HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

I LOVE YOU JOSHUA!!!!

Just Thinking

I have been trying to keep myself busy lately.....it seems like every time Josh leaves(no he is not home yet....and no I can't tell you when he will be so don't ask).....it doesn't matter if it is shorter or longer than the last one.......it always feels like the LONGEST yet! I can't wait to have a few years off of having to say goodbye to him for weeks at a time. I don't really have much to say but decided to post something. I just got done working out with Christie....I have been working out everyday for 3 weeks straight now....which is good.....for me. I have bible study tonight with the Officers Christian Fellowship. We have it every Wednesday night....dinner, music and a bible study......I try to go every week :/ Rachel usually makes me ;) I got to thinking today about Josh and I moving to California and how exciting and sad it is going to be. Not to mention leaving my AMAZING friends here......I don't even want to begin to think about that....but having to find a new church and trying to get involved.....learning a completely different place/side of the US......finding new friends that are at least half as great as the ones I have here. I don't know....just thinking about having to start everything over.....can be exciting.....or not. If anyone knows of any good churches (Baptist preferably) in the Monterey area please let us know.....Another scary thing is that I have to drive w/ Josh from Connecticut to California!!!! Or should I say Josh has to put up with me all the way from Connecticut to California.......!!! Pray for him! It is going to be a long drive....but we will get to see a lot of places on our way and we plan on visiting some of our friends who are in between here and there!.....but did I mention that Josh no only has to deal with me....(just ask him about the the 1.5hr car ride out to my parent's land) but he also has to ride with our TWO cats! Not real sure how that is going to work out. Anyway.....that's all I got for now.....RANDOM....I know.

Pictures

Here are a few pictures of some of the fun we had over the christmas holiday in Texas.......

This first picture is of Josh on my parent's 4wheeler.....HE LOVED IT.....that doesn't even begin to describe it.....I think he would have spent everyday on that thing.....we only got to spend one day out at my parents land....but it was nice to be able to finally get to see it and see where they spend most of their time......Josh and I can't wait to be able to spend more time out there and ride on the 4wheelers some more......so daddy get the house done.....GEEZE!

This next picture is Josh on Christmas morning/his 28th birthday with one of his most favorite gifts....his Dallas Cowboys hat! He is so stinkin cute!

This picture is from my parents land too.....Josh and I climbed up into the deer blind that my uncle Joe put up so they could go hunting.....It was josh's first time in a deer blind and hopefully next time we go he will be able to go out hunting!



This is one of the many pictures that my uncle Billy took.....we gave a copy of this one to my grandparents.....its all of their grandchildren.....josh,me,josh,ashley,allie,sarah,lindsay and Justin.

This is a copy of one of the pictures that we took for my parents.....again....all their children!
I took advantage of Uncle Billy being there with his camera and had him take some pictures of Josh and I.....
This is a photo from Josh and his boat pulling in in December! Its so exciting to be there and see them pulling in.....I can't even explain it!
Well....thats it for now....as soon as I get some pictures from Ashley of when she visited this past week, I will post those!

It's been awhile....

Well....I know I know....it has been a long time since I have posted on here. Sorry for the delay and the absence of posts. Josh and I have both been really busy the past month. We had a wonderful christmas in Texas with my family.....spent lots of time hanging out....celebrating Josh's 28th birthday.....playing games.....playing Wii(guitar hero)......We enjoyed being there so much and actually miss Texas. Getting back to Connecticut was not near as bad as getting to Texas for me......although when we got back I got really sick for about a week...had to miss work(darn).....then lost my voice the next week due to the sickness the week before. Josh left to go out to sea not but a few days after we got back from Texas and he is still gone. However, he was able to go buy a big screen tv before he left w/ all the christmas and birthday money that the got. He has really been wanting one more than anything else and Best Buy had a sale on a 56" rear projection HDTV. I thought it was a little bit ridiculous at first....that is until we got it and the HD cable.....and now watching the football games(even though the Cowboys sucked it up and the dumb Patriots won) has been a lot of fun......oh and did I mention American Idol nights are AMAZING TOO! Thats right.....as most of you might know from last year..... Rachel and I watch American Idol together every Tuesday and Wednesday night and it started again last week. Now Rachel and I get to watch it on the BIG screen. Anyways.....Since Josh has been gone....I have been keeping my self extra busy! My sister came in town this past week and actually leaves tomorrow. We have been busy checking out New England. We spent the weekend in Boston with a good friend of mine from college-Ashley "Ray" Tondu and her husband Austin. That was a lot of fun....and of course like usual I fell on the ice and bruised my butt pretty bad...so it hurts to sit. Other than that....I have been working out a lot....and losing some much needed weight.....I am currently at a loss of 11.6lbs....and still going. I got motivated when I was home for christmas and my sister in law Lindsay(who most of you know just ran her first FULL marathon....which is amazing) asked me to run the nike women's half marathon in San Fransisco this coming October.....so I have begun my training for that........Other than that, I don't really know much...We don't have much time left here so I am trying to make the most of what I have left before we move across the United States to Sunny California. Josh got his official written orders finally and we should head out sometime at the beginning of June. He has to report to school on like the 30th of June so we are hoping for a full month to make the trip. Well....I guess that is pretty much all in a nut shell. I will try and post some pictures when I get a chance....my uncle took some pictures of Josh and I and of all now SIX of my parents kids....that we framed for them for Christmas.....plus some others......Thats all for now. Hope everyone is staying warm. Ashley and I are FREEZING up here.....I think she is ready to get back down to Texas were its warmer.