Thursday, July 26, 2012

Happy Belated Birthday to ME!!!!!!

I know I haven't been on for a while and its because I've been pretty busy with our new baby (puppy) named Emily!  She is 8 weeks old and Yellow Lab, she extremely cute, smart, and very funny.  I'm still trying to get her to realize what her name is and working on potty training, which I know will both take some time.  Emily was our late Anniversary gift to each other, but the main reason we got her was because last week when I took Jake to the vet and we discovered that he had been abused in his past and that he is overly protective of both of us and our home.  The vet, wonderful lady, said we need to socialize him more so we decided to get a puppy!  I know some of you are asking why a puppy and why a lab?  Well Jake has no fear for big dogs, for example David was taking a walk with Jake one day and came across one of our neighbors walking their Bull Mastiff and Jake gets all feisty and starts barking like crazy, so this dog looks at Jake and starts to bend down to eat him, David yells "NO" and picks Jake up, who has no fear at all and continues to bark hysterically!  So we decided it would be best if we got a bigger dog so that he would learn to live with one and slowly be able to be more hospitable towards others.  A puppy, because we think it would be great for them to grow up together, which they are doing great together!

Now for my Belated Birthday gift from my husband; who is as excited as me?  Ready?  He got me this BEAUTIFUL washer and dyer set!  I'm in LOVE with it!  We were spending about $60 a month on doing laundry at the mat here at the apartment complex, so we decided to get one so it would eventually save us some money each month. On Tuesday when it got installed I was super excited and did about 7 loads of laundry!  Yeah I know that is a lot, but we've been kind of behind in laundry, well mainly I did all of our clothes including all of David's uniforms, sheets, towels, and quilts and such!  I had so much fun!

Now for some Military talk, I've recently learned that after living apart for some time it does take a lot of time and patience to get back into the swing of things.  For instance David and I have been arguing a little more than usual, I mean we have been married a little over a year now and we really haven't lived together all that much except for on weekends while were stationed at Fort Lee, Va.  So we are trying to learn to live with each other.  So my advice to those of you with deployed spouses or significant others in training; COMMUNICATION.  We need to work better on that, I guess a year apart we have learned to communicate in a certain way, but we need to communicate better as a couple.  Right now he is away for the week with his company for field training, its weird because I miss him like crazy and getting tired of being cooped up in the house all day and night with no one to talk to but a baby and Jake, who obviously don't talk back.  The weird part is the fact that it also feels comfortable because I've been this way for a year now.  As other wives have put it, they say that they have a routine and when their husbands come back they end up having to learn to live with each other again.  So my advice is for everyone to try, yes their are going to be hard moments when your communication is off, but you still have to try, that is the key!  So I'm going to try and follow my own advice when David gets home this weekend.

Time for some reader interaction, haven't done this for a while:  What was the favorite gift a significant other has gotten you and why was it so important to you?  Mine was going on a cruise with David to the Bahama's as a Christmas gift to each other, it wasn't the fact that we had gone to foreign country or anything like that it was because I had gotten to see him for the first time in six months and it was great to be able to spend the that week alone to ourselves, well kind of alone.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Here we go.....

So I know I said I wouldn't be able to post anything about baked goods, well we had unexpected guests yesterday I decided to be a great hostess and make a cake and a great pasta dish with homemade garlic bread.  It was all quite delicious and I'm extremely happy that it all turned out so well! 

So for all of your great entertainment I have a lovely vanilla three layer cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting and fresh strawberries.  So here you go I got this recipe off of Pinterest, which was pinned from Baby Gizmo Blog orginially. 

  • Frosting -
  • 2 8-oz packages of cream cheese, room temperature (I used low-fat)
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/2 cup seedless strawberry jam
  • 3/4 cup chilled heavy whipping cream
  • Cake -
  • 3 cups cake flour
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 7 large eggs
  • 2 TBSP vanilla extract
  • 1 cup sour cream (I used low fat)
  • 6 TBSP plus 1/3 cup seedless strawberry jam
  • 2 1/4 lbs strawberries, hulled, sliced (about 6 cups), divided
Instructions
  1. FROSTING: Put a small/medium bowl in the freezer to chill. In a separate large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Beat in sugar, then jam. Remove that chilled bowl from the freezer and beat cream in that chilled bowl until peaks form. Fold whipped cream into frosting. Cover; chill for a couple of hours until it’s firm enough to spread. (If you are in a hurry, you could put the frosting in the freezer to chill quickly.)
  2. CAKE: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter and flour two 9-inch cake pans with 2-inch high sides. (I used 10″ cheesecake pans – aka springform pans – because they were the only round pans I had with high enough sides and they worked great!) In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Add sour cream, and beat for 30 seconds. Add flour mixture in three additions, beating to blend after each addition. Divide batter into prepared pans.
  3. Bake cake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 50-60 minutes. Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes. Run a sharp knife around the edges of the pans, then turn cakes out onto a rack to cool completely. I threw the two cake layers in the freezer for about an hour to make the cake assembly easier.
  4. Using a serrated knife, divide each layer in half horizontally. Place one half, cake side down, on a cake plate.
  5. Spread 3 TBSP of strawberry jam over the cake, then spread 3/4 c of the frosting over the jam. Arrange 3/4 c of the sliced strawberries on top of the frosting in a single layer. Repeat two more times with cake layer, jam, frosting, and strawberries.
  6. Top with remaining cake layer, cut side down. Spread two cups of frosting over the top and sides of the cake in a thin layer, then frost with remaining frosting. Stir remaining jam to loosen, then spoon teaspoonfuls onto the top and sides of the cake. Use the back of a spoon to swirl jam decoratively into the frosting. This recipe makes a very big 4-layer cake that will feed a lot of people. It says it has 12 servings but I definitely think it feeds even more!
So I hope all of you thoroughly enjoy this recipe as much as I did!  I can't wait to try another recipe!

Friday, July 13, 2012

Another Day in the life.........

Well life around here has been quite boring lately, like I said David has had ten days of leave called TDY, means he gets leave to get settled in his new place.  Since he has a great wife (me), we were settled a long time ago!  He has taken this time to stay up late, play video games, and sleep in.  We have done our "adult" activities as I had hoped and extremely happy with.  He actually took me out to dinner!  I know what a shocker, but it was nice and he even cooked dinner the other night, well hot dogs, but it was great to sit back.  Other than that we have pretty much stayed home, which gets boring for me, so I've cleaned, explored Pinterest (best site ever!) and worked out using the gym here at the apartments and Zumba.  Tomorrow, David's unit is planning on going to Saint Simons for the day, it would be nice to sit back and relax in the sun and have the ocean at our feet.  Wouldn't you say?  Its going to be about an hour and half drive there, but I would have to say its worth it, I mean just look at that view!!!!  Plus we will be with good company laughing and probably getting burnt to a crisp, well at least I will.  Better remember to bring the sun screen!

A special shout out to all my military significant others:
 I know how hard it can be to stand by your Soldier, Marine, Airman, Sailor, etc, but I want to thank all of you for putting up a Hell of a fight for the ones you love.  All of you know as well I do that putting up with the military BS is harder than it looks and the easiest people to talk to are ones who are going through the same situations.  The thing is, we live a hard life of deployments, training, financial difficulties, night terrors, PTSD, loneliness, and so much more, but by sticking by our loved ones the reward is so much greater than the tribulations!  That first time you see them after graduating basic, or getting off the plane from a long deployment, in a land far away.  That one minute of being in their arms, its like the world has stopped and all there is is the two of you in that moment.  As military wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends; we live for that one moment, the months apart, phone calls, letters, and Skype from thousands of miles, its all worth it for that one minute together.  No body really understands that except for those who have lived it or are living it.  So I thank all of my girls who are dealing with a deployment at the moment or are separated because of the service, Nicolle, Miranda, and Chealsey. Rock on!  HOOAH!

