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 :)

A little sad

I was all excited that it's August. But I really didn't even think about what that meant.

I have been living in a tiny room, with most of my belongings in storage, in my parents house, without my husband, dying for my own space, with my husband, with our dogs, and with all of our stuff, for a whole year now. (yes that was an incredibly long run-on sentence)

And the saddest bit of all of this is I won't get any of that until November.

Yes, you read that right. 15 months.

New here? Confused? Here allow me to catch you up.

Alex left for BCT end of December 2009. He graduated middle of March 2010. I decided to join him at AIT, even though I wasn't on his orders cause it wasn't long enough. So I lived alone. He lived in the barracks. 10 weeks in he got to spend the night on weekends. Then at 19 weeks he graduated and I left back to Arizona to get ready for our big move to our first duty station, Korea. But week after week his orders kept getting messed up, and he couldn't leave Fort Gordon. Finally he got his orders in October. But they canceled command sponsorship to Korea, and I had to stay home, and Alex was off on an unaccompanied tour to Korea for a year.

About the time he comes home it will have almost been 2 years since we've really been together. Gahhh I still feel so bitter, I hate it.

It's really hard not too look in the now of things.

I know I just need to think we have the rest of our life to spend time together.

And looking back it will seem like nothing.

Sometimes it's just hard to see things that way, but I'm trying!

Just under 3 more months!

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Talent

I'm currently busy packing for our extra long vacation :) We leave super soon, like realllly soon. I am so excited to finally have some time with just me and my man, not a lot of time but still. It's the one time since before we were married that I don't have to share him with the army or our family. The ONE time! I am so stoked to finally have some complete "us" time.

Wow totally wasn't meaning to do that, but that worked out well with what my post is about.

In case you missed it, here is the video from the day that Alex got back that our amazing cousin Chelsea took for us. Chelsea is also my best friend. Seriously the funniest girl to hang out with. We spent a good most of this year together even though she lives in Utah and I live in Arizona. And when we're not around each other we really don't go a day without texting each other. I love this girl so much!

She also has a totally awesome blog. Go follow her!! You won't be sorry. Also not only has she made our video but she also made these ones. She is so talented!

Side note to this post, this past 2 days we have done 2 photo shoots, a family one with Alex's family and an us one. I am so loving how they turned out! I can't wait to put them up when we, no, I come back from vacation :( There's a little preview on my new header of a couple of the family shoot we did. But anyway, that's about it. I gotta go pack the jeep up before we head out in a few hours.

(4 more followers till a giveaway!)

Everyone have a great Independence Day!!

Us

And I love my husband being home. Life is so perfect right now, I wanna freeze it haha. It's my babe's birthday today, so gonna be another good day!

Untitled from chelsea tolman on Vimeo.

Thanks so much to my amazing cousin Chelsea who came here from Utah so she could be here and make this! It is so much more amazing than I was expecting! I love it!

Eeeeekkkkk

Currently waiting at the airport with my cousin!! I can't tell you how excited I am!!

Friday Friday

I am so in love with this clip. I can't stop watching it!

Incase you didn't see, I added tabs to the blog. I'm kinda slowly working on making it all nice. I'm gonna be changing the font today to spice it up a little.

I think I'm gonna to a giveaway when I hit 50 followers, only 9 more!!

And I realize saying that on here means I can't take it back. So there it is, giveaway at 50 followers

I'm thinking I might want to have guest bloggers on here while Alex is here. If anyone is interested let me know! You can write about whatever you like! It would be much, much appreciated!

And last but not least. We got orders! We're moving to Fort Bragg, NC!!

Military Spouse Appreciation Day!

First off, Happy Military Spouse Appreciation Day!! Thanks to all spouses for all they do in supporting their family!

Today was actually a really good day. Did I mention my cousin Chelsea came back into town Sunday? No, well she did!! And she's staying till next Friday when we drive up to Utah for our cousin's wedding! Yay! I love hanging out with her! We went to Bahama Bucks this after noon and got some of this deliciousness.


Not my picture by the way, all hers.

Then we played/layed out by the pool, while we learned my dog has a super talent.

Oh ya know, he surfs, whatever no big deal.

Then we went to the mall to get my ghost armor replaced and do some shopping. I got the new white back to my i4, so much better than the grey I had.

I got home and then got a skype call for the hubs!


