I get to come home to this....

Wow so today was a long day at work. It didn't help that last night I went a concert. The concert totally rocked! I went and saw Ingrid Michaelson opening for Matt Nathanson. I would definitely recommend Ingrid's music tow anyone. She is AMAZING! So I took a picture of her album that I bought last night. (Notice the signed album written to Lindsay--yes I am a geeky fan!)

Anyhow so today was a long day...lots of stuff going on. At work things are a bit crazy because we are understaffed so stress is running high anyways and then we are also trying to implement some new procedures to hopefully make things a bit more efficient. SsssOOoooo this is all I looked forward to all day! I love coming home to my sweet Boomer. He is such a love and smiles when I walk in the door, he is forgiving and such a great cuddler. He instantly lifts my spirits and honestly eases a lot of anxiety for me. He is so well behaved, cute, and what is there not to love about him?

MMMMMmmm.....this is the life right now at my house.I love to cuddle with the furry man! We are hoping to start some obedience classes while Linds is gone so that Boomer can then move on to agility type classes and have lots of fun!

We pretty much treat Boomer like the child that we would love to have in our home. We got him from the pound when he was 3 months old soon after we had just started trying to get pregnant. The original plan was have him grow up with our child. Well Heavenly Father obviously has had a different plan for us. Boomer has been such a highlight and brought us such joy in the journey. We have tried to socialize him with as many dogs, kids, and babies. I could go on for hours about our silly boy but I will save it for those who ask. I just wanted to let you all know that Boomer is amazing and after a rough day at the office...He is on my mind and I just jump on the bed with him and cuddle.

Oh and a brief update on Linds, he made it safely to his destination in the Middle East. He has been busy training and flying. He has been working out everyday (there is not much else to do when not working) and is hoping to lose some weight and get in shape while gone. He has been in good spirits and gets along with his crew which is so nice, since they spend pretty much every waking moment together. I am hoping to get his mailing address soon so that I can send a fun package.

Ta Ta until next time!

* don't worry we dont really dress Boom in clothes we just a kick out of putting lindsay's t shirt on him one night. What a goof!

My Cup Runneth Over

Wow, so I truly feel like my cup runneth over in so many ways. I will try to keep this post coherent, but there has been so much going on that it may get a bit random. So to start out this weekend my brother Nathan and his wife Wendy had a beautiful baby girl this weekend. Both mother and daughter are doing wonderfully, they both look amazing. I may be bias, but I think Ahnna (the sweet little one) looks just like me when I was a baby. I actually feel special about that. Here she is!

Isn't she gorgeous? I drove to see her after I dropped Lindsay off at the base for his deployment, so it was awesome! I hope to see her again soon! But I got a small case of the sniffles so although I was planning on driving there friday, I dont think I will expose her to that.

So this weekend after the wonderful news.....we spent the weekend with Alex and Haley mostly. The boys made a spud gun and shot it off every chance they got. We broke glow sticks and watched the potatoes soar into the air. I felt like we were 15 again. It was a nice low key weekend. As the weekend was winding down it then became laundry time and finding things that Linds needed to pack. This time seems different than most. We both felt more emotionally prepared for this one, maybe because we have a goal....I am not sure. So we talked a lot this weekend, talked about the strain it puts on us, how we deal individually, it was great to just talk about it openly with him.

..............Than Monday came and things were busy, running around. I took some fun pics to remember the otherwise morose day. Here they are....

A lot of people have been wondering if I am doing all right. Here we go...I am going to spew a bunch of things out. I am doing fine. There is nothing I can really do about the situation, I would rather move on than have a pity party. Trust me I will get there and have my share, for now I am pretty numb to the pain of having my love deployed to the Middle East. Yes, he is pretty much out of harms way but it is not easy having him gone and having to communicate on somebody else's terms. I am happy to be able to do everything on my schedule and have my own routine, do things around the house as I would love. I am excited that we will be able to pay off a large sum of debt. Prepare us for our adoption that we are getting ever so excited about! Before I go further I want you all to know that I am not asking for pity or for people to feel sorry for me...I am expressing how I feel so you can get a glimpse. I am scared to be alone so much and yet love being by myself. I feel vulnerable to bad things happening because my number 1 is gone and I can't just call him to have him to come save me. I hate the anxiety I constantly feel until the moment I see him walk off the plane. I love that he is doing a job that he thoroughly enjoys, hate that it takes him away. Love that it helps us value each other and our marriage, hate that this is what it takes sometimes to get that reality check.

