Deployment Goals

I have two main deployment goals to begin working towards:

1.Getting my Childbirth Educator certification.
2.Getting my Lactation Consultant certification.  

       I fully realize that these two goals could very well take a couple of years to accomplish, but it is something that I would like to begin working towards. Cayleigh-Grace is not going to be home with me forever, she will be starting school the year we move and I would like to be prepared to get a job while the she and the boys are in school. 

Then there are the many smaller and less life changing goals that I hope to accomplish.

1. complete the many quilts that I have in various stages of completion.
2. Make the quilts that I have had the material to make for the past couple of years.
3. Go to the Gym on an almost daily basis. 
4. Join a Pilates, and an Ultimate Ab class.  
5. Work on cardio and strength training big time. 
6. Work on creating a nice garden area around the house and in the back yard. 
7. Read at least 52 books while KS is gone. (So far I have already read 4) Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.
8. Purchase Cayleigh-Grace's new dresser as well as a headboard or full bed frame for KS and I's bed.
9. Work on my photography. 
10. Research becoming a doula. 
11. Sell our house back home. 

Knowing me I will be continuously adding to this list as the time goes on, but this is a good starting point. I am actually looking forward to going through this list month by month to see how it will grow and to watch myself mark things off bit by bit. 

New Camera

Well my new camera is in, here are a couple of the pics that I took yesterday. I was so happy to see it sitting there when I got home from shopping and getting a new hair cut yesterday.

Cayleigh-Grace stood up in her crib for the first time as well. I had told her that she wasn't allowed to do anything new until my new camera came in, and thankfully she listened! She stood up within hours of opening up my new camera.

My first rose of the season started blooming on Monday. I love my roses, I have 6 rose bushes. I didn't think any of them were going to come back since I totally ignored them last year do to me being pregnant and the extremely hot weather that we have during the summer. Who wants to be out in that?