Today has been a day. My goodness. It's getting closer and closer to Cody coming home and the closer it gets the worse I get. It's not something I can really explain. Guys are already coming home and I'm seeing them in church and I have friends that have their husbands coming home and it's just so hard. Cody is extremely tired and ready to come home. I'm just to the end and ready for him to come home. We are both soooooooooo excited but the anxiousness is overwhelming. And of course Chloe senses my anxiety so she is acting like a dog who has not training, forgets she is house trained and destroys my inside plants. I am getting to where it's almost time to start getting things ready for Cody's homecoming so I'm trying to focus on that so I won't feel overwhelmed by the stress. Staying busy helps me so much. I'm wanting to do so many little detailed things so he will have the best homecoming welcome ever! I can't say on here because Cody reads this (hehe hi babe) but I'm so looking forward to taking pictures and just celebrating us being whole again. I'm so glad for you all (our families) to have peace knowing that he is home and getting to talk to him again. We have 28 days until we can fully breath again!!! I'm so ready for that day!! We will be coming to Oklahoma at the end of June through July so we are both very excited to see everyone!!!! I was driving yesterday and saw a man fishing and I started crying. This was a HUGE sign that I'm homesick... haha. Ready to see my husband and ready to see our families!!! :)

It's been a crazy week. My friend's baby had to be admitted to the hospital. The lovely Germany doctors told her after 2 days that nothing was wrong just to give her nose drops. So then my friend just had a gut feeling something was really wrong and took her into the clinic on post to see the Pediatrician and found out that her baby has the croop (not sure how to spell that). So lovely health care here in Germany. I got to go flower shopping which was extremely fun and this weekend it is supposed to be in the 70s so I'll get to plant them and work outside. The Post has also opened a dog park which we all have been waiting on for over 2 years now. I took Chloe there today. She ran and ran and ran and played. It's a good place to meet people and for Chloe to make new friends. Cody is doing well. There is some sickness going around, they are calling it the plague. So far he has avoided it, hoping and praying he doesn't get sick. We are just waiting now for him to come home. So can't wait for that day!!!! :) Missing you all and we are both ready to make it back to Oklahoma and visit with everyone!

Wow it's been nearly a month since my last blog. I've been so busy since Cody left. I'm to the point where I can't sit and do nothing so I really haven't been home. I just go go and go. Everything is going as good as it can with him gone. I'm ready for homecoming to get here now. It's getting closer and closer each day. Slowly getting back into the groove of cleaning/laundry. My friend Sophie got back last week so we have been together 24/7. Before that would have driven me nuts but I'm really enjoying it. Chloe is doing well, crazy as ever. Cody is doing good to. He has been VERY busy since he's been back but that is good for him. So all is going well here. Just waiting now for him to be home for good!

Today has been good! I woke up by a phone call from Cody. That just made my entire day great! He has already made it back to KAF, thats in Afghanistan. He thought he would be in Kuwait for a few days but they had a flight right away. But he should be at KAF for a couple days now and he gets to call so that helps so much! I got groceries today and found two new dresses that are just so cute. Bought both. :) Got home and was unloading my groceries and realized that the bagger put my raw chicken in with my loaf of bread!!! UGH. I only had small change to give him and then I felt bad but now I don't! I shouldn't have tipped him at all! Anyways.. I'm not letting that ruin my day, ha. I am going to get rid of a lot of our boxes today. We have our outside storage basically crammed full of boxes. Boxes for my dishes and plastic ware and just a lot of things that we REALLY don't need them for. I would like to keep them but we need that storage space for actual storage. So I'm saying goodbye to them today. I just hope I don't regret getting rid of them, haha. I have to keep the one for the TV because Army won't ship it if we don't have the box. But other than that I think I'm getting rid of everything else, but not the boxes I can use to ship Cody stuff. Still have so so much cleaning to do. I'm getting laundry done today, I have 3 loads of dark clothes alone and then the other colors, whites, and towels. I'll be busy though and I'm glad for that! Really miss Cody but know it won't be much longer!

Just took Cody to the airport. Wasn't as hard as the first time but it's still never easy saying goodbye. Now I'm counting down until homecoming. Not to long only about 10 weeks. We got ready this morning, he finished packing. I cooked cinnamon rolls for him and then we headed out. Chloe went with us. It was great having her there. It was sad seeing Cody leave and then even more sad seeing Chloe look out the window and whining that he was walking away. UGH. But it's done and over with now and we can move on to looking forward to him coming home for good and knowing this was the last time I'd have to say goodbye to him going into a combat zone. Thank God for that! Now it should be easy breezy, just as long as he's safe. I couldn't have asked for a better r&r though, it was amazing. He is amazing! I'm so thankful for him! Okay 10 weeks!

Our r&r has been wonderful so far. It's flying by so fast, he only has 5 days left here. I'm sad but at the same time ready for him to get back because the sooner he gets back to AFG the sooner he will be coming back home for good. He has gotten to get so much rest and just have down time. He really needed that. He has been working NON STOP for 8 months so it was time for a few days of nothing. We had a really good time in Edelweiss. We did NOTHING. haha. It was fun though just spending time together. Chloe is really really enjoying her daddy being home. She has totally forgotten about me though, ha.

Well I'm sure most of you know but Cody is home! Today was his second day here! It's been so great! We really haven't been doing much of anything, but it's nice!