Finally Updating...

Hello... well it's been a really long time since I've updated this last. Alot has gone on.

Aubreigh... well she is 1 now. I really can't believe that she is already 1. Time has flown by so quickly. I can remember the day I went in to have her and was just ready to meet her. She is growing so fast. Today we went to the docs and she is 16lb 13oz and 28 in tall. She's really petite for her age. Only in the 25 percentale for height and 10% for weight. But she has been a great eater ever since she's had tubes put into her ears. Oh man, was that a BIG relief when we got those done. She hasn't been the same cranky girl that she was for about 4 months. But the ear infections were just coming about every 4-6 weeks. Antibiotic after antibiotic.. her body can only handle so much. But it was a blessing she got an ear infection a few weeks before taking a trip to TX for her birthday. If she didn't get that ear infection we would have flown and the flight well, would have been a nightmare. Speaking of flight she did well both times, but ended up getting sick the night before we left and it carried over to our actual flying day. So she puked on the plane. Thank goodness I had her blanket because I caught all of it in there and then bagged it up.

She did well after the incident, she slept the rest of the way. We got into TX and started seeing family and well, we were contagious and had no idea. So just about everyone we saw got sick. UGH!! Not how I wanted to spend my vacation time. But we did get to see family, mostly mine though since Richard's family lives in CA. But Grandpa Flanagan was excited to see her as well as all of my family who hasn't seen her before. My mom and sister we really excited since they hadn't seen her since she was 3 months old. But other than that she's your typical baby girl playing and learning new things everyday. She isn't walking yet, but is trying. I think she'll be walking by 15 months or so. She never crawled so she doesn't have the arm strength to pull up so she's trying to build those muscles now. But she'll be walking before we know it and won't be slowing down afterwards. I'm not ready for it but I know it's coming.

Richard.. well he's doing well also. Just trying to finish up school - which by the way only has 7 more credit left and will have his bachelors degree.. YEAH!! I'm probably more excited than he is, but I know it will help with getting a civilian job. He's on the hunt for a job now. Only has until Oct to find a job or he might be reenlisting again, I guess whichever comes first. We are trusting the Lord will show us the way he has for us. Not much else going on with him.

As for me.. well I've been really busy with work these days. I don't seem to have enough time in the day to get everything I need to get done as a wife - first and formost, then as a mom, and as a working lady. But I manage it as well as I can. I really hate the unknown. this is hard for me to just sit and wait to see whats in store for us next. I'm a planner and like to know the things that will happen this year, and well that's not going well since we don't know Richard's job situation. Everyone knows that I would love for him to retire but he doesn't want to do that. So we'll see. keep us in your prayers so that we may see the path the Lord has for us and not what we want. Thats about it for now here in the Flanagan household.. thanks for reading and love to hear feed back..