Fall Decor

   I am ALOT late on my fall decorations but I really wanted to get the blog post out. 

   Quick update on us: We moved to Vancouver, Washington in the middle of September. We moved in with our cousin Savannah, her boyfriend Brian, and our brother in law Jack. We have my dog Kiski still and our cat Taylor, we also have Savannah's doberman pincher Lucian and her cat Snow... so that's... lets count.... 9 mouths to feed in our decently sized 3 bedroom house! We love it. Our house is just big enough for all of us to have our own space and not feel claustrophobic. 

   

  For work I do marketing and customer service for a local Bread/Bakery company, its amazing; I love it so much and I am happy with everyone that works there. 

  Zack is pretty much liking his job as a recruiter. Hes doing so good and i'm so happy for him. He works a lot of hours right now, I never get to see him but that's what it takes to be a recruiters wife. At least for the next year he will work a ton of hours but I get to eat dinner every night with him, even if its at 9 or 10 pm and I get to cuddle with him every night, so i'm not complaining :)

 We're doing really well here. It snowed the other day which was cool, and today it was 25* so its a bit cold but our home is warm and cozy so I try to stay indoors :D

Now for the decor:

Fall Lanterns

What you need:

- string of light 100 bulb lights

-sissors

-Gorilla tape. 

-Ellen on your TV

(As seen in the pictures, I used electrical tape... doesnt work to well so I had to go back and tape Gorilla tape over the other tape.

Time it takes to complete this craft is the same time it takes to 

watch an episode of Ellen on the DVR :)

This is the top of the inside all taped up looks like. The easiest way 

I found was detaching all the sides, start at the top of the 

lantern and work your way down. 

 Add fall leaves and a pine cone or two. I got mine in the clearance

section of my local craft store. Lights were on sale for $4 and the 

fall leaves were on clearance for $3 so this hole craft cost me about $15 to do both lanterns

Added both of them to our book shelf and it looks fantastic if I do say so myself

OUR HALLOWEEN PARTY:

Dirt cups: Chocolate pudding, Oreo crust crumbles, and 

gummy worms. I wrote on the cups sayings like "Boo!"

"trick or treat" "R.I.P" and "Happy Halloween"

Mummy weenies- Hot dogs cut in half, croissant wrapped around the

weenie like a mummy. cook in the oven on 350* for like 15-20 

(until the croissant is golden brown)

Homemade bagel bits:

mini bagels, your favorite spaghetti sauce, cheese, pepperonis,

 and olives. I cut the pepperonis into a smaller circle and 

put olives on top so they look like a face 

screaming... creepy huh? 

Cooked them on 350* for 15-20 mins, until

cheese is cooked on top

Cupcakes from the store and the $1 store cupcake display

Punch: Hawaiian punch, orange sherbet, and eye balls that we got

from the $1 store too.

My Ariel pumpkin

 After I painted them, they looked a million times better

 Everyones pumpkins :)

Turkey day crafts:

Our nana made these cute turkeys with nuts, foe leaves, and 

a few googly eyes

Our Aunt made this paper wreath. Multi-color paper, calligraphy pen,

and needle pins. Pin all the cut out leaves onto a Styrofoam wreath,

write about 20 thing you are thankful for around 

the middle of the wreath. 

Love you all,

Rollin' with the big Devill Dogs

Its official, my husband is in recruiting school now. He is doing SO well; He's getting A's on all his test and presenting his speeches with ease. I cant tell you how proud I am of him! On Thursday he found out where is RS/RSS is (Recruiting station/recruiting substation).

We got.... drum roll please....

Vancouver, Washington!!! We are so excited! All Zack's aunts, uncles and cousins are in that area, so we will be very close to them. Zack wanted Fairbanks, Alaska because that's where is family just moved to; Don't tell anyone but I was hoping that we didn't get AK. I love Alaska but Fairbanks..... it is WAY too cold for me, it not only gets 0* but it gets to like -20* or below and I'm not equipped for all that nonsense!

We started looking up houses for rent but we cant call around or really do any in depth, incase next week he gets switched to another station. He was told that after next Friday they will know for sure!

In other news; My brother in-law Jack will be staying with us for a while. He will get here late evening on the 12th, and stay with us for our move to WA. From there, Jack will enlist to the Air Force and will continue to stay with us till he ships out! Zack's cousin Savannah will also be moving in with us, along with her Doberman pinscher named Lucian. We are very excited to have family living with us and expanding our in house family :D

We will be moving in the middle of September which is only a little more than a month away. I am super nervous because I know how stressful this is going to be, but I also know that Zack wont be deployed for another 3 years, so that makes it all worth it.

