Christmas Trees w/ Friends!

This past Saturday I went with my friend Valerie and Karen to pick out a tree for Valerie and her parents......keep in mind it was snowing and in the 20's on Saturday! We had a lot of fun posing with her 9 foot tree.....Enjoy!


The ginourmous tree falling on me!
Karen, Val and I!
TREE FARM!

Our Tree!

The day ( and I do mean on the way home from the airport) we got back from Michigan Josh and I stopped by and picked up our christmas tree! We wanted to get it up and decorated b/c Josh had to leave that Monday and would not be able to help or see the tree if we didn't get it done.....b/c he also had duty on Sunday! Needless to say we got the tree and got it all decorated. The cats have been having the time of their life with it and are now no longer able to be out during the day when we are not home b/c they think that the decorations are their toys! Anyway......Josh ended up not leaving until Tuesday and had some boat pictures that he had to dress up in his blues for so I made him stand by the tree when he got home to take a christmas picture....I had jsut gotten back from working out so I was not in the picture! Sooo....as you have probably figured out Josh is gone! Kinda stinks but we don't have much longer to do this at least for a couple of years. Here a a few pics of our tree and Josh!

My Hot Submariner!
Living Room/ Tree!
close up!
The living Room/ Tree with the light on!

Thanksgiving!!!

I know it is a little late but Josh and I spent a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend in Michigan with his family. This was the first thanksgiving that i have spent away from home....so it was a little sad and some what of a different routine than what I am use to. We has such a great time with everyone. We got to stay at Jonathan(josh's brother) and Ashley(step sister)'s place...well I gues it is technically Ashley's and Jonathan lives that with her.....but anyway....we stayed there with Ashley, Jonathan, Banks, Louanne, Amanda, and Ben. It was so much fun to get to hang out with everyone and get to know all of them better. There was even more people there for the actual dinner. Louanne and I decorated the dinner table for Thanksgiving....which was a lot of fun and turned out really well......and Ashley, Amanda, Louanne and I did the cooking. The day after Thanksgiving Josh and I woke up really early to do some shopping. It has been a tradition of my mom and I to get up early for black Friday and going shopping....so Josh being the AMAZING husband that he is got up early with me so that even though I was not with my mom I was able to still go.....although I did call my mom and she was out at the same time I was so that was pretty cool. Anyways.....we had a wonderful Thanksgiving and look forward to the next time that we all get togehter again! Thank you Ashley for letting us all stay there and thank you Banks and Louanne for making it such a wonderful Thanksgiving! here are a few pictures of the week/weekend of Thanksgiving!




Our beautiful Dinner Table!!!!
Josh waiting patiently to eat!
All of us.....one big....happy Family!
The Dishmon Boys....aren't they cute!

The Orders are in.......

Josh and I finally found out where we will be next.....after Josh in done with his time on the USS Alexandria he will be going to the Naval PostGraduate School to get his MBA! This is exactly what he wanted so we are super excited! The next exciting part is the location.......we will be moving to MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA!!!!! Thats right....we will be moving from the East coast to the West coast! We know for sure that we are going but we do not know the exact date yet. We do know that it will be some time the middle of next year. He starts school in July so we could go as late as June or as early as the end of April! We could not be more excited! If anyone is looking for a place to go next summer......we will be in California and open to visitors! I think the best part about going is that Josh will NOT be on a submarine!!!! He will spend all his time going to school and hanging out with me!!! We will finally get a chance to be together with out it being broken up into a couple of months at a time! I have provided a couple of websites incase anyone is interested in learning more or reading about the school that Josh will be attending or the place that we will be living! Enjoy!

Here is a link to Monterey, California:
http://www.monterey.org/

Here is a link to the Naval Postgraduate School:
http://www.nps.edu/