It's amazing how, in the course of one morning, you can go from this:

(little one spinning around and watching the wild turkeys cross the back lawn)

to this(same little one crying under her covers that "spelling is too hard")

Some other real life happenings, just in the interest of 'keepin' it real'. The office/craftroom 'under construction':

And lastly, piled up deployment gear giving us all a reminder of the coming months:

Life is never dull!