Chris and Diane

These pictures are of my sister-in-law and brother-in law, Chris and Diane, speaking at a business conference. Way to go guys!

New Ultrasound Pictures

Molly's most recent ultrasound pictures! If you have trouble seeing a few of them, several are close ups of her face from the chest looking up position. The one that says kisses dad is a good one, it looks like you area looking up her nose! We love the one with her face looking at us too.

Casey's Birthday Party

Today was Casey's two year old birthday party! Big change from last year where he didn't even know what was going on and just smashed his face in his cake. Can't wait for Molly Jane to have a birthday party, they are so much fun!


Nana and Grandpa have the coolest toys at their house!

Casey blowing out his candles from a distance. Poor boy just got home from the doctor with a diagnosis of Croup! What a way to spend his birthday! It sure didnt get him down though, his Lightening cake made everything alright.

Two of the three party pregos.

No question who Collin looks like! This is Chris Greene Sr., Collin's pop pop. Definately a mini me in the making.

Casey's awesome birthday gift from his mommy and daddy. Now he gets to push his own shopping cart in Walmart, how cool! And it is fully stocked with play milk, juice boxes, cookies, everything! They make the coolest toys nowadays!

Happy Birthday little man! Big two years old! Check out his custom made shirt that Nana had made for him. Super cute Casey Ray!

Photo Shoot

After being told by both my mother-in-law and husband on repeated occasions that I have not taken nor posted nearly enough pictures of me in my very pregnant belly state, I today succumbed to a photo shoot, courtesy of my mom and our front yard. I tried to spice the pictures up as best as I could, but a pregnant belly is a pregnant belly no matter what angle you take it from. ;) Time is drawing near for Molly to arrive!

Medical Training Event

Bryon and his team participated in a large medical training event outside of Bamako, Mali with US and Malian military teams. His team provided information for dissemination, book bags for children and fabric for the women who were patients at the clinics. There was also a ceremony with the village people and they sang and danced. The colonel presented the village elder with gifts and worked to foster the relationship with the villagers.

The team also visited one of the medical clinics set up jointly by the US and Malian military. The clinic sees an average of 800 patients a day, the majority of them being women and children. They provide general medical treatment, optometry and dental services as well.

Surprise Shower

Group Shot before dinner at the Gulfstream Cafe.

I just got home from a fantastic weekend with some girlfriends at our beach house in Surfside Beach, SC. It was actually a group of 8.5 (.5 being one of the girl's little adorable 2 year old, Addie) of my dearest high school girlfriends and we really had a blast. Before we left for Surfside, I watched the weather channel and thought, oh no, its going to rain the whole time and no one will get to go on the beach, ahhhh, what will we do instead!! Little did I know that the 'little rain' predicted in the forecast was actually Tropical Storm Christoball and the one weekend we picked for our trip was his welcome to the shoreline party right onto the Grand Strand. Fortunately for us, it was mostly rain and cloudy skies, it could have been muchhh worse. But what did my great friends do instead of going to the beach? We went to get pedicures (one girl buying mine for me) and threw me a surprise baby shower!

You may be wondering, how did they pull off a surprise shower in your own beach house? Great question, well on Saturday afternoon, we all kinda took a few hours to do our own thing, some people read, some played with Addie, etc. I chose to take a nap, of course. A short while into my nap I get a knock at the door and my sweet friend Becca says, Haley there is a major plumbing problem downstairs you need to come look at. Ok, so I'm thinking, and what am I supposed to do about it? I know nothing about plumbing problems. As I walk down the stairs half awake I am greeted by the flashing of cameras and all of my friends standing around a table beautifully decorated with tons of presents! How I missed all of this stuff being stored in my own beach house, I still dont know, they are very clever for sure. So we had a wonderful shower and Molly got tons of cute stuff. I was a little sad that my team lost the Baby Trivia game we played. But looking at it objectively, we only had 3 players to their 4 and they had Jessica on their side who is literally a new mom, so shes got some expertise on me ;)

Thank you guys so much for being so thoughtful. As Bryon will tell you, I am not easy to surprise. I usually can pick up on a plot without much difficulty but I was totally shocked. And, I cant believe I'm actually posting these pictures of me, fresh out of the bed, looking great for sure. Love yall for it! :)

Trip to Timbuktu

Welcome to Timbuktu sign taken from Bryon's car.


These pictures were taken on Bryon's recent trip to Timbuktu. And, yes, Timbuktu is actually a real place! I guess when you go here you really have been to the far end of the Earth.