Today I made an appointment for Jake for on Monday so that he can get his Rabies shot updated and get a check up.  Also here in about a couple of hours we are going to go to the Georgia DMV and transfer from being California citizens to "Georgiaians!"  I'm a little nervous but I know we will be fine, what we are going to get done exactly is switch over our drivers licenses and get new plates for the car and in doing so hopefully we can get the car put in both our names instead of just mine!  Wish us luck!



                                                Dear Kaitlyn and other reader~

I'm sorry for not posting any baking recipes or anything foody for a while.  My excuse is that my mixer is a piece of sh*t and I'm dying to have a Kitchen Aid one so that I can bake to my hearts content!  I even went out and bough souffle dishes because I've been dying to make some!  Right now I have a couple of ones on ebay being watched, since that would be cheaper than having to pay full price.  Yes, Aunt Yvonne, I have looked at Goodwills but none of the ones I have checked have had one.  On some good news on that front, since I'll be going to school for that here soon, hopefully here in about six months I will have started those classes and can give lots of pointers and such.  I'm sorry for asking you to have some more patience, but that is all I can do at the moment.

                                                    With love,

                                                    Curvy Army Wife

P.S.~If you have suggestions or anything that you would like to see on the blog then feel free to let me know on my Facebook page or through a private message.  Like if you don't like the back ground or the color schemes for the moment feel free to put in your in-put.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Scrubbing along at Life

Happy belated Independence Day!  I hope everyone had fun in their own festivities and were somewhat safe!  I know we had a great time with our new friends!

So today is a week into our 30 day challenge, I'm super excited, though to be honest I have been slacking a lot this week since it has been the 4th of July weekend. Having a soldier as a husband has its benefits when it comes to becoming healthy, once you ask for help of course!  He has a plan for me; for example, eating every two-three hours a day of small meals, well except for a big breakfast.  Then trying to workout every so many times a day; like for instance deep cleaning the apartment today, and doing a session of Zumba or maybe going to the gym here and working on some strength training, and some adult "exercise" that is great for burning calories.  With his help I'm sure I can accomplish anything with him at my side!

For this afternoon I've already done two loads of dishes in the dish washer, and picked up some stuff so doesn't look as cluttered, but I still have to vacuum, dust, laundry, and a huge scrub down of both the kitchen and the bathroom.  I think I might have David do the laundry (except fold and put away) and also take out the trash, I think I can do everything else myself. 

Some news on the Georgia front:  First; Daniel has gone home!!!!!!!!! YAY!  I can actually sleep through the night without going out to tell the little rascal to be quite at 3 a.m.  Don't get me wrong I love my Brother-in-law to death, but man do I love my sleep, plus especially when David has to be up at 4:30 to drive to work for PT in the morning, I kind of get protective!

David started work in the "shop" this last week and half with his unit and they have taken us under their wings, which I'm thoroughly thankful for.  The "shop" is the small group of 94H's (David's MOS) who make up a group of about eight men who are all nerds just like David and like to get into as much shenanigans, so in lame-mans terms the next couple of years should be quite interesting.  On a some what positive note I know that when he does deploy I trust these men that he will be in good hands, which can be highest honor any Army wife can give.  

Not just have the guys taken David in so have their wives, they have taken us both in, including myself.  I'm super excited to have started to make friends with four wonderful women!  Just this last week we had a 4th of July celebration at one of their houses and went to the see the free concert on post all together.  Then on Friday it was one of the ladies birthday's so we went out for dinner and then a sports bar, where we had SOOO much fun!  Last night to top it off we went and set off illegal fireworks and had a great BBQ.  So I do have to say that I'm happy that we have been welcomed with open arms.

So for all of those who have been dying for pictures of our apartment, I have not totally let you down.  You see I took some pictures and tried emailing them to myself but for some reason I think they got lost in cyberspace some where. So I'm going to try here in a couple days again and see if I can get it to work.  Hopefully if I don't try and send so many in one email at a time I might be able to get it function and corporate with me.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Day One......

Well for all of those who are joining me, we have started our 30 day journey to being healthy and exercising!  I hope everyone had a some what successful day like I did.  I know for a fact that there are a total of about seven us who are participating and I'm super excited for all of us and our results.  I went for a walk to the gas station by us to get some water and the Sunday paper, then I decided to take a hike through the forest behind our apartment.  It was actually really relaxing.  As for eating I tried to eat as well as I could with barley anything in the fridge.  See its hard to do that when there isn't anything in the freezer and not much in the fridge either!  We made due though when we went to the grocery store, spent and arm a leg, but we did manage to get half of the groceries in fruit and vegetables.

I haven't gone to work out yet today but I've been pretty good with what I'm eating.  As for dinner tonight I'm making oven chicken sandwiches with a salad and maybe some fruit to go with it.  Its going to be delicious and that is for sure!  While we are on the topic of food, I found this great recipe to substitute the bad part of cake.  Instead of all the eggs and oil, you take one package of cake mix, 1 cup of Greek Yogurt, and 1 cut of water; mix together and bake as instructed, and your all ready to go.  I think I might try it tonight and see how it comes along with some fresh strawberries and maybe a drizzle of some sort!  

As for anything new in our lives, we had an issue with our car this morning.  Apparently a belt broke this morning while David was getting back to work after PT.  Well it was no good, he isn't giving me all the details but I'm a little worried to be totally honest with you.  We did get our DLA today so hopefully we can get it fixed using that and maybe some of the other stuff that is wrong with it.  We want to get a new car here in a couple of months, but right now is just not a great idea; we could manage it but I just want to be more financially stable before we add a car payment on top of everything else. 

Any healthy recipes that anyone would like to share?

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Late Night

You know those nights when you just can't seem to go to sleep, your tired and you can feel it all over your body; both physically and emotionally?  Yeah well I'm having one of those night right now!  I can't seem to get my brain to shut off entirely, so its as if my mind is just going in circles moving from one topic to the next.  Tonight for some reason it seems to be money and my weight/body.

Money because as everyone knows, when you move its a lot more than you actually calculated it to be.  I mean yeah we get paid on Friday but we aren't sure if we are still going to get California BAH(Basic Allowance for Housing) or Georgia now or if its based off of our zip code of where we live or what Post you are stationed at.  See I was always told that it was your zip code of where you resided, but some one told David today that its based on what Post you are at instead.  What worries me is that there is like a $200 difference between the two!  Does anyone know?  So this Friday when I wake up and check the bank it should be interesting to see what the Army has decided to do.  Also with the Army we are waiting to receive our DLA (Dislocations Allowance), which is supposed to be a nice amount that we can use to pay for bills and still be comfortable for the next couple weeks and can help us get ahead again.

As for my weight, its gone up the past couple of months because I had fallen off the wagon.  Meaning; I wasn't really working out or eating right.  But since we moved this past week and a half I've been trying to be good by not drinking soda, except maybe once this week as a cheat.  Also eating lots of fruits and vegetables, trying to stay away from all the bad sugars; like ice cream (which I LOVE).  So far I've been feeling better because of all of it combined, but also because I've been drinking water and trying to stay hydrated with all this humidity!  With tonight being a restless night I was on Pinterest and looking through the health and workout section, and saw a lot of bloggers like me who had success in their journies.  Got me thinking that maybe instead of always thinking of my long term goal I need to maybe just go with short term goals?  Like maybe for one not weighing myself everyday like I used to, and two thinking maybe what I could accomplish in a 30 day time period and not my goal weight or size.  Also just going with how I feel and how my clothes fit, you know whats good for me.


