too much to go back and catch up so I will just have to try to be better from now on ;) Easter was great. We also celebrated the April birthdays on the same saturday so we had a full crazy house. I couldn't get the birthday pictures off my camera yet but I have the pictures of the egg hunt. The kids had fun!
Brandi and Austin came over and joined in the fun!! :)
