Time goes on..

Hubbys deployment and "hard core" training is coming up.   I'm a little nervous, Finally feeling settled and motivated to get my goals done and then i take a look at the calendar and realize, its not far away.  I dont know the feelings that you go through when your coming upon your first deployment, but I'm not feeling much pressure, yet.  Of course, its about 6 months away (give or take a couple weeks)  so I'm sure it'll hit me.  If I havent mentioned it before, I plan on moving with my mother in law.  Mostly because I want to be in Oregon where my roots are and most of my loved ones remain.  We dont have children or a ton of stuff so the  decision to move back home wasn't very hard for the Hubs and I to come upon.  Then again, the mommy in law is facing some changes as well.  Either way, I'm gonna be on the West coast.

I'll get use to living on my absolute own when he's away, but for 12+ months, I think  I can safely say that I'm totally comfortable being with my family and friends.  At least for the first go around Haha. 

In other News...my birthday is 4 days away! Woot! lol.  I'm hoping Hubby is here for his 20th birthday.  He might be training though, who knows.  I was thinking I'd bake him a cake, bring his buddy's over, hang out and eat a big dinner and some yummy cake and ice cream.   Then go to a movie or just send him and his friends to a freaken Arcade or somewhere they can have fun OUT of this house LOL.  My idea might sound cheesy, but spare me....I'm only brain storming!  I know for sure I'm gonna bake him a cake though ;)

Well, I better be gettin' to bed. 

TTFN<3

Buster.

Gah! I've been stressing out a lot.  Never owned a dog in my life so this is deffinitly a learning experience.  They're not like hamsters or birds where you have to just keep thier cage clean and make sure they have water and food.  He went to his first Vet appt when mother and brother in law were down (March 10th to be exact)  he got his first vaccinations for parvo and such, but before that for like a week he was dragging his butt on the ground..I had no idea what that meant until he started pooping worms! And they were round worms, so they were long! Ewww! Lol So he got dewormed as well and hes been doing FANTASTIC since then....up until 2 nights ago. (March 16th)  All morning and afternoon he was his normal playful self, but when 5pm rolled around he just started yelping in pain.  For no reason it seemed.  I was scared, so I got on facebook and my other favorite informational site "babygaga" and I was told to either give him puppy meds or take him into the after hours vet.  The first thing that came to anybody's mind was the risk of him having parvo..wich didn't make any sense.  He was eating ok and he wanted to play, he just looked and sounded like he was in pain.  I was hoping to get him into the vet yesterday, but Buster was doing really good by then.  He wasn't yelping, he was eating perfectly well and was a little more playful then the day before. So, I decided that since he has an appt for the 2nd round of vaccinations on saturday (the 20th) at 11 am that we could just wait.  Today hes back to his normal self, besides acting nervous off and on.  But I'm told that a chihuahua trait so....yea.  I figure the yelping in pain was or is growing pains, or he pulled a muscle.  Whatever it is I will for sure find out in 2 days. For now, he's perfectly fine.

Oh...and his cute floppy ears are no more.  He's a true chihuahua now :(

Now

Then

:( I'm gonna miss them haha

Well, I gotta start studying for my permit/license.  This sitting in the house thing has to stop, I have gained some weight from it! AHHH! Lmao, I memorized the Oregon driving manual...now I gotta study the TEXAS manual.  Smart me haha

TTFN!

Heres a long one!

So much has happend since my last post! 
For starters, March 4th till the 9th my mother and brother in law flew in and stayed with us.  It was really great having them.  Besides my wonderful husband getting stressed out constantly (lol) it was fun.  We saw the movie 'Alice in Wonderland' and went all the way to Galvenston TX.   That was interesting and incredibly fun.   We rented a Ford Focus and drove 5 hours there and 5 hours back haha.  Its a cute island with tons to do! We saw Dolphins! I havent been so excited in my life.  I wasn't able to catch any pictures of the dolhpins because they were so fast but I did get pics of everything else!

He loved the sand

The Gulf of Mexico

Him stressing haha, his mom loved picking on him

Brother in law with Buster on the boat to see Dolphins

The 'clipper'

Brother in law on a big propeller thing

Smile mommy in law!

Me

Me and hubby. Hes a dork

The two annoying boys playing with the squeeking toys

A monument dedicated to texan soldiers that died during a war in 1886

Top of a church

More smiling!

And of course on the way home we went through Houston, I also fell inlove with that city. Its pretty amazing, tons of buildings. Heres some photos!

And the best part of the whole two weeks was the marriage retreat!! Besides the fact that hubby got really sick the day before, he decided to tough it out. I kept telling him we could catch the next one but he refused.

We went to San Antonio, which is absoloutly gorgeous!! Deffinitly my favorite city in Texas.  Our hotel was on the Riverwalk, if you havent been to San Antonio, the river runs through the whole city and along the river there are tons of restraunts and bars and the HUGE mall is right at the end.  We took a tour bus and went on the whole river, it was just gorgeous, I am hoping we go back for our anniversary in 3 months.  Heres some pics:

Hubby playing with Buster, relaxing.

View from our room, we were on the 15th floor.

Looking down

Hubby being a dork. Walking on the Riverwalk.

St. Anthony holding Baby Jesus, aka San Antonio

This is the kinda boat we rode on

The mall.

This would've been a good pic lol

See the faces? they were suppose to keep away demons.

