Forever Growing, Forever Changing

I have started to write this blog about five times since my first post. I find myself ready to dive in and share what is going on with our family, get halfway done and come back to it 2-4 months later trying to continue but starting from scratch. And well, today is the day (well tonight is the night) that I am pushing through and starting this for good!

Since our last post, I think it is fair to say that quite a bit has changed. I could elaborate on and on and on with details, but I think I will bullet our major life changing events since May 2010 to save time.

• We welcomed Addison to our family in July 2010. Our beautiful little girl came into our lives on the last day in July weighing in just a little over 7 pounds and 21 inches long. She made quite the entrance into the world and has kept us on our toes since that very day.
• 8 weeks later we were off on our new adventure to Germany with our brand new baby girl and two lovable pups by our side. 
• We spent the next 2 1/2 months spending quality time with Kevin, getting settled into our new house and just soaking up our growing beautiful child before we fair welled Kevin onto our first deployment as a family of 5 (well, for all purposes, I will now be counting the pups part of the clan so don't be confused).
• Addison and I spent the next 6 months spending quality time together, finishing another semester of school, traveling to France for baby Abby's baptism, settling into our unsettled and jammed packed home, and hanging out with friends. 
• We welcomed home our hero in May. Addison took some adjusting too,but in no time at all she became daddy's girl. She also saved the best milestone for last for her daddy- walking. :o)
• August was our first family vacation since we moved here (really sad, we know, but when Kevin was home, he was never really 'home')! We traveled throughout Italy for 10 days seeing Rome, Elba, Pisa, and Cinque Terra. It was wonderful- relaxing on the beach, soaking up some sun (which we rarely see during 'summer time' in Germany), eating all the wonderful carbs and gellato, and just enjoying each other's company as we camped out at Camp Darby.

• We spent up to December house hunting, doing more school work, doing in-school placement (for myself), seeing daddy off on more TDY's than I can count (which is the reason for no more traveling). December was our turn around month. We moved into a house off base of Vilseck with a massive fenced in back yard (just for the boys and Addison), as well as found out, on Christmas, that we were expecting Baby Pollock #2. 2011 turned out to be very good to us

Since the start of 2012, we have seen our daddy off, again, for our second deployment since we got here, leaving this pregnant momma, who is a full time student with a toddler that is all about testing the waters.It was QUITE an adventure to say the least. We spent the time hanging out with our families, friends, and getting resettled into our new home. We were able to visit Berlin with good friends before Daddy came home. Once Kevin came home we began the traveling adventure again- well as much as we could with a pregnant wife! We were able to knock Paris and Mallorca off our list (might I add- flying with a toddler while being 33 weeks pregnant who doesn't have her own seat was a NIGHTMARE!), which was nice, but we spent a lot of time enjoying each others company at home before our next chapter began.

On September 5th we welcomed our beautiful little girl Meredith into the world. That day we went from a family of 5 to a family of 6. I was so nervous and afraid of the unknown, but it is easy going from 1 to 2 than 0 to 1. Since then we have been spending quality time at home waiting for my student teaching to begin in the new year. My goal is to keep up with this blog to keep our family and friends in the know with what is going on with our hectic life. So I hope you enjoy!