Another day in the gardens.

It was beautiful out today. I loaded up the girls and we headed to Callaway.


Wearing our shades.


Autumn lugged her blue bear around today. She asked me today who gave her that and I drew a blank. Do you recall?


Millie spacing out.


Looking silly.


I think Millie is really starting to catch up to Autumn, size wise.


Square pants.










Millie's been drinking that muscle milk.


Now they are both doing it?




Autumn took my picture. I guess I am mostly in it!






Looking back at these pictures really makes me wish you were here too.


We walked all around the Azalea Brothers bowl down to the chapel. Autumn wanted to go inside and I'm glad she did, because it was really pretty in there.


There were flowers in the stain glass windows.


Two bumps on a log.


These flowers were really pretty, but I swear, there was a thousand bees around there!


A nice view.


Millie may not like plants, but she really is coming around to flowers.


Does she not look like a little old lady?


Millie getting ready to give Autumn a shove.


Millie refused to wear her shoes.


But she was having a grand old time!






24 days of smelling the flowers without you.

Your current wife and favorite airman. xoxo

Autumn's first soccer game.

I'll admit, I was a little nervous about Autumn's first soccer game. For one, she fell asleep last night at 6 pm and slept through to 730 this morning. I was worried she was getting sick, but she must have just been tired. She woke up in a very good mood. We got ready for soccer and headed out.


Her uniform is ginormous on her. It is the smallest size they had.


I thought every thing was going to go great! Autumn slept well, she woke up happy, she had breakfast, her cousins, Aunt/Uncle and Grandma were all there.


She lined up with her mates and when they called "LIONS" ran through the little banner thing.

Then the crying began. I want to go home. Crosses arms. "You go home Mommy!" For the life of me I could not figure out what her problem was. I finally convince her to get out there and play


Crossing my fingers...


Here we go, she is doing great. She lamely kicked the ball and everyone started running and I thought we are golden! She is going to do it!


Then she turned around. Yep, she was crying. Coach Keith tried holding her hand and running with her for a bit, but after a few minutes, he sent her out. Coach was really great with Autumn because I waas feeling pretty fed up with her and she is my child, Coach did not seem bothered at all!


I believe this look covers our first soccer game experience.

Her team lost the score was 2-1. Once we got home, Autumn finally told me what her problem was. She was upset that the grass was wet and she said her shoes were going to get dirty. I was like are you SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We ended up going out to lunch with your mom and the Brett's, then I headed over to the TFM, they were having a sale today on a certain item that I won't mention since you say I've talked about it too much.

We headed home where I conducted nap time operations and my Insanity workout. After Millie woke up from nap, we headed to the park.


Swinging.


Autumn's favorite, hopscotch.


Millie's turn. Millie was like, what is the big deal? This doesn't look so hard.


I just walk right on over and


Pick up my rock right? Seriously, that girl cracks me up!


After about an hour, Autumn had a total meltdown because I made her come with me to take Millie to the bathroom. We ended up leaving directly after that.


Millie smiles.

I am not sure why, but I think Millie feels like it is her mission to:


Freak out every mother on the playground, to include this one.

23 days of being bad without you.

Your current wife and favorite airman. xxoo

Movies, spaghetti and wine.

It has been rainy today. It started lightning and thundering last night. I was OK with that. The girls and I really needed a down day. We rented:


The Adventures of TinTin on Blu-ray and the quality of the picture was so good that Autumn didn't believe it was a cartoon at first. I really enjoyed the movie and would watch it again.

I also rented Hugo, but I'm going to watch that tonight.


Autumn square pants came to our room last night and demanded to sleep with me. I told her that she is not allowed to sleep in our room anymore, that I would walk her back to her room every time, so she might as well stay in her bed. Then she tells me that she just misses you and that she wants to talk to you, so we called to leave you a message. I'm not sure how well you will be able to hear the girl on your voice mail and it took us two tries. The first time she didn't understand you wouldn't be on the other line (OK, I'll admit, that was completely a Cherish fail). She kept saying, "Daddy, where are you? Why aren't you talking? Then the phone hung up on us, so I don't even know if that message was left or not. We called again and she said, "Daddy, I love you and I miss Miss Keri and Miss Tricia." I took Autumn back to her room and she slept there through the night.


Miss Millie is still doing excellent. She has been asking for you, but she is easily distracted. She had a really good day of potty training today, no accidents and she even told me this time when she needed to go number two! That is a huge improvement over yesterday. It seems to go that way though. We'll have 3 or 4 really good days, followed by one bad day and repeat. I'll take it!


