April

On April 5th we had some visitors come! Alex's mom and boyfriend came from Arizona to stay for the long weekend. We had a lot fun, went out to my favorite place, Miyabi, which is by far the best hibachi I have ever had. We also went to Raleigh I think the first day they got here. I was lame and didn't take any pictures and I'm so bad at remembering everything, but it was fun! Haha

April 13th we celebrated our 5 year anniversary!(of togetherness, not marriage). 5 years earlier we went on a casual first date to In n' Out( which PS I am craving so bad right now!) and went to the movies and saw disturbia. So for our anniversary we went out to Red Robin then went home and watched a movie. And again I was lame and didn't take any pictures.

Just a few days later, on the 17th, we found out some exciting stuff. We found out I was pregnant! Yes, again, and exactly 4 weeks to the day after my miscarriage. I went to the doctor the same day and did a blood test and found our "for sure" the next day.
We waited until as week, or less, later, after I had my first dr appointment to tell out family.

And the even better news is, I'm still pregnant! Haha. We are so blessed,and so excited! I'm so glad to be out of the first trimester, can't even tell you what a stress bucket I was everyday. It seriously wore on my emotions.
But I am now 13 weeks today and am due on December 29th :)
We are a happy bunch over here.

March

March started out as a really good month. On the 2nd, after much research and test drivings over a couple weeks time we finally bought a new car! I hate to sound like a salesman but really this car is amazing so if your in the market, look into this! We bought a 2012 Hyundai Elantra. It's the north American number 1 car or the year and has the highest safety ratings. And it's pretty great looking as well!

We love it!

Then on March 5th, a month that started off good got better! We found out we were expecting!

We were so excited! Nobody But maybe 2-4 people knew we had been trying since about mid 2010. Not even our parents knew I think. So this was very exciting news for us!
We were so excited we told all of our families and friends that day.
I loved calling everyone and telling them, it was so fun!
About a week and a couple days later we had our first doctors appointment and our due date was set for November 12, 2012!

On March 20th we were so excited cause my brother and sister in law were on their way to the hospital in Arizona to be endured to have their first sweet baby and our first niece.
About an hour after they left for the hospital, I started bleeding, and it looked like we were on our way to the hospital ourselves.
We got to the ER and had to wait a good 5 hours. Worst wait of our lives. I finally got in and then the tests started. As much as I wanted to deny it, I knew what was happening, yet no one would tell me. After about 45 min there and about an hour and a half of the worst pain ever I went to the bathroom and found out I had lost our baby. All I wanted to do after that was go home. But apparently even after that they still have tests to do. After 8 hours in the hospital we finally went home. Empty.

4 hours after we got home out sweet baby niece Stella Jane was born

Most beautiful baby ever, no?

The next couple weeks were the hardest ever. But seriously I am so grateful and so blessed to have the husband I do. Anytime I cried, no matter how often I cried he stopped whatever he was going and just held me. He also took me on a couple surprise daycations.

He took me to the beach a couple days after. It was too cold to swim but it was so nice just walking around and relaxing

Then a few days after that we went to Charlotte. We went to this mega amazing theater with huge seats and a full bar and restaurant. We felt do weird only ordering a diet coke and popcorn haha. We saw the hunger games for the 2nd time. Love that movie.

Oh and probably the most important part of our 2.5 hour trip to Charlotte was jack in the box! Haha which I could seriously go for now. Too bad it's so far away, yet probably for the better haha.

So to sum up the month of March. Well I dont know, It had the highest highs and the lowest lows. I guess that about sums it up.

February

February was a pretty fun month.
On the 2nd my brother in law and sister flew down from arizona( I feel I need to say Alex's brother and my sister, my sister isnt married) and my other sister came down from Raleigh, which she usually did every weekend anyways.
They came because on Saturday the 4th alex and I ran my first half marathon, his second in Goldsboro, NC, like an hour/hour halfish from our house. I finished in 2: 28 min I think. Geez I can't even remember. Alex finished way before me but I'm was still pretty happy with my time

The rest of the month was fairly uneventful, so that half marathon was the highlight of our month.

Well actually on the 20th I got my teeth done. I have some serious issues with my mouth, almost 2 years ago I got my wisdom teeth out and when I got them done i got my nerves all messed up. The left bottom of my mouth is numb, my tongue and gums, and because of that for some reason novicane doesn't affect me at all and the shots to give me novicane cause the most intense extreme pain I've ever felt.
So remember when I said january I saw 3 different dentist. Well all of them were trying to figure out what to do with me cause I had 2 cavities that couldn't get fixed cause the novicane doesn't work. So finally in February I got scheduled to be put under, yes, under for a cavity. So stupid but it had to be done. I wasn't even under at all when I got my wisdom teeth out. So long story short, kinda, Alex taped me after he procedure and was a kind husband haha

Haha slightly embarrassing, please don't judge.  That was my first and only experience being drugged and I seriously don't remember any of that
There were a few more videos he took but I'm not gonna put them all up haha

November-January

I'm trying so hard to remember back this far haha it's so bad, I'm having a hard time. But, here I go with the big fun stuff I remember.

