Time

Time for Deployment.
Time for Change.

Time for Independence.
Time for Prayer.
Time for deep breaths.

Time for being thankful.
Time for taking advantage of time.

Time for leaning on God more than ever.
Time for leaning on friends and family.
Time for allowing my husband to spread his wings.
Time to support him, no matter how hard it is.

It's time.

Creativity Unavailable!

I am such a slacker! Sorry for not keeping up with blogging. I have found that I am not creative at all, and I'm sure you are tired of reading and reading my thoughts, with no creativity behind it!

Not much has been going on. I've been keeping myself rather busy, I'm not home much unless I'm sleeping.

Our AC went out AGAIN! Hubby and I both are losing our patience with the company our warranty sent us to. It's who we used last time, and their customer service is horrible. Hubby called the warranty this morning, and they said to call them again tomorrow morning if we haven't heard anything from the AC company. So far...nothing.

At least the temperature isn't in the 90's like it was last time our AC quit.

I have jumped back on the bandwagon with weight watchers. Plus, I have added exercising to my weight loss goal! I wasn't doing that last time. My goal is to head to the gym every day that I'm off work. So far, I have been successful! Granted, I've only done it for a week ;)

The fair is in town! I haven't been in 3-4 years, and plan on going tomorrow for lunch and eating all the fried goodiness (notice that weight watchers will NOT be in my plan tomorrow!)

And..that's it. I'll leave you with a picture :) This is when the hubby and I first met and were "thinking" about dating. (2003)

Goals

Deployment Goals

1. Trim the Trees out front
2. Completely finish the flooring in our spare bedrooms
3. Fix the Gate on the side of our house
4. Lose 30-40 lbs, 2 pant sizes, and a shirt size
5. Reduce the amount of Sticky notes I use on a daily basis!
6. Absorb myself in God's Word
7. Pray on my knees all the time for my husband
8. Pray that God opens his heart while he is gone
9. Save, Save, Save!
10. Pay off as much debt as possible
11. Buy a new dining room set. I am in love with this:



And finally, keep myself as busy as possible!

Farewell Ceremony

Farewell Ceremony
August 30-31

Hiatus

Sorry guys, I took a blog hiatus. And much longer than I anticipated!
I have pictures on my camera, and will hopefully load them on here for you to see soon!
I sent the hubby off last week for his mobilization.
I am handling it well so far. The first day home without him was rough.
And my first night back to work was emotional. I have such wonderful co-workers who are genuinely concerned for me. They made me cry as soon as I walked in the door!
I am off work for 8 days as of now, we will see how I can handle that. I have been really busy since the hubby left. I haven't had much time to think about him not being home. Hopefully I will be able to find enough things to keep me busy during the next week.

The upside to all this is, I get to see the hubby one more time before he goes
overseas. He gets a 4 day pass after his mobilization and before the actual deployment.
So there is a blessing. I'm sure it will be harder to leave him the second time, knowing I won't see him for several months. That, and worrying about his safety.

I have a dilemma. There are going to be frequent days that my time will need to be
occupied. I would love to call several of you to hang out, but most of my friends work 8-5 jobs.
I do not. So, if you do not work an 8-5 job and would be available during the afternoon
to just hang out, would you let me know? And I don't want to impose on
anybody's lives. So don't feel obligated, because that won't help me out.
I don't want to feel guilty.

This is a random post. I apologize.
I plan on changing the look of my blog in the near future.
My good friend Libby has sent me to a blog tutorial site.
It looks like it is going to require a lot of my attention.
So please be patient as I figure the html out!

Yellow Ribbon

Here are pictures from hubby's yellow ribbon ceremony. We had a fun time with friends. Also had a lot of information overload with military briefings on what to expect and prepare for while hubby is deployed. Had some crazy emotions all weekend, but we still had fun!

Hubby and his army buddy playing with "Bevo"

Snuggle time!! :)

I absolutely love this picture :)

Posing with the tank!

We have less than 2 weeks before hubby starts his

mobilization.

I discovered this past weekend the real meaning of
"hurry up and wait."

Even though hubby said it wasn't that bad, and

he usually ends up waiting a lot longer than we did on Saturday.

We ate at Landry's Seafood Friday night with his buddies,

and had an absolute blast!

I am super proud of my hubby, who is one of the pickiest eaters I know.

He ended up trying chilled shrimp cocktail, fried alligator, fried oyster,
and king crab legs and loving every bit of it!

You have no idea how happy that makes me.
All because his buddies make him try things.
I told them their next task during this deployment was to
get him to eat more veggies and fruit.
We shall see what kind of eater my husband is when he comes home next year!

Camping

It's been busy around here.
Getting the hubby ready for deployment.
We are both officially off work now, until he leaves.

We went camping in the canyon last night for some quiet time just the two of us.
Had some good conversation that was needed.
I think we are finally on the same page about certain aspects of our marriage.
It was a long time coming.
It's amazing how easily things can fall apart when there is so much stress going on!
Anyway, here are the pictures I got while camping.

Good Brewsky..lol.

We went high-tech while camping. I don't do well to just sit there
and not have anything to do. A movie was a good idea!

Our baby girl, Blaze camping and getting spoiled rotten with
all the attention she got from mom and dad!

We are heading to El Paso tomorrow for the weekend.
It's hubby's Yellow Ribbon Ceremony with the Army.
I plan on taking pictures and hopefully getting another post up next week.
So stay tuned!