Happy Birthday Ciarrah

Today my baby Ciarrah turns 4!! It is hard to believe that she is already 4. Where did the time go. I can still remember being in labor with her. I hope she has a great birthday at school and this weekend we are having a birthday party with her friends at our house! Hope everyone has a great day!!

An Controversial Topic at My House

In our house hold the last few weeks has been that of religion. It really hasn't been anything to deal with, but I recently have decided that I have wanted to start going back to church. Michael while in Iraq has been going as much as he can every Sunday to Catholic service.
Which started our "decision" on the topic. Michael is roman catholic and I am Lutheran which are quite different. Michael refuses to go to any church except a Catholic church, and so that means if I really want to go to church I either have to suck it up and go alone or I have to go to a Catholic one. On top of this, I have never been to any other type of church service but Lutheran, so all I really know about Catholic's are what you hear or what you see on tv.

Well today I went to my first Catholic church service. As I was sitting there, I realized that this service wasn't much different than the services of a Lutheran one. I guess I should give ya a little insight as to why this is.

My new friend whom I met at Ciarrah's school, is catholic. She invited me to her induction ceremony into the Daughter's of the King this morning, so I decided to go. Well her church is called St. Christopher's Episcopal Church. This church was very welcoming. It felt very good to be there. The Father seems to be a very nice man. After he found out that I was new to the congregation this morning, he made it a point, to make sure everyone else did too. I didn't realize how much I really missed going to church until I was there today. After going I felt so much better. Not sure if that makes sense, but it does to me. I have not stepped foot in a church in a long time, way to long and I regret that, but that is all going to change now. I did cry during the service, everyone did. Because we are a miltary town, the Father asks for anyone who is deploying or on r&r to come up. Well a man was getting ready to deploy and well I guess it just hits home, but I thankful that Michael will be home in 2 months, and we will be all done with this deployment for a year or so.

The Father after church was talking to me and was asking some questions about where I went to church. I told him and he asked me what type of Lutheran I was and I told him. He told me the Episcopal's and ELCA's are basically like kissing cousins. I thought that was a pretty funny thing for a Father to say, but I guess he was basically telling me that, they are so closely related that there really isn't much of a difference.
I have decided that we are going to continue to attend this church. For a few reasons
1) It is Catholic
2) It is sooo close to a Lutheran service
3) Everyone there seems very welcoming
4) Ciarrah and Cooper did really well in the nursery/sunday school

I hope everyone has a great week! Tomorrow my new friend and I are heading to they gym every morning! I need to start working out!!

Kid's Little Photo Shoot

I just wanted to share the many pictures from the mini photo shoot we had today. It was a lot of fun. Ciarrah wasn't sure at first, mostly because it was a man taking pictures. She has a thing with guys in general, so this was hard, but Cooper went first and then she was more than willing to smile for the camera. Hope everyone is good and the week is going well!!

Photo Shoot

Catching Up

It has been a while since I last blogged. It has been super busy around here again.
Ciarrah got her first ever SAD face at school on Tuesday. She was hitting, not following directions, not resting during rest time, the list goes on....I was very saddened when I heard about this. I asked her why she had such a rough day, she tells me she misses her daddy. For about the last week, all she does is cry and whin for him. It breaks my heart. His too when I tell him about it. So we are letting her talk to him as much as possible. At least he'll be home in 2 1/2 months so that is good news!
I have been busy planning our vacation when Michael comes home. We have about 4,000 miles to cover round trip in about 2 weeks, that shall be fun. We are leaving the 22nd at like 2am and heading straight to Nebraska. Staying there a few days, then going up to Virginia to see grandma and everyone up there. Then we are going to North Carolina to see his mom and sister. All the while, we have to be back home by the 2nd of January, cause Ciarrah goes back to school on the 4th. It is going to be fun driving in the car with a toddler and a 4 year old. I hope all goes well. We are driving straight through no overnight stopping. There are 2 adults we can both drive and sleep. I do not like stopping lol.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!