....You make smile, Please stay for awhile........

It has seemed like forever and to Josh and I both this underway was by far the longest and hardest. Not in acutally length but it felt that way to us! The wait is over and he is safe at home with me now! Josh got back at the end of last week and we spent this weekend getting away to spend time alone together......despite every thing that tried to prevent us from going....from the massive wreck on I-95 that closed down the interstate...which by the way is pretty much the only way to get anywhere around here......and hurricane Noel deciding to attack us. With all that.....we had a great 24 hours of just "Us" time. We went up to a small town North West of Hartford and stayed the night in a hotel there and then spent the day saturday shopping and going to some wine tastings. It was nice to spend time together after having him away! Today we went to church and then went to Mystic to watch Eric(our neighbor) run in the Tarzan Race....it was 5.5 miles I believe...then we came home and did a lot of things around the house that needed to be done since Josh was gone. Now its back to work.....break for Thanksgiving....more work and then Josh is swimming again. P.S.....yes he will be gone for our 1 year anniversary.....! I guess it is better to have him here for Thanksgiving and Christmas than for our 1year....all though I would love to have him here for all three. Just so that everyone knows.......Josh and I can not discuss exact dates on when he comes and goes it is highly confidential and can not be discussed over the phone,email,internet sites, etc......I'm sorry but the dates and time frames that I have given on here are as much as are allowed. That is it for now.....GO COLTS BEAT THE PATRIOTS! GO COWBOYS BEAT THE EAGLES!!!!!! Christie you might as well accept it now.....the Cowboys ARE America's team and they ARE going to beat your Eagles tonight!

Pictures....Finally!

Here are the pictures that I said that I would post I believe in the last post that I wrote....there are pictures of the diaper cake and the real cake from Bonnie's baby shower. There is also a few fall pictures from my visit to Boston to see Ashley (who lives there) and Rachel(visiting from Tejas). Enjoy!

It FREEZING!!!!

Well...fall (to the people in the North)/winter( to me) has officially begun. The leaves have changed and are starting to fall off the trees which is kinda sad b/c Josh missed it all. He is still gone but will hopefully be home soon. I will be sure to let everyone know when he makes it safe back home to me!:) I've been trying to keep myself busy while he has been gone with work and my girlfriends. We had a baby shower for our friends Bonnie and Noel last weekend...they are having a baby boy at the end of November...Noel is on the boat with Josh. Last Saturday night after the shower I drove up to Boston to spend the day with the Tondu's and Rachel (college friend) who came to Boston to visit. It was good to see Rachel and Austin and Ashley of course....and to get to hang out in Boston while they Red Sox played and won the last two games against the Indians. GO SOX! Last weekend I also had a guy from church's fiance come and stay with me for the whole weekend. The rest of last week I spend working.....working out....sleeping....and going to bible study! This past Friday night we had a girls night out.....Rachel(friend from here), Christie(neighbor), and Becca(friend that I met through OCF bible study..her husband is in the navy and they just had their first baby boy-Noah).....the four of us went and had dinner at one of the two mexican restruants up here....Margarita's. After dinner we all went over to Rachel's house and hung out some more and watched a movie....Val and Karen met up with us over there....so that was a lot of fun. On Saturday it rained all day....so Rachel and I figured what better to do then go shopping at the outlet malls! So that is where her and I spent the day. I got Josh two shirts....and I hope that he either likes or doesn't notice and likes one of the sweaters that I got him....it was from the Gap....and it is Navy but has pink strips on it...not a lot but it is very cute....He however is NOT a pink wearing boy!!! Saturday night Christie, Rachel and I hung out at my apartment watching season 2 of Greys Anatomy. Christie left early because she has a husband....and Rachel and I stayed up until 2am b/c we wanted to finish season 2. Believe it or not we actually got up and made it to sunday school and big church this morning. After church I came home and cleaned and rearranged my bedroom....yes i know...again....but those that know me well enough shouldn't be the least bit surprised that i rearranged! I also switched out all my candles and other smell things in my apartment to fit the fall season! Now the apartment is ready to welcome Josh home to the new season! Wow...that was a long post. I have some pictures from Boston and the shower that I will post as soon as I get them off my camera. Enjoy til then!

What an AMAZING weekend!!!!

Well....this weekend turned out to be one of the best weekends! First Ashley(college friend who now leaves in Boston) came to visit on Thursday night with her new baby kitten Tonks...and they stayed the whole weekend. We had a lot of fun.....on Friday after I got off work we went and checked out 2 of Eastern Connecticuts Wineries, Jonathan Edwards and Stonington Vineyards. That evening one of the Navy wives was having a girls get together so we had fun hanging out there. To make Friday even more exciting.....JOSH CAME HOME FOR A SURPRISE VISIT....well actually they had to come back and fix some things so he was able to stay for the weekend....which was AMAZING! On Saturday we went to Mystic Village and did some shopping then had lunch with Rachel at Mystic Pizza. After lunch we went to 2 more wineries......then went out to Mohegan Sun to check out the casino. After the casino we headed back home and had a few more friends come over to hang out and watch the Red Soxs get crushed.....I didnt' really care one way or another....but I think Val cried herself to sleep. On Sunday we did a little shopping around Connecticut and then packed up and headed up to Providence to watch the Cowboys play the New England Patriots ! It was a lot of fun minus the fact that the cowboys sucked it up! All in all it was super fantastic weekend! I'll post some pictures later!