And now for take 2

Ok lets try this again.
So obviously because it has been so long a lot has change. In the terms of kids it might as well have been 20 years.
Dev is doing awesome.  She is now in 4th grade and loving it.  We lost a cat and gained another. We moved to a couple new apartments. Oh and I picked up a boyfriend. Sigh. And things have gotten better and worse and better and worse and better again with Dev's dad. Life is strange that way.  It is all over the place right?
So here is where we are now. I have a super sweet kitty named Zen Nightshade. He is super crazy and fun.   We still have Spooky Midnight Shadow.    

zen

Spooky

They are both way awesome. Even if Spooky is grumpy all the time.

Spring 2012 as you can see she still has her 'Brother' BFF

We moved to a new apartment and we love it a lot. It suits us well. Dev is really happy with it. She likes it a lot better then the other places we were living. She is going to be like me when she grows up talking about moving around a lot and when people ask Oh military kid? and she will say no just we moved a lot. At least she never has had to change schools. I always hated that.
 She had the best school year last year. Her teacher was amazing and everything went really well. This year she has a new teacher and I am hoping that she continues to have amazing school years. So far so good. Dev really likes her new teacher. Her teacher is funny, fun, and keeps the kids engaged. Plus she is really good with working with Dev to help her with her LDs. She has her bff from last year in her class again and she said that she has made a couple new friends.

from a couple months for this school year. 

 Christmas was awesome. She got spoiled entirely and we got totally hooked up with Legos. I spent the day building them with her.

Vampire castle lego set. She got 90% of all the monster sets.

Thanks Grandpa Murphy.

This was the first summer I did not have Miss Dev in summer camp and it was a huge challenge but also we had fun. We spent some time at the zoo. With her friend Kir.

We took Mr. Zen on a picnic

He was really afraid after he saw Carriage Horses. 

Hiking

The Leo museum had a really cool new exhibit and I brought the kid krew to go see it. It ended up being a lot of fun and if you have not seen it I highly suggest you do. It is pretty cheap. 

 
 The kids all got robots and pizza. It is always amazing to me how Dev can get her friends together from different circles and totally different personalities and it always seems to work out pretty well.
 

 Cuddle puddle in the middle of the exhibit. Yeah why not?

 We have a new addition to our family. Kevin. Kevin brought a dog with him and has been pretty amazing. We have been together over a year and things just keep getting better. He is really good for me and Devi. Dev and him totally bonded over their art. Kevin is still a kid in a lot of ways (movies, art, imagination, and silliness) so they got along from the beginning.
He is really good for Dev and me. Totally supportive and not one of those guys I would normally date. Also he gets along with Devis dad so it takes some of our tension out. All in all life is good.