How its been :)

So I figured I would update my friends and family that read my blog on how things are going for us here in the lovely state of Idaho! Well Since Halloween not alot has gone on, lol we have pretty boring lives I guess you could say haha!

I made my very first Thanksgiving dinner, and as soon as I put the turkey in the oven, my mom and sister wanted to skype and that was hard, I held crying in, it was just soo wierd, more wierd than any other day we have been here, to be away from home on Thanksgiving! we talked to them for a while and then when we were done skyping with them scottie's whole family decided to get on skype, Scott, Tracy, Richie, Liz, Grandma, Kacie, and little Blayre ( I miss my Blayre) and they said "Happy Thanksgiving, we miss you guys today" and I just couldn't hold it in anymore, I just got up and walked away. Its great finally being on our own and doing our own thing, making up our own tradition..but it was soo wierd this year to not be home for thanksgiving! I think its going to be even more wierd this christmas! I LOVE skype, so even though we aren't physically there, we can still see everyone and Addie can open her presents on skype in front of who ever got them for her :) We will prolly be on skype alot xmas day!

So it has been snowing quite a bit lately! It snowed last week and we got like 3 inches and then it snowed again the night before last and pretty much all day yesterday and we got another 7 inches of snow! 10 inches of snow, its freakin crazy! But I absolutely love it, Addie is kinda being a party pooper when it comes to playing in it though! I am going to make her today though, I have to shovel the sidewalk in front of our house and I am going to shovel it into our yard :) and its just a little yard!

I forgot to tell you all about the Bruneau Sand Dunes, they were soo much fun! and the canyons down that way are really pretty also! We decided to conquer the tallest one there lol...whcih wasn't very smart with Addie and both dogs! But it was alot of fun and hilarious to go back down! Addie got really scared at the top, the dogs were going crazy and she thought they were going to knock her down, if she only knew it would hurt and we could catch her sooo fast lol, its sand! It was so much fun though! Scottie decided to run down it once we were ready to go back down and it was freakin hilarious.

This picture is the path to the dunes. The whole path is pretty much enclosed like that, I loved it!

This next picture is from the top of the dune

We just had a really fun, much needed family day that day!!

Anyway, I have more pics from that day, but this blog is becoming quite long :) We have had a really good time here so far!! It has been great and we can't wait to explore more! We love the outdoors and it definately helps that Addie also loves to be outdoors:) not to mention a couple good friends we have met here! I will be posting again real soon!

Halloween 2010

So I decided to start this oh so cute blog off with the cutest picture EVER!! She looked absolutely adorable tonight and had so much fun going from house to house and getting candy!! She actually didn't get to much, we just went to a couple neighborhoods! But it was definately ENOUGH candy! So if you can't tell Addie is a White Pixie! and if you ask me..she makes one beautiful Pixie :)

My Little Love :)

A whole bunch of cuteness right!

We are just getting ready to leave.. We actually waited for like an hour after I got her ready because we walked outside and saw absolutely NO kids walking around yet! But she didn't mind because we walked down to the neighbors house because I believe Addie is trying to make friends with her. Its so cute, we walked down there and the little girl was like..oh my gosh you look so cute, and Addie just smiled at her. It was uber cute! Anyway I am glad she is finding friends..when she rides her bike she is always looking up and down are street for kids to go talk to.

I love my baby girl, she definately has a mind of her own..but one thing I noticed tonight is that she is polite when it comes to other kids! If she would walk up to someones house with a small group of people she would stand beside them and let them go first. It was really cute!

Settling in Mountain Home.. What an Adventure!!!

Okay everyone just to give you a little update!!!



We made it to Idaho about a week and half ago and it has been soo great and soo wierd at the same time... So great in the fact that we are doing amazing and they ended up putting us in a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath 2 car garage house and I get to live in it with my Amazing husband, our wonderful daughter and our 2 crazy annoying pain in the butt dogs!!! I don't have to wait 2 or 3 weeks to go visit him, he just comes home from work at 3:30 4:00 O'Clock and there he is.. I see him leave and get goodbye kisses in the morning and I get to fall asleep next to him and get goodnight kisses... I don't have to wait weeks just to get that! We get to have family dinners and have movie nights together, which have been alot lately because we don't have are dishnetwork hooked up yet, so movies is all we have! But its not to bad, we take turns...well kinda haha...Scottie picks out his movies for like 3 nights in a row and then I pick a movie and Addie gets to pick a movie. so its almost like we take turns..just him more than us.. which is fine because I almost cant stand to sit through a movie when there is stuff to be done here at our new house!!!



