Home sweet home. 

I can't wait to enjoy this beauty.

This was just the beginning. I can't believe I packed up an entire house by myself and manage
to have 3 very well behaved kids and a wiener :)

Blessings

We have been given the opportunity to rent a house virtually free for the remainder of my husbands time here. It includes a pool and hot tub on a quiet street with retired military families.  Our debt will be paid we can get out of mold infested military housing. (not that ours has mold) It doesn't, I would hold a sit in until its fixed.  We would have to move upon my husbands arrival and we have help moving. Everything has been arranged I would basically just have to do nothing.  Im excited and nervous at the same time. We transition well Im not worried about my husbands integration back into the family. He's a Doer take charge kind of man and for that I am very thankful. Ive started packing. De cluttering and gathering boxes and such. I might have to part with some of the children's things we don't necessarily need. Maybe this will be my spring cleaning. :) Im so excited for everything to start happening. The days seems to go so slowly its driving me bonkers. I just want my husband to be home already. I'm off to get another cup of coffee in before I go get milk.

River city

A recent stint of River City has drove me crazy. I can say while I did divulge in a little shopping we paid off a portion of our debt. Working towards the rest I cannot wait to see the end of that long tunnel. We have orders now and I am excited and scared at the same time. Johnnie will be doing a Recruiting Tour for his final tour in the Navy. He has been a recruiter before and he was 100% successful I have no doubt he will be again. He's a great leader and an absolute outstanding role model. That I have no doubt. Its the location i'm afraid of. I can't disclose the location right now. ( I don't want certain people finding out) Its a location we both wanted but are hesitant because of the past. We will get through it. A new routine or swing of things shall be put into place so we can get used to recruiting better. This time we know what to expect.
Ive begun the first steps on buying our first home. Im so excited. I "pinned" my dream home ideas over and over again. I can't wait to show Johnnie. Luckily his ideas are similar to mine so I am sure he will love them too. We are realistic and assumed we wont be getting everything on our dream home wish list. None the less we are excited.
       The weather is changing and i'm loving it. The cooler temps came at a perfect time. It makes us so much closer to our holiday season and all its happenings. I was thinking I might put up the christmas after halloween. Maybe just the decor and not the tree. That is still in the works. I have a very curious 1 year old now and a crazy 2 year old boy who just might think hes a monkey and try and climb the tree, can I handle that.. NO.. :)
My sweet emma has been screaming her little head off for reasons unknown right when she wakes up in the am. Which is generally around 5:30-6. I'm hurting because lately I haven't been able to go to sleep until midnight. Thanks to the newly found Big Bang Theory and Homeland. Which if you havent seen them those 2 shows are incredible. I laugh constantly at Sheldon and im in constant suspense in Homeland. I also love that the shows main character is named Carrie.. Just sayin..
       I am missing Johnnie more and more and some days it's hard to see the light. Im constantly reminded from him how this is the absolute last time he will ever leave me. I love that man and would do anything for him. But im glad this deployment is our last. After doing this a decade im completely over it and im ready to snuggle him every day. The kids miss him and our oldest asks about him and shows me her count down daily. Shes so brave and strong. I love her.

      I'll leave on that note. I know there are some christmas deals to be found. As of now I'm completely done. I think when Johnnie gets home he will see some things he will get for the kids but im done. Minus the stockings :) Tis the season

The longest wait

We recently stumbled upon a milestone in our marriage actually our relationship. We have surpassed our longest time apart. We have always managed to luck on out on the deployments and get reasonable 3-4 or 4-5 month deployments. This one now that its our last one, we are going out with a BANG I suppose. I got great phone call and that "somewhat" made up for the lengthy time apart. As the last few months go on time seems to get slower and slower. Im a bundle of emotions and excitement. We have since learned of our new duty station and we are in contact.  Im so excited. Im about 99% sure without hard copy orders they are set in stone. However with the navy things are always changing. So for now all I can confirm is that it will be west coast shore duty. Thank heavens for little miracles. 

                  School is about to start for my third grader. Im excited for her but I will miss our conversations and late night christmas movie watching. She's so excited and wants to talk about it daily...hourly... ok every stinking minute and its driving me bonkers. She reminds me of myself. Already has the shoes clothes and hair stuff picked out. Back pack ready sans the lunch. Im excited for this year. She has requested that if she gets straight A's again all year that she receives $100 instead of $50. I bit my tongue and agreed. I know I will have to start putting away money for her. She's a very smart girl, so much smarter than me in so many ways. 

