nine days...

...until I will be back home. I'm very excited, actually. I miss cleaning my house and making dinner and baking stuff. I miss being around a bunch of Marines (I don't mean that in a bad way of course...haha). I miss being in a town with stuff to do! I miss my friends! Aaah!!

I'm slowly but surely compiling a list of things to cook for B when he comes home. Can't wait to cook for him again! I know whenever he eats there are hardly any leftovers so I have to grab my portion for lunch the next day so I don't starve. ;-)

Tomorrow, April 12th, means B and I have been together for three years!!!!! It's gone by so quickly. Never thought I'd marry the youth preacher from Wal-Mart who turned into a Marine.

Just for fun, us three years ago:

 May 2009

4-12-09 which also happened to be Easter Sunday. :)

Also 4-12-09 

June 2009 before we got our engagement pics done. I had mono and didn't even know it here!

the phone call.

I got the call tonight. The one where all I say is, "Hello?" and he sounds tired but motivated at the same time. A bunch of noise and yelling in the background. I want to say I LOVE YOU so bad but it wouldn't matter because he couldn't say anything back anyway.

I got tears in my eyes because I am so proud of him. Also because I miss him, but that's obvious. I am so proud of him for what he has set his mind to do, to better himself and us as a couple. And for our future family.

It's weird sleeping alone again. I don't really like it, but I suppose I better get used to it like, now. It's also weird having to shut the bathroom door again when I'm in there (living at mom's right now) and having Little Sis following me ninety percent of the time.

But that's okay. This is what I have signed up for, and it's only temporary. Even though I do enjoy endless amounts of coffee from mom and not having ridiculous neighbors upstairs, living with just him is what I like.

the day he shipped out 5-30-11

happiness on a Sunday

Happiness is...

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  little sister sitting on my lap as I try to type


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  coffee with brown sugar, made especially by mom


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  bacon cheeseburgers on the grill


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  a three mile bike ride (couldn't feel my legs after that one)


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  gooey cookies


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  wearing an Army shirt while B sports his Marine shirt.

Yeah, sue me. I currently don't own any Marine memorbilia except a bumper sticker on my car. However, I do have several Army shirts (my brother leaves May 3rd for basic) and tons of other stuff he gets from his recruiter especially for me. I feel kinda special. Lunchbox, water bottles, keychains, lanyards, iPod cases, stickers, just tons of s t u f f .

B always gets after me about wearing Army shirts, but hey, B! If you got me some USMC gear I would most definitely wear it. He says I don't get anything until after he graduates recruit training, which I kind of understand...but come on!

So now we're all at mom's house for our Sunday night dinner. Since it's nice weather outside, step-dad is doing some intense grilling on the barbecue. Jalepeno bacon cheeseburgers minus the jalepenos. So...bacon cheeseburgers. Either way, I'll take it!

My brother leaves in 28 days. So that means B leaves in...56? I think. He has the countdown on his phone but I can't touch the sacred Android, so we'll just go with 56!

I hope to be back to blogging about something every day. It really sucks not being able to get on here and write whenever I feel like it. I have my netbook in my brother's room so maybe one of these days we can set up the wireless on it so I can blog from that instead of my mom's computer. Hopefully in the next couple weeks.

Anyway, thanks to all of you for reading! It makes my day when I get comments or see I've added a new follower. Oh, the simple things in life. :)