Although I really didn't wanna be seen today by him cause I had pool/pony tail hair I'm glad I got to see him. Cause seriously doesn't he look good. I know right..all mines :)



We spent a good part of the conversation laughing over all the pictures I was sending him.




This first one is me as a flower, then next freaks alex out. I do look fairly creepy. And the last me me getting saucy with myself hahaha I love camwow!



And to end the night a we alls went to go see Something Borrowed. I thought it was just alright. The movie was really funny, but just too much going on. In chick flicks I wanna go away and feel good inside..but this didn't make my insides feel good.

All in all, a fantasic day!! And another great one is coming up tomorrow, having my brother-in-law's birthday BBQ over here. Party!

And again, Happy Military Spouse Appreciation Day to all you lovely ladies!! Thank you for you and your husband's service!!

Didn't even realize

How late it was. I oddly don't feel tired at all, which is weird cause I got up pretty early.
But I guess I don't mind staying up this late, the only I have to do tomorrow is work on my essay and go to the gym. I know, thrilling Saturday.

What, you might ask, am I doing up so late? Well I will show you!

Making countdown chains of course. Exciting, no? The blue one is the amount of days till leave. 58
And the 2 muli-colored ones are for when he goes back from leave, and then comes home. 105.



I'm cuddling with my two babies, like always


watching this lovely movie. The Princess and the Frog.

And not too mention the best part of the night. Skyped with my husband for about 45 min. Oh loves him

And that would basically be my Friday night in a nutshell. Good times.

P.S. I love Arizona

While everyone else is complaining about the "unusually long winter" and bad weather, we are basking in the sunshine here and swimming. One of the many reasons why I love my state.

P.P.S. I scored my highest scoring word the other day on WWF

I was happy happy!

And that is all. Hope everyone is having a good weekend!

Booked!!

Alex's leave dates are set and planes are booked! Yay so excited! And they are for the original dates we had planned out, I supposed I worried for nothing haha.

I'm gonna have so much fun booking our hotels for our trips to Utah and California. And planning what we're gonna do for our "honeymoon" in California for 5 days! I'll start booking everything tomorrow!

He'll be flying into PHX, be there for 10 days. Then road trip up to Utah and be there for 4 days. Then off to California for 5 days. Then he'll fly out of LAX to Korea. Then off I'll drive back to Arizona. Road trips are seriously my favorite thing ever, oh and Alex, duh. So really this is gonna be the best two and a half weeks ever!! Can't wait!!

Getting Harder

and if you said "that's what she said" before you opened this, then we can be friends.

Anywhays.

I've been holding together real well the last 2 months, like perfectly in public. I hate showing people I'm sad. But right now I feel like I just need to let it out.

This week has been really hard. One because I've talk to Alex twice in the last week for about 10 min each. They had to limit the bandwidth in Korea for the relief in Japan. So Alex hasn't had internets. I guess another reason it's been hard is because it really hit me that we have a lot longer to go. Seven months to be exact, and I know it could be worse, but still, it sucks.

I'm just really hoping this feeling doesn't hang around long. I've cried a lot this week, and I'm just tired of feeling this way. I just want my husband back.

I'm living at my parents right now, and I'm so grateful that we get to save this money, and my family is great, no complaints here. I know it's stupid but I just want to be on my own. I loved living in August, and being on my own(mostly haha) and just having my own space. I want that right now so bad!

I'm trying to keep myself so busy. I'm going to school and that takes up a good amount of time. I've been going to gym incessantly, at least once usually twice a day. Been hiking with the dogs. I've lost 12 pounds so far, and have x amount to go (it's a lot so let's not even try to guess)but I'm gettin there! My bones and muscles seriously hurt so bad from how much I'm working out.

I just realized I'm rambling a lot. But what I'm trying to say is, i don't like hibernate in my room and act depressed. I'm always out and cheery and doing everything to stay busy and happy. Yet I can't seem to shake this stupid funk.

Gahhh I just miss my husband

Any suggestions about what else I can do?

No Bueno

I'm sure everyone has heard of this by now


I'm just hoping it doesn't have to come to that.

We're lucky to not have rent to pay with me living at my parents right now, I just can't image how this will effect everyone who's living paycheck to paycheck

365

Family Day/BCT Graduation












Crazy that was just a year ago today.

Look what I got!

I went to the Mall yesterday with my bff Michelle and look what I got made!

They're a little hard to see but you can enlarge them.




I love these!

Oh ever inevitable bump in the road

Yes, just shortly after I wrote that last post we hit a bump.