                  Emma's 1st birthday is approaching. While we aren't going to celebrate her birthday "big" until Daddy comes home. Haylee and I have done something just for her. I can't believe she is going to be 1 year old. My pregnancy with her went by so fast, her first year went by even faster. And a little less painful too.  At her 9 month (closer to 10) check up she weighed 23lbs. Im curious to see if my ham bone has thinned out a little do to all the crawling, scooting, cruising she is doing. Not yet walking but her daddy's wish just might come true. He wanted her to not walk until he got home. We shall see. At this point Im ok with it. No pressure. Just continue to be my baby. 

 

Currently

Currently

READING  Nothing at the moment

WRITING A love letter to my Love

LISTENING Disney Jr. Emma is saying "DADADA"

THINKING How does my son know when a bag of chips is crumbled? all the way from the other room..

SMELLING Apple crumble. Curtesy of BBW

WISHING Our time was now, I hate waiting for deployments end 

HOPING Our last duty station is as awesome as it seems and there isn't any drama. 

WEARING PJ's

 LOVING My husbands ability to rock the shit out of a 13 mile run in honor of the fallen seals.

WANTING Fall to actually be in the air, not just in my head

NEEDING To do my workout rather than pin some inspiration on pinterest :)

FEELING overwhelmed 

CLICKING  Pinterest....

BIG NEWS

The day before my little emma turned 11 months her first TOOF has sprouted. I don't know why but we are beyond excited.  Trying to write this real quick to make note of it. Our little emma is growing up and getting teefers. Talking jibberish to the core as well. So much is happening. Tons of good news I will share later.

A little of this and a little of that

 Our 9 year anniversary came. Our absolute last one we will ever be apart for.

 I sent him a nice video that had a lot of these in it. Love that man so much it hurts

 Our beloved Oliver got fixed. He is now officially rotten to the core and will beg to be held, put on the bed, kiss and loved on. And we are happy to do it. We love that Mr. Wiener.

 So loopy from the drugs they gave him. Passed out with his tongue out.

 We realized our oldest is not super girl. Afraid of needles and needing a filling. Our little bug :(

I found my plates that match my bowls. I am super excited about this find. I can't wait to get them.
A lot has been going on. Trying to stay busy on this next leg of the deployment. Excitement is brewing for the holidays and I can't wait to get on our DIY projects~.

It's the little things

While my husband was in port visit he was able to face time. He was able to watch his third child crawl. I guess 1 out of three isn't bad considering he deployed not long after each child was born. I want to remember this day and hold it near to my heart.  I love my husband and I love my family. It truly is the "Little Things" that make our world strong <3

Seriously...

I have come to the conclusion that my neighbors are Idiot's. Yes, I said that. We are attached via my kitchen and one of there kids bedrooms. We don't hear each other. Don't play loud music etc. All in all pretty freaking great neighbors. However there guests think they can park up my ass. That's a NO NO... ok I actually mean a HELL NO. We have single side street parking and there is AMPLE room. Not to creep my the back of my van's ass and hang your ass halfway out the street. This all happened July 4th around 10 ish at night. I went to put my Van in the front of the drive to take Hubby's truck for its annual inspection. When I noticed some black car was up my butt. So naturally I did what any mother of 3 who's husband is deployed in Norfolk freaking virginia. I called the Tow company. Thats right. I am that person. Around 11:45 ish that night I heard a whole lot of screaming and slamming doors. I assumed as I clenched my bat (just kidding) its behind the door, they were mad or confused that about the placement of there vehicle. Oh well. (smirk) don't be an idiot and park behind someone whom your not visiting's vehicle. DUH- UH. So that brings me to today. My Ant guy has come to check on my ant situation and while he's sweating his butt off trying to spray outside inside yadda yadda. I notice another one of my neighbors friends pull up right behind him and walk down the street. We have a community pool, so i'm guessing thats where they were headed with the towel over his head. So not only cant the Ant guy get out. I CAN'T FREAKING GET OUT. So I've had it. I called the tow company AGAIN and housing. Housing shows up first and knocks on neighbors door. Seriously.. NO joke. I almost died trying to shove his clip board down his throat. Thankfully the tow truck came and saved the day. The guy nodded his head and smiled, it was the same damn guy! He waved as he took that POS out from behind us. Poor ant guy. Then housing man said I guess your good to go.. Um HELL NO. Id like to make a written complaint and I was a call back within 12 hours. Housing guy looks at me weird. You can have your manager call me. Wrote my complaint down. Set housing guy on his way.
*****
Different housing guy just came to drop a notice off at my neighbors door. But still no call from the manager to me.
DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN..

un freaking believable. I hate stupid people and can't wait to have our own house. With our own drive way..