We are having movers that the Marine Corp provides for us (TMO) so they will pack up everything for us, deliver it to where ever we are moving to and they put it in a storage unit for us until we have a place to live. The only thing we would have to pack up is the items we will need for the drive up and a for a few weeks incase we cant find a house. We will pack it all in my tiny little Hyundai with 3 adults and 2 animals, not too hard... right?

No matter what, I am ready for this next adventure and I know that everything will go smoothly... it has too! Oh man I crack myself up!!!

Wish us luck

Love you all,

The few inbetween

It's getting closer and closer till Zack comes home. Oh boy am I ready. In the beginning I felt excited because that's money to pay off our credit card (which is only for emergencies or plane tickets) our TV,  mattress and my student loan (which we did... cue the happy dance) but there is a lot of anxiety, what if's and the unknowns (HATE the unknowns) that you feel before they leave. I know for Zack and I, the past 2 deployments we would kind of distance ourselves a month before he left, and we would get into fights about silly things. This deployment I had to pack up the house pretty much by myself. He work 12 on 12 off (12 hrs of working straight, sometimes 13hrs) which meant when I got off work of my part time job I had to go straight into packing up our 2 story house, which was a fight all its own. On the weekends him and his friend would fix up his truck so he could sell it, which seemed like a month of them taking it apart, cleaning everything and rhino lining the bed of the truck. I was getting very annoyed, sometimes I even caught myself saying "will you just deploy already?", then leave to go to the gym or work. That sounds horrible but the hole situation was very stressful and this was his 3rd deployment; I was over him leaving me for 10+ months at a time... I just wanted HIM! The last week was emotional on another level... kind of felt like a break up. I was packing my stuff, he was hauling it all away, and we were hardly talking. My heart ached. After he left I was at the house cleaning up everything... again I was stressed out because not everything got done the night before and I felt like he left me with EVERYTHING, I just broke down and started crying while cleaning. It wasn't fair I felt, I had to clean the hole house, I had to make the last minute storage unit runs, I had to sign back over the house, I had to take care of the animals now by myself, and I had to move to another state that I've never been too (I was moving to NJ with my dad). I felt alone and miserable and no one in the world could ever possibly know how I was feeling.

*Let me tell you, everything you feel is perfectly normal even if you feel alone, there are thousands of spouses and significant others who are going through the same thing as you.

After I got on the road I was doing ok, I got to see my family and I was ready for this new adventure! As the months progressed I got a job, made a friend or two and hung out with all my family up here in NJ. I was having a good time, hated my job, but having a good time. I got on a new schedule day to day, visited my sister in CT a few times, and met up with a few military friends who were in NYC, so, we got to hang out all day and have dinner. I went on a train for the first time, went on the subway, took a million pictures, met a few celebrities, went to a live showing of a tv show, and saw time square... life was good

Such a beautiful city

Kelly Ripa

Michael Straham

 1st subway ride 

 Grand Central Station

 Christmas tree

 Time square

 My friends I met up with

 Fathers girlfriend and I on the FAO piano floor

Family friend works as the manager so we got to try all sorts of goodies :D

 

*Sometimes I felt guilty that I was having fun and couldn't email Zack right off the bat but that's perfectly normal too. They want you to have a life while they aren't there, they love hearing stories from you... they are living through you!

 I felt a few times I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs... I tried to pay the bills and one time I needed to talk to the company and they refuse to talk to me because I'm not on all the accounts just yet, So I couldn't get anything done that I need to because its a hassle driving 20 minutes to the library or staples to fax over my POA in a busy town. His 2nd deployment I was trying to buy a car and I faxed over the wrong POA (I faxed the housing POA first) and I got red flagged, so even when I faxed over the correct POA they wouldn't help me. When calling navy federal, your POA only last 24 hours so I had to constantly send them the POA. Finally, after yelling and screaming and calling them a thousand times I gave up and just drove with my sister in law to Miami (3 hrs away was the nearest navy fed from my house in FL) walked in, showed them my ID and POA and then got the loan right then and there.... I wish I would have done that first. That was a ruff week and my husband wasn't able to call because he was on a boat with 3,000 people and 2 working phones.

