The Blob.

Just a quick video :)

We're pretty cool parents.

Updates on The Webbers!

Where on earth did time go. The last time I updated this was for Aid's birthday which was roughly a month and a half ago. (Ill have a 14 month old around Christmas time, I dont know which one is harder to believe?)

Patrick

• December 2nd- Patrick took oath & made it official that he will be spending another 4 years in the Marine Corps :) Which has come to mean we will be spending another 2 years in Hawaii (not what we were hoping for, but the good Lord won't let us down!) & then he can hopefully PCS to the east coast!

Personally it's very bittersweet..for me anyway. I really miss my family, Kendall & Noah mostly..simply because I can't directly call them.

Kelsey (yep, thats 3rd person right there)

• I applied part time to the CDC on base, prayers I hear back about that soon..I would LOVE this job!
• Im meeting with a counsoler next week to see what I can do to get my degree back on track!
• Thats about it.
• Im lame

Aiden

• full time walker
• babbles allllll the time
• Cutting his top teeth!

thats it for now. I need to shower before crazy kid wakes up!

Aiden Patrick's 1st year update.

Aiden's 1 year check up : 24.5 lbs, 31 inches long.

(She doubled checked the paper to make sure it definately was 1)

Watch me grow.

Aiden's favorites:                                                         

• pulling bowls out of the cabinets
• pulling all the toliet paper of the roll
• Cheese
• Swimming
• bathtime
• getting chased by mommy and daddy

To do list:

• Take first steps
• Climb stairs
• Eat table foods
• Cut 2 bottom teeth
• Take steps on his own
• Learn to kiss
• Says 100 forms of Daddy
• Walk independantly all the time
• Run

I cant believe my baby is 1.

Im going to go cry again.

Love you aid. <3

Military Man's Promise

 (I jacked this Heather's facebook...kudos!)

I cannot promise you every night of my life. I cannot promise to be beside you for every difficult moment, every trial, and every hardship. In truth..., I can promise you that I will not be with you for most. I will leave you at inconvenient times. Any special date to us may be tainted with the anniversary of the death of one of my friends. I will ask you to take over whatever life we have built together for months and years at a time. And will then crash back into that life that you have used your sweat, your tears and your heartache to keep together, and try to take it back as I knew it before.

I will shut you out at times because it will be the best way for me to hold it together at that moment. I will lie to you. I will tell you I don't know things when I do. I will not always tell you where I am going, when I will be back, or who I am with. I may not call you for weeks and months and you will not be able to call me. You will ask questions that I won't answer. You will know answers to questions that you will hope you never need. I will share things with my brothers that you will never understand. They will know things about me that you never will. They will be a support to me in some things that you cannot be. I will miss birthdays. I will miss anniversaries. I may need time to process things that seem natural to everyone else. It will seem that someone - or something - will always take precedence over you. You may lose me long before you ever thought possible.

I will uproot you and ask you to re-establish our family anywhere in the world, in any season, at any time - over and over again. Sand and mud will be tracked through your halls from the boots I am too tired to take off. I will leave you when you beg me not to. I will stand at attention while you cry beside me. I will not turn my head and I will walk away. I will knowingly break your heart. And I will do it again - and again. Whenever you want to call and you have no number to dial, I will be wanting to do the same. I will protect everything that we have created together with every fiber of my being while you do the same back at home. I will honor you in everything - every moment that we are apart and every moment that I am with you. I will fight harder and push further knowing that I do so for you. And I will carry you with me in everything, until my sandy boots once again sit just inside our door.

The D word.

Yep. It's that time again...Deployment work up. wooohooo.

Insert kicking screaming overly dramatic fit here.

As for timing, it looks like we have about 7 or so months (ish) until D day.


But then there is PTA, CAX..field ops..

Ok, this is going to be a short post - because right now I can't talk/type/whatever without getting a knot in my throat.

Basically, I know it's going to be okay - I know that the Lord will carry us both just like he always has and always will... but I'm simply just NOT ready to think about it.

Aiden update, 10 Months!

this whole thing started so Pat could keep taps on Aiden while away... and Im updating so our family and friends back home can do the same :) but I've totally been lagging - So here's an Aiden update!

