Breaking News:
Victorville woman has another 8 months to live without heart!!
That's right...it has been reported that 29yr old Victorville woman has discovered her heart is M.I.A. Yes, driving away from Ontario Airport(after dropping husband off), Sarah Price, resident of Victorville, California realizes her heart has been missing since July! That is when her husband of 8 yrs left on a deployment to Iraq. Her heart did indeed come back for a short while when her husband came home on his 14 day leave. He is on his way back to Iraq where he will be serving another 8 months before getting to come home for good! But not to worry...he has had Sarah's heart in his possession for the last 10 yrs and he knows how to protect it and keep it safe! Her heart is right next to her husbands where it belongs....Baby I miss you!!!
Okay, okay...that was korny! But then again...
so am I!!! Well Devin did indeed get to come home for his 14 days of R&R. We are now at the " half way" mark of his tour of duty! Only 8 more months to go...YAY!! I know, it still sounds so long but hey it's better than 18 months, right? While he was home we had lots and lots of good times...the kiddos have been missing their daddy so much and just to see the little looks on their faces when they saw their daddy, was priceless! Imagine going to bed knowing that mom is going to be picking daddy up from the airport and when you wake up daddy will be there!!
Devin left Iraq to come home Jan 23rd and finally arrived Jan 26th after long and exhausting flights and delays. He was pooped!! Can you imagine, after at least 36 hrs of flights and "what not" being able to come home and sleep in his OWN bed, in his OWN house with his family within his physical reach. Not just on his mind, the way it has been, since July. While thinking of them as he lays there in a war zone, but actually right there. If you ask him he says it felt like a dream. In fact, he thought he was having a dream. That is until at the "butt crack" of dawn two kids ran into our room squealing in delight and jumping right on top of him!! It was precious...a great reunion! We really enjoyed our time...you know, sometimes, you realize, just how precious family time is...it only last for a short while... so treasure each and every moment you have with your loved ones. Who knows when your last moments as a family will be...make memories they'll last forever!!
In the midst of it all...we happened to get some one on one time...first we had a delicious dinner date with our good friends Sean and Wendy Wilkie. Sean is on deployment with Devin and has really been a good friend for him. Thank you Sean!! We had dinner at the Castaway Restaurant in San Bernadino, it was beautiful. The next day the 4 of us got to go to Six Flags Magic Mountain, it was a blast!! You know, I hadn't been on a "real" roller coaster since before I had Arial...that's 5 yrs ago!!
We did just spend alot of time just relaxing at home. Well...I was relaxing! My wonderfully thoughtful husband took care of me and let me sleep in everyday!! He was the one who got up when one of the kids woke up in the middle of the night, he was the first one up in the morning making us breakfast, and he even finished all the "Dos" on his list!! Impressive, eh? I thought so!!
We even had a chance to get away for our anniversary for 2 days! Traci and Cameron came up to our place and watched the kids for us!! Yeah...5 kids all together, when you count their 2...4 in diapers...Brave Souls!! Dev and I were thinking we should make it a tradition and trade off. We'll watch your kids for your anniversary and you guys can watch ours! We really appreciated you guys doing that for us, Thanks again!! (yeah, that's a shout out to y'all Traci and Cam!!)
Like always, please keep Devin and Sean in your thoughts and prayers, as well as all the other service men and women overseas, with the weather changing over there in Iraq, the action is starting to heat up as well! We love you all and thank everybody for your continued support. Until next time, be good to one another we'll talk to y'all later....P.S. here are some of my favorite pictures we took while Devin was home.......
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