If your military; does anyone know how BAH is aloted?

Who would be interested in doing a 30 day challenge with me, where we work out and just eat right? (Starting on July 1)

Friday, June 22, 2012

How about a side of stress?

I know that I said I would post pictures, but having a "house guest" and a husband who lives with you full time now tends to make the house a lot more messier than it was before!  So I ask that you bare with me for a little longer, I did clean today but not as well as I had hoped.  There has been a lot on my mind lately I guess you could say. 

Part of it is mainly all my fault, I let it get to this point.  I guess you could say that I'm having some health issues that could be a problem later on.  I'm not the skinniest of sorts, and that I have let my recent being get to what it is in my own eating and lack of exercise habits.  I'm hoping here soon to get some tests ran in about a month or so, I promise to keep you all updated as to whats going on as soon as I know anything.  For now with David home and our "house guest,"  I'm cooking more, which means less eating out and I'm trying to cut back on sugar as best as I can, plus drinking more water.  I've been doing pretty well the past couple days along with walking some for about 15-45 minutes, David is trying to keep me on track by telling me to get up, and I just don't want to let him down.  Hopefully here in a couple of days when I start feeling better I can start doing more, but right now I'm not to in the mood to do much of anything except for keeping house and cooking.

Now as for the move down here, it wasn't bad at all, we made it in pretty good time, since it was only a 7 hours and 40 minutes and we made it with 20 minutes to spare.  The guys got straight to work and got everything unloaded and the boxes in the proper rooms.  Though it was left to me to unpack and organize the whole house I was able to do it in about a week, except for a couple of boxes which I'm not quite sure what to do with yet.  We have started to make it feel like a home; since we are going to be here a while, we bought a "Welcome" mat for outside and curtains for each of the windows in all of the rooms.  This place is so much nice than the last, and we actually loved the last one; so can you imagine what we thought when we got here.  I LOVE my kitchen!!!!!!!!  The only thing its missing is a gas stove and an island, but other than that its perfect!  Here is a quick teaser for you all!  We live in a gated apartment community, with a fantastic pool, clubhouse, and its bigger than our last place  Its about a 30 minutes drive away from post, which some people complain about, but there are a quite a lot of soldiers that live in the complex also and they don't seem to have a problem.  David doesn't mind the drive, which I am happy about, because to be honest a lot of people have to commute back and forth to work each day, and longer than that too.







As you know for us to move here David had to graduate from AIT, I was super proud of him!  He got Honor Graduate, which means that he had a 90% or higher grade average in his class!  Here are a couple of pictures of him and me at his graduation!


Even though I've had him for a week and half its hard to get into a "funk" I guess you could say, we never really had one as a married couple.  To be honest we got married and then two weeks later he left for basic training and been gone ever since, yeah we had weekends but its not like living a normal married life like now.  I don't know if I'm explaining it right, but we need to figure out how to be married couple together.  I know most military couples go through this because we choose a life of separation.  I know that my experience can eventually help other spouses like myself in the future, or maybe those can help me.


As for two of my avid reader; Ashley and Kaitlyn, I know what your requests are and Ashely I will try and work on yours next and Kaitlyn yours I will eventually get to when I can get my camera to work again!  Thanks to both of you for your support and patience.

Now comes the reader part!  I have two questions for you to answer; 1.) What would you like to see of our new place?  2.)  What do you think David and I should do become more of a married "couple"?


Friday, June 15, 2012

We made it!

Sorry that I have been MIA for the past week, but trying to keep up with moving and having my brother-in-law with us has been keeping me quite busy.  I want to apologize in advance to everyone and say I'm sorry that this post is going to be a short one, but I wanted everyone to know that I'm still alive and still here for your entertainment.  I'm hoping to upload pictures of our new place here in a couple of days so that all the inquiring minds can see where we live and how nice our new place is.  I would also like to thank everyone for their prayers and concern for us and thoroughly appreciate it all.  We are doing well and trying to transition back into being a married couple as best as possible as we can.  Hope you all are having a great week!

What would you guys like to know or see of our new place?

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Life in a week!

To Kat; I know that you made a request for my next posting and I promise that it will be this week because I'm trying a couple new recipes on Wednesday.

Now I know I haven't written in about a week and a half but there has been a lot going on in my life since the last time I was on here.  I've been thinking about somethings I learned about my blog and some of you who read or don't.  I've come to the conclusion that everyone is going to have an opinion about our life and what we do, but it is my choice whether or not I choose accept that opinion and go with it or just to live our lifes.  I know I'm not the best the writer in the world, but I love it; it keeps me sane on days like today.  I just read something on Facebook; thanks to a fellow army significant other, it reads "Sometimes the girl who has been there for everyone else needs someone to be there for her."  I fully believe in that saying; I'm a people person and one of my greatest assets and my greatest downfall is that I have a big heart.  I tell all my closest friends that I'm there for them no matter what time of the day it is, I will MOST of the time answer my phone. (sorry to one friend that I didn't this week)  The point here is that I need someone sometimes to talk to, who will just listen to me, not criticize, or tell me what I did wrong and should of done; look I'll ask for advice if I want it but for that particular moment I just want someone who will be there for me.  My husband is a great man and a great example of this, he listens to what is going on and he seems to always know when I just need someone to cry to, he doesn't pressure me into the right thing I should of done or need to do, he listens to me.  To be honest yes, I have these people but sometimes I just need to decelerate from life and that is what this site is for, to be able to calm down from situations sometimes; not all the time though.  I know everyone has opinions and they all have the right to say what they think they need to, but I'm not always going to listen!  I know that is blunt!  I write this blog for three reasons; 1) for me 2) so friends and family can keep up with David and I & 3) so I can help other military spouses/significant others like myself.  My goal on here isn't to make people feel bad, or to point fingers at situations.  If you choose to stop reading on here that is your loss!  If you don't like something I've said before then don't read it; that is your choice.  If you have opinions about my/our life or this blog you are more than welcome to leave me comments whether its on here or on my Facebook, but it is my option and choice whether I want to take it into consideration.  Every time I write on here it takes me sometimes hours because I'm rereading and rewriting so that there is nothing that can incriminate my husband's or my future/current careers.

This last week has felt like its been more like a month, both good and bad situations.  Ties in my life have been disbanded for a while, new ones were welcomed with open arms.  Last weekend on Sunday David and I went to one of his fellow "coworkers" home where I met his wonderful wife and adorable son!  We were there for a BBQ, we stayed and talked for six hours and had a great time.  This week on Monday was my last day at the ACE Hardware I worked at, I miss my coworkers and all the laughs we had.  Tuesday was a quite day of wonderful blissful laziness!  Wednesday this new friend of mine hung out at her house and talked for hours and got to know each other a lot better, we are a lot a like and get a long super well!  Thursday; her and I took her son to Virginia Beach and had an amazing time at the Aquarium and beach.  For the rest of the week I hung out with her, paid bills, shopped very little, and saw my husband for a couple of hours and fully enjoyed every minute.  With all of these great times there were also bad; as always you must take the bad with the good.

Like I said ties were disbanded for a little bit of time, along with some troubles with the Army.  The good news with the Army was that they got David his official orders, but they screwed them up TWICE of all things, so finally this weekend around Friday they got fixed.  His graduation moved up to Tuesday June 12th morning instead of Wednesday June 13th afternoon, we have to be down in Georgia by the 15th instead of getting some time off like most people who PCS are supposed to.  We also don't have a home yet and are waiting to hear back from a place.  Its been a week of joys but also tribulations.  I'm hoping everything comes together this week, along with me trying to pack everything by myself!

