Finally the details

So, We have official travel dates. We are just working on the plane tickets now. Cris leaves on July 11 (fri) with G&R on Monday, and he will return Jul 24. I am beyond excited, and I CANNOT WAIT for July 11th to roll around. It looks like his parents will be traveling with him. I'm still so stressed about the whole July/August time period. Cris will be separated from Nova for 6 weeks (which nearly brings him to tears), and Nova and I will not be united with June-bug for almost a month after she comes home. But if we can just make it through the summer we have a whole lifetime together.

Nova has been a little angel this week. We left her with a babysitter (her Aunt Betsy!) for the first time on Saturday for a few hours, and apparently she screamed her little head off pretty much the whole night. She then slept for about 24 hours straight, so i guess she kind of wore herself out. It was a pretty painful experience for everyone, but i guess we will have to get used to being separated from eachother, since i am returning to work. I thought I was supposed to go back to work tomorrow, but it turned out my leave form actually says Jul 18, not 17, so i get a whole extra day i wasn't planning on. Whoo-hooo!!!

Yesterday Nova and I helped Cris celebrate his first official father's day! We all had a really great day.

Here is a pic of Cris and Nova enjoying her Jungle playmat, and then of Nova in her Buckeye jersey with her Brutus mobile (which she LOOOOVES)