The USFK sent out this new memo , so now we'll be waiting till Nov 30th when they send out a new policy. I'm just praying that this is for the better and that CS goes through soon after this.

Which means there is now a 4.7% chance I'll get there before Christmas.

Which means know what I wanna do all day today?

Basically just lay and pout all day

source

But know what I'll be doing instead?

Yep getting my teeth deep cleaned to take care of my inflamed gums. yuck
Except it wont be that old person. But by my cute cousin Karli.

Exciting day right? Ya I thought so too

~What are you up to this fine Tuesday?~

The hubs is gone

Alex left Monday evening and had a long day of flights ahead of him. His first stop was Seattle. He way there waiting for his next flight for like 8 hours. Then at 4am Tuesday he left for Japan. Then they stopped just to refuel there, then off to Korea!

It sucks so incredibly bad not knowing when I'll see him again. Like literally not the slightest clue when it'll be. Or even when I'll be able to talk to him. Boo.

Anywhays so as of now it'll just be a waiting game..oh the ever famous waiting game. As if I haven't played it enough this year. Oh whell on the plus side I suppose I'm learning patient?

Two days ago I started hcg again. Today was the first day of the actual dieting part. Good times. I'm hoping by the time I do see Alex again I'll be looking good(or better haha)

Wish me Luck!

In the now

This last month have been a roller coaster of ups and downs. I found our about a month ago that there was no more room in Korea. So they put a hold on sending families with solders. From then we have been back and forth about what to do. Me just stay here living at home, saving money, going to school, and Alex just doing a year tour. Or waiting till who know how long join him out there. Then start our at least 2 years there, if that was still even an option. Up until 2 days ago we had decided we were going to do the first one, me staying here. But they we decided I'm going to wait to join him there. I really don't think it'll be more than 3 months for me to get there. But who knows, we'll find out more for sure when Alex gets there in 2 days. But for now that is the plan..for me to go to Korea with him.

Alex got here for leave 15 days ago. He leaves tomorrow to go to Korea. These last 2 weeks have been so good. We've had so much fun and I'm gonna miss him like crazy! I just hope and pray that I can get out there soon!

Last week we made our first big purchase as married people! We bought a Jeep! I have been wanting a Jeep so bad, cause that was my first car and I love them! We've already gone off roading with it at Four Peaks. It was a blast! I Love our new car!!

Lake with the Pups & looking forward to's

The other day I decided to take the dogs to the lake. It was such a beautiful day, just perfect. There was music playing sorta close by so I just kinda sat down and chilled for a while, it was so nice and peaceful. I wish everyday was that nice, but unfortunately most days are unbearably hot.

The dogs are being so good latley

I love them

Isn't it just so lovely

Now for the looking forward to

Alex has a graduation date, Aug 4th. That means we will be out of here and on our way back to Mesa Aug 6th! My mom and aunt Tamralyn will be flying down here on the 5th. And getting a rental car so they can help us move back. We'll need another car cause we have a few more item and the dogs wound't be able to fit on the drive back.

I'm so glad we have a date cause now I'm starting to plan the whole trip back and getting so much more excited for it!

Alex's report date is for the 2nd week of September(don't really wanna put the date on the internet) So I decided I'll probably stay in Mesa till end of October or Mid November or so, I wanna stay a little longer then I could so we can save some money to buy nice new furniture, and a washer and dryer and all. I wanna get a nice big sectional for our new place.

Also spend more time with my family before I leave. Gonna miss them :( But I am super excited to go to Korea. I've heard soooo much about it and it sounds awesome!

Just a whole lot of info, in case you we're wondering ya know

Wow, I'm a horrible blogger.

Have I blogged at all since I've been here really? Who knows, anyways I'll catch everyone up.

I got a job at the begining of May working as a camp counselor here at the YMCA. I worked there until...oh hey, a week ago today. I quit for a few reasons, the biggest one is I have a gazzillion things to do before the move. All of my Korea paperwork has to be in by the 20th. And so far I have been crazy busy since, so yep quitting was definetly my best move. The second reason was besides a psycho head boss, like I just can litterlaly not explain how crazy she was, so I just won't. The camp had 250-300 kids, and about 15 counselors per shift. And in case anyone was wondering, that DOES NOT WORK. It was insane, so unorganized, a major headache everyday. Just plain didn't work.