As you know in November we moved from Arizona to North Carolina.
We got here on the 5th, and pretty much spent the whole month settling in and enjoying being "really" marred haha for the first time.

December. On the 10th Alex and I did our first race together, we did a holiday 10k. And we crossed the finish line at like 68 min which was a pretty good amount of time shaved off my first 10k in October. That was all thanks to Ale, he stayed with me the whole time and pushed me through it.

Then December 13th was my birthday, I turned 22, I honestly can't even remember what we did haha. And thus why I need to keep up on blogging.
On December 14th we celebrated our 2 year anniversary and went out to a fancy, waaayyyyy too fancy place, ad I got this beautiful bracelet an earnings oh and flowers :) it was a pretty good day.

The rest of December was filled with the usual, holiday cheer and celebrating Christmas, which I am not gonna do a post about haha but it was a great holiday.

January nothing really eventful happened. Except I signed up for my first half marathon with Alex to take place just 5 week after I signed up. Ya talk about crash course in marathon training. Oh and I also had quite a dealio with my teeth that time too. Saw 3 different dentist that month, Ridiculous.

Anyway that about sums up those few months. I promise more exciting stuff happens so I'll catch you up on the good stuff later this week!

I'm Back!!

This feels so weird, this is the first time I've been on blogger since like January.  I haven't even really read any blogs since then either.  But I think I'm back, for now at least haha and I'm gonna start reading other blogs too!

A ton of stuff has happened since I last blogged and I really wanna catch everyone up on everything, whether you care or not! haha  so I think I'll be doing a lot of post of this week and next, however long it takes and update every month. Sounds fun, no?  

Anyways lookout for my post!  I'll probably post the first one tonight, maybe, depending on how tired I get haha

peacin out

Ok I feel super crappy for doing this, especially cause just a couple days ago I was all, "ahh I have internet! I get to blog again!" But now that I can blog, I realize I really have no interest whatsoever to blog. This is the first time in my married life living with my husband, and honestly I'm just loving every second of being with him. I no longer really wanna be on the computer all the time. That's not really the only reason, the biggest is I really just don't feel like having a blog any more, I wanna tone it done on the social networking. But this makes me sad cause I've met so many awesome people through this blog! I still might be around reading other peoples blogs but for now I'm gonna set this to private(in a few days)

But if anyone wants to add me on facebook or twitter feel free! It's over here to the side I believe << I'm gonna miss everyone! You guys have seriously been so awesome! Like seriously awesome, thanks everyone for all of your sweet comments and support!! I may be back, but for now I'm out.

I'm finally Back!!

We've been in our new home for a month and a half now. We have actively trying to get internet for 2 weeks now. Finally at 9am we got internet!! Which is a perfect birthday present! I'm excited to start getting caught up on all of my blogging which includes finally reading blogs again!

I'm gonna get this place cleaned up today and take a bunch of pictures of our house. This week is going to be a pretty busy one, but also a pretty great one! Today is my birthday, then tomorrow is our two year anniversary! Then Thursday and Friday Alex is taking off which gives us a 4 day weekend getaway! I'm so excited!

Be prepared for a LOT of posts!

Busy+no Internet=no blog

I have been so crazy busy I've totally neglected my blog. And I've actually really been missing it. Alex got home on the 25th and we set off for our new home in north Carolina on the 1st. We got here on Friday the 4th and we love our new home!! We arrived signed the lease and started moving in right away! So much better than staying in a hotel and looking for a place when we get here. We're supposed to be getting Internet this week so when we do I plan on going blog crazy to catch everyone up on our life here!

For now here's a little sneak peak of our house

Milspouse Weekly Roundup #59

Michelle passed the torch along to me this week for the Weekly Roundup! The weekly roundup is a link up where you pick your favorite post from the week(or earlier) and link up to whoever is hosting that week!

Go here to see more about it

Everyone says a little about themselves so suppose I should too haha

I'm Sasha. As you can tell from that sicknast picture, I love hiking! I love other things too like running and my dogs

I may be bias but I think they're the cutest things ever

And of course I love this guy

Who also loves hiking and our dogs!

For next week I'm picking the lovely Fran!

Now everyone link up!

Biggest loser is on!

I have 9 people signed up for biggest loser right now! I will be emailing details out tonight and we will be starting the competition on Tuesday! If you or any friends or anyone wants to join send me an email! It will last 12 weeks and the grand prize is now at 90$! Let's try to get it up!! Sign up!