Coming up to the last couple of months of deployment is ruff again. I miss him like crazy and we only have a few months standing in our way. Today was my last day of work. My mom and sister are coming up from FL to help me move back to NC. Im so excited... the quicker we move back the quicker he comes home. I am so irritable right now; Everything makes me mad or upset. I am such a happy person so this isn't in my character to act like this. I just want to sleep all day and never get out of my bed.

Sister and I in central park

 

On the way home to NC we stopped at Washing DC for a few days. It was A LOT of fun!!

 



 

 

 Easter egg hunt at the White House

 Science museum

 Hope Diamond

 My beautiful mom

Pretty church with all the Cherry blossoms

 



*It is crucial to keep your self busy; the busier you are the less time you have to think about your situation. that's the key... ALWAYS stay busy, time will go by fast and you'll spend less time thinking about him. Its ok to not think about him every two seconds, I promise!

*Don't ever feel guilty for any of these feelings. This is all the process of deployment. When he comes back, its normal to say things like MY stuff, MY house, MY kids etc. you spend the last X amount of months fending for yourself, making a new schedule/routine, and doing things by yourself. Just remember that it will pass and you'll have a new routine INCLUDING your significant other. Remember he will be stressed and not the same when he comes back, just as you wont be the same to him either. It will take some time but everything will be ok! Keep your chin up and there are numerous way to fix that and people who are willing to help you and talk to you after deployments. Talk to your FRO (family readiness officer) and they will help you with any feeling that your feeling or any thought that you have. They've heard everything, don't be afraid to express your thoughts and feelings, they will help! Also, if possible try and surround yourself by family and friends during this time, even though they might not know what you are feeling, they will listen and that's what you need to do, talk about it, be open with yourself!


I found this online and it breaks it down for you

If you have any question, comments, or a story please let me know :)

Love you all,

As a house wife....

  I am a cleanaholic... sometimes... mostly when I know people are over. I don't like anything out of place. I kind of go a little bit insane when I don't know someone is coming over. Sometimes my husband comes home from work and says "by the way [name] is coming over for a minute, but don't go all crazy, they aren't coming inside" by the time he says "by the way..." I'm rushing around the house like a maniac picking up pillows, folding blankets, quickly Swiffer vacuum the living room (we have a husky and she sheds like nobody's business). Even though he says they aren't coming in, I don't want to take the chance. Even when I'm by myself and I actually notice that the house is getting dirty, I kind of lose my mind. I think everything needs to have a place, and not scattered around. I hated when I worked because the house gets slowly dirty and I'm so tired that I don't clean. The dishes pile up, the mail and random papers pile up all over the kitchen and coffee table, it sucks, I feel dirty. Luckily I found a daily checklist off of Pinterest. It helps me a lot because when I don't know people are coming over, I already have a lot done through out the week, so all I have to do is pick up a bit.

I don't have a kids room so I edited it to say mudroom and added the things I need to do on mine but other then that it really comes in handy. Its ridiculously simple if you keep up with it. I've noticed the pet hair doesn't pile up, the laundry is easier to do, and the dishes take only a few minutes because I do them every night now. I also found that if you are lazy (most days I am) you can do them in between your shows; instead of fast forwarding through the commercials let them play and do one chore at a time... by the time the show is done, I'm pretty much done. There is no excuse... anyone can find time to do at least one thing in between anything that your doing.

Tricks of the trade:

Mirrors: spray pledge on a rag and wipe down the mirrors, it actually clean better then Windex
Windows: use a vinegar and news paper... the newspaper leaves no streaks or fuzz behind.
Hard water stains on faucets: cut a lemon in half and rub it on the faucets, the citric acid cleans it
Dishwasher: take vinegar and put it in a microwave safe container on the top rack, sprinkle baking soda on the bottom of the dishwasher and run on the hottest setting
Microwave: fill up a microwave safe bowl (I use my measuring glass) with water, turn on high for a few minutes and the steam will loosen the grim
Baseboards: take a bounce sheet and clean the base boards, it cleans them amazingly and it repels lint and dust from coming back longer
Drain: sprinkle baking soda down the drain and add white vinegar and it will naturally clean the drain and reduce smell. Also, you could throw lemon/lime wedges down the garbage disposal and turn it on and it will reduce the smell.
Cut down on dishes: after you eat rinse off you plate... easy
Heat rings on wooden table: they say coat the ring in mayo and leave for about 12-15 hrs... I haven't tried this one yet but I will shortly and get back to you :)

Love you all,

Where'd you go? I missed you so....

