My first time hosting a party...

I'm so excited! Tomorrow I'm hosting a New Years Party! My very first one. I've invited a bunch of military wives and there husbands over to play some games, hang out and just have a good time. I'm a little nervous since this is my first time, I just want to make sure I keep everyone entertained! lol
We'll probably play some wii, oooo I never mentioned that we got a WII for Christmas from my parents! I love it, so much fun! Then when we got home we bought a wii fit plus, even better! =] It's so addicting and fun but also a great work out! If you don't have one I highly recommend it!
So, let me tell you about my Christmas! Jeremy had 6 days off of work so we drove down to Southern CA to visit our families. We spent Christmas eve day with my grandparents and that night we went to Jeremy's parents, it was a lot of fun. We got Jeremy's little brother a Nerf gun, he loved it! And we got our niece Melanie two barbies. Then Christmas day we spent with my parents, brother and his girlfriend/my best friend Kelly. We got my mom and dad a digital picture frame, they really liked it. :-)
Saturday Jeremy went shooting with his dad, uncle and grandpa so I had a girls day and got my toes done with my mom and Kelly..ahhh it was so nice! Much needed! :-)
I totally feel like I'm writing in a diary right now. Haha!
Anyway, Sunday we went to my parents church and then to the movies to see Avatar (weird movie but really good) and then headed home on our 6 hour drive. Jeremy had Monday off so we took down Christmas decorations, played some wii and relaxed. We had a great 6 days!
Hope you all enjoyed your Christmas as well!

Visit to my sisters

Today we drove an hour up to Rocklin to visit my sister and family. We haven't been up that way in about a month so it was nice to see them again. I really missed my niece and nephews. We spent the day there and went to Origin which is a church my brother in-law started there.
Here are a few pictures from our day.

We bought the two older kids Coco-nutty monkey play doh for Christmas.

Kian liked it too.

Brody and Kian wrestling on the floor.

Brody was giving Kian a back massage. Lol

Kian liked wearing uncle Jeremy's shoes. Look at that cute little smile!


It was a lot of fun! Can't wait to go down to Southern CA on Tuesday night to see my parents, Jeremy's parents, sister and niece and little brother. =]

So sad....

I haven't written on here in almost 3 months...so sad. I really want to start blogging more but I have a hard time with words. Lol.

So, let me update everyone...
Jeremy graduated tech school on October 1st, then we left Mississippi and headed to Arizona where we stayed with my sister for a week, then we continued on our journey to Southern CA where we visited our parents for a week. We then headed to our first base, Travis AFB in Northern CA.

We stayed in TLF (temporary living facility) for ten days and then moved in to our apartment. We've been here for about 2 months now and love it! It's so nice to have all of our furniture and things back, and our cat. We really missed Oreo since he's been living with Jeremy's family for the past year.

A few weeks ago I joined the TESC (Travis Enlisted Spouse Club). It's a great way to get involved on base, volunteer and meet new girl friends. I've met so many since I've been here it's been so awesome, since I'm currently not working it's been really nice having friends to hang out with while Jeremy is at work.

2 weeks ago was the TESC Jingle Mingle, it was a lot of fun and the first time I met all of those girls. A lot of the other friends I've met here have been on Facebook.
Also one of my good friends is Kelsey, her husband works with Jeremy. It's nice knowing another wife who's husband works with him so we can talk about there job a little easier...even though most of it we don't understand. Lol



Anyway that's a pretty quick update on us!
Jeremy has six days off for Christmas so we will be heading down to So Cal. I haven't seen my parents in two months so it will be nice to spend sometime with them again. =]
I can't believe it's almost Christmas already!! This year has just flown by with Jeremy joining the AF and all the moving around we've been doing...it's been very eventful to say the least.
So, I've decided to do a little survey, I got it off one of my friends blogs and thought it'd be fun to do. :-)

1. How long have you been a military wife? It will be a year in March.

2. What branch of service is your husband? Air Force

3. Active/Reserve? Active

4. What is his job? Air Traffic Control ("He controls the skies," as he says)

5. How many deployments have you gone through? None yet!

6. ACU's or Class A's on your man? AF is ABU's and Blues....I like him in ABU's best. =]

7. What do you like about being a military wife? I love all the friendships you make, and the traveling you get to do.

8. Do you live on base? No, but we live in the same city.

9. What is your favorite base so far? This base is my favorite. So nice!

10. What's the hardest part of the military life? Deployments.

11. Do you go to the grocery store or commissary? Commissary most of the time, saves so much money, but if we need a few things we'll run to the grocery store.

