Birthday

Yesterday was such a fun day. Its times like this I would kill for my camera to be here haha. I went out in the afternoon with Alex and started doing some stuff that I needed for being here, like getting in the system and getting my visa taken care of. Then later I went to the realtors office with Amanda. We just saw one place for now, it was a really nice one, and really close to post to, but I'm gonna go look some more today too.
Later that night Alex took me downtown for my birthday. We got in a cab and told him we wanna go downtown and and after a long attempt to communicate we just had to get out cause he couldn't understand what we were saying haha.
So we got out and called a cab, and that one knew where we wanted to go. We walked around for a little bit trying to find somewhere to eat cause the place that Alex wanted to take me, the place he had been just a week before, was literally a hole in the wall haha. It was totally gone, so weird haha. Then we went to another place he had been, and that was soooo good! Like seriously some of the best food I have ever had. And the resturant was really nice, they had a table in the middle and a love seat on each side instead of a booth or chairs, it was pretty cool. So far of the 2 Korean places I've eaten at, I love Korean food.
Then after eating we went and walked around some more, and I went into this little hat, scarves, and gloves shop and got a cute hat and gloves. It so cool everything is so cheap here, it was only 19,000 won.
I loved downtown though, it was so much fun it was a bright and hoping and tons of shoping! Ha I just rhymed. So far I love Korea! It is so fun here, and such a cool experiece. I definetly had a great birthday yesterday. I can't wait to see where Alex takes me tonight for our Anniversary! One Year today baby!!

Oh and edit* I just noticed this is publishing on the 13th. So for all you Americans out there today is my birthday and tomorrow is my anniversary haha

Korea

Well I made it here finally Friday night, after a very long trip. 2 Days to be exact, dumb me didn't realize I had a 22 hour layover in Seoul haha. So I had to get a shuttle to a hotel in a foreign country I've never been to by myself. Needless to say it was quite the adventure.


Saturday was such a fun day! Everyone just kinda hung out till about 5 when about 8 of us. 4 couples went bowling. We were bowling for a couple hours then we left to go home. A few of us stopped and went to this Korean shop thing it was like really cool I couldnt read a think and I was like I love this place!! We went back to the apartment and I walked in a guess what?! It was a surprise party for me! It was decorated all cute with streamers and I got a big ole ice cream cake. It was so exciting! Everyone got me a card with itunes gift card. It was like the nicest thing ever! And we spent the whole night playing skip-bo on teams, guys against girls. It was such a fun night!

Today we're gonna be going out to eat some Korean food and maybe seeing a movie. I am so excited! I love it here so far and I cant wait to get out explore everywhere! I really really wish I had my camera, but I shipped it to Alex like 5 weeks ago. It should have been here by now so hopfully it gets here soon!

It is like the best thing in the world to be with Alex again. And I am so happy I came, evn though I had a bit of a hard trip here haha.

Oh relatives

I hope I'm reunited with Eric soon as well...

Gearin up: 76 hours

Today was a good day. It started out I went to the movies with my mom and my bff. We saw Burlesque, it was such a good movie!! I really liked it. Especially cause my favorite cute actor, Cam Gigandet, is in it.

After the movie my mom went to go pick my dad up from the airport and there was my sister with him. She came just to see me before I left. How nice of her. Then my family (minus Dustin :( sad) went to lunch at Oregano's with our Gpa. I'm gonna miss that crazy old man.

That's him by the way, isn't he cute! In case you don't know, he has Alzheimer's, and he's pretty hilarious. In a sad way, but still haha.

Then later tonight I went out to dinner with my mother-in-law Mary. We had a very fun time chatting it up. It's always fun to go out with her and catch up.

Then I ended the night by watching Fast and the Furious 4 I believe. I've never seen any of the other ones. Well 3 but that doesn't count. And it was really good! Especially on our awesome new T.V.

Tomorrow I'm having a little going away party at my house.

Then Monday and Tuesday are the last days I have to finish up my errands. And they're really only errands-to-do-cause-i'm-leaving-the-U.S-in-3-days type errands. Like Monday I'm going to get a massage with the gift card I got last year from my brother and still haven't used! I'll be going with my bff who I'm going to miss like crazy cause we're together like all the freakin time! Like for real. For really real.. sad :(

That's kinda old(like April)but still cute!

Oh my gosh!! I can't believe I'm leaving in under 76 hours for like, a really long time!!
I'm gonna miss everyone so much!! But I'm really, like really really excited!!!