Have you seen

The preview for this movie. I cried during this preview. Why, I don't know. I just think it looks so beautiful and unique. Silent movies just don't exist anymore, this looks awesome!

I will definitely be seeing this.

Also, have you ever seen autotune the news? Of course you have. Bedroom intruder. The not as popular but just as funny Backin Up?

Well these kids autotuned a story from Phoenix and it is so funny!

Remember when I blogged about this, like a couple days ago haha

I think this will be really great we can get if we can get a lot of people to join in. I have 3 people interested right now. So email me if you're interested!! Start date might be next Wednesday. Could change. To not this Monday but next, we'll play it by ear. You can do any diet or exercise plan that works for you. And everyone is gonna be motivating each other, it'll be great! So email me!

Biggest Loser?

I've been thinking a lot(by a lot I mean this morning) That it would be so much fun to do a biggest loser throughout the blogosphere!

I know a lot of people are working on their fitness goals on their own, and I think it would be fun to do it together and encourage each other. We'll do weekly weigh in's and so it's fair we do it like the biggest loser does it and count weight percent lost, not just pounds. Everyone can put in maybe 5-10$ and the big winner would get the money at the end.

Who would all be interested in this? And if you are interested, would you wanna do an 8-10 week challenge before the new year for those of us that wanted to lose weight for their 2011 New Years Resolutions? Or would you wanna do 8-10 weeks after the New Year?

I've always wanted to do this and I hope other people do to! If you do want to do it pass it along to your blog to so we can get as many people as possible doing this!

? Peak

Last night I found this super awesome website, its called hikarizona.com. It has every single trail in Arizona and there are so effing many! I was excited when I found it, but I was also very sad. You see, I only have two and a half weeks left here. It seems I have found this a little too late :( It sucks I've been hiking the same 4-5 trails over and over and over..at LEAST 4 times each. But I wanna hike as many new trails as I can before I leave. So today I got my sister and we went off on a new trail..that trail, I have no idea what name it is, something peak.

It was so much fun. we were hiking for a bit and I'm we got like stuck or something, it seemed like we got to the top of the peak but I can't be too sure. The trail was so confusing! But we made the most of our confusion and took a lot of pictures it was so much fun.

Then after that we were walking back when we found another path. So we decided to take that! It was so fun to be somewhere totally different and get lost and explore.

And as always I took way to many pictures. I love the desert

That top right is what is supposed to be the trail..confusion..

posing with a cactus and roo jumping a pole

We met a cactus friend he was so cool! This is us laughing with him

We found a cute little tree in a cute little ditch. And the bottom right picture is me reenacting squatting and peeing by that tree..yes I peed by a tree cause I'm 5 years old and cant hold my bladder

Seems Fitting

I stepped on the scale this morning to find out I finally lost 50lbs!! I was freakin excited! It took me about forever and a day(about six and a half months) but I finally did it!! Now if I just need to loose about 30 more and I will be a happy camper. But this 50 is a big milestone for me!

I'm linking up with goodnight moon today

I thought this song/video went perfectly with how I'm feeling. Especially the end cause thats totally how I felt(and might have acted this morning)

Here is the video. Embedding was disabled. boo

Squaw Peak

I went hiking today with my best friend Michelle. It was such a nice day, fall finally happened here, it's only a high of 85. Lovely. The hike was good, This was Michelle's first time going so we stopped a lot at first but then half way through I went on without her. I hate doing that but she insisted. So I race up to the top real quick and ran down and met her. The I jogged most the way down. I remember when I used to do this I could barely do it. I felt like I was gonna die when I finished. But it's actually a pretty easy hike and I did it pretty quick. It felt so good to not be out of breath at all and be able to do it so good.

I love hiking in this weather. I think I'm gonna be going again on Friday maybe.

Oh yeah, that's why I love him

My husband reminded me of yet another reason why I love him. I got a package today and in that package I found the best thing ever!! Like really, ever!

Before I show you, remember when I bought this. Awesome right. But not as awesome as the present I got today!!

Ahhhh I love it!! When I opened it I was seriously jumping up and down with giddiness.

But don't worry he got himself a shirt too

hahaha Bill Murray

(both from the chivery)

Seriously LOVE these!

Love him!

Where the crap did September go?!

Seriously. I don't even remember a month passing. I feel like September just started half a week ago. I'm trying to remember what I even did the whole month, weird, I honestly can't remember. But I'm totally not complaining. My husband is coming home this month!!! Can't even begin to explain how excited I am!!