Addie is sooo glad to be out of the car, but now everytime we get in the car she thinks its going to be for days again and she is like mom how many more..because I would should her each day on my hands how many more hours we had on the road that day.. so we get in the car to drive over to the commisary..2 minutes away and she is like mom how many more, or we get in the car to drive over to the laundromat, or to her new daycare which both is like 2 minutes away lol.. and she is like mom how many more! I am like there is no more how many more..we are here, we are in our new house, we aren't going to be on the road for a whole day for a while!! So she is getting used to that. considering we were on the road for 3.5 days she did really good!!!!



Ok but here go...part of this amazing adventure that has been started since March when he left for Basic! I can't believe it..we are actually in Idaho, we are actually living in a house, we are actually living on our own and having to depend on each other and its just all sooo wierd! It really is a good feeling to be on our own and doing our own thing, working together as a family...its awesome. We are doing good!!



Okay, so the wierd part..We don't have our families here! It would have been so awesome to have them over here at our new house and helping me unpack.. no housing warming party.lol not that I wanted presents or whatever you do for a house warming party...just to have my family come over after getting everything set up so I could take them through the house and show them everything...Addie is so excited for her memaw and pepaw and her nina and pepaw to come visit! she can't wait for them to come and see her room and her bathroom that has a toilet of her own lol.. it was so cute. anyway, but it would have been nice I was going through pictures as I was unpacking and it would have been nice to have someone there to show them the pictures who actually cared...and I could say do you remember this.. But ya know thats okay, thats part of being a military family, and its something that we will all get used to!! Waiting 3,4,5 months before family gets to see our new house and where we live..Thats okay, it all comes with being part of a military family!!!

Getting ready to leave

Ok, wow so its exactly 8 days until we hit the hwy Mountain Home bound!!! Its crazy! The movers came yesterday and packed everything and then they came back today and picked it all up. Addie was looking at them loading her fourwheeler and her bike and shes like "mom why are they taking me stuff, mom where are they taking that, mom are they going to ride those" lol it was funny. She just doesn't understand, I don't think she is going to understand for a while, she will just have to get used to everything, get back on a routine! She will be good, and I am going to let her decorate her room how she wants it, she will show me where she wants her bed and everything, I think she will have fun doing that!

Im not going to lie though, I walked through our house yesterday after they packed and I started getting teary eyed lol! Then I laughed at myself for getting teary eyed over packed boxes... But it is sad really, we are both going to miss everyone! we are both leaving families we have been around our whole lives, even through our marriage, we have never moved away! Addie is going to miss everyone, and I know everyone is going to miss her soo much!!! Sorry for taking your grandaughter and niece away from you :(

This is going to be so good for us, we are so excited about seeing a new place, I am super excited about seeing the mountains! I am excited about meeting new people! Its just going to be a great experience, we are supposed to be there for 2 years!!

I won't post on my blog again until after we get there and get settled..But I will show ya'll my house and let you know how its going for us so far when we do get there!! I can't wait!

Another step towards this wonderful adventure :)

A Little Update

So Aparently I haven't been on here since labor day weekend and telling you the fun we had then.

So Now I am going to give you an update of what has happened since then!

After Labor day weekend, I went back to Wichita Falls September 14th to see my wonderful husband graduate from tech school on September 15th; a day earlier than he was supposed to, so that was awesome! I wouldn't have missed it for the world, there was only 8 0f them graduating and only myself, my mom, and of course Addie came for Scottie, and then Kasie and there two friends were there for Ben...So it was definately small! Everyone kept telling me that they are small and really not worth going to. But I felt way different and I am way glad I went! They all looked so nice in there full service blues! It was just a good day, it was beautiful!!