    I'm going to start this off as a brand new blog. I haven’t been on in what looks to be 2 years.... almost exactly. I’m going to try and make this a weekly thing since I quit my job and I’m a stay at home wife with nothing to do except chase a puppy around all day.

    My husband Zack was deployed again for another year. He just got back Feb 3, 2012. He was on a MEU (Marine Expeditionary Unit) which pretty much means he was on a ship. He was in the Mediterranean sea on what seemed to be a yearlong cruise. He got to visit Spain, Dubai, Portugal, among other really cool places (lucky). This deployment was the hardest because we lived together for a year after he got home from Afghanistan, and then he left for what was supposed to be 7 months and it turned into a 10 month deployment. He got to email me almost every day but we only got to talk on the phone for maybe 10 times the hole time he was gone (maybe once a month). I got to Skype him for 3 days in a row during one of his ports and that’s it. That was a struggle because it’s hard to put into word every, little, thing that happens to you in one day. There is no summing up like you do in your diary, blog, or Facebook. When they are deployed they want to know everything because they “live through you” as he always tells me.

    For Christmas he bought me a car. We needed a reliable one for when he came home due to our wonderful luck with cars. He bought me a 2010 Chevy Equinox. Getting it was the real struggle. I fought with Navy Fed for a hole week. Literally, every day for a week. They thought we were fake and it was a scam all because I faxed over the wrong POA (power of attorney). They told me it was the wrong one so I set over the correct one and they for some reason put a red flag on us and they wouldn’t give me the loan. Zack called them twice proving that we were real but they had to see me in person. So, I had to drive 2 hours to Miami to show them that I was real…. Really!?! But 2 weeks later I got my car :) That’s the hard part about deployment, I was so stressed (which I hardly ever am) I was so mad (Which is never) and felt so alone and my husband couldn’t even call me to comfort me. Yea, I had my family but sometimes you need your significant other to be there for you, especially when he’s the only one in the world who can fix it. I never realized how strong you have to be for a deployment, not only for the other person but for yourself, to make it another month. That is why the number one thing you need is to surround yourself with family and friends… people who truly care about you. That is the only way I made it.


    My husband is home now, possibly not much longer, he might have to deploy again in November for 6 months (so they say). He really wants to go recruiting and to be stationed in AK, which we will be there for 3 years. Sounds good to me because he constantly talks about how he misses it and he wants to move back and blah blah blah. My thing is we live there for 3 years and then we can retire somewhere in the middle between FL and AK. Which seems fair to me :) . We will find out Thursday what he has to do to go recruiting. Hopefully it all works out because I do not want him to deploy again.


    Let’s see how long I can keep this blog thing up for. I really want to stay on top of this, it’s nice to go back and look at everything that happened to me over the past 2 years ( my hole 4 post earlier lol) Life has been ok. When my husband deployed I moved to AK again but I was only there for 6 months. I had 3 jobs (subway, Rogues garden coffee shop and health food store, and Northwind floral and gift shop) and I also baby sat a bunch of kids in town. I met some amazing people and made a lot of really cool friends. This time was different, I felt last time people were just hanging out with me because of my husband (I hung out with all of his old friends) this time I made my own friends people who didn’t know my husband and that didn’t grow up in that town. I felt as if I actually made my own friends and didn’t just get “grand fathered in” to my husband’s friends… my friends hung out with me for me not because I was new in town and Zack’s wife. I miss them a lot, it was definitely a good trip, kind of wished it lasted longer. I moved back to FL in the beginning of November due to a family emergency (I will explain in another post soon).  I got hired back at my old job working with a kids camp in the four seasons of Palm beach (my absolute favorite job), hung out with old friends, it was great, but I’m so glad to be in NC now with my husband though. This place is…. Ok I guess… just a normal military town, nothing to do, but my husband is here and that’s all that I care about :)


    I got a job working at the front desk at a Quality Inn. They hired me as the 6-2pm shift so I could still pick up my husband from work, low and behold they kept scheduling me for the 2-10pm which I never got to see Zack except for driving him to work at 6am and saying goodnight to him when I finally got home at 10:30 pm. I did that for about a month and we just couldn't take it. We are still like newly weds, we only actually saw each other for a year and the hole time he was state side ,we had roommates so we never got to do the normal newly wed things. When I cooked I cooked for all and cleaned for all too... it was never just us two, so I had to quit my job so I can see him and spend time with him. Now between the new puppy and my crazy cat all I want to do is get out of the house :) I literally can't even go to the bathroom by myself. Kiski (Siberian husky puppy) has separation problems with me, I cant get up for anything without her following me. If she cant see me she will start barking... same with Taylor (Bombay cat), he follows me every where too... bathroom and all. Guess this is what it feels like to be a mom :D I've got my hands full now


Until next time...

