i am slackin’ here!  john leaves in a week (actually 8 days – yes i’m counting!), and then our count down starts.  369 days.  what a long year this is going to be.  i hope the kids deal with it okay, it’s been a long time since he’s been gone.  we were totally spoiled by having him around so long on shore duty.  will will miss him a lot.  it is good for his career, though, so we’re just trying to look at the silver linings.  i haven’t been taking too many pictures, we’ve just been busy and enjoying our time together, but here are a few.  can’t have a post without pictures! 

oh – and i have to mention these things!  i am not normally a gimicky kinda gal.  buut these caught my eye at target the other day, so we picked them up and let the kids try them after dinner one night.  they are little straws filled with chocolate beads.  you drink white milk with it, which turns into chocolate milk as you drink it- ha!  i might buy them again once  to pack with lunch as a treat, but they were too funny not to share!