Onto some good news I think; Saturday its my 20th birthday.  I feel a lot older than that, but that comes with all the life experiences I've acquired over the last year.  I know I don't have the amount of years or experience that some of you have, but I'm still an adult in my own manner of life!  Unlike most people my age I have a family, bills, and responsibilities that don't hit most peoples lives until they are 25.  To be honest I wouldn't change anything in my life or what has occurred over the last year for anything!  The experiences in my life have made me who I am today and will shape the person I will later become.  I don't regret anything from this last year, even the bad.

So now for some reader interaction!  (my favorite part!)  Go on the Facebook link and comment!

What do you all think I should do for my birthday?  What should I request from David?  IF he gets to come home this weekend


Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Babie.........

Okay so for those of you who follow me on Facebook and on here noticed that I asked you guys what you would like me to talk about in my next post well here we go; thanks to a miss Renee we are going to talk babies!  By the way Happy Birthday my dear friend, hope you have a great day and the boys spoil you.


As a little girl growing up I always knew I wanted a big family; probably because it was only my younger sister and myself.  I always wanted more siblings but it just wasn't one of those things that was meant to be.  Being the oldest I always fantasized about having a brother, I wanted someone to protect me from the world, but instead I got a sister!  (Love ya)  About the time I turned eight maybe even nine, my younger cousins were born, well the really young ones, and I just loved how cute and cuddly they were.  I could make them smile and laugh at almost anything, and they were just so sweet and innocent. Thanks to my Aunt she helped me figure out what to do and what I should never do.  I remember one day about seven months probably after my baby boy cousin was born him sitting in one of those great bouncy seats and just sitting there for an hour making him laugh and giggle at the most ridiculous things, and not having a care in the world.  I got to change, feed, and play with him; to me that little baby will always be the little brother I never got and I will always love him.  I believe my maternal side kicked in around that time, I started baby sitting any time I could and working in the church nursery every Sunday of every church we went to.  I love kids!  So like I was saying; we want a big, loud, and loving family!  Four is our minimum; you see we both grew up with just one sibling, so we want lots of kids.  It is funny because David and I were talking about our future this last Sunday and David was saying something about six, and I turned and was like "what?"  He said, "well you never know there are always the ones that you never plan for that happen!"  I just turned gave him a kiss on the cheek and laughed.

The time old argument huh; Boys or Girls?  Well this has been a thing with us for a while now; I would like a little boy first, probably because like I said I never had a brother, well David wants a little girl first, because he never had a sister.  So we have come to the conclusion that we want two boys and two girls; and yes we know that is a possibility that could never happen, but we can dream right?  On our honeymoon we came up with names; yes we are dorks!  You ready?  You have to understand that David came up with the boys and I came up with the girls; and they are all original.  First boy would be Theodore (Theo or Leo) Thomas and James Kirk, while the first little red headed girl would be Rose Arabella and the second little girl would be Athena Layla.  Yes I know very unique, but David and I are very unique so why not our future children, especially since they would be from our DNA; creepy I know!  Speaking of DNA we have no idea what color hair or eyes they will have and here is why.  They could be blonde (David's blonde), Burnett (my Dad's family has dark hair; Italian blood), and then Red (my hair color and my mom's side).  As for Eyes they could be grey, green, blue, brown, or even hazel!  So its going to be a gamble, I keep telling David we are going to have our kids and have one of each hair color and someone is going to stop us and ask if the dark hair baby is even David's!  When that day comes around I know that we will probably just laugh our heads off.

I want to have a natural birth if possibly; and I hope I will since my hips are huge and will never get smaller!  Breast feeding is a yes for me, I think those make-shift blankets that go around your neck were like the best invention instead of having to mess with a real blanket.  When we have our first girl it will be a light pink and and green combination, while the first boy will be a light green and a nice sky blue.  Then for the seconds of each I will take our the green's and put in brown, I love those color combinations.  Those are the things that I know for sure we are both wanting, everything else; I think once we did get pregnant I would sit down and do all my research and talk it over with my hubby and see what is best for us and the little one. 

Now I know most of you are thinking; "okay now that we have read this, is it a sign that she is pregnant?"  Sorry to disappoint, but no.  We aren't pregnant, don't get us wrong, we want a family; but right now we want to both finish our college educations, spend more time as a married couple, and maybe even see more of the world, take a couple more impulsive trips like cruises or even just packing up the car and driving.  I know that David will be an amazing dad; always caring, loving, and never letting go, he is already great with little kids and I can't wait for that moment in the hospital when he holds our first bundle of joy in his arms and is totally taken away by just everything.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Life..........

I guess you could say that I have had a little bit of a triumph over the last month.  When I got home from California I had kind of fallen into a kind of depression you could say; very grumpy, never wanting to do much of anything.  Well over the past couple of weeks I have gotten better, mainly because I have been able to see family.  No, not necessarily do I mean jumping on a plane, but through a very handy invention called Skype.  Talking with family has been such a great help to me over the past couple of weeks.  I'm not sure what I would have done without them, I feel so great and I am eternally grateful to these wonderful people.  You know who you are and I do thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I hope you all know that. 

I'm super excited that we have less than a month before David graduates from AIT and my 20th birthday!  As I tell people, David and I don't feel like our actual ages to be honest.  Sometimes I truly do feel about 23 or older some days.  I know some of you think we are still kids and don't have any idea what we are talking about half the time, but the great thing about growing up is that you experience life and everything changes over time.  I do have to say though that I have experienced more in this last year than most of the young adults that I graduated with in 2010, which I have to say seems like a lifetime ago.  I also commend my fellow friends who have also gone down the same road I have and I'm sure have experienced some kind of judgement; whether it be from friends, family members, or even complete strangers.  We know that it isn't in our time for people our age to get married at 19,20, or even 21.  Now a days to be honest its actually not until most people are at least 25+ and they have stable lives with a career and such.  I know I didn't follow that guideline and that most people probably think that I'm naive and that we will be another statistic, but the more people say that the harder I try to prove them wrong, and guess what I will do everything in my power to do so. 

So with David's graduation looming around the corner it also means that we are getting quite close to having to move to Georgia!  I'm wondering how that will go to be honest?  You see some of our belonging are still back in California, and because I moved out here on our dime I'm wondering how the PCS move is going to go.  You see I was told once that the Army went by where the sponsors spouses lived, well I found out that its actually quite the opposite, they go based off of where your soldier is.  So we have a feeling that they might go with where David's last home was, even though I was included on his orders for Virginia, so we will see how this goes shall we, either way I have plan which is like a must, always have a back up.  I'm super proud of David and everything he has accomplished over the last year.  He is absolutely amazing and I love him to death!

What on everyone's mind?  Anything you would like me talk about?  If you do you can send me a private message or put it on the link that I post with each new "article" on here.  Talk to me, let me know whats happening with you.........Night all!

Monday, May 14, 2012

Its Official

Before I get started, I wanted to thank everyone who participated in my weekend question last week, I had fun reading your guys plans and responding!  You are all great readers!

Today I made it official and gave my two weeks notice at work!  I think when we move down to Georgia I'm going to try to find a waitress job.  First because I'm done with Hardware for the moment, I'm tired of trying to help customers and they look at me like I don't know anything because I'm a woman, well guess what I have learned quite a few things and tricks from my two years at an ACE Hardware store!  I may not specifics but obviously I know enough to help a customer get what he/she needs or at least point them in the right direction.  Two, since I want to own a restaurant then I think it would be a wise decision to at least know how to waitress, so that when I do have my own place I can at least know how my employees feel and I can relate to them.  Third, I could probably make more money and put my people-person personality to its fullest potential!  Part of me would like the Mom&Pop shop, interesting people to meet and that is the type of place we want to have.  Well anyways I'm glad that I'm almost done at ACE, I'm going to miss all my friends, but man the customers are just right down rude most of the time!