12. Do you work or stay at home? stay at home for now but will be looking for a job after the Holidays.

13. Do you have a lot of military wife friends? Yep, tons!! =]

14. Do you prefer Walmart or the PX/BX/MCX/NEX? I like them both.

15. How did your husband propose? At Manhattan Beach.

16. Did you marry him after he joined or before? a year and a half before.

17. How long have you been together? since October 04`

18. Any kids yet? No.

19. Any kids yet to come? Hopefully soon. =]

20. Is your husband one of those "I am a soldier hear me HOOAH" kind of guys? Yep! Even though he's an Airman and they say "Airpower" lol

21. Have you ever done combatives with your husband? Not sure what that is.

22. How many bases have you lived at? Well this is our first base but I lived near Keesler AFB when he was at Tech School there....so I guess 2

23. If you could change one thing about the military? no deployments!

24. Do you like military balls? I haven't been to one yet but can't wait to go.

25. Where does your family live? So. CA

26. What do you do for a job? SAHW

27. Have you ever gotten in a fight with an NCO's wife? nope

28. Name one thing you do when your husband is gone? talk to my AFW friends on Facebook!

29. Do you think other wives do that too? Yep!!

Only 5 more days...

Well we are down to just a little over 5 days left until we leave Mississippi! Everything is packed up and ready to go. I can't wait to get out of here, I will miss my friends but definitely not this state. I can definitely tell you I am a West Coast girl! I'm so happy to be going home. =]

Also Jeremy is now officially an Airman 1st class!! He sewed on his two stripes today and we get a small raise! I am so proud of him, I never in a million years thought he would be in the United States Air Force but I'm so glad he decided to join. I know it will be a hard life but he's doing this for us.

Tonight we are going out with some friends to enjoy our last weekend here. We're going to The Shed for dinner and laser bowling afterward. I'm going to take pictures tomorrow and hopefully post them tomorrow.

What's goin on...

Well my 21st Birthday was on Monday! Woo hoo! I had a great day with Jeremy, we went to lunch at Applebees. I had my first alcoholic drink..a strawberry daiquiri..yum! I'm so glad he got to spend the day with me since it was Labor Day and he had the day off. =]
I talked to the housing office at Travis AFB and they said the wait for a house is 6 months to a year. So, I'm a little bummed about that but I'm going to stay positive and were going to find a great place off base for the time being and then eventually live on base. I'm really excited to get back to the west coast, I never thought I would miss it so much until I was all the way over here in the South. I'm so thankful that we got Travis AFB, California. I'm so excited that I'll be able to watch my niece and nephews grow up. Even if we only get to stay there for a few years, it's better than none!
Well I don't have much to write because life is pretty boring right now. I'm ready to get to our base and settle down again as soon as that happens I should have more to write.

Leave some love!! ;)

It's been forever!!!

I haven't written in here since June, I figured it was time. =]
So, Jeremy and I just found out yesterday we are getting stationed at Travis AFB in Northern California. Right in the middle of San Francisco and Sacramento. I'm so excited! This base was number 1 on our wish list. It's only an hour away from my sister and her family and my brother Greg and his girlfriend/my best friend Kelly.
Jeremy graduates from Tech School on Oct. 1st and we will be leaving Mississippi on the 2nd. We're heading back to Southern California for a week or two to spend time with our family's before we go to our base.




Anyway, this weekend is Labor Day weekend and we are going to Atlanta, Georgia to see a Braves game. We are going from Friday-Sunday and then Monday is my 21st birthday. Yay! I'm super excited. I'm not sure what I'm going to do for my b-day but I'll probably go out with some friend the following weekend. :)

Well, I'll try and update this more often. =]

Update on Jeremy...