Enough of that for now, you will hear much more over the next couple of months I am sure! I also got to talk to my younger brother Ryan this evening. It was wonderful...I haven't talked to him in just about 8 months, he was in Iraq with the marines and recently returned to his base. I love that we can talk as adults now, that he is maturing and wanting to settle down. He is seeing the true priorities in life, I am so incredibly proud of him. The protective older sister still comes out and I want to make him do things, but its great to just talk to him.

So overall I am emotionally drained. Not necessarily a bad thing, but exhausted nonetheless. Talk to you soon!!!

Only a few more days!

Crazy stuff! So Lindsay got the waiver we were needing to be able to continue life as a Boom Operator. We are so grateful for that. But with that comes the deployment . He will be leaving on Monday for two months and should be home on Christmas Eve.....Hopefully, you never know with the military. I am not excited for him to be gone for that long, but this deployment will actually be good for our family. Lindsay will most likely re-enlist while he is over there for another 6 years and we are thinking that we would like the make a career out of the Air Force.

So this week, we have about a million things to do to get him ready and what not. So I feel like we are both running around with our heads cut off. But it will get done and all will go well. I tried to get my blog recently and a weird site came up, so if any trouble checking this out would you let me know, whether in the comments section or in an email? That would be great!
Have a wonderful Wednesday, and I will keep everyone updated on deployment stuff. Although I must admit, that most of the time not much happens on Lindsay's end, aside from the fact that he works his rear end off over there. So it may not be too exciting but regardless I wil let you all know.

Change of Seasons

So I am home alone on this friday afternoon. Lindsay is out at a shooting range with Alex ( His bestest bud and brother) and a new found hunting buddy from work. I have friday afternoons off and was going to run some errands but decided against them. I just finished getting the first copy of this years primary program written for our ward. A little late to just be starting but you know, that is just how it goes. I have been doing a lot of the major projects for primary lately this year, I am not complaining but it would be nice if someone took some of it off my hands. But it's all good.

So since I have been sitting here, I uploaded some pics that my dad sent me and was looking through old ones. I came across many pictures with my hair in all sorts of ways. It's been fun changing things. I like to outwardly show my personality so I have done so with my hair, let me see if I can show you some styles over the past few years!

Pretty crazy huh? Well I think I may be starting to get the hang of this blogging thing. We'll see where it takes us.

This week was so good but busy. Since being of medication I have felt in a much better mood and things are going well. We are hoping that Lindsay will be able to deploy in a little over a week even though it will be hard. But it's gorgeous outside lately. Everything is changing colors and all the yummy candle scents are coming out! Well I hope that you all have a great weekend!

Good Times

Well this past week was really good and I feel like I was rejuvenated to a point. Things have been busy at home trying to stay on top of chores and such. But this weekend we got to spend some time with Lindsay's sister Chelsea and her youngest daughter Azura. It was so nice to see them. I missed talking to her older Tori but hopefully soon we will see them again. Chelsea is such an inspiration to me. She is very knowledgable and leads a very healthy lifestyle and is always willing to share her knowledge. I loved sitting and talking with her about different things, oh the fun!

I love being around family, there is something so calming about it. Then this weekend also happened to be General Conference for our church so we went over to my parents house to watch it on the BYU channel. The talks were wonderful! It was great to hear adult talks, after being in primary so long it was nice to hear something aimed towards the adults. And on Sunday we also visited with Lindsay's uncle Kay.

All in all it was great, I feel alive right now. I also took myself off my medications early last week. I dont know how great of an idea it was, but I have been feeling much better lately. I figure I will keep this up until a specialist says I absolutely need them. They didn't seem to be doing much for me lately so I took the matter into my own hands.

Hope the weekend found you all in good spirits as well. Oh and welcome home Ryan! My brother is coming home from the middle east as we speak, I cant wait to see him at christmas. I am anxiously awaiting a phone call as well!