So one of my friends from work took me Sam's Club for the first time ever!  Yes, I know its almost exactly like a Costco, which I have been to like a million time, but still she took me there and I bought three Disney Classics.  If we haven't established this yet lets get to it; I'm a Disney FANATIC!  Anyways I bought Lady and the Tramp; which I haven't seen in years, Beauty and the Beast and Bambi; both of those because they are going back into the vault and by the time they probably come out again I will already have kids and I would like my kids to experience Disney to the fullest!  I know I'm a dork, but come on!  One of my favorite Disney movies is Mulan, and I think that one is in the vault because I haven't seen that movie any where for years and I've been searching for it,  I've been dying to see it for about a year but I couldn't even find my copy.  I wonder what they are going to take out of the vault next, because I would really like to collect most of the classics!  This is how much a dork I am; back in California I have two books one is a 1975 1st edition Disney story book, its about 300 pages of all the Disney movies out at that time, some of timeless classic stories that weren't movies yet, and even some of the Mickey Mouse stories, then two years ago I came across a 1st edition Disney story book 2 at a yard sell.  This one was an updated version of all the movies out since the last book, and other timeless tales, it also was about 300 pages.  I wish I had my books! 

Well now time for our interactive part; go to the link on Facebook like last time and tell me what your favorite Disney movie/s are, or even your favorite kids movie!

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Whats Happening with everyone......

I know I have more than the four official followers on here so, lets play a little game shall we, if you are reading this go back onto facebook and either "like" the link, or leave me a comment about what your plans are this weekend.  They don't have to be anything special it could be lounging around in your PJ's, seeing a movie, or even cleaning the house, I just want to do something interactive with all of you.  Well for myself this weekend David gets to come home for the first time in about three weeks, we hope anyways.  I have to work Saturday all day, but when I get home I think we might go out and see the new Avenger's movie or even Battleship.  Then Sunday we will probably do our usual or staying home in bed all morning, cooking together, then maybe even playing some video games together.  I'm hoping to possibly get him on Skype with some of my family so he can finally meet them. 

This last week I've been working more than I used to, which is nice but I still get some nice days off, next week I wont be working much again, but it will give me enough time to work on my new hobby.  I've been needing something new to keep me busy, so I've taken on two projects.  On both sides of my families I come from a long line of military men, so I'm going to make first a kind of scrapbook where I can take everyone's old military pictures and put there stories and there.  So that later on in life when David and I have kids we can show them all the pictures and they can see what their ancestors did for them, including their Dad.  Now my second project; I've been working on my families Genealogy!  Its been so much fun, I feel like I'm searching for buried treasure and solving a great mystery!  Like today so far I've discovered two Civil War soldiers, both from the Union side on both sides of my family, and I've only been working on it for three days, can you imagine what I could do in six months?!?!?

Sunday, May 6, 2012

In a world full of billions......

In a world filled with billions of people is it possible to feel absolutely alone?  Yes, obviously I'm not feeling myself lately, I wish I could feel more myself, but with all the stuff going on I kind of feel down.  Its that point where you realize that you wish you were 5 and you used to fight your parents on taking a nap just because you were all "grown up" and going to school.  Well guess what,  I wish I could take that nap and wake up in about two months once we have moved and I've got everything unpacked and David is actually living at home and we are in each others arms at night, every night of every day.  I'm grateful for my husband and what time I get to see him, I'm grateful he isn't all the way across the world in a different country for months on end.  What hurts the most, and every military spouse knows this; is after you have dropped them off coming home to a home without them, its as if part of your heart is being broken with every time that happens.  We were talking about this yesterday, and we have decided that me moving here and spending thousands of dollars on bills (all the part of growing up) each month was worth every penny instead of staying back in Ripon.  Why you might ask?  Well to be honest it has saved our marriage, I know a lot of couples go through years of seperation because of the military and I'm grateful for every single one of them, but we really needed this after being married for so little time.  I'm grateful for my husband every day of the week, hour, minute and second.  I love him and everything he does for me, and I will always stand by him!

Friday, May 4, 2012

What do you do?

The saying goes "If Life hands you lemons, then you make lemonade!"  Right?  I mean is that true?  You hear different versions of the saying all the time, both comedic and deep in the psyche.  Does it change with different walks of life's?  To be honest I think the saying applies to certain situations in life, but in others I think you get to decide what to do with those lemons Life hands you, like maybe just throw them back, or take them and throw them in the trash!  Why does it have to be lemons?  Why not Twinkies?  Trust me that would make most of the men in the world happy!  Seriously I like that saying better, "If Life hands you Twinkies, then deep fry them!"

If you can't tell, this week has been kind of a difficult one, probably because both David and I are in bad moods over the lack to time together, don't get me wrong we are happy with every minute we get.  I'm mainly stressing about having to move again here in about a month and a half and trying to finance that plus the possibility of going to California.  I know people want to see us and all, I would love to see family and friends again, but how do you expect us to do that and move again?  The thing is I'm not one of those people who just waits for life to hand me lemons, like my husband does, I'm planning for what life will hand me exactly, whether it be lemons, Twinkies or even crap.  I like to plan for those things and to be honest the Army just tells you when and where, yes I know; exactly what I was signing up for!  Guess what it really doesn't hit you until your sitting there in the middle of it trying to figure out what to do.  So yes, I'm a little stressed, but a year ago I couldn't have done this, I probably would have broken down into a corner crying. Now instead I pick myself up, wipe the dirt off and still plan for the next step in life the best we can.

On another front, your family is the most important thing anyone can have in their life, and not everyone is blessed with ones that I have surrounding me.  Even better I have multiple families, my blood family, my marital family, and the family I have adopted along the way; the family you choose to pick up along the way in life.  I made a mistake this week and I know I'll be living with it for a while, I wish every day since that I could take every moment of it back, but I can't.  But I do deserved my part of what went down and I know that. 

So what is everyone's plan for the weekend?  Tonight I'm going to go to the movies with some friends and see the Avenger's!  Oh yeah I get to party at the movies, I'm going to get a HUGE Icee and maybe splurge and get some popcorn.  Then tomorrow since its my day off if David gets a day pass (not likely, on lock down again) then we will probably have a party of our own here, and maybe see the movie.  If not then get some cleaning supplies for David and his roommates if they can't leave, then some laundry and cleaning, and then hanging with my other girlfriend.  Nothing like trying to stay busy as much as possible huh. 

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Free time

As I said a few nights ago I would be back.  My trip in California went as suspected it would, eventful in small ways and life changing for my friend.  It was great to see all my family and friends.  Jake had a great time as well,  my parents fell in love with him and he made three new friends with my parents dogs.  They all had fun, especially him digging trenches and to China in my parents backyard trying to go after a gopher. 

The wedding cake turned out pretty nicely as well!  I know this is probably biased and all but my cake was awesome!  It was super moist and full of so much flavor, when I get some photos I will put them up for you all.  Seriously though that cake was awesome and so were all 50 cupcakes and 24 mini-cupcakes.  The Bride looked lovely as ever and the groom looked absolutely dashing of course.  Now as for my dress, I do not want to put pictures up of THAT dress, but I know you all probably want to see it though, to be totally honest I hated the dress (sorry Kaitlyn).  I wasn't a fan of the dress, the color I didn't mind, what bothered me was the fit, it did nothing for me and brought out my worst features and showed off all the wrong curves and not the right ones, I pretty much looked like a freakin cow!  Yes, I did just say that.  I felt extremely uncomfortable in the whole thing, but I did it anyways, you know why?  The Bride is one of my girls, and I will do anything for her and all my other friends!