That evening after graduation we went to dinner with our friends one last time before we all departed to go our seperate ways! We had a good time; after dinner my mom took Addie back to the hotel with her so Scottie, myself, Kasie and Ben could go hang out for a bit. We are definatley going to miss hanging out with Kasie and Ben, we are going to be making a trip to Italy to see them sometime in the next couple of years!!! That would be one awesome vacation! So after we all got to hang out Scottie had to take me back to the hotel, because they had to go back to the dorms one last time for the night!! It was actually nice getting to say goodbye to him that night, because the next morning we got leave and come home together :) We have had a good visit being home...the next week and a couple days is going to be soo stressful. The movers come to pack everything and then they come back to load everything up, then we have 5 days of still being home to figure out where we are going to stay because of course they picked up our things! Thats going to be a stressful week, and then we move the following monday on the 11th! I am excited but nervous at the same time. We are driving both cars instead of towing one. We are only going to be driving about 7 hours a day since we have Addie and 2 pets so its not going to be bad driving seperate! We plan on stopping at every state line to take pictures :) thats totally my idea! Anything neat we see we are going to stop at take pictures...that will make the trip a little bit more fun! But oh my gosh I can't believe we are going to be moving! I can't wait to see our new house :) I can't wait to decorate and spend the first night in our new house with Scottie and Addie!! I think Addie will like decorating her new room, That will be fun for her! I just hope I remember everything of hers! I hope I remember everything of ours!!! I hope the dogs do okay on the trip there, not to worried about Bo, but Onyx is still a pup, so we shall see!

Labor Day weekend with my Loves and Friends!!!

So on September 1st Addie and I traveled back to Texas to spend 6 days with Scottie!!! It was sooo awesome, It just made me wish I had lived there this whole time, also made it ten times harder leaving him once again! Even though he is graduating next week, and I knew I would be going back in a week. It still sucked having to say goodbye once again!

Anyway, we had an amazing time those 6 days! We stayed with a couple awesome friends, Ben and Kasie... They were so awesome for letting us stay there and it was awesome having someone to hang out with until Ben and Scottie got out of school. Thursday we went and sat with them while they ate lunch, which was nice! Then on Friday we ended up going back on base and we took Addie over to the park.

She kept both of us soo busy, if I wasn't hearing mom come here, I was hearing Kasie come play with me. haha It was so much fun though!

<------Kasie, Addie and Myself :)

Addie wanted to Race

I would say all in all we had a good time at the park...Addie loved it! There were two sets of play equipment so she kept running back and fourth between the two...hince the races!

We also went to one of the parks off base after the guys got out of school that day..The night before on thursday night, a Storm passed through and brought with it one amazing cool front. Heres a picture from the storm, the clouds look so freaky, anyway thank you to the storm it made for an awesome day at the park with Addie and an awesome evening to BBQ some hot dogs at the park off base! Anyway, that was fun.

Saturday we had a good day and went to the base pool which was sooo much fun, wish we would have went to that pool before because it was fun :) Sunday was a major lazy day..aparently it always is the lazy day for the guys...no different just because we were there haha!! But Sunday night we did go for a night walk at the wichita fall park, where the falls are. That was fun also, I haven't been for a night walk in a long time and I love them!!!

Needless to say we had soo much fun those 6 days that we were there!!

I am soo proud of him and everything he has accomplished.. He graduates next week and I am more than ready to have him home and to move to Idaho and finally be back together as a family again :)

Getting Excited

So Scottie graduates from Tech school September 16th, and we don't know if he is doing RAP or not yet but we do know that he will be home for like 10 days on leave after tech school. So that will be nice, I can't wait, a full 10 days of sleeping in a little with him and him not having to get up 6:30 on the weekends to be back at the dorm for roll call. So I am pretty excited about those ten days. But I am also excited about moving to a new place, this is going to be my first big move and I am sooo excited, but I am also so nervous at the same time! It'll be so wierd leaving all my family. But it'll be okay, Scottie and I will be there for each other and I just can't wait!

I have heard so many awesome things about Mountain Home, from the snow to the Mountains to the breathtaking landmarks. I just can't wait, it'll be so awesome. One of the things that kind of stinks about it, is that none of our families are going to be able to see our new place except through pictures. Usually when people move for the first time they have a little house warming party and lets everyone come over and see there new place. We won't get to do that. But thats okay, pictures will do! I will have alot of pictures, so everyone be prepared!

Addie already told " mom I am not going to school in Idaho" Woo, great glad to hear you are going to be trouble when I start taking you to daycare! I really hope I will be able to find a job soon after we get there!! I just really can't wait, I am nervous and excited all at the same time!

GIVE ME A BREAK AND LISTEN!!