10 months old

Handsome little stinker.

Aiden Patrick - 22 lbs and 29 Inches long. 

Current list of activities:                                           Things we can check off the "to do" list:

Crawling                                                                         1. Say Mama

Saying Dada every 5 seconds                                          2. Cut his firth tooth

Crawling up stairs when he gets the chance                      3. Wave

Playing in the toliet when we leave the door open             4. Transition from bottle to sippys

Pushing his push walker

Walking along furniture

Pulling up

He is SUCH a ham, and I love him more and more each day and it's hard to believe that Im planning his first birthday, I really don't know where the last year went, Im so thankful Patrick is home again - but sometimes I wish Aiden was still my sweet little baby that would fall asleep in my arms - and now he refuses to snuggle with me (he is a total daddys boy)

He LOVES food. He "smile crys" as pat puts it, if you have food near him even if he has already eaten, it cracks me up.

He is off bottles before one! He loves his sippy cup (thankfully) now to get him off the binky (totally not looking forward to that one)

thats all for now!,

  -Kels.

Summer sum up.

My bad.

Pat came home, I got busy.. Aiden started crawling and eating things he wasn't supposed to...aaaand apparently that's all I needed to neglect my blog, whoops.

I'll sum up our summer...

May - Pat came home (yay!) Pat went on duty (boo!) Pat went on duty again..and again..and again..

June - Aiden turned 8 months old, Pat had more duty..and we went home on leave! :)

July-  We were home for most of July (yay!) We were home for a couple of weeks and it was really nice to see family and friends... I wish I could have packed my niece and nephew in a box and brought them home...thats the biggest thing I hate about being so far away... my friends and family know us, and are able to pick up phones...Im scared Noah and Kendall aren't going to remember us, mainly Kendall.. (me specifically, im being selfish) and I love those little boogers.

Arin got married :) I was so honored to be with her on her big day :) she looked gorgeous as always, and I think I cried every 4 minutes because I'm emotional. and I had the chance to "attend something" with my husband (rare)
    side note: We left hawaii on June 30th, got to Virginia on July 1st and Arin's wedding was July 2nd.... aaand they lost my luggage...we brought 2 suitcases, 1 seabag a carseat and stroller halfway across the world and they lose the 1 piece of luggage that had my bridesmaid dress (awesome) soo I totally freaked out in the airport (obviously) and thankfully Patrick was there to calm me down. (props to Sarah for offering to drive to woodbride to get my another dress...thats 4 hours away) THANKFULLY, I got my suitcase at 10pm that night and her wedding was 11 am the next morning, whew.
 
The Tollesons came to salem! :) Which is always a good time...Patrick and Josh hadn't seen eachother in over a year and change...and these two are hilarious together, hence the... "always a good time" and I got to see Jamie, which wasn't too shabby either (love you!) Sarah and Damon pulled their camper down and parked it infront of my house...it was a true Griswold moment.

Basically we had alot of fun being home., Aiden and Kendall were like peas in a pod and they were always together, and Noah is getting so big :( Im sad I'm missing him grow up. Kenn too. BUT, Im excited about where God has led us.

aaaand we left home July 23rd. (sorry for leaving on your bday Rach!) Or actually we didn't. Because, they put us on the plane and let us buckle our seatbelts JUST to take us off again, and make us wait in the airport with a cranky baby to tell us our flight was no longer delayed, but canceled.
-SO, we waited 3 hours in line to find out we can't get out of Roanoke on the 23rd but they had a flight to Atlanta  in the morning.....I about had my 2nd Roanoke airport meltdown because A.) Flying for 8 hours straight with a wiggly baby isn't peachy. B.) Pat and I wouldn't be sitting together for those 8 hours.

Fastforward : It all worked out, we got economy plus seats and sat together all the way home.

God does things we don't understand....but it's better to trust him than to burst out in tears in the middle of the airport. (I looked like I was 5, Patrick literally MADE me go take a nap when we got home haha)

August - I turned 23! woooo :)

Arin and Steph in true form.

My baby girl Kennie, she hates this... I think its why I do it :)

They were glued at the hip.

S.Sloppy.

My little family.

the end.