Home Sweet Home

Whew!! After 3 days and 3 nights away from home it's good to be back. We hauled home from Merrill yesterday morning around 10:30 am only to get back on the road a few hours later (this time a much shorter trip) to Janesville where Nate's parents live. His little brother Jake was home from school (in Northern Minnesota) and he hadn't met Finley yet. It's also Nate's dad's birthday is next week so there were a few reasons to get together. It's always tough to juggle families at holiday's and though you can't always spend time with everyone we do our best to make up for it. Here are lots more pictures from Thanksgiving and the weekend.

Having his Thanksgiving bottle with Daddy

Fast asleep after another walk outside

Cute Thumbsucker

With his Great Nanny (Nate's Nanny)

With Grandma Erika

Meeting Uncle Jake

With Grandma Patti


Finley did really well with all the traveling however his sleep schedule got a little off so I hoping to work back into the routine this week. I'd much rather wake up with him at 6:30am than 5:00am so this is important for my sanity!! He continued to go to bed around the same time so I am not sure what caused the change. Probably just being in a different place. I really cannot complain that my 3 and half month old has been sleeping 7-10 hour nights for about a month or so. I am thankful for this and know that it's subject to change without any warning!!

It is becoming a reality that Nate's deployment is quickly creeping up on us. We tried to put it out of our heads but I am not sure it's entirely possible to do that. We are thankful and grateful for our amazing son, the last 3 and half months together with him and for the remainder of the time we have as a family before deployment. Now if we could just figure out how to freeze time before it flies by!!