Love you all,

Home Sweet North Carolina

     Im in NC with my husband now, afer a long time coming. When I 1st got here I had alot if trouble getting a rental car. They wouldnt let me rent one because I didnt have a credit card, only debit, and I had nothing to attach me NC because my husband wasnt home yet. So when my husband finally called he got ahold of a few friends from his shop on base and they helpped me out. FINALLY people who care bout us. I've always heard of "Military familys" and how they always have your back, well, this really proved it to me. they asked around the shop to see if anyone had an extra car that I could use and some one did! They let me use it for a week till my husband got home. They didnt even know me but htey were friends with Zack, my husband, so, anything to help out a fellow marine, they jump on it!

   Zack and I didnt have a place to live as soon as he came home because we were waiting for base housing to open up. BASE HOUSING: a house that is on base and only military person can live in that specific communtity. Usually Marines that are married. depending on the base there is well over 2-6+ month waiting list to get a house on base. A few guys from Zacks shop cam together and pulled some strings and got us into CO & NCO (commission/non-commission officer, which is really high up ranks then my husband)  we are very lucky that we got the strings pulled for us bc normal LCpl (Lance Corpal, which Zack is) get a apartment to live in, they are nice but we got an actual house... a 3 bed room house to be exact! WOOP!

     Zack met a guy by the name of Miles out in Afghanistan, and he is going through a RUFF devorce, so Zack offered him to stay with us till his devorce is final and untill he can get his own place. A month later we have 2 roommates and it feels like every weekend we have the hole shop passing out at our house. I wake up on the weekend and we have atleast 4 people on the couches and floor. I dont really mind because they are all super cool and super super funny! Im glad I met them!

   Also, We drove my car up to NC from FL the other day with all my stuff I left in FL,and about 2 hours in (orlando) i got a flat tire. it took stupid Wal-mart 3 hours to give us a new tire because they were "short handed". A customer who got there just before us threw a fit to the manager and 5 mins later we were on our way. As soon as we got here we had to get just a 12 hour pass to get on base because it was 3a and the next morning we had to get a real pass. Well march is my birthday and thats when my registration needed to get renewed so they wouldnt let my car on base. so for the past week our friends had to ddrive us around... once again I love the "military family" life style.

   I was always told that I shouldnt be friends with the military wives because they are all stay at home wives/mothers and all they do all day is sit around coming up with ways to panic about the our husbands deployment. but thats a very very few amount of wives that are like that, and I know to stay clear of that kind of drama! But overall everyone has been super nice and I have 2 friends that are wives, one of which is my husbands best friend and we all get along great and we all help eachother out as much as we can!

If your a military wife/girlfriend, tell me a story of when the military came together to help you on your time of need!!

Love you all,

Snow days

  Ok, Finally I can write. My computer has been in the hands of my brother-in-law. He had to a project for his Boy scouts. So not a lot has been going on, it snowed 5 ft in the past 2 days, we have the 2nd recorded snow fall these past 3 days.... oh joy! Not! I'm cold! I hate having to wake up extra early to turn on my truck, and scrap off all the snow, its freezing outside. Its hard because I babysit from 10-1130 every morning then I have to be at work at 11:45 most days. So I have to wake up early to get ready for 2 jobs, and scrap off my tuck, most days I scrap it off and walk to where I babysit (its right down the road) and then I come back to drive to my other job, but before I leave I have to scrap off the snow again! Some days I'm late depending on how much it snows for that hour and a half that I'm gone. I guess I shouldn't complain, at least I have a truck to scrap off.

I am very very blessed. I have lots of things that others don't have. There is this man that I work with, he has to hitch hike to work and back everyday because he lives 5 miles out of town and doesn't have a car, But I always offer him a ride home from work if I'm not doing anything, which is pretty much everyday. There is no one here my age, they are all in different states for college. Ok I lied, I do have friends but they are all young, like 18 or 19 so they all hang with high schooler, and I'm not down with that. I hate high school drama and that is all they are. But sometimes I just want get out of the house and do something
 

  I miss my husband, I hate not talking to him. It sucks, we get to email each other everyday that he works, which is every day minus a few days here and there. I just wish I could talk to him on the phone all the time like before. I wish he could be here, with me, cuddling in bed like we used to... I guess its just wishful thinking. I hope he gets to come home in march, I really really hope.

