Little Army man

This was from the last drill weekend Rob had about a month ago. When ever Rob has his stuff out the kids like to get into it. Garrett also has his own jacket and pants, although it is the old style camouflage.

Sick

We have been at home since Friday when Emma came down with a fever, she had to miss a good friend's rollerskating birthday party on Saturday. I planned to be able to go to church on Sunday and then Garrett woke up sick on Sunday. Today we are stranded home because of snow and ice. My brother said the talked about it on KARE-11 news, out of Minneapolis tonight "ice and snow in Casper, WY". It was white out for several hours this morning and then let up tonight. When I went out to get some wood, the snow was to my knees. Then temp seemed pretty warm though, probably about 30, but that could be relatively speaking. I had 3 people call to see if I needed anything today and others just to check on us. We really are blessed by all the care that God set up for us while Rob is gone!!

Smiling

I have been trying to capture Jenna smiling, especially to be able to show some pictures to Rob, but she does not smile all the time and when she does it seems I do not have time to get my camera. Here Garrett was enjoying helping me, as you can see the many positions he used trying to get her to smile.

Family visit

We had a great time with Grandma Anderson, and Caleb and Sharon visiting. Here are some pictures to update you on Jenna.

Jenna

Being the third child in our family Jenna is of course shown lots of love everyday by Emma and Garrett, they love to hold her and talk to her. Garrett still prays every prayer, "Baby sista, Amen."

Last weekend when my parents came to visit my Grandma "G.G." came along too. She enjoyed being able to hold and enjoy Jenna, and Emma and Garrett too.

Preparing for deployment

Rob has been gone now for 8 days for annual training with the National Guard at Camp Gurnsey (about 2 hours away from Casper), with 11 more days to go. My mom is here to help, but we have stayed really busy. Emma and Garrett were able to go swimming two times this week at the Rec. Center they have a special "Toddler Swim". Plus other things were were able to be out doing with the extra help of Grandma. Grandma plans to come help as often as she can while Rob is gone for a year.

Most of my spare time has been been busy and I try to get as much quality time with Rob as I can when he is home. He is scheduled to leave for Kuwait as early as April 16 or late as April 22. The Saturday before he left for Annual training we were able to have the whole day together with the help of our church members babysitting for us. I even left Jenna barely 4 weeks old for 4 hours (it was very worth it so Rob and I could have some time for just us) as we went out to eat and to "Pottery By You", where we were able to make some things for the deployment. See above I painted the mug and he wrote the message on it for me. and then he painted the jar and we will leave thoughts from him in it for the kids. The chicken on the side represents the chickens we plan on getting when Rob returns home. Not something I wanted to do by myself while he is gone.

We are so blessed to have a wonderful church family, they live up to what the Bible commands us to do in taking care of each other. There is no better place God could have placed us!

Jenna Grace

Jenna came home on Tuesday. Emma and Garrett have been great to their little sister. So far Jenna has been sleeping good. She sleeps from about 10:00 to 2:30 AM... then Betsy wakes her up and feeds her and she falls asleep again until 6:30. We had a wonderful photo session with her yesterday, our neighbor Brooke does photography and she spent a few hours doing some really neat poses with Jenna. We can't wait to see the pictures.