OK my darling little Addie, can't you just listen to me ONE TIME! So last night she wasn't aloud to go swimming because she didn't clean up her toys in the living room and bedroom! So today we woke up and we were up about an hour, and she decides to look outside and saw Cody and Lauren. I told her she could walk over there and talk to them for a minute, I walked over there cause she wasn't coming back and they were in the pool, not Addie, but Cody and Lauren. So of course Addie wants to swim, I told her that if she cleaned the living room up that we would swim. So she did she picked up her toys in the living room,but I also told her when she go out of the pool that she had to clean her room!! YEAH RIGHT, what in the world was I thinking. So we have been out of the pool for like uh let me see like 3.5 hours now and she still has yet to come up with more and more excuses...

1. mom I'm gonna take nap--so she makes a pad on the floor and lays down- hence no falling asleep!

2.mom I'm so hot, I'm sweating----no your not, you've been sitting on the floor.

3. mom I'm scared in the bathroom---why because I told you to go to your bedroom and clean? why are you in the bathroom?

4. mom I need a hug--no you don't, you just don't wanna clean! (I gave her a hug anyway)

5. mom these ponies don't match, one is yellow, one is blue---they have been like that since you got them a year ago!

6. Comes out of her room into the kitchen to say mom I love you...I love you to, now go clean your room

7. here we go again, back into the kitchen to say, mom will you get this sticker off of my foot...and you needed to come out of room to ask me to get a sticker off of your foot, I said what sticker, shes bends down and takes the sticker off her foot and said this sticker and throws it away.. ok now go back to room and clean.

8.ok she comes out of room once again to ask, MOM DO I HAVE TO CLEAN UP SOMETHING?

YES YOU HAVE TO CLEAN YOUR ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NOW GO BACK IN YOUR ROOM AND CLEAN IT!!! PICK UP ALL YOUR TOYS OFF THE FLOOR AND PUT THEM IN YOUR TOY BOX AND PUT ALL THE DIRTY CLOTHES IN THE HALLWAY SO I CAN PUT THEM IN THE WASH!!!!!! PLEASE JUST CLEAN YOUR ROOM.

okay this is her all time favorite quote now after not listening to me when I tell her to do something ten million times and she knows I am getting super frustrated, because in the beginning it did make me upset and make me cry..NOT ANYMORE LITTLE CHILD! She has started using it as an excuse!

9. MOM I JUST WANT TO GO TO TEXAS TO SEE DAD.

I don't even think so love, now you go to your room and CLEAN IT!

10. MOM-ew, ow walks into the kitchen saying ew, ow...looking at her pinky saying i knew those noodles were popping me...the ones we had for dinner two nights ago! There isn't even a mark on her finger! I know why, because she didn't go near the stove when they were cooking!!!!!!!

OK, I guess I could go on and on and on and on. Probably to make a book of Addie's sayings trying to get out of stuff! But I won't bore you!

I love my little Addie to death, please I wish she would just listen to me. haha, I think this is the beginning of many years of not listening! HAHA

To be continued....

Love, Me

Time together

I love my Airman

Once again we had such an amazing time this past weekend! It was myself, Addie, and my mother In Law. We all had a very nice time hanging out together!
Weekends are just way to short when you go to visit someone you love and don't want to leave. It seems like the weekend goes by faster! It drives me insane! But I sit here and think atleast I have someone to go visit, so I should just be thankful for that!! He is my one and only everything and I couldn't imagine my life without him! Scottie is an amazing guy, I couldn't be happier! Anyway not that everyone hasn't heard it enough and how excited I am to move! This is a big change in our lives, we have already had a big change with him going to BMT and Tech school, and now the next big change is going to be moving to Mountain Home Idaho, away from our families!
Its definately going to be hard to get used to, but It is going to be such an amazing experience, and we honestly can't wait!!

View from the top of Mt. Scott

ANYWAY

We went to Texas again to visit him this past weekend and we had a good time!

