I've been gone for awhile

I'm such a bad blogger.  I'll try to be better.  For now let me catch you up on the past few months and why I haven't blogged.

To start with, Mark has been out of town, for work, A LOT lately.  Mark was gone for 2 weeks in April, he wasn't able to come home that weekend. Those 2 weeks were really difficult on me.  I can keep myself busy on the weekdays with work but during the weekend, now that was rough. Then May came.....

Mark left early the Monday morning of May 2nd for Arizona.  Friday May 6th he flew to Sioux Falls, SD where I picked him up and we went to my grandparents house.  We were in South Dakota for the weekend to celebrate my sister Kayla's graduation from college.  We got home Sunday May 8th in the afternoon around 4.  I spent the rest of the night doing laundry and helping Mark pack again. 
Monday, May 9th, Mark flew out early in the morning to Dallas for an Expo.  Friday May 13th, he flew back into Waterloo around noon.  I picked him up from the airport and we headed out to South Dakota again.  The weekend of May 14th-16th we were in Groton, South Dakota celebrating my brother Alex and my cousin Sam's graduation from high school. 
Monday May 16th we made our way home and we got home around 5 in the evening.  Once again the rest of that night was spent doing laundry and getting Mark packed again.  The morning of Tuesday May 17th Mark flew out to Arizona again.  This time he wasn't able to fly back until Wednesday May 25th.  He got into Cedar Rapids around 5:30 but his first class of the summer semester started that night at 6 so Mark didn't get home until 10:30 that night. 

As you can see things have been pretty busy with Mark gone so much.  As of right now his next trip isn't until June 20th and he'll only be gone 3 days.  Hopefully things will start to calm down a little, but we'll see.  I think now more then ever I should get a puppy.     :)