Memorial Day

The winds were 30+ mph but the day before Memorial Day we managed to find our flag in the garage. Brenden insisted on holding it out in the driveway and he had to use all his strength to hold onto it in the wind. Thankfully the next day saw no winds and we could put it up with pride. We miss Dada so much...it is going to be a long deployment.

VMA-513 in Kandahar, Afghanistan

The guys made it over to the base safely. Now starts to long await for them to come home - come on November hurry up!

And so it begins.....

.....the dreaded deployment. Dave hasn't had to deploy since 2006 and for that I feel very lucky. The time has come however with him being back in the fleet to go to Afghanistan for seven months. A sad day because now we have Brenden who just adores his father. We will stay strong and keep busy and very much look forward to November when the family reunites. Here are some pics of the very very quick goodbye at sunrise:

Brenden turns THREE - wee!

Our little guy is three..so hard to believe. Three years living in three different places. Crazy! Luckily Dave was able to be here for his birthday as he doesn't deploy for another few days. Thankfully! The celebration of his birthday and Mother's Day was a bit rushed as Dave was called into work all morning long. We managed to have a great afternoon though which was very nice.