Time to go sledding with some friends who are in town from college this week

Love you all,

The beginning

1st of all,  my life is pretty boring, I had a really good blog befor but I forgot to write for a while and I guess blogspot deleted it.. I was sooo mad bc it had all my poems on there... but its my fault I guess, Thats what I get for not comiting to the blog.

2nd of all.. the begining.... So where to begin where to begin. Lets start off with my name. Cheyenne. I am 21 years old and I am a newly wed. I married a LCpl in the Marine Corps.  He is my everything I wouldnt be where I am today if it wasnt for him... literally, I live in AK because of him. Im living with his parents untill he comes home from Afghanistan. Hes on his 1st deployment over there and it sucks

I feel bad for every spouse/fiance/boyfriend/girlfriend/child who has to go through this. This is the hardest thing I think i have ever endored. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, Our 1st thanksgiving as a married couple and I have to spend it without my mom and dad. Im here in AK spending it with my husbands family. Not that im complaining I love my in-laws, they are the funnest people ever and super super nice. I just really miss my fam and my husband. I have never been away from my family this long and I have only been gone for 3 months. Its really hard. I remember growing up I always got mad at my ex-boyfriends if they ever said that after high school they were going to enlist. I got mad because if we were still together I would want them to be close by me forever, I mean thats the point of being married is to be with that person forever, why would I want them to go away into the war? I didnt and I wasnt going to change my mind for anything, untill I met Zach, my husband. Man, everything changed as soon as I layed my eyes on him. WOW! He is such a positive influence on my life. Ever since we met nothing in my life has been the same. He has truly made me a better person and I love him for that, hes also not that bad on the eyes lol. Which really sucks when I go to get mad at him, he just looks at me with his big blue eyes and I melt... every... single... time. ARG! Isnt it supposed to be the girls who bats their eyes and gets everything that they want (lol)

Well back to the begining... The day we met. ok lets begin a few months before we actually met. My best friend Brit was dating a Marine named Austin that she knew from her hometown. She flew to NC, where he was stationed, so she could go to the military ball that he invinted her to. At the table was a few of Austins friends that Brit had never met, of course she striks up a convo with them, after 5 mins of talking to Zack she told him that she had the perfect girl for him, He was like... "oook, you just met me" well when Brit came home she didnt waist any time, she told me that she found a perfect guy for me to be with. I was like... "ok thanks?" we looked him up on facebook and I thought he was sooooo cute. I was dating a Jerk at the time so I didnt really do anything about it, I was positive that I was never going to meet him so there was no point in getting his number and talking to him. A few months later Austin was diagnosed with a brain tumor so Brit and I flew up to NC to spend the weekend with Austin to see how he was doing, little did I know Brit and Austin called Zack to see when he was going to come and visit him in the hospital to meet me. The hospital was 2 1/2 hours away from their base so Zack got a couple of his friends to drive up there with him. Zack kept asking what I looked like, if I was nice...ect no one told him anything. It was a completely blind meeting for him and I kinda had an idea of what he looked like but not really because the pics on myspace was post-Marine, shaggy hair, civilian clothes (a high school pic). So it was pretty much a blind meeting for me too. As soon as he came to the hospital, we met, we both couldnt stop looking at eachother. He said that my eyes and my smile was the 1st thing he noticed about me, and same with me, his teeth are sooo perfect and he has gorgous baby blue eyes that are to die for. after that it was history. He invited me to the movies the next night, then the day after that he drove Britt and I to the airport. Everyday since then we've talked every day. We met Jan '09, he flew to FL that feb for valentines day, and March of '09 he asked me to marry him right before he left to go over seas. Sept '09 we got married on his R & R from afghanistan. Its been so perfect.

I really really miss him. He got his shift changed so he gets off at 530a my time but his time its 6p and thats when alot of the guys get off so the phone lines are 3hours long . im used to him getting off at 12pm which is like 1130am and he got to call every other day because there wouldnt be a line so we could talk for an hour. It really sucks, I want to hear his voice. it keeps me sane to hear his voice and just knowing that hes doing ok makes me ok. I know I just have to stay busy, thats what helps me. I have 4 jobs so I have no time to think which is good bc when I think about it I get sad and quiet, and let me tell u, I am a veryr loud person. Im Italian so everything I say is very loud (lol) I always have somthing to say so when im sad everyone knows.

Well Ill write prob tomorrow! If not, Happy thanksgiving.