Friday, well Korea time, Alex got promoted!! He is now a specialist, I am so proud of him! He's only been at his first duty station for 11 mo and this is really amazing that he got promoted. I'm only saying that cause his unit kinda sucks at getting things done. But they got this done so thats good! But really I'm so crazy proud of him :)

Isn't he a babe. Yep, I know :)

Also if you've been following my blog for a while, you know I've been training for a 10k. And that 10k happened to take place today. I was so insanely nervous, this was my first race ever. Well first race on land, I'm a swimmer, not a runner, but now I guess I can say I'm a runner too! Three of my aunts and my mom and dad were able to come down and watch me, and I am so glad they were there to support me. The run went really well. I had a really good pace until the last mile and my hip like started wigging out and it hurt so bad, so I walked for like .40 of that mile. I loved how there were people along the track cheering and clapping, it was such a boost hearing that. At the 4th mile I saw my family and that was a big boost. Really though this was so much run, and I'm already looking forward to my next race! Me and the hubs are gonna do a half marathon for our 2 year anniversary :)

the fam minus my dad, he's taking the pics

waiting for the race to start

start of the race

seeing my family after mile 4 gotta do the thumbs up haha

my dad ran after me to get this haha

horrible picture of me. But this was such a happy moment

My official time was 69:29 which is an 11:11 mile, also 30 sec under my goal time. I'm happy with it, but at the same time I'm not, only cause I know I couldn't have gone harder(grrr that last mile) But still the same pretty happy with my accomplishment :)

Oh so Much

I have a lot of things to put on here today.

First of I got an award yay!

I got one from The Adventures of a Bee and a Dragonfly and Brianna in Wonderland

Love both these blogs!

The rules:
1. Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them.
2. Share 7 things about yourself!

So here are the 7 things about me
1. I love D. Phil. People like to rag on him but I like him, and watch every episode
2. I have 10x more room on the bed when my husband is home as apposed to when I sleep by myself. Because when I sleep by myself the dogs sleep on the bed with me and I get like a sliver of bed
3. I love my jeep. But I want my Acura back. Too bad we can't afford 2 cars right now or I would totally take it back
4. There is nothing more therapeutic to me then driving fast and listening to music at night
5. I think me and my husband have the best story(you can read at the button above) I might be bias but oh well
6. I never would have thought me and my husband would spend more time and go on more vacations together when we were dating than when we were married, but I also never factored the military into our plans when we were dating
7. I love Arizona. Actually I'm gonna be writing an Arizona post soon. Best. Place. Ever.

And I'm not gonna pass this on cause I'm pretty sure I've seen about everyone have it now haha

Next think on the list. Goodnight Moon link up!!

This is just because it's "our song" and absolutely 100% true Every thing just seems to be so much better when we're together

Now last thing. I've got a bunch of new followers lately and I feel bad I haven't really said "hey" So I want everyone to introduce themselves to tell me something about you(even if I already "know" you. and if I'm not already following you where I can follow!

Oh and big P.S. my love comes home in 26 days!! so soon!!

Marathon Monday Week 8

I have been so absent from internet life lately. It's weird, I deleted my facebook Wednesday and I really don't miss it. I have so much more free time now, turns out I was a bit addicted haha. The last time I was even on the internet at all was like Saturday. I'm feeling a little anti social (networking) lately haha.

Sorry I've been such a slacker lately, usually I'm so good at commenting back to comments. I think I'll start getting back on here and on your blogs! but I did want to get on here and do this cause this is my last week training.

The 10k is this Saturday! Eeekkk!! I'm crazy freakin nervous.

September 19th-25th

Monday 19th: 3.66 miles 44:39

Tuesday 20th: Rest

Wednesday 21st: 5.16 miles 58:30 & 1 hr yoga

Thursday 22nd: Lower body

Friday 23rd: 3.06 miles 32:00 &upper body

Saturday 24th: 6.05 miles 69:13

Sunday 25th: Rest

Facebook & My Day

I know, I know, everyone for the past day has been complaining about the new facebook. And yes, I am here to do the same.

The new update is total bull. Anything you say to anyone everyone can see. WTH is up with that?!

I transferred all of my pictures from facebook to google+ tonight and deleted my facebook.

If anyone wants to find me I'm on there. Just search Sasha Sverdrup. And no, I don't care if people know my last name, it's my email. People can figure it out in like a second.

Today was a pretty good day.

I woke up and ran 5.16 miles in 58:30. Fairly satisyed with that time.

& this is what my afternoon looked like today.

I swam a little and tanned and read my book, why yes, that is Twilight.

I wanna soak up every last bit of summer. Which by the way doesn't seem to be ending here. It was 103 today and Thurs, Fri, & Sat it's going to be a high of 104.

After some pool time. I got some great color by the way. I finished my math homework.

Pretty good day indeed

I might have to do this again tomorrow haha