January 2012
To our dear family and friends,
We hope that this note finds you enjoying the start of a wonderful new year! With the impending January birth of the littlest non-canine Horn, it was our hope to break the mold with a Valentine/birth announcement mailer as opposed to the traditional Christmas card! Truthfully, we hope you to know that you all remain on our minds and in our prayers throughout the whole year, not just during the holiday season.
This year has been full of excitement, beginning in March with Nick’s return home from his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan! It was such a welcome end to our most difficult deployment yet. Three months later, he relinquished his company command and returned to the Special Operations Aviation Regiment. Being that he was recently promoted to Major, he earned himself a desk jockey job. While he doesn’t love being out of the action, I must say Emmy and I love having him in his seat at the dinner table each night. With just five months left of his military commitment, he is attempting to determine what his next career move will be, military or civilian. Decisions, decisions, decisions!
Nick and his company’s return from Afghanistan enabled me to channel my former prom planning days with a giant (adult’s only) welcome home cocktail party in downtown Nashville. We just had so much to celebrate, which made the time commitment and last minute mega-fundraising ventures all worth it. Curiously, there has been a baby boom among the families in our former company, not to exclude our own, just nine short months later. We found out on Mother’s Day that I would be a mommy of two, which was, without doubt, the greatest gift I could have been given. Stay-at-home-mommyhood has been a rewarding, challenging and truly humbling career, and I am so grateful that it sits on my resume.
Our 2-year-old whirling dervish, also known as Emmy, has provided us with an endless amount of entertainment. She and Nick didn’t miss a beat after the deployment; she even saved her walking milestone so that he could be there to witness it. Much to Nick’s chagrin, she is all girl and has a great affinity for dress-up accessories, taking care of her babies, and reading the “Fancy Nancy” children’s book series. Emmy is living up to her age, as she has mastered asking for and granting herself permission for whatever wily antic she dreams up all in the same breath. She has an energy level comparable to that of a super-athlete and a sense of humor of the same magnitude. To say that we are smitten with our big girl is an understatement.
God apparently felt as though the estrogen level in our home was lacking (despite our two female dogs, Molly and Darla, Emmy and myself,) so He blessed us with another baby girl! I reminded Nick that God gives us what we need, which, surprisingly, didn’t offer him any consolation to being so grossly outnumbered. Hannah Madeleine Horn was born on January 12, 2012, at 9:33PM. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces and measured 19 inches tall. She has the sweetest demeanor, offering few cries and many cuddles. In her wakeful periods, it’s hard not to get lost looking into her eyes. She is a true example of God’s work at it’s finest.
Wishing you and your family a blessed 2012! Cheers!
With Love,
Nick, Ali, Emmy, Hannah, Molly & Darla Horn
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