Right now I'm really intrigued with this new show called 7 Days of Sex, its actually really interesting.  Its where a couples who are on the rocks decide to spend seven whole days straight of having sex, they have to do it at least once a day, so far they are four days in and each couple is feeling closer, but it looks like they are each about to take a step backwards.  I think the message here is that each couple has to have a form of intimacy in their relationship or there are some issues.  I agree with this, yes having sex everyday is a little ridiculous and very hard to do, but there still needs to be some.  I know some of you might think I'm being a little niave because I'm still a newly wed but let me tell you something, I have gone through months with out any because my husband has been away for training in the past and I've had friends who have gotten none for almost year because of their husband being deployed.  I believe that sex is an important part of a relationship, no not a huge part but it is needed.  Oh and if you have a problem with this post, then don't read it!

Friday, April 20, 2012

I'm Home!

I know, I know it has been a while since I last posted, I'm sorry.  I know there really aren't any excuses but I was packing for California, then was in California and getting ready for my friends wedding, and then I've been trying to recuperate.  I know sucky excuse but its all true.  I'm not totally in the mood to write tonight because I have to clean literally EVERY room in the apartment, especially since David left it a mess last weekend and I haven't totally fully unpacked yet.  I will write later tomorrow hopefully or even Sunday, either when David isn't on his computer or when I have taken him back.  Goodnight everyone nice to be back!

Monday, April 2, 2012

So many frustrations!!!!

Ever had that feeling like something has cracked inside of you?  I've been feeling like that lately to be honest with you, and I really don't but kind of do know whats going on.  I think it has to do with stress and some other deep down problems I guess you could say.  The stress of my friends wedding; like for instance the dress I have to fit my fat ass into,  I guess I'll be getting a lot spanx!  Then there is the cake, man can you say nerve racking!  Oh and lets put on top of all this everything else.  You need an explanation first I guess, David got his orders and we are going to Fort Stewart, Georgia.  Yes, Georgia of all places, no where near where we thought we would get, but oh well I guess that's the Army huh?  Well now we have to look into a new home, packing everything, and trying to start all over.  I know this is what we signed up for but still does it really get any easier?  Don't get me wrong I'm excited to be going somewhere new and taking another step in our adventure together, but its kind of draining and I've still got a couple of months.  David and I have decided that I need to go back to school, well more David pushing me to go back, so now I got to try and find a school and that is a little worrysome also!  I've been out of school for about a year now and super nervous to go back. 

Then also I'm not doing the Revolution, I wish I was but I don't think I can.  I really wanted to but I didn't have any help.  I'll get to my goal with help from family and friends, I did it once before and I'll do it now.  The only problem I guess is that I'm super unhappy with myself so Its making my life and emotions a wreck and I feel like its putting a burden on us, but David being the sweet heart he is loves me for every pound that I am.  I'm super lucky to have a man that loves me for me, I wish I could love me for me as much as he does though.  He did say something that is bothering me but I know that its because he wants whats best for us, but it still kind of hurts because it changes what we have been talking about for the last couple of months.  I love him and I always will, so I'll get over it. 

On a happier note David and I adopted this great new addition to our family.  A cute 6 year old red Dauschund named Jake!  Also those of you who are readers from California, I'll be there in five days!!!!!!!!  Exciting huh?

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Whats on my mind

Hi everyone, I would like to apologize for taking off my last post, even though a lot of you enjoyed it and said I should keep it up.  I took it down for a couple of reasons, none of them having to do with Joeschmo1992's comment on that post.  No the reason I took it down was because the way things are now in our society, I didn't want to take the chance of this affecting a current or future job/career for either David or myself.  Which seriously disgusts me to the core, and here is the reason why.  Including myself I have five friends whose husbands are in the armed forces and countless friends, they are here to defend our freedoms and rights in this country from anything foreign or domestic.  So if MY OWN husband is doing this for me, when did it become that I can't write what I WANT, all because it offends someone.  Well to be honest those people have the right to tell me what they think and that I shouldn't have written it, but when did it come down that I have to accommodate them.  They didn't treat me with any respect and say it with some respect so where are my writes to say what I want.  When did it come down to the fact that if you offend someone that you have to bend to their wants to make them feel better.  It comes back to employers asking for the password of their future employees for their Facebook accounts!  Where did that right go for the American people?  That was the whole foundation for us declaring our independence, we did it with the freedom of speech!  So why can't I do it now?  Yes I was a tad pissed off to be honest, but I'm calm now.  What really bothered me was that the post was not bad at all, I gave everyone plenty of warning ahead of time and second it wasn't even as bad as the magazine I love; Cosmopolitan, or as bad as media does in all of the commercials, TV shows, or Movies.  I guess to keep everyone happy I will be more careful of what I post from now on.  If you don't like something you read then fine, if it upsets you enough then don't read my blog anymore, but I will try and keep everyone in mind when I decide to write something out of the box.  Hope everyone has a great day!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

GRRRRRR......................

I hate this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I feel like all I'm doing is setting myself up for failure by trying to lose weight and look a certain way.  I know that I will never be a tiny, but the sad part is I keep trying to have the image in my head that I will be that small but I know that I wont!  I tell people that but the hardest part is trying to convince myself.  I think maybe me going on the Revolution might help.  UGH..........why is this so hard!  All I want to do is be negative but I know I should cut myself a break since I've lost some inches but still!  Why is this so hard?  I'm so frustrated at the moment!  The sad part is that this has been a life long battle with me and I just try to stay motivated.  Why is it so hard to lose the weight or inches but so easy to put it on?

Well I guess I have to be positive in some way, so here is this months measurements:

Weight-200 lbs (+4 lbs)
Bust-42" (same)
Waist-36" (same)
Hips-46" (-2")
Thighs-23" (-12")
Arms-16" (+2")


I've been contemplating for a while whether or not I should tell you all about this but then I realized that the more I'm honest with you on here the more I'm honest with myself.  Like I said before I'm not happy with where I am at entirely and I need to take responsibility for my actions and so here are the consequences.  Yes, I gained 4 lbs and I'm furious and extremely disappointed with myself at the moment.  As for the measurements I'm happy my boobs have stayed the same because to be honest, well, I LOVE MY GIRLS!  Well and also so does David, hahahaha!  (sorry to any of my family, but come on, we are married)  I'm thrilled about losing 2" off of my hips, to be honest my tightest work pants and jeans have been fitting a little better.  As for my thighs I'm more shocked than anything, I wasn't expecting that at all, but it does make sense.  My arms have always been a weak point so I'm not surprised, I'll have to work on it eventually.  Now to be more accountable for my actions here we go............I haven't been working out as much as I should of, drinking water has been very low, its been more soda than anything, and last but not least I've been eating more junk food and fast food than I have in a really long time.  I know bad Michelle!

So to turn this around I'm going to slowly try and change these bad habits into good ones.  First more water and less soda!  I've noticed lately at the gym that I feel more tired, worn out and not running as well as I used to, so while I was working out I noticed on the TV that it was saying that if you aren't drinking enough water you can be a little dehydrated which will hinder you in your work out!  So more WATER!

Goodnight everyone, thank you for reading this and supporting me in what ways you can, I do appreciate it!  Now to go wallow and try not to cry!