Bryon out seeing the many tourist attractions in the Sahara desert :)

Nomadic villages in Timbuktu

Sahara desert

Plane seen from the Bamako airport and beautiful rainbow. So majestic.

Billboards in Timbuktu.

Greene family adventure

I took this adorable picture yesterday of Casey, Collin and Elizabeth while they were on their golf cart adventure. Notice Casey's Army shirt (courtesy of Uncle Bryon).. and Liz and Collin's Clemson gear. Sooo cute! It's hard to believe Casey will be TWO in just a few days and little Collin is already 5 1/2 months! Oh and Happy Anniversary to Elizabeth and Chris today, 4 years and counting! What a beautiful family you all have!

Love Birds

Bryon took these pictures from the window of his house.
True love indeed, my sweet romantic husband

Great News!

Bryon and I found out some fantastic news this past week. We have been praying since we found out Molly was on the way for the Lord to consider working in an early re-deployment for Bryon into His plans. His official re-deployment date was November 15th and Molly was scheduled to come October 10th. As you can see, that calculates to a month where Molly and I are here and Bryon would be away. While many military families have experienced this type of situation and while I knew it was very likely that this was the boat in which we must sail, Bryon and I felt in our hearts, that this was not the Lord's plan for us.

So we prayed and asked everyone we knew to pray that in some miraculous way, the Army would decide to let Bryon come home early. For those of you who are military families, wives, you know that negotiating with the army is futile so for most of the deployment I didn't allow myself to get my hopes up. We knew Bryon had a week of leave to take while he was in Mali, so we scheduled an induction date for October 3rd so that maybe he would be able to schedule his leave around that date and not miss her birth. (Fingers majorly crossed).

Well, the process of getting approval to come home early first started when Bryon's new boss arrived in Mali and scheduled a meeting with him. HE SAID (Bryon's boss) that he felt like Bryon needed to go home early and stay. That it was to Bryon's best interest and to the army's not to have to fly him home for leave, back to Mali and back home in a few more weeks before going home for good. Answer to prayer #1. I had secretly prayed that the idea for him to come home and stay would be suggested by someone other than Bryon. As much as Bryon wants to be here and knowing he was going to ask anyway, it was still a little hard for him to ask to end his assignment early. Military men have such a sense of duty and responsibility that none of us understand. I certainly didn't and I don't know if I still do understand it completely, but I'm definitely learning. So the Lord already blessed us beyond imagination by not only moving in Bryon's boss's heart to allow us to come home, but he heard my silent prayer, uttered only to the Lord, that it would be someone else's suggestion.

Soon thereafter, the idea was proposed back to the powers that be at Bragg and did not meet with any resistance. They simply took note of the request and would get back to us. Weeks after that (were up to last week now), we were told that Bryon was approved to come home and stay. We are still waiting to know the exact date of his re-deployment but we have total confidence in the Lord who has brought us this far will continue to see this through until the end. So often in the almost 6 months since Bryon has been gone, I have felt myself teetering on the line separating dispair and coping. Almost as if one little thing would push me over the edge. But through it all I have felt the presence of the Lord on an almost daily basis in may different ways (which I wont share here today). My prayers are still that the date Bryon comes home will be in time to be here for Molly's birth and that I wont have any problems which would make her have to come early. I will continue to pray those prayers knowing that I have nothing to worry about and that I am being looked after.

This week I've been scrapbooking our wedding from last December. I realized I had better get myself into gear before little Molly arrives and I want to scrapbook her birth and life. As I've been scrapbooking, I've realized in a powerful way, that when you are a child of God's you have nothing to worry about in this life. Truly, I don't know how people who don't know the Lord make it through this world with any sense of peace and purpose. 100% of my confidence in my future, my safety, Bryon's safety, our future plans, finances, our health, Molly, etc, all comes from my knowledge that I'm not in charge and that the One who is in charge has my best interests in mind. I am so thankful to you Lord, I don't know language sufficient enough to express my feelings so on my knees I beg for you to see my heart and know how much you are praised, loved and worshiped.

Thank you all for sharing in our exciting news. Three months or less and counting!

News Update

Bryon sent me this link today and said it is a good in-depth article about what he is working on right now. It outlines some of the terrorist activity, past and present, that threatens the US out of Western Africa. These are issues and threats most of the world does not know about but true and dangerous threats. Be safe sweetie...


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/world/africa/01algeria.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all