Another...dog?!

Meet Eli :)

Emmie's new brother...oh I can smell the jealousy already when he arrives next Thursday.

Things just never slow down around our house!

I feel like I am reporting old news when I tell you about our second honeymoon but it was nothing short of fantastic. We spent a week in Antigua relaxing, eating too much food and soaking up the sun. It was the perfect way to end the deployment chapter and begin our next chapter together.

We also visited with family in Michigan and I spent two lovely days in bed at my in-laws house sick with food poisoning. Not to mention Emmie was also sick those few days and laid up with me too. Jason was a great nurse though haha and took good care of both of us. Like always we wish we had more time to spend with family because it never seems like enough.

Now we are back in Alaska where winter has already hit. The ground is frozen and temperatures are no higher than 20*! Oh thank goodness this is our last winter here because it is the one thing I wont miss when we move.

We are currently busy with holiday events and gatherings including Jason's redeployment ball tonight and a holiday bazaar tomorrow.

I have a little time right now to catch up on some of you before I have to hit the shower and begin to get ready! I hope everyone is doing great! <3

Ohhh Bad Blogger!

I know, I know, I have been a horrible blogger...but I have been on an island far far away with this guy. Can you really blame me? ;)

We will be back in the freezing cold of Alaska on Wednesday. Be back soon!

'Tis the Season

...of babies!

As of right now we are excited for the arrival of SEVEN babies in 2010 from some of our best friends and family.

This doesn't even include some of our friends here currently participating in the deployment is over baby boom haha.

I will say though that I am super excited for three of my closest friends; Jessica, Cassi and Kristene who will all be having a new addition by summer. Ohhh I must think about baby gifts for my three favorite girls! :)

So in honor of all the babies Jason thought he needed his own...

Ta-da!

We are officially the proud (okay, truthfully he is way more excited) owners of a new Ford F-150 Platinum.

This also means my husband can now be found more often in the driveway playing with all the bells and whistles in it.

He has to come in soon though Alaska is getting cold. :)

Day Three Hundred Sixty-Five.

September 20, 2008

365 days complete.

It was a year ago tomorrow that Jason kissed me goodbye and got on the bus to leave for a year.

Emmie and I spent a few days in Alaska before we headed to Michigan to be with family...

We spent nine months at my parents house counting the days, week, months until the move back to Alaska and the time closer to Jason coming home.

I can promise you I probably looked at the counter AT LEAST every other night to make sure my week total was correct and the estimate on R&R and his arrival home.

I spent many holidays I had previously missed with my family although each one seemed dreadful knowing where Jason was. No matter what I tried to make the best of it.

Jason spent his time in I-town where communication was few and far in between because he was on an outpost not an actual FOB.


We spent 345 days apart and if you add R&R in that year it was technically 330. ;)

I spent many nights crying, praying, sleepless, stressed and hopeful.

It was ALL WORTH IT leading up to this very night...

I am nothing but proof that a year apart IS survivable. I used ours as a learning experience to find new interests, accomplish things I have always wanted to try, go back to school, church, join a gym, travel, you name it I used the time to do it.

Most importantly though that I am proud of my husband. He holds his head high each and every day no matter what the task at hand is and he is my strength whenever I feel like I just cant push myself anymore he is always pushing for me. He is truly the love of my life and although I know this probably isn't the last year apart it is another chapter closed.

September 19, 2009

Mission complete!

Day Three Hundred Sixty-Four.

I don't care where we go next as long as we are together, but I can only hope where ever it is we find friends as amazing as the ones we have here. <3

Day Three Hundred Sixty-Three.

Yay for four days! Jason is off for four days and I cant wait to have a relaxing weekend with him.

Only two more darn days until this year of blogging is finally over and I am taking a much needed blogger-vaca haha. :)

Day Three Hundred Sixty-Two.

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

-Helen Keller

Day Three Hundred Sixty-One.

Ohhh vacation why are you four weeks away?!

I cant wait to see our families when we hit Michigan and of course our trip to Antigua. I'm already envisioning drinks with umbrellas and floating around in the pool all day.

Mmm mmm mmm.

Day Three Hundred Sixty.

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Oh commissary trips! Jason and I headed to the case lot sale yesterday for great deals on toilet paper and paper towels. We had five items by the time we browsed the ice cream section and picked up the necessary coffee creamer. Express lane or self checkout? Ohhh no not for case lot items. We were stuck in a line that wrapped around to the frozen section with a bunch of screaming children and moms pushing up to two carts full of bulk items. We both asked each other at one point who's idea was it to go haha. One day when we have children there will be another couple just like us wondering the same thing standing next to us in one of those God awful lines. ;)

Day Three Hundred Fifty-Nine.

I just blew up plenty of red, white and blue balloons for a friends husband and helped decorate her hotel room. Super excited to see her reunite with her husband tonight as we stood together crying on each other the day they left last year. :) Jason and I are off to our last homecoming tonight for friends and his guys. Super excited that everyone is finally making their way home and even more excited for a little relaxation with hubby next weekend instead of this go go GO stuff. :)

Day Three Hundred Fifty-Eight.

I have been such a bad blogger let alone follower. I have so much to catch up on and today I caught a few extra minutes to check up on a few of you and I was so behind. The past few weeks have been a whirlwind and when my 365 days are complete I will only post when something is really newsworthy haha AND be able to keep up with everyone else a little better.

Day Three Hundred Fifty-Seven.

As always a day like today makes me proud to be an American. <3