Friday night we went out to eat at this really awesome mongolian grill, called Ghengis Grill. Its a really good restaurant I suggest it to anyone that goes to Sheppard AFB, or to anyone who is in town there! So saturday we decided to get up, get ready and go to the wichita mountains! On our way to the mountains, there are a few turn offs you can go down, there was a really pretty lake that we stopped at. We went to what was called the Holy City, which was pretty amazing actually! Also went to Mt. Scott, you drive all the way up this mountain which I thought was cool. But man oh man is it high up, kind of makes ya sick to your stomach lol. The view was soo beautiful! I would definately go back, it would be fun to hike up the mountain instead of driving, but we all had fun! Then after that, we went back to Wichita Falls and decided that we would go swimming, considering it was like 108 degrees! After that we went out to dinner with one of Scotties Airman brothers, I had already met him, but I hadn't met his wife yet, and they are such nice people, and we had alot of fun just hanging out and talking! It was nice to sit and talk to friends, I am positive that we will all keep in touch when they graduate from tech school! I am just super excited!

From left to right; Kasie(bens wife),Ben(Airman Brother),Scottie(hubby),

Addie(daugter),Samantha(myself)

So the night was over, we go back to the hotel and just hang out for another hour and then we all go to bed! I didn't wanna go to bed because I knew the next day I would once again have to say goodbye until next time! Ugh, I mean come on seriously. I know people probably think its stupid as many times as I have gone down there, thats money I could have saved. Please don't judge me, just be there,Its just something I feel I need to do! Everything always work out in the end. I am going to go visit him again on the weekend of the 28th. I wouldn't be going, but we have a couple friends thats letting Addie and I stay with them so we don't have to pay for a hotel room, and we can eat at the D-FAC and save money there also, so really all I need is the gas money, which isn't bad! So thats the only reason I am going this next time. Then my mom will be going with me to his graduation. I am really excited for my mom to be able to go and see him graduate tech school, and see him in uniform and just to see him, my family hasn't seen him since March. The rest of my family will see him when he comes home from tech school just a couple days after grad. I can't wait till his graduation. I love seeing him in his blues, they look so sharp :) It will just be awesome anyway, because then the next day or the weekend he should be released and he will come home for a couple weeks and then we will be moving to Idaho!

I am just sitting here rambling on and on....I'll just leave it at that for right now! Just thought I would blog a little and update everyone! He has 38 days until he is done with tech school--WOOHOO! Can't wait!

A little bit of fun :)

Okay, so the day started out going over to my Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Matt's house for my uncles bday party! It was nice hanging out with the whole family!! We went swimming and just sat around and talked it was fun . I would prolly say it started when Kasen took me in her computer room and she was showing me pics from there mission trip to Canada, and then we decided to watch you tube videos from Americas Best Dance Crew and So You Think You Can Dance;She proceeds to bring up how she remembers how I always made her and Darion sit down when I babysat them and had them watch my "awesome dances" I made up lol it was a good conversation because aparently I sucked! So needless to say we were having fun BUT Kasen and I decided to spice it up a bit and do our own thing.....here we go!



Getting our Nerd on ;)

OKay so I don't know about you but I think we look pretty awesome in our glasses!!! Kasen is trying to teach me Nerd 101. I could not for the life of me try and make half the nerdy goofy faces she was doing! I am like TEACH ME. haha. it was pretty fun! I haven't had this much fun with Kasen in A LONG TIME!

Love this Snake :)

What a Model ;)

So in this picture Kasen and I decided to go outside and take some pictures; we decided it would be a good idea to take one of those picture that you jump in the air and take a picture while your in the air. okay, so we figured it would be a good idea to jump off a stump maybe it would be easier and we would get some air, we also thought it would be easier to hold each others hand and do it.....NOT....we jumped off the stump and went tumbling, didn't even get any higher off the ground than what we thought we would have, I don't think we had the chance to jump I think I might have tripped first! It was really funny!

PrEtTy CuTe

I honestly think I am a good nerd in this picture... I kind of like it..HAHA

Only you can pull this picture off :)

Who can rock the side ponytail......I CAN!!!

I love these glasses I think I am going to switch mine out and get me a pair :)

I had sooo much fun doing all of this! I am going to miss Kasen alot when we move!!! LOVE YA GIRL :)

My Feelings.....

Okay, so i honestly can't help my feelings and what I think! I know that I have been able to visit Scottie since he has been in tech school. But I can't help the angry thoughts that I have had because we didn't have the funds to move down there, not to mention everything we would have to do, like change all the addresses on our bills, and then to have to change the address again when we move to Idaho. That would have been a pain! ANYWAY....I have got to visit him like what 3 times, memorial day weekend, fourth of July weekend, we visited two weeks after his the fourth of July, and Addie and I and of course Bo (Scotties Boxer went). That was a nice weekend, felt good to have our little family together again!