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Military wives


I would seriously like to thank all the military wives who have their own personal businesses, not like me who works a job, this is different.  What amazes me is that some of these women do this on top of having an actual job, managing the household, having a husband and kids. Plus some of these husbands are away on deployment or training which is all the more amiable.  If I could be as crafty or have the the faith that a business would thrive right now then I would do it!  Still some of these women are extremely talented, like for instance Kacey; who is the proud owner of Pearls to Dogtags.  She makes these amazing bows for your hair or even head bands not only for you but also for your kids if you would like.  I love her bows because they are military themed but she also has others that are great for someone who just wants something cute to put in their hair for the day.  If you would like to check her out you can find her on my Facebook page in my likes or even just go to this page and like her page; http://www.facebook.com/PearlsToDogtags. 

Both my friends Aileen and Miranda do Scentsy which I have to say is a great product!  Scentsy is a flame less candle that you get to put into a decorative holder and put a light bulb under it and it burns the wax down and releases its aroma into the air to take away any odors in the atmosphere.  Plus the scents are freakin amazing and I have to say that holder are really cute.  If you interested in possibly getting some let me know and I'll direct you to these wonderful ladies.

These woman are great and are doing wonderful things with what time they have while they husbands int he military.  I think they are also doing it because they might need something to keep them busy on lousy days.  So if you feel in the mood for spoiling yourself try and see if you can find an military significant other who is selling their hobby.  Instead of buying locally, buy for your country,  WOW that was cheesy.  Well night all!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

I can fix it......

So as I was saying before I worked on my friends trail wedding cake today since it was my day off, well after staying up until 2 a.m. yesterday just baking the cake and trying a buttercream recipe (which epically failed) I finally finished backing of total of 3 tiers.  Then this morning and all afternoon I made a new recipe of buttercream and assembled the cake and decorated it.  In the process of everything I managed to slice open my finger with a pocket knife trying to get wooden dowels to the right size for support of the cake.  Yup its pretty nasty and hurts like crap.  No, I'm not putting a picture up of my cut finger, that would be disgusting.  Well anyways as an aspiring baker and professional chef I like to learn to do new things and techniques and watch ingredients start out as one thing and then be combined to something else and be totally amazed at how they mix together.  For example it was just some much fun to just see normal butter and three cups of powdered sugar sit in a bowl and then after about three minutes of mixing it on medium its turns into a creamy mixture, it was just amazing how it all turned out.  I have learned a couple of things today on how to make the wedding cake better.  First I have to make the frosting thicker so that when I put the second layer of frosting over the "crumb frosting" it still wont show any of the cake crumbs.  Second I learned that I got to find a better way of cutting the dowels (duh, finger) and placing them so that the cake has a better balance and doesn't look uneven.  I just hope that the cake turns out great the day of, at least I have all the equipment and I know now how to use most of it!  Oh and third I now know that I need to be better organized with all of the ingredients and the prep, I might be able to shave off a couple of hours.  But here is a picture for you all, if your not a follower on here but you still read, comment on Facebook, I would love your honest opinions.

I'm tired but I'm going to continue to finish watching an awesome all time great movie; Kate and Leopold.  So I will talk to you all tomorrow!  Oh and tomorrow I'm thinking of getting some new running shoes since my feet are starting to kill me at work and getting blisters while working, any ideas on some good ones I should get that under $100!

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Great Mood

Well first good morning everyone who is an avid reader, I hope you are all having a great day, if not stay strong I'm here for you no matter what time of day it is, even at 2 a.m., I will get my Curvy butt out of my warm bed to answer my phone.  Now that has been put out in the air I would like to say that so far this week has been okay, I'm in a good mood and I've been keeping busy as much as possible.  Bad news I haven't heard from David in about 2 days, something is going on over there and to be honest I'm a little worried.  I know that its probably alright but I'm still worried, for those who know me I'm a worry wort.  I'm very grateful for getting to talk to him when I can and see him on the weekends when they don't revoke his pass.

Now on a different note I would like to welcome my special friends Kat and Aileen to the wonderful world of blogging, both are like me married/soon-to-be married to awesome Military men.  So I would like to welcome you both and I'm following you both, whether its with your blogs or in real life, Love you both!

As I'm writing this for you all I'm watching the View and part way through the program they had an announcement about Disney.  Walt Disney company is looking to hire about 1000 US veterans into the company in a program called "Heroes Work Here."  I support their decision to the fullest, most people don't think about how hard it is for Veterans to come home from a hard deployment and try to transition into the civilian world, plus not only that they have spent a good part of their adult life learning a career and doing that job day after day and then to come home and apply somewhere and be told your not qualified.  Its one my biggest pet peeves, to be honest if a soldier can be in the military has an EMT or a nurse or even an electrician and be told you aren't qualified even though you are probably more qualified than anyone there because you have the years worth of experience!  Thank you Disney for realizing what soldiers do for our company and come home and not get a chance when they come home!

Come tomorrow I'm going to be uploading some pictures of the pre-wedding cake trial for my friend Kat's wedding, so that means stay tuned!  Have a great day everyone!

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Coming Home


The show Coming Home just aired its season 2 episode opener here on the east coast.  Its a great show on LMN, where soldiers of every different branch share there stories of coming home to their loved ones and surprising them in the process.  I think the network did a great job of opening up the new season with a Raiders Nations surprise.  Now I wont give it all away tonight for those on the west coast who it hasn't aired for yet, but it was a tear jerker for sure!  If you have never seen the show before I would say you need to, but make sure you have some tissues with you, they will be happy tears though.  I could see David and I doing this to either of our families when he is coming home or even when we have our own family us doing it to our future kids.  As long as he doesn't do it to me, because I will be a total mess!  I do have to say though that while they are away you always wonder if that is going to happen to you.  As a matter of fact an Army wife friend of mine; Miranda, had that happen to her this last Christmas while her husband was at AIT, he just popped in on her and her in-laws!  You hope it never happens to you, especially if you don't like surprises, but this kind of surprise I guess I would be some what okay with.  Now no ideas people, David doesn't need any help, I'm pretty sure he could do this all by himself without any help from you all!

 On a different note in entertainment I finished the series The Hunger Games in a matter of about a week and a half.  These books were each amazing in their own way.  Yes they steadily got more graphic as the series progressed but it is an interesting concept as to what would happen if the USA happened to have another Civil War and the out come wasn't for the best.  If you haven't read the books yet and have noticed the commercials for the movie coming out on March 23rd then I suggest that you go and buy the book and read it.  Its just one of those books that you can't put down, plus I also suggest that you buy the whole series because once you finish one you'll want to have the others.  I can't wait for the movie to come out!  I wish I could go to the midnight premier but I have to work and so do my friends, but WE ARE SEEING IT!

Friday, March 2, 2012

My Big News.......

Okay so first I have to say that I'm happy to be back, its been a busy week.  Now I know for those of you who read this as well as my Facebook posts your probably getting a little antsy as to whats going on.  So here is a deal I'll make with you all, what I tell you is a secret, so no going posting it on Facebook or telling it to people who will tell others.  I don't want this to get out, and two I don't want to jinx it.  Also to the clear the air before I start I'm not pregnant, which I'm going to bring up later on!!!