Hubby really wanted me to take this pic.  The art is made out of thousand of little tiles.

It was a great trip, We watched a video seminar spoke by Mark Gungor. He was hilarious and right on with everything. I wanted to buy his video but it was over $40. Ha! hes great and all but No thanks!

Anyway, I gotta clean and head to the store.

Until next time. TTFN!

Emotions fluddering about.

So on Febuary 23rd, which was 2 days ago, it snowed, and it snowed A LOT!!  I took some pictures and managed to have fun with buster.  I was amazed that he didn't freak out haha.

And I made an awesome snowman!

This is what is started out to look like at 8am

And this is what it ended with, around 4pm.

I was excited :) Texas's weather is deffinatley bi polar!!  The next day the snow was gone and it was nice and Sunny out!

My mother in law and I spoke on the phone for about 3-4 hours last night. We talked about EVERYTHING in the past,  brought back a lot of memories and old emotions.  Didn't realize 'till last night that I seldom think about  the past.  I guess that is a very good thing, although I accept the fact that the past makes you who you are today, I refuse to live in it.  As should everybody else.  It makes me misss my Husband more than anything though haha so many memories with him. I guess 13 years of knowing eachother does that to ya!

Of course Boredom before the Mother in law called me had arisen and Buster was sleeping so funny! I had to take some pictures. 

He had his tongue out the whole time haha

Then I decided to wake him up

And he hid from me!

Okay well, Hubby is home, gotta go!

TTFN

A great AND a sad day!

So hubby left around noon today, I didn't really know what to do with myself.  Its just me and Buster for the next week.  At least its not almost 2 weeks like last time and he'll be close by.  Like a hop, skip, and a jump away :)  I miss him already.  I really dont know what to expect from deployment, at least I'll be with family though. From experience with these trainings is I cant handle lonlieness all too well.   Or at least the silence, I'm trying not to be a wimp, really haha.  But growing up in a household of never-ending chaos really sticks to ya :p

But, from a site, thats basically strictly female I met some friends! We hung out today, so although hubby left, I had a few hours of downtime and then went out for the rest of the day.  It was sooo much fun to get out and be around girls..for once!  I hope we can have outtings like that more often.

I put Buster in the Kennal for the first time today, I really didnt want to leave him home alone unsupervised considering hes a puppy and isn't potty trained.  I felt so bad when I put him in :( he was biting and scratching at the cage..poor guy. So after about 2 hours of being out I was anxious to get home and get him out! Lol its kind of like having a baby!  So we came to my place so I can get him then went over to one of the ladies house and watched 'Beverly Hills chihuahua' lmao. 

Annd, Buster was such a good pup at her place too. He wouldn't leave my side the whole time.  I love this puppy so much.

Well, I better go and 'try' to sleep.

TTFN.

Training is getting closer...

Hubby leaves for training on sunday. At least its only gonna be for a week.  Last time it was for almost 2 weeks. Which sucked for me becuase I just moved here and never been alone in my life, I'm not complaining just pionting out that there is a lot of adjustments that go along with all of this.  I think every military spouse can agree that they want their significant other with them as much as possible. We're coming up to our first deployment within the next 6 months. What do you even think about when it gets closer?  Or when its here?  I'm probably over analyzing everything.  But its a big part of our lifes and his career. No hiding from the thoughts.....

On a brighter note; Do you like my blog??  I love it! Thank you 'Chele', she is so sweet for doing this for me.  I was getting so frustrated!

Well, I'll be back with more random thoughts and events but for now its some down time. Keep up!

TTFN

Resolution where art though??

So, the past two days have been very calm and relaxing. I recieved our expensive rug in the mail, yay no more vaccuming our black rugs 5 times a day! Annd along with it came our couch cover, yay no more ugly sky blue couch! Our living room looks great now. I guess I can thank the flooding of our toilet for pushing hubby to re organize the living room. Woot! lol well on a side note, we're still working on getting the rest of the laundry done. yeea, its difficult when you dont have a washer and dryer. Its a good thing its cheap to do laundery at the laundry matt down the street. But usually full anytime before 7pm. *sigh* we deal...lol.

The mortar and tank rounds are so loud! I was walking home from the laundry matt and they shot some off, scary! And I should be use to this by now. I kinda am, its always a little suprising the first 3 rounds though considering the ground shakes haha.  Heres a picture of what they look like:

Oh the joys of living on a military base. The soldiers gotta train :D Hopefully they don't keep going 'till 2am like last time. Hubby says he wont be able to sleep through it...yea right, he did last time. That boy can sleep through anything.

I would really like to make this blog pretty, but how??


Puppy training has begun! No more puppy in bed and the use of repetition is in action!  He's a good sport...I say that although I just got done cleaning dog pee off the new carpet haha thank God for De-orderizer teehee. 

Are you questioning my title?  I have a 2010 resolution that had a good start but is now turning into a fail :(
To read the Bible and eat better!  The Bible can and will be done. The eating better....I'm trying! But I have had fast food once this month  and coffee 3 times this month...I use to be a coffee addict but I needed to learn how to control my anxiety without medication and Caffiene does not help! I try to stick to cranberry juice or tea. But then my dear husband buys soda...oh the temptation.  Its okay though, I will do this! I will not fail! Haha well I better get ready for bed.

thanks for reading my random thinking for the day :P
TTFN