Time Flies By

The girls are growing up so fast and I want to catch each special moment and milestone they reach. Addison is already taking two steps at a time and has five teeth! I love watching Aubrey play with her. Yesterday Addison was determined to play with the toys Aubrey was playing with, and it ended up in a brawl over who could get the toys. Addison was not backing down either! Aubrey ended up moving to another room just to play by herself. Here is one of my favorite pictures of them. Before we went to Iowa, I decided to make them some cute, personalized shirts. I love how they turned out.

How WE met

I met Troy while stationed in the Air Force at Ellsworth AFB, SD. He worked day shift and I worked nights, so many times I would take his place on post in the early evenings, carrying my most prized possession, the M-249 machine gun (LOL!). Troy would often tease me, perform drive-by snowball fights, and throw my beret (required headgear) onto the entry control points so I'd have to climb on top of the building to retrieve it. He found it hilarious. I found it annoying...until his best friend, Gary, told me that Troy was actually flirting with me. I guess I just thought he didn't like me. We became close friends (I was in an unhealthy relationship at the time with someone else). Thankfully my relationship with an Egress mechanic ended and Troy and I became very close. I was due to deploy two weeks after we started dating, thus beginning our on-and-off long distance relationship. One of us would deploy, come home, then the other would deploy, so we spent few weeks together. We wrote letters, talked on the phone, and sent packages to each other when we could. In 2004, after Troy came home from a 5 month deployment to Al Udeid, he proposed to me on Valentine's Day at a bed and breakfast in the Black Hills (I still to this day have no idea how to get there, it's so far up in the hills). Of course, I said YES. In 2005 Troy was scheduled to separate from the military after 6 years of service, but instead, he volunteered to extend his time in service and deploy, with me, to Iraq. I was ecstatic that we were actually going to the scariest place on Earth TOGETHER. I deployed with my team and then he led a separate squad of 12 men two weeks later to Iraq. We spent every minute we could together, although our work schedules were different. We paid off our cars and saved plenty of money during those six months. Once we got home, Troy honorably separated, got a security job with the same department and I finished out my time in 2006 as a Desk Sergeant. We decided to move to Texas to try to get government jobs. The day I honorably separated from the military, we discovered we were pregnant. From there, it's been the greatest roller coaster ride of all!  

Wordpress?! Boo!

Well, HELLO Blogspot! I had a Wordpress blog, but after a few months of attempting to turn it into my own space, I just couldn't seem to navigate through making the page my own, so here I am at my first attempt on Blogpost to create a space of our own for the Malletts. Any and all comments are much appreciated.