First Cake

In 13 days will be mine and Alex's year anniversary. If you didnt know we got married on my parents front lawn, after deciding 16 hours earlier we were getting married. Dress code was our jean and ts. It was good times that day. Except not, cause right after we got married, like 5 min after, I went to work. I acted like nothing had happened cause my boss was super mean, and she scared me. It was like REALLY hard containing my excitement. Especially after I got a text saying, "How's your day wife :)" I was like whoa!!! I'm married!! It felt so crazy! After work we went to a hotel for the next two days, minus the 4 hours shifts I worked every day haha.

A few days after we came back from the hotel we decided to finally cut our wedding cake. The only person there though was my sister Maranda and my iPhone. I don't think anyone has ever seen the pictures of us cutting our first cake, so here it is!

8 DAYS!!

Till I leave the United States!!

Thats right. I got my Sashmas wish haha and I get to be with my hubs for my birthday, our anniversary and Christmas! I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am!

This is really all thanks to the Patricks, who are letting me and Alex stay with them until we find a place for ourselves. It'll be a lot easier for me to look when I get there, and while Alex is at work.

Ahhh!! I'm so happy!! But I have so much to do before then! A little bit-o-stressed.

Wish me luck!!

Thanksgiving weekend

This weekend was a pretty fun one. We had about 20 less people than we normally have on thanksgiving. But we still had a really good time, my cousin Chelsea and brother Dustin came down from Utah. And my sister Tanna came in from California.

On Thanksgiving morning we went to the Phoenix Auto Show. It's a tradition we do every year on Thanksgiving morning.

This is 4 of us holding our Jeep passes. Dustin started this thing and said,"don't worry, I'm with Jeep", everywhere he went. So we all started doing it. Right here were standing in front of this door saying its ok I'm with Jeep, then we didn't know but Dustin opened the door and there was someone in there haha oops



Then Friday day, all of us went to the Suns game. It was so much fun! There were about 20 of us at the game and we had a blast! And the Suns won the Clippers, Yay!

And please don't judge. I decided I would dye my hair and shower right before we had to leave to the game which gave me no time to do my hair or makeup. And its just a bad picture anyway cause I'm like half squatting/leaving forward Boo

Oh and last night my sister Tanna got engaged. Crazy!

Jacques

Look how cute my little kitty Jacques is.
I have never ever been a cat person. Actually, if you were to ever ask me I would say I hate cats. But I got Jacques a back in August and he is seriously the cutest/coolest cat ever. Nobody in my family used to like cats, but everyone loves him.
Just thought I'd share how adorable he is.


P.S. Anyone participate in Black Friday?
I did. Went out last night with Michelle at 10:30..got back at 6:15. For real allnighter.
Then I got back up this morning and went to the 2 same places I went last night cause I think my brain was just too tired to remember what I needed to get.
Oh, and at Walmart I saw this crazy lady start a big fight over a trampoline. She like literally flipped out. Security had to come and all. Good times at the walmart I tell ya.

Thanks Full Day 7

Ending my posts of thankfulness, I decided to save the best for last.
I'm so incredibly thankful for my sweet husband.

I know I really lucked out with him. He is such an amazing man.
Everyone who meets him instantly loves him. He is such a fun guy.
I just love being with him, and could be with him all day everyday and it would never get old, I guess thats why I married him haha. I love how easy he can turn my day around when I'm havin a downer day.

I'm so thankful for how incredible he treats me, and for everything he does for me. He's been working so hard to get me over there with him. And I know its a lot of work do to especially not having any transportation to get around base to do what he needs to do. I really can not describe how thankful I am that he will do anything for me. And I just want to be able to do everything I can for him in return.

Mostly I am so thankful I have someone as amazing, fun, caring, good-looking, and sweet as him, to spend forever with.
Cause really who wouldn't want to ;) I am really SO Lucky!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Hope you all have a lovely holiday with your loved ones. Especially the service men and women, and their families who are away from their loved ones. I hope everyone has a blessed holiday!

Thanks Full Day 6

Today I'm thankful for technology. I don't wanna look for a picture right now, but I wanted to blog about it.

I was reading in this book I have, Chicken Soup for the Military Wives Soul.

And I was reading all of these storys about women in WWII who wouldn't hear from their husbands for years. Yet they still remained faithful, and took care of EVERTHING.
That is so incredible to me how much faith they must have had.

I can't even begin to describe how thankful I am for the technology we have these days. Where my husband can be in Korea, 16 hours away, and I can still talk to him everyday. Or send him a quick message. So amazing!


In other semi-thankful news, I went to the dentist again today..and still have about 2-3 more trips coming. I am super thankful I still have some percocet from when I got my teeth pulled. I was in so much pain, and Karli only did my bottom right side so far. Then tomorrow I have to go back and get my other side done, then my top next week.
Really not excited for the pain. But I am really thankful I live in a country where dental care is so accessible, and I can have nice pretty teeth.

Very Very Thankful.

~What are you thankful for 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!