For dinner tonight, I had wine. Just kidding! I didn't even open that. I couldn't. There is no way I could drink an entire bottle of wine by myself. We had spaghetti, garlic bread and I had a salad too. Autumn fell asleep while I was cooking dinner, so Millie and I went on and ate without her. Millie totally swiped Autumn's garlic bread! I'm assuming payback for Autumn taking Millie's crescent roll the other day.

Autumn is still asleep now. I hope she is just really tired and not getting sick. We have a game tomorrow, if it doesn't get rained out. I am still hoping that you will be able to call tonight or at least soon. I love you and miss you.

Your current wife and favorite airman. xoxo

22 wineless days without you!

Twirly, whirly day!

Autumn had school pictures this morning.


She looked so pretty in her dress and she loved it! She told me she felt like a princess.


There was a lot of twirling.


Millie wasn't really cooperating for a picture today. Can I just say that Millie has been doing excellent at using the bathroom, however, today at nap time, she was kind of grouching at me and I just sort of blew her off and told her to go to sleep. All of a sudden, I hear a high pitched squeal and Millie was freaking out. She was shouting, "icky, fix it, clean, clean, clean!" I go running in there to discover that the girl must have needed to use the bathroom and I ignored her cries for help. She was forced to relieve herself upon her bed and let me just say, that was awful!!!!!!!!!!! It was not a number one and it was such a huge not number one that she stepped in it and got it on her blanket, the carpet, and some clothes. I felt terrible! I got her all cleaned up, her bedding cleaned up, I am waiting the spots on the carpet to dry so that I can vacuum them up. The carpet really didn't get much of our little problem today. So, lesson learned!

Back to this morning,


Autumn says she loves you. She is still blowing you kisses. She says, "daddy is taking way too long at his work."

Once I dropped Autumn off at school, I did my workout, grabbed a shower and called your mom. Autumn told me she wanted Grandma to see her Princess dress. After picking the girl up and on the way to your mom's I asked Autumn if she enjoyed being such a pretty girl at school today and she said, "I'm not going to talk to you about that, but I was a pretty girl at my school today." Once we got to your mom's,


She knocked on the door and then immediately started twirling.


While waiting for your mom, I found this blast from the past, Pepper Annie. Even though she has turned into a nice cat since moving in with your mom and dad, I'm pretty sure she hates me for leaving her.

During this time I received a phone call from my mom that she needed me to write, notarize and fax an affidavit for Devonne. Matt is suing Devonne for sole custody of the kids. Their first court appearance is tomorrow morning at 9 am (they just found this out today). Anyway, so I figured while I was at lunch with the girls, I would figure out what I was going to write and have plenty of time to get this all taken care of.

We visited with your mom, Autumn changed her clothes and then we headed out to Chickfila. Autumn asked your mom to go with us and she agreed. I put the girls in the car and your mom told me she would meet me there, but when I went to back out of the drive way, Autumn flipped out and told me I had to wait for her Grandma. "Bad mommy." So we waited, Autumn says to me, "grandma is taking a long time." I told Autumn Grandma wouldn't be much longer, and she wasn't. I think your mom was surprised to see us in the drive way still, so I explained and then Autumn says to your mom, "grandma! You took a long time!" It was so funny. We went over the chickfila and had lunch. Came home, put Millie to bed for nap. Then the big fiasco with nap time happened. It took me much longer to write my affidavit than I thought it would. I went to print it up and only one page printed. I completely forgot we were running out of toner. OY! Now it is going on 4 pm. I called your mom, she was in town and said I could come and grab her from the Publix and she would sit in the car with the girls while I ran into the library, printed my affidavit. Then I went to CB&T bank across the street and they wouldn't notarize it because I wasn't a member, but she told me that I could go to UPS right down the road. To make this long story short, I got my affidavit to Devonne's lawyer with 15 minutes to spare! I'm so glad your mom was in town already and could ride along with us!

I forgot to add some pictures last night from our trip to Target.


Miss Millie likes to put things in the cart! You really have to keep an eye on her, she has expensive taste too!


Doing some toy exploring.


Dancing!


Millie at chickfila.

So now we are home, it is just after 6 pm. I was supposed to go and meet Jennifer for their soccer practice, but she forgot the item she was bringing me, so we are staying home!


21 twirly, whirly days without you!

Your current wife and favorite airman. xoxo