Vacations where I wanna be....

Vacation is suppose to be relaxing and rejuvenating right? well not in this house hold. My husband and I got back from a week long vaca last Saturday. We went to the Outer banks in NC, Gatlinburg TN, Nashville TN then Clarksville TN, all in a week. We met up with family friends in the outer banks, my family in Gatlinburg, and stopped by Nashville and drove around on the way to Clarksville to see my best friend. Every day was packed full of fun. We were definitely exhausted by the time we came home, but it was well worth it.

Highlights:

 The Taylors, and us going for a jeep ride

 We took the Jeep onto the beach...

...where we saw wild horses

We got super close, it was amazing! 

We drove 27 miles to the VA boarder.

I'm in 2 places at once :) 

Sunday we saw the Taylor's Dad become a Pastor

of his church. It was very touching!

After church we took the boat out and went tubing.

It was our 1st time. I think we did pretty good :) 

Monday early morning we drove 9hrs to Gatlinburg, TN

for my family reunion

 Beautiful Gatlinburg

We rode on the ski lifts and rode on these cart

things down the cement slide. Surprisingly it went fast 

We went to "Dicks" for lunch one of the days.

Pretty much you pay for the waitress to be rude and make a fool out of you,

then you have to tip them lol. it was pretty funny. Zacks hat said

"She calls me speedy". 

Mine says "I'm like a turtle flip me on my back and im screwed" 

Went hiking. It was stunning!!!

Friday morning we drove to Nashville. It was completely packed... little did

we know it was CMA week and there was a ton of free concerts

all over the streets, so we quickly got back on the highway to head 45min

to Clarksville

Last night, Brit put together a BBQ and we got to meet a few of their close friends.

Overall we had the best time you could possibly have. It was nice to see my family. My husband finally got to meet my uncle and cousins, which was cool. We took loads of pictures and had even more fun! I recommend going to Gatlinburg for a vaca, there is shopping, putt putt, food, free testing of moonshine...which was a highlight of our night :) its very family oriented, something for everyone :)

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,

Recent Love

     My most recent love is this book. Those of you that love a romantic comedy.... this book isn't for you! Im just kidding, its has romance...kind of and its very fun, I mean I literally LAUGHED OUT LOUD at every page! Chelsea Handler is very blunt, in this book, and on her show called "Chelsea Lately", which is by far the funniest show I have ever seen in a very long time, which is why I wanted her book. It takes you from kindergarten, where she lies to her hole school about a movie role, to where she's 12 where she pretends she's 16 and babysits a 14 yr old boy, to family issues to friends. she gets down to the niddy griddy and tells you how it is, well her perception on it!

     I personally haven't finished the book, I'm about half way done with it. I usually don't review books but this one I needed to get the word out. I really wanted her book called "Chelsea, Chelsea, bang, bang" but I wanted to start off with her earlier books so I can get an idea of what to expect. Oh boy I didn't expect it to be as funny and cleaver as it was! My recommendation is you need to buy this book!

     I will give it a final review as soon as I finish it but as of right now its a 5 star book.... no wonder it was #1


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.