Now for my big news.  Have any of you seen the show the Revolution?  Well its this great talk show that is on ABC that started in January.  Well the purpose of the show is to change peoples lives, but through life-style changes; like motivation, health, sex life, fashion style, and weight loss.  The show has this segment called Our Hero's, this is to show how women/men change their lives in weight loss through a 5 month period but its shown in a weeks time.  Well about a month ago I decided to get on the website and check it out and see if I could possibly do it.  I entered my info, a picture from our wedding that I dislike and then did a summary of who I am and why I want to change so much.  Well after I submitted it popped up with a window that said; "Thank you for applying, we get over thousands of entries......," plus more that I can't totally remember, something along the line that basically don't be surprised if you never hear back from us.  About 2 weeks later I got an email that said they were doing casting calls down in LA and Atlanta, to be honest I'm to far away from there so I didn't go.  After some time I just forgot all about it, well to my shock and total astonishment I open my email yesterday morning and I have a surprise of a life time.  I got an email from the casting director saying that I made it to the next step of casting!  So I have to make a DVD of myself, life, family, and why I want to lose weight.  I'm nervous because I never thought this would actually happen, like I said I forgot all about it.  So that is why I want to keep it on the down low, I don't want to people jumping to conclusions, and plus if it doesn't happen then its better if less people actually know?  So there you all are......

Now for my rant........ITS NO ONES BUSINESS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE PREGNANT!  Alright I get tired of people asking whether or not I'm pregnant every time I say something mysterious.  Just because we are married doesn't mean we are going to get pregnant right away, and even if we did that is a decision between my husband and I, not our parents, families or our friends.  I understand you might think you might know whats best, but that is for us to decide and for us to discover on our own.  So just leave it alone please, we will tell you all when we know if we are. 

Well everyone have a great night, if your not a follower and you want to comment on something I put on here either put it on Facebook post or get an account so you can officially be a follower.  :)

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Good morning!

I know its been a while since I've been on, I shouldn't have any excuses but here they come any ways; I have been working, when David is home I don't even know what a computer is, and last but not least I just haven't had the energy.  So there you go, sue me!  No please don't. 

So this morning I'm up early so I can run to the gym for an hour and work out.  To be totally honest I'm never up at this hour, I'm not the best morning person, especially if you wake me up and you don't have a delicious cup of coffee.  If you don't have that I'm not getting up happily or in a good mood!  So for me to be up on my own accord is a miracle of its own.

My first goal is to look fabulous in my Bridesmaid dress for my friends wedding in April, so if I can pull that off then I will be happy with that as a great accomplishment.  Now I have to go or me being up this early was in vain. 

Thursday, February 23, 2012

New Perspective.......

So after getting an email from an old friend from high school I've decided I was on the right path but that I needed to change some things, mainly my way of thinking. (Thanks to Kim.....)  Here we go:

So instead of doing a weigh in for you all I'm going to do it every two weeks, maybe not even that, I will determine by how I think I'm doing.  Mostly it will be off of how I feel I'm doing, for instance; how my clothes are fitting, my energy levels and also by my measurements.  I already go by eating healthier and not by a diet, even though I haven't been succeeding.  I know I'm not pushing myself hard enough, but I do need to calm down and quit stressing myself out.

I failed.....

This whole week has been bad eating habits and I haven't been doing anything to stop it!  I feel horrible, I know I should of been trying harder once David had gone back but I didn't. There is no excuse, but I should of tried harder and had more self control.  That's why today I'm working out twice and eating healthy!  For breakfast I had Raisin Bran Crunch and right now I'm snacking on some red Grapes.  So for lunch I'm having some leftovers and then some more fruit and vegetables and then as a snack  I'm having Chobani as a snack which I got a great deal on those!  Maybe instead I will not make a sandwich and just have everything else........oh and a smoothie while I'm at the gym.  I'm not sure what I will have for dinner after I'm done with Zumba tonight.  If you can't tell already I'm not going to be weighing in tomorrow, not unless I lose like 2 lbs this by tomorrow, NOT! 

Monday, February 20, 2012

IT SNOWED!!!

OMG!  It snowed here!  I've been dying for years to see my first snow fall since I was a little girl when we lived in Nebraska.  I loved it so much!  It happened last night while David was home for the four day weekend.  He was not as ecstatic as I was about the snow so while I was outside the first time I was piling snow off my car and throwing them at the window he was by.  He opened the window and asked if I was crazy!  I yelled back yes and continued to throw snow balls at the window, he yelled I was a crazy lady and closed the window!  I ran upstairs and made him put on more clothes and come outside again to play in the snow.  It was so much fun, while it was coming down we were throwing snowballs at each other and he slipped and fell on his ass!  It was so funny we were laughing so hard, but then he started sliding in the snow, I was afraid he would fall again and hurt himself.  If he did man I would be in so much trouble with the Army! 

As for the rest of this weekend, David and I went grocery shopping; thank God!  The bad thing about shopping with David is that he is like a little kid, he puts junk food in the card while I'm in a different isle.  I swear I don't know how I'm going to be able to do it when we have kids and him doing that!  Oh well, it made me laugh all the more.  Then after that we came home and we watch a Star Trek the Next Generation marathon of seasons 6&7, its David's favorite show of all time, and to be honest I like it as well.  So for his birthday this year I plan on getting him seasons 2,3,& 5; the only seasons we have left that we need to finish our collection of the series.  I know he will love it!

Now as for the weigh in you all were expecting, well its not happening!  I've decided that the easiest way to do this with David coming home on the weekends is that I shouldn't weigh in on Mondays because it will be setting myself up for disappointment.  So now I was thinking the new weigh in day is either going to be on Wednesdays or Fridays, depending on which one has better results!

Friday, February 17, 2012

Lessoned learned!

Okay so I learned a new lesson today, ready, here we go?  Don't do a Zumba class the night before and then go to a lesson the following morning!  Now I'm super sore and I have blisters on my feet, and extremely tired.  What doesn't help is I have to go shopping today, pick up David, get my check and cash it, then volunteer at the USO for four hours.  We shall see if I get in a swim session in after I'm done at the USO.  Back after David had left my friend Aileen and I used to swim and it helped me lose a lot of weight and inches, plus it was super relaxing and it helped me deal emotionally with David being gone.  I miss the feel of the water and how relaxing it is.  I think I might go buy a new bathing suit and maybe I'll model it for yall. 

I'm nervous for my weigh in this Monday, I'm hoping I've lost at least a little bit, but also hopefully maybe with all this Zumba I'm starting to lose some inches.  I know that I hope for a little success, but to be honest I'm ready for there to be some let down.  I know that I should be my optimistic self but I think I'm a little but happier if I let myself be prepared for the let down.  Am I wrong?  What do you think?

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Money, Money, Money!

WE GOT PAID!  Oh yeah we got paid, well by the Army and I get paid tomorrow peeps! Great thing is that all the bills are paid, so everything is good.  Well except for the fact that my house has no food, I know I need to go and get groceries but David said he wanted to go with me. How could I say no?

Now for some good news, David has a 4 day weekend so hopefully we will be able to have the whole weekend together?  I'm thinking of taking him to a shooting range or possibly to go see Its War, I think that's what  its called.  Waiting to hear from David though, I think he has a six hour shift at the moment.  I'm staying up tonight until I hear from him, so yall are my entertainment.

Well on the diet front, my weigh in is on Monday morning, but I did have two workouts today.  I got a gym membership at this really nice gym called American Family Fitness.  My main reason for choosing them is because well one they Zumba every day and it doesn't cost me anything, its included in my membership.  Also because its the only gym in the area that has a pool!  I'm planning on doing two-a-days for a little bit so we'll see how it goes!  I'm thinking something like swim in the morning, Zumba at night or vise versa.  Or if I miss a Zumba class then I would swim in the morning and then after work that evening.  My schedule is becoming insane!  Working, USO, working out, and trying to keep everything running for David and myself!  I'm hoping that with all this going on that I lose some weight, it would be awesome, especially since I'm having so much fun doing Zumba! 

Hope everyone has a great weekend and I'll see yall tomorrow or Saturday promise!