ANYWAY and now we are on our fourth time visiting this next weekend. His mom is going with Addie and I, which will be a nice weekend! But ya know how frustrating it is to Drive over the Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas state lines twice all in one weekend. It gets frustrating, especially knowing that I could have lived with him these 4 months, but we didn't have the funds to do it! He wouldn't have been able to live with us, but at least we would have been able to see him everyday, or every other day, and we would have been together on the weekends.

ANYWAY, that's past tense now right! It just makes me down and sad sometimes...... The times it puts me down the most is when I see friends and family with there significant other.... Like right now, Richie and Liz have there friends over, okay so let me explain this, its Richie and Liz, Michelle and Griffin, Chad and Jackie, and then theres Samantha and the air......They came in and told me that I could come outside and hang out, which I know that. But it puts me in a down mood ya know, to be the odd one out. I guess I could have woke Addie up and took her outside with me lol...

The fact of the matter is that I am more than ready to move and be together as a family again! Don't get me wrong, I am going to miss mine and his family dearly!!! But it is time for us to be our own little family, ya know. I just know its time for us to be together and experience things as a family. I am super excited about getting to ride bikes, haha. Addie is to, we will be able to ride around base together!! It will be interesting to see how Addie adapts to all of it! But it is all going to be worth it! Its going to be awesome to experience a new place. A place that I have heard WONDERFUL things about!! I am ready to start blogging about our new adventure in Idaho, and posting pictures of our new house. It will be so much fun and we can't wait!

I am just rambling on and on....But this is how I feel and I don't want anyone to think negative of this, because that's not what it was meant for! This is just how I have felt, and I just needed to get it out and it feels good!!!

Family time in Texas!!!

She looks pretty Snazzy in her shades huh!

Ok so this is the first time since March when we dropped off Scottie to go to BMT that we have been together as our own little family for more than just a few hours. We had the weekend, it was great, friday night, all day saturday, and all day sunday! It was fun, although it was way to hot to be outside and do anything, even swim, we had fun! Thank god our hotel had an indoor swimming pool.

So I made Lazagna before we left so he could have a home cooked meal for a change. So saturday night we all sat down together and had a family dinner, even though it was on the bed in a hotel room, it was still nice to have a family dinner!!! It was awesome actually, the little things I look forward to..... Having a family dinner just made my night with him! It was nice to sit down just the 3 of us, hang out and have a meal together!

We also decided to take Bo on this trip with us, anyone who doesn't know who Bo is, he is Scottie's Boxer. This is the first time since March that he has seen his master! When he first seen him, he really didn't do anything, just stared at him. didn't wag his tail or anything. Just stared at him and sniffed him. But as soon as we got back to the hotel it was a different story. He was all over him, wouldn't stay away from Scottie. He laid on the bed with him, well actually got on the bed and laid on top of him; slept with us at night time. It was so cute to watch!! I guess we will see how it is the second time around him not seeing Scottie until September now, we will see if he remembers him. But it was cute!

Addie is our little photographer , she kept taking my camera and would say okay mommy get by daddy so I can take your picture!

This next picture if ya can't tell is at the hotel swimming pool, it was super nice:

Addie decided she wanted to play "soldier". She marched around the room, and played in her daddys hat. It was so cute! She would say I want to go back to base and march with daddy.

My Airman :)

I just can't help the feelings I have towards all of this!! I am soo proud of him for what he is doing, what he has accomplished, and what he will accomplish! Scottie is doing absolutely amazing is tech school! We are both definately ready for tech school to be over with so we can finally live together again! Like I thought she would, Addie had a really good time this past weekend with us! She had our attention, she didn't have to fight between 10 people to get her daddy's attention. She was good for the most part! She had her moments, but what 4 year old doesn't have a moment! We took her swimming, and just hung out in the hotel room. She is only 4 years old, I am thinking that her moments came from being cooped up in the room, but It was just way to hot to be outside! She was all over her daddy, telling him story after story, pretty much none of the stories were true, but that is her specialty, she can make up stories just like that. lol

The past two times we visited Scottie, besides when I said goodbye at BMT, have been really hard. The past two times we visited he was aloud to stay overnight with me, but let me tell ya that makes it way harder to say goodbye and go back to my reality for now. I myself need to try and be stronger as a person, wife, mom.... I think it just really makes me mad because I know I am aloud to see him whenever, I could live there, but don't have the funds to do it! We are both ready for tech school to be over with so we can finally live together again! I think that the first part is the hardest, I am talking about Basic Training and Tech school, it is the hardest part because in BMT you can't see them at all, but they can call home maybe once a week for 10 minutes. and in Tech school you can talk to them every night, and your aloud to see them, but you might not have the money to travel or move and do so! I think once tech school is over it will be alot better, not saying that if/when he gets deployed that won't be hard, because it will, but I know that we will deal with that differently, we have talked a little about that. He says he doesn't want to have to keep saying goodbye until if/when he gets deployed.

