Monday, June 20, 2011

Update for May and June

I can't believe June is almost over. It has been crazy around here and we have stayed very busy. It seems like every weekend we have been busy doing something. May 14-15 we went up to Great Wolfe Lodge in North Carolina. It is a very expensive resort and has an indoor water park. The was a Marriage Retreat sponsored by the military so all we had to pay for was to get up there and 3 meals. We got lodging and 3 meals paid for. I think that is the only way that we could go up there. It was fun. Sofi was scared of the water. This was the first time that we had taken her to a water park and she didn't like it too much she would rather sit and watch what the people. The girls were just excited to be staying in a hotel. They had child care for the girls while we were in our classes during the day then the evenings we were able to play in the water park. They also had a story time and clock that had puppets and music. It was a great program and the girls really liked that.




This is at the enterance of the Lodge and Emma is showing us the Bear!




Sofi having her new wolf give the bear loves, and Emma just being grumpy for pictures.





Sofi's turn to give bear loves!







Two Friends not wanting to smile standing in front of the clock tower, they were so tired from the swimming they had done earlier we were trying to keep them awake for the story time that was starting a little later.


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May 20th was Combat Spouse Day where I (Jaynee) got to play soldier. I participated last year as well. It is a lot of fun. I get to learn how to clear a building, learn about the equipment the communications soldiers use, get rolled over in a simulated Humvee, play a simulated turkey shoot with the M4, and do a liter carry. I forgot to mention I had on Lee's uniform plus the vest (without plates) and kevlar helmet. They paid for child care for the kids and lunch for us. It was really hot hotside especially with all the equipment on, I don't know how they do it in Iraq. It was fun to learn and play with the equipment. If I screwed up I didn't have to do push-ups, just got laughed at by the instructors. I think that they had more fun watching a bunch of women trying to be soldiers.







After the spouse day was over we drove to Atlanta for an Adoption Conference. We were able to stay at our case workers home so we didn't have to pay for a hotel. She has a huge home in a really pretty area of Atlanta. The conference was good. I got to know a lot more couples who are trying to adopt and some good information about helping the girls out as they get older about adoption and how to answer some of the questions that they will get from other children.

Memorial Day weekend we stayed home, but not to lounge around. Lee was in charge of the church picnic that they wanted to do at the last minute. So we put a BBQ together for 50 people, this included gettng all the food and supplies. It turned out good but a lot of work. When we got home we found out that the new pool in our subdivision was finally open. So on Monday we took the girls to the pool. Emma loved it and Sofi had a hard time, but after a 3 weeks of constantly going to the pool she now loves to float around in her floaty.

As for June we have just stayed busy trying to do projects around the house and getting things done while Lee is not in school. He finishes his command up in August and starts his new class in October. This will also count towards finishing his Master's degree so he doesn't have to take 2 classes in the fall. This course that he is in is 6 months and then we are off to our next assigment.

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