Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

As some of you may know, my Husband is in the Marine Corps. 

Lucky for me, when he signed up after high school, he decided just to stick with the Reserves. 

This means he heads to Camp Williams about one weekend a month for Drill. 

This past weekend, he had Drill for 3.5 days. 

Basically, my entire weekend dragged on, 

but lucky for me, Mom knows how to keep me busy! 

Mike had the brilliant idea of taking our wedding flowers and putting them into a wreath for our door! So, my amazingly talented Mother helped me put this beauty together!

I'm pretty proud!

We spent a couple of hours Friday and Saturday night canning fresh apple juice!

I'm not going to lie, I wasn't really looking forward to all the work that would go into it, but it turned out to be a lot of fun! 

Our Work Station!

Also this weekend, Kara Kocherhans did my hair! 

It was time for something new. Still getting used to the change,

but I'm loving it!

She works at Suggestions Salon, and always does a fabulous job!

She should do everyone's hair!

Got to spend some time with Dad and my Brother. 

This picture is so priceless! Buck truly is Dad's best friend!

Sunday evening was Mike's last night at Drill. 

All day was spent waiting around for him to come home! 

Juli and Jeff came over and made all of us such a delicious dinner!

Baby Benjamin (Nephew) was wearing these adorable pants! 

We love his widdle pumpkin bum! 

 Love this boy so much!

Each Sunday is a battle to see who gets to hold him!

Finally the time came for Mike to come home! 

I may or may not have been sitting by the door with my nose pressed up against the glass waiting! 

(I definitely was... I'm not ashamed!) 

They say "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

This phrase is 100% true! 

So happy to have my husband back and already dreading his next weekend away.

Thanks for Reading!

The Ridings