The past two times I have said goodbye to him I have cried, but I honestly can't help it! Spending the weekend with your husband and then saying goodbye after 2 days sucks! But I know its all going to get better, not that it has been bad, it has just been hard!

This is going to be such an awesome adventure!!!

Our Beautiful, Wonderful Little Girl!!!

Where to start with Addie Leann! I would have to say that she is the best thing that happened to Scottie and I! Even though we started young, we wouldn't go back and change it for the world! She is absolutely amazing. These past few months she has made me mad continuously ( what child doesn't make there parent mad) she has made me cry, she has made me laugh...or just to sit and listen to her 30 minute long story in amazement and wonder where she just came up with all of that!

I would say the hardest thing for Addie to have been dealing with and trying to understand has been why her daddy has been gone. Since march she has been trying to figure all of this out, why we went and visited him when he graduated and then left again without him. Same with this last time that we visited him for the 4th of July, why we went there and the day we were leaving to come home she kept saying I don't want daddy to leave again; and when we came home it was back to her same ol' attitude.

But it has been wonderful to see that just in these past 3 days, she has started to change. Saturday at the softball Tourny, she was soooo good that day. Then the next day we went floating and she went with us because she was so good Saturday and she was sooo good on the river that day. Yesterday she was also good, It wasn't an all day staying mad with her. She had her moments during the day, but overall, she was so good!

I have been talking to her alot this week and telling her how just her and I are going to see her daddy this weekend and spend time with him together, and how much fun we are going to have. She is so excited to go see Scottie this weekend!

On a lighter note, she was talking to Cody last night ( my sisters boyfriend that she is in love with lol) and she kept telling him " I'm excited to go see daddy this week Cody" He would say oh yeah that will be fun!!! Then Cody asked her " Addie, do you like Texas"..................................................Her answer " Ya, it has bathrooms" WHAT lol, I started cracking up, like wow child that's why you like Texas because they have bathrooms. It was so cute, when everyone was done laughing at her, because I told everyone, she said no I don't like Texas.

I just know that we have beautiful, wonderful little girl!! This adventure is only beginning, its going to be soo interesting to see what she thinks when we move. To see what stories she comes up with, or to see the things she isn't quite understanding! She so smart, I think she is to smart for her own good sometimes! But she is wonderful and always will be!!

In loving Memory of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Rick Richardson Jr

Our team in red called the Booze Hounds:

Today was the Benefit in Honor of our fallen Soldier Chief Warrant Office Rick Richardson Jr.

On June 10, 2009 he was killed while dismantling an EID in Afghanistan. Rick worked as an Explosive Ordinance Disposal Officer in the United States Marine Corp. He spent the last 13 years of his life serving our country!!

Our team got logos and made our own shirts, Addie was our "bat girl" lol, her shirt has Scotties Squadron number on it. We thought that was cute!

Two of my 3 sisters from left to right, Whitney, Lauren and myself!

We all had so much fun today, oh my goodness did we suck, lol. We knew we would before we signed up! But it wasn't about winning, it was about everyone coming out, having fun and doing something for a good cause!!! I am pretty sure everyone that came out today had a very good time!!!

I was the catcher for this inning, haha, I guess you could say I did okay!

My baby girl taking a break, she worked soo hard today, haha!! She was a good cheerleader.

Nicole and I getting ready to leave for the tournament!!! My oldest sister.

We all had sooo much fun today! Even though are team wasn't that great, we worked really good together and tried. But like i said in the beginning it really was not about winning! We came out and suported a GREAT cause and had so much fun doing it! Sometimes you need to put all the seriousness aside, stop and think; hang out with family and friends and have a good time! Life is to short to be serious all the time!!!

I would have to say that today was a GREAT success!!!