TWO

..............September 10, 2001 I was 8 months pregnant. My husband was to leave in a few days to go to the desert to train. In the morning my sis in law was to fly to Kansas where we were living to stay with me in case I gave birth. In the middle of the night our blow up mattress (we did not have a real bed or mattress at the time) deflated. I decided to go sleep on the couch.

I woke up to a phone call from my mom in law to say that my sis in law cant come because the planes are all grounded.....we turned on the TV...and you all know what we saw.

We decided to drive onto the base to see all our friends because everyone thought was would start right away, we lived off base so it took us 3 hours to get onto base because security had to check every vehicle.

My husband left for training a few days later and I was not sure if he would come back or go straight to war or ?

I decided to go to my moms and stay in Oregon, only problem was the planes all were not running yet.

I called everyday to get a flight, about 5 days later a flight finally did not get cancelled. I tried to hide my pregnancy so I would be able to fly, and it worked! I ended up giving birth 3 weeks later!

My husband made it a few hours before the birth and got to deliver our second son on October 8th 2001!

One year later I found out I was pregnant with our 3rd son, and in April of 2003, my husband got the call to go to war...........we had two weeks before he left so once again we thought best I stay with my parents..........so we had 2 weeks to pack, and I was 6 months pregnant................