Back to me being busy busy. I've been gettin all my paperwork together, I've gotten 1/2 doctors appt down, The next one is wednesday. Getting my passport Thursday. And my name is officially changed everywhere, so I don't have to worry about what last name I use where haha.

For Memorial Day weekend me and Alex we're lucky enough to get to go home for the weekend. We had the funnest time! I'm so mad at myself, we were having such a good time we didn't take any pictures! Grr!!

We have a move plan finally. We're not moving with a truck. We're packing everything we can in my Acura and haulin it to Arizona...again. Except we have more stuff, and still have the 2 dogs, So we're gonna have my mom and whoever else come here and get a rental car so the dogs, and whatever else can go in the rental in there, and stuff our car with crap, We'll just be selling our couch mattress and table. Good thing we got them each for under 200.

Alex's last day of class is July 30th. Then there's like a week of out processing, and 5 days in the field. So we'll probably be back home middle of August, then Alex reports middle of September, which means I'll probably be getting there middle of October.

Last night was a baddd night. I got absolutely no sleep. My poor little puppy Bagheera is sick and was crying allllll night. I might as well have just slept outside cause he needed to go out, not even kidding, every 20 min. At about 5:25 he threw up and was done crying and needing to go outside. But unfortunately for me I needed to be up at 5:45 for an appointment. I came home with Alex at 900 and Bagheera had diarrhead all over in the kennel. Oops which reminds me I should have washed those blankets that are laying on the balcony haha. Alex was great and cleaned that all up for me while I took the dogs out. He wasn't eating or drinking today, and I was getting worried so I went and bought wet food and pedialyte and he's been doing better. The dogs have been so so lazy today, or just sick :( And have been asleep all day except the 2 times I've taken them out.

And last but not least today Alex and I have been married for 6 months. I love him so much, he is so amazing with everything he does for me. I don't expect him to be so great after all the hard work he does, but he's never seems to be tired, or shows it at least. I love how much fun we always have together. I love what a great support he is for me, anytime I get stressed out he assures me everything is going to be fine, and helps me take care of all the thing I need to. It's weird it feels like we have been married way longer than 6 months, but really time is flying and I can't wait till we can start the next stage in our life. The free life! No more training and rules! Where we can actually live together! Only 6 more weeks!! I can't wait!

Promise the next post will be fun with pictures! And is WILL happen befor Sunday!

Worthy.

Well I haven't blogged in a long time

But I figured this subject was very blog worthy.

We got our orders!!

This is where we will be residing for about the next 2 years!!

Yongsan/Seoul South Korea!!

AKA the New York of Asia!

I was so shocked when I first found out!

I deffinetly did not expect this,

But the more I know about it the more excited I am!

Besides I will be moving at the same time with one of my friends!

And I will know a few other friends there,

And hopefully another friend will be here,

or a couple hours away!

Yay! I'm so thrilled!

Less than 10 weeks!

Eeekkk sooo much to do!

News

Let's seee, where to start? How about with my Alex.

He is doing incredibly well at BCT.

He's beyond excelling in BRM. Basic Rifle Marksmanship

He was chosen to carry the Platoon Banner everywhere the platoon goes. Because "he's tall as shit and not retarded" hahaha straight from the drill sergeant.

He is also going to be holding it leading in to graduation. I'm so proud :)

We have been really lucky, and get about a phone call a week, anywhere from 20 min to an hour.

He graduates exactly 2 weeks from today, and since it's almost tomorrow, lets call it 13 days :)

Next up in the news. In 10 days I will be headed to Georgia...as in MOVING!

This is pretty sudden. But I've been thinking about it a lot. Me and Alex have talked about everything, and think it's going to be the best decision for us.

Me and my mom will start driving down Sunday morning, then picking up my aunt Tammy in Houston, from the airport, and staying with my cousin Tyler when we get there. Then we'll start driving from Houston to Benning Monday morning. We have to decided to cut down on a BIG cost. And STUFF my car. Yep thats right. Since we really dont have anything anyways, were gonna just bring our stuff and in clothes tv whatnot. Then go to goodwill when we get there and get a dresser, and tv stand, maybe table to fix up when we get there. Then we'll buy a good bed. Oh and I'm very excited, the apartment we're getting has free wifi throughout all the complex. Yay! Oh and yes the pups are coming...cause I dont go anywhere without them haha.

I have A LOT to do in the next 10 days. But things are coming along. I'm really excited for the move, and the many more to come. But I gotta say Imma miss my home :( I've lived in Mesa all my life, it will be very different!