Three's

They Say things happen in three's. Good and bad. Well let's see. After taking my sweet Emma to her 9 month check up. Where she was 23lbs 30'. We got a call from the doctor about 5 hours later saying she wanted to have her checked for a thyroid issue. It all came about after this new doctor had noticed the lack of accurate notes in her file. She was measured wrong, VERY WRONG at her 6 month check up. Im sure of it. So she went from the 70th % to the 20%. Which is now normal. This facility drives me up the walls and EVERY TIME we go there something happens. I literally want to punch those Air force pukes in the face!
Then Conner comes down with a bacterial infection on the skin. How he got it we have no clue. Nothing has changed. NOTHING! I couldn't get an appointment to see his doctor, or any doctor for that matter so I had to go for the first time to a Patient First clinic. Did I mention how much I hate Langley? My poor baby he is on Antibiotics and a topical antibiotic cream. I hope whatever it was does not come back.
Here is the best part a few days later I GET SICK! Like the i'm on my death bed sick. Having 3 kids to take care of while being sick and can hardly move from the couch was AWESOME.... I'm lucky to have an 8 year old who can now successfully change a diaper and feed her sister. She will never know how thankful I am to have her. Luckily the "flu" like symptoms only lasted a day/night and now I just have a cough that occasionally hurts. So today I've spent the majority of the morning cleaning. Every toy, door knob, bed sheets, keyboard, table chairs you name it I have cleaned it. Along with everything that has happened my husband and I have recently spend about 2 wks without any communication. That is the longest time we haven't heard each others voice or saw something in writing. Let me tell you it was rough. The flood gates opened. I miss that man. I love that man! I can't wait for this deployment to be over and done with.

~This too shall pass

Currently

                           CURRENTLY

READING - Harriet Evans, A hopeless romantic. So far so good

WRITING -This little blog. Before a nice e-mail to hubby

LISTENING -My son say down and the boil of the soup for tomorrows lunch.

THINKING - I wish Johnnie was home to enjoy the summer

SMELLING- Zuppa Toscana and devils food cupcakes

WISHING -This Deployment was over

HOPING - This deployment goes fast and there are no more hurricanes or tornado's

WEARING - Gouchos and a tank. Today we mowed the grass and got it ready for a BBQ

LOVING - That my daughter is crawling now. Even though its backwards. 

WANTING- To go to bed already. But I have too much to do

NEEDING - A olympic size pool in my back yard so I can swim this baby weight off

FEELING- Hungry/tired just blah

CLICKING- Blogs. I love finding things like this on other peoples blogs. 

- If I knew how to link people I would. I should read some how to's on blogging. :)

A little piece of home

I was headed over to our local Mini Mart and noticed something. A nice bottle from my home town. I miss my home town so much it hurts. Even though I wanted nothing to do with it while I lived there. It will always be where I grew up. Just funny even though I can't drink it I still want it. 

 I thought about getting 50 Shades of Grey so many times. But I had to turn away from it. Instead I found these beauties at Halfpricebooks.com at 99cents each they are in GREAT condition. So along with having some summer fun with my kids. Im enjoying some great books to help pass the time.

We are also enjoying this little loves :)

Stuck in my head

As our 9 year wedding anniversary approaches I have this song STUCK in my head. I wake up to this and sing it in the shower. It's not our song but I Love it.

Too many to count

This month has flown by and so much has happened.  I wish my family could stay with me longer and I wished my husband could have been here and enjoyed them as well. My mom is so special to me I don't know what id do with out her. We had the best laughs! the gut wrenching kinda laughs. I miss her. It made it even better when my Aunt came. It made missing my husband bearable. For a minute. Im going to miss her cooking. Even though I didn't need to eat like that it sure made it feel like home. I did a few things I haven't done. Like drive across the Chesapeak bay bridge. It was beautiful but not worth the $17 it took to drive across and back. I took my son in the ocean. I took him in all the way to my neck. He was scared and clung on to me so tight. I have missed our bonding moments. I was fully clothed and didn't care. My boy wanted to go in. So we did. "YOLO" kept replaying in my head. I wish I had more moments like that in my life. I think ill start working on that.
                                          Car rides and costco trips with Grandma

Fresh and clean with smiles

We did a little drawing outside x5

We ate a bunch of Kabobs *they are delish

Great uncles are the best in the world

Made an ER trip

An ER trip for the weiner too. He was a little turd so he had to be muzzled. But it was so damn cute

This little guy came into our yard. I will now no longer try and pick one up

its head can reach its butt. NO JOKE! It snaps 

We spent way too much money at IHOP

but she loved the pancakes 

Cousins are SO MUCH FUN! I wish we lived closer

I saw some flowers I want to plant in my home. Whenever we decide to buy one

The gates to Garden. That place was etherial. I have to upload my pics on my camera once I find it

Cousins <3

In the middle of the ocean

She chomped down a red vine. WITH NO TEETH!!

