Summer's Almost Gone already?

I can't believe it has been nearly 3 months since my last post. I do have a great excuse though.... SHAYNE IS HOME!!!!!! It was an extremely long year and we literally crammed everything we missed out on together into the month of vacation that Shayne was given! He came on on Sunday May 30th at nearly Midnight! Payson stayed awake very excited with 4 american flags in each hand waiting to welcome home his Pappa! It was an exciting night that I was afraid would never come! Thank you again to everyone for all of your prayers in our Families behalf! We are so grateful! In the month that Shayne had off we were able to go to Bozeman, come back home and have my siblings come for the 4th of July, then Shayneand I headed for a getaway to South Carolina! We got back just in time for a visit from the Quilters and Jonathan! All of it was a ton of fun and of course we got some great pictures! Shayne had to go back to work on Monday July 19th but ended up having quite a few short days so we were able to do lots with just the 3 of us! This last weekend Shayne had a 4 day so we packed up and headed to St. George to spend some time with the Cook's and Willis's AND Grandma Great! We spent the first day on the lake and went from a beautiful sunshining day to a deadliest catch storm! GOOD TIMES! We always have so much fun with them and are so glad the Cook's let us come crash at their new beautiful home! So that is the skinny on what we have been doing this Summer! We don't have anymore big adventures planned for at leasta couple of months but we are very much looking forward to getting back to normal life and being together again! Oh ya! And this week Shayne will be changing positions at work. He will be the new Company XO and no longer the Maintenance PLatoon Leader. We are so so grateful to be back together as a whole Family again and while Shayne may be home safe we still have many friends who continue to fight for our country in both Iraq and Afghanistan. PLease remember all of our Soldiers and the sacrifices the continue to make for us daily!