You take the good, you take the bad.

The Good:
-I have two healthy, beautiful, funny children.
-I have an awesome husband.  Who is also very good looking (perk).  Who takes his job as the head of our household seriously.  Who is funny and fun to be with.  Who understands me.  Usually.
-We live in a beautiful country and have opportunities to travel to amazing places. 
-We have good friends and neighbors.
-Our dog has become a model citizen.  For the most part.  I actually like her...a little. :)
-We have a warm, cozy home.  Well...cozy for German homes who don't really understand the meaning of carpet.  Or wood. 
-I'm finally getting my tooth implant finished in a month.  I'm so sick of driving two hours away for dentist appointments.  One more, and I'm DONE!

The Bad:
-Matt is being deployed, leaving Thursday, for two months.  Bummer.  BIG bummer.
-Every time my "time of the month" comes...I cry.  I want a baby, and Matt leaving only makes that time table even further out. 
-Our cruise that we schedualed in March to take us to Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt will have to be cancelled if Matt is still deployed.  I was so excited about it. 
-I gained 8 pounds when I was pregnant.  I know, you're gasping that a girl can gain 8 lbs in 14 weeks.  I get real big when I'm preggo.  Well that 8 pounds...it won't leave.  I gained a TON of weight with Hallie and Chase and after they were born it just came off.  NOT happening this time.  I step on the scale every day and let out a few choice words. 
-I ate my feelings about Matt leaving last night in the form of a whole chocolate cake.  No joke.
-I hate being alone.  So so much.  When I'm alone, and have no one to account to, I do the bare minimum and don't shower NEARLY often enough.  haha.
-I have psoriasis.  It has plagued me for most of my life, but I've been pretty good about keeping it under control.  Well now I'm breaking out ON MY FACE.  So pretty.  Can't even tell you.  The last few months I feel like I've been fighting a losing battle trying to keep it under control.  Since I've been trying to get pregnant again, I can't use any of the "good stuff".  The mediocre meds just don't seem to be cutting it.  Banging my head against a wall at this point.
-My kindle, which has become an extension of my body, seems to be broken.  It won't come out of "sleep" mode and I'm in the middle of reading Little Women.  *sigh*.  (Jan and Steve: the kindle was pretty much the best gift EVER.)



Enough depressing stuff.  It's making me feel worse.  By the way...we leave here a year from this coming April and have had only ONE set of friends come out to visit us.  HELLO!! Free place to stay in GERMANY!  You're going to miss out if you don't all get your buns in gear and get out here.  USE us, I insist. :)

The city of LOVE.

So what?  We like to kiss and take pictures of it. 

Waiting for our firework show.  Matt wanted me to clarify that the first kissing picture is of Him and I....not my friend Sarah and I.  haha.

Yeah, the firework show was a bit of a let down.  Mainly because.....there wasn't one.

However, I DID get some amazing pictures of the Eiffel Tower.

One of the ceilings inside the Louvre.

While everyone else was admiring the art.....this is what Matt and I were doing. 

We're so disrespectful.

Work it, work it.

Matt tried to recreate this pose, but security came along and told him to put his clothes back on.  Embarrassing.

Champs Elysee

I was offered a job while we were out here taking pictures to start performing in the Moulin Rouge.  I told them my kids would never live that down.

At dinner on New Years Eve.  Isn't Matt handsome?  That's why I married him.

waiting waiting waiting for fireworks.  That never came.

Very tired the next day....but very happy to be in Paris without our kids.

I don't know how this picture got down here...but I'm not going to try to put in the right order for fear of spending the next two days trying to fix the mess I've made.  This is waiting in the freezing COLD for our paris style fireworks.

aaaaaand the Arc de Triumph.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!

We spent our New Years in Paris. 

It was fabulous. 

Got to finally meet my lady, Mona. 

She was ok. 

Way smaller than I thought she'd be. 

The louvre is ridiculously huge. 

I took this picture and I'm obsessed with it. 

It's kind of creepy/amazing/I want to frame it.