So ill end this with that sweet face. I have a TON more to write down for memories sake. Im going to go outside and play in the sun for a while.

Happy Mothers Day and new glasses

I just wanted to put it on my blog to remember forever these past few days.

My daughter and I both got our first eye exams and we both need glasses. Haylee's came in first and these are the ones she chose with the lady bugs

With Grandma here we always plant. I love my tulips and a "mater" plant. My glasses are something to get used to. But I will.. One day. Thank goodness I need them for seeing far away right now. 

I love having my mom here 

that is all <3

Cinco De Mayo!!

May 5 people!! That means my momma is getting her bahookie here! I've been trying to keep this a secret from the oldest for EVER. Its been hard I actually slipped up a few times. I hope that she truly doesn't know and isn't playing coy with me. Darn 8 years olds think they know everything. Everything has found its place. Most things have a home and I can say Im about 90% at home right now. After living here almost 1 year I think I did good :) Im so excited to show my mom around virginia without getting lost like last time. Boy that was rough. At least I know my way around around Virginia Beach (somewhat) thanks to my awesome friend Christina.

On the husband front we have successfully completed 1 month and it feels good to "think" that is one month down that we will NEVER have to do again. I am excited for that. I am truly. However I am still fighting with the thought of the months that are down this dirt road we decided to travel down. So many plans we have I can't wait to build our dreams together. Its going to be awesome. We just have to get through this last leg.

Side note- Does everyone get crazy husband pictures? I cant wait to see the infamous "stash" pictures I always get and I ALWAYS order too much and share them with family. Can't wait.

I love you babe <3

OOPS! PADA!

I forgot about photo a day april. YIKES! My bad.  Ive enclosed some photos though to try and make up for it. :) Ive been busy spending time with friends and getting ready for my mothers arrival. I can't wait. Cleaning/organizing. re-aranging ah. Its like homecoming. Ive gotten a few phone calls from my hubby and even was blessed to see his face via face time. I miss that man more than he knows. Were coming up on our anniversary and Im stumped as to what to get him.  :/ 

Break times

Home made Olive Garden Dinners 

First bathing suits! matching Yellow.. LUB!!!!

Old picture of us back when it was just us 3.

                                                I love it when she still likes to cuddle. I never want

                                                        to let her go.

Friday's Letters

                                                  

Dear Deployment- I have taken down 1 month already Bring it on.

Dear Husband- We absolutely adore you and all that you do.

Dear Oliver- Thank you for chewing up your kennel because of your separation anxiety.

Love you 

Dear Conner- You melt my heart. I hope your every bit like your daddy.

Dear Emma- Your growing up so fast. I really wish you would start to crawl. Your chub just 

gets in the way

Dear Haylee- Oldest daughter you have surpassed all of our expectations. Your recognition today for the only A honor roll student, plus student of the month. AMAZING!

YOU ROCK!

Dear Mailman- Please ring the doorbell if you have left a package outside in the pouring rain.

Happy Friday!! One more week down the deployment drain.

<3

Long rainy days

These are the worst. They seem to drag out and its killing me. Im not really hoping for summer weather but spring weather would be awesome! Im learning all about my new computer. I just learned how to make a folder to put all of hubby's e-mails in. GO ME! now I don't have to scroll down a gazillion clicks to get to anything. I also sorted out kids print stuff and teacher correspondents. I feel like I have achieved something tonight. I also posted a blog so I think ill sleep good tonight.  

If anyone can offer tips on how to use a MAC that would be great. I am juuuuuust now getting to know my IPHONE. Yep Im a bit behind on the times. 

Photo A Day 16-20

16. Flower- Tomato flower :)

17. Something I don't like- Missing calls and Face Time chats :(

18. Hair

19. Orange- Orange Jammie's 

20. Something you drew- well this is as close as you will get. My oldest drew this Tow truck. I drew the hitch. :)

Photo A day 11-15

11.Where I ate breakfast : Outside with this bubble eater

12. Stairs- Nope no stairs here. Not going to track down some stairs to take a pic ;)

13. Something you found: I found these purty soapies at my door

14. How you feel : I feel completely utterly discouraged. We made our deployment ring.

15. Sunset: Im cheating this isn't a sunset, however its a portion of where I grew up.

The storms that are happening around the world are crazy. I continue to pray for everyone that are in the path of these horrific tornados/ storms. I hope you will do the same -_-