Still Getting Used to Esprit being Married...

It's now been just over 2 months since we were told that Esprit and Sean were married last May. I've gone through so many emotions over these couple of months and find that I am still working through this. It's not that Esprit and Sean got married. I knew almost a year ago, when Sean came back into our lives, that this was a good probability. It's, quite selfishly, that I wasn't there... I should have been...

And then Sean left 10/31 for a 7 month deployment to Afghanistan. Now I have until the beginning of June to adjust to the reality that my little girl will be moving out. How does one prepare for this? I'm so grateful that I've had these 23 years with her at home. I'm still not ready for my children to leave... is that wrong?

The weekend that Esprit and Sean were married they stayed in Laguna Beach. A buddy of Sean's and his wife were there and took some photos of the newly married couple. Here are just a few...