Best Thing Ever

I was out shopping with my BFF today. And look what we saw..

Yes, a dog on a motorcyle, and in goggles

BEST.THING.EVER.

Happy Commercials

I've compiled a few commercials for y'all that just make me happy. I know, I'm weird whatever. Some commercials just make me smile.

ha! Spanish does make things so intriguing!

hilarious!

I only put a couple of these, but you've had to have seen at least one of

the mayhem commercials! Love them!

Hahaha these are so funny! I've never seen these
until Kristen Guyton told me about them! There are some pretty
funny ones of youtube

Wanna know what commercials I LOATH?!

Old Navy commercials, they just need to stop already.

Oh and P.S. yes I am staying up instead of sleeping when I have to get up

at 6:30 in the freakin A.M. YIKES!

What's your favorite?

Thanks Full Day 5

Yes, I realized I got a little sidetracked and forgot about my Thanks Full days.

But Hai here I am for day 5.

Sunsets for real. Beautiful

They make the end of the day so happy.

~What are you thankful for today?~

Sashmas

For those of you that don't know Sashmas, it's a made up(but oh-don't worry-totally-legit-holiday) in my family.

You see, Alex and I got married in December. I had never wanted to get married in December cause I thought it was too close to. A. Christmas. B. My Birthday. And I didn't want my holidays to smoosh and get lost together. I wanted them all to be special.

Like I said we ended up getting married in December..and not only December, but December 14th..the day after my birthday.

So we all kinda made this up as a way to make them all special at the same time.

And that is how Sashmas birthed haha and yes I realized it is a little sacrilegious. And no, don't worry, I'm really not that conceded haha.

For Sashmas this year I want one thing.

I want this

happiness

With this guy

my cute hubs

In this country

apparently this is Taegu. IDK ,never been there

But doesn't that look awesome?!

Please and Thank you in advance!!

oh Please please please!!!

~What do you want for YOUR Christmas?~

My future child? I can only hope.

Oh my geez! I have just discovered the cutest kid ever!

If you haven't seen any of his videos please go here and watch all of them so we can gush about them together please!

Adorable!

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?~

One Year Ago

First off let me just mention this is my 100th post! Only took me a little over two and a half years haha I know pathetic. But yay me!

And on to the post...

I just realized today that me and Alex got engaged just one year ago yesterday(the 14th)

It is so insane how much time flies. I feel like it was just a few months ago. We got married just one month(to the day) after we got engaged. Then he left for BCT just 2 weeks after we got engaged! I can't even tell you how crazy that last month and a half was.

Alex and I dated for over two and a half years before we were married. And I'm not

gonna lie, a part of me misses the dating days. I miss being able to see my best friend every day. I miss having half or full all nighters to have a movie marathon. And just being with him.

Us New Years Day 2009

Since we've been married we've been toghether about 4ish months..mind you have not lived together..well not full time. For 10 weeks he got to live with me on weekends and come home nights but thats about it.

Don't get me wrong, I love being married, and being able to call him my husband, and I especially love us being a family, looking forward to starting our our family. I just really want to finally be able to live together!

In other Korean based news, here it is. We decided to not wait for Command Sponsorship, and just send me over there. We will still be able to get our stuff shipped, except for the car, with that we'll have to wait till CS goes through then get it shipped. The only downside besides that which really isn't that bad is buying my ticket and that will be only about 500-700.

Alex has started talking to realtors this week, looking for a place. And the hopeful plan is to get me there before Christmas! I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am! I'm just hoping everything works as planned and there are no more bumps in the road! Which I cant even begin to tell you how many there have been so far(a LOT)

Wish us luck with it all!

~Does anyone else think this year has gone by crazy fast?!~

Thanks Full Day 4

These guys are just about my favorite thing ever.

And I'm thankful for them cause I spent a good 5 months, while Alex was in AIT, basically alone.

In a new state. New side of the country. Not really knowing anyone.

But these guys kept me such good company.

And as dumb as it sound I really don't think I could have done it without them.

I love then so much and could not have gotten 2 better doggies!

Thanks Full Day 3

Today I am thankful for all of the brave men and women who have served and those that currently serve our country. They really do sacrifice so much.

I'm also especially thankful for my incredible husband who not proudly serves, but who also does so much for us.

Haha I just kinda like this picture.

Oh and fun fact about my Alex.

If you don't know you are not allowed to smile for your military I.D.

I don't know why I guess you have to look all tough

But Alex is a smiley guy

When Alex got his picture taken for his I.D. they had to take it 3 times

Cause he couldn't not smile and they kept saying you can't smile. Stop smiling.

Finally after the 3rd try they gave up and just let him smile haha

so in his Mil I.D. he has a big smile hahaha I love it!

It definitely shows who he is