So, I thought I would just give a little update on Jeremy. He is at Tech School right now in Mississippi. He has been there for a month now and he's loving it. He is in classes right now for Air Traffic Control, he's really enjoying it the classes. There are 5 blocks during tech school, the first few blocks are about 8 days or so and then they get longer. In each block they learn something different. Jeremy just finished block one, he got a 92% on his test. I'm very proud of him. He is trying to go for Honor Grad just like he got at Basic Training. He's very smart so I know he can do whatever he puts his mind too.
Yesterday he started block two. They also have phases while they are there. There are 3 phases. Phase one they have to stay in uniform at all times outside of their dorm room, they can't leave base and they have a curfew of 10:00pm on weekends. Phase 2 they can wear civilian clothes, leave the base only in uniform and have a curfew of 12:00pm on weekends. And phase 3 they can wear civilian clothes, go off base in civilian clothes and stay in a hotel or apartment. So, right now Jeremy is in phase 2 which he will be finishing up and going to phase 3 next Monday, which is perfect because I'm moving to Mississippi next Wednesday and I will be driving 3 days with my parents and getting there on Friday and Jeremy will be able to stay the weekend at my apartment. Yay! I'm super excited!!
If everything goes smoothly with his classes and he doesn't have any breaks in between blocks then his expected graduation date is Sept. 3rd and he will be able to go home on the following Monday Sept. 7th which is my 21st birthday. What a great birthday present! =]
We still don't know where we will be stationed yet. Hopefully in the next few weeks we will find out. I'm very excited!

One of those Monday's...

Today was just one of those Monday's. Not a whole lot going on, kind of a lazy day. This morning I went in the pool with my nieces and nephews, 2 sisters and brother in-law. It was a lot of fun, but the rest of the day was pretty boring. I've been packing up my stuff to move next week...I'm ready to go now!! I wish the time would go quicker...but when you're really excited about something it seems to go slow.

Anyway, I hope everyone had a great Monday!! =]

Family Picnic!!

Today was our family/friend picnic. It was tons of fun!! But of course, like I said in my last post it was missing one thing...Jeremy! It was definitely hard not having him there, especially when his family came...I know how much he wanted to be there, so I took pics with my phone and sent them to him...but I think that might have made it worse. :(

When we first got to the park to set up, it was looking pretty gloomy and it was windy and cold. About a half an hour later it started pouring down rain! What a great day for a picnic. Lol. We all huddled under the canopy until it stopped. Luckily it only poured for about 5 minutes and then passed and the sun came out...and dried up all the rain...and the itsy bitsy...oh sorry! Hehe.

We all kept praying that God would give us a beautiful day and he definitely did that for us. We had somewhere around 40-50 people there. It was awesome! We had tons of food and games. There was a big volley ball game going and ladder golf...have you ever heard of ladder golf? It's actually pretty fun!

I was playing with the kids most of the time...that's my favorite thing to do, especially the twins...who are 9 months old yesterday! yay! Such big boys! :) There birthday is just two days before mine...I feel so special.
I took lots of happy baby pictures!





Oh, and we also had an egg toss...that was pretty fun. My 3 year old nephew Landon was my partner the first game. He's pretty good! He kept dropping it and it never broke! Oh...it was hard boiled? Aww.... :)


Then I was partners with my brother in-law Mark, he kept telling me to throw it high and give it an arch...that's what I did and as soon as it hit his hand...splat!!

Not my fault Mark, you told me to throw it like that!! :)

So, the day was full of lots of fun, games, food and giggles! Oh and a little bit of a wrestling match...



Thanks God for the beautiful day!! :)

My first blog...

Well this is my first blog. I think my life is somewhat boring right now but Shannon thinks "I'm just so totally cool" :) So, thanks Shannon! I appreciate it.

It might take me a little while to get used to this thing so I apologize!

I'm really excited about moving to Mississippi!! Can you believe it? I never thought in a million years I would be living there, but it should be fun...and the best part is...I get to be with the most amazing person alive...My hubby! yay!! It's been three months since I've gotten to live with him. Man, it feels like a lifetime. I'm so glad we decided to do this.
And in just a short week since we decided this, everything is done! We have our apartment ready for us when I get there! Woo! And something that's even more fantastic is my friend Laura is living there too. She lives in the apartment on the floor right below me...yay!. I was worried about living somewhere completely new on my own, so it will be nice to have another Air Force wife with me. I can't believe I'm leaving in just 12 days, that is so soon! I'm so happy all my family is here these next two weeks. Both my sister's and their families and my brother all came down to visit...perfect timing!! I get one last big hooray with everyone before I leave. :)
But man has this house been crazy! We have 6 kids here in my parents house and they are all under the age of 5! It's a mad house...I feel like I'm back teaching at the preschool. Lol
But I love it and I wouldn't change it for anything. It is so much fun.
As soon as I figure our how to post pictures...I will totally do that. He-he.
Tomorrow is our huge family/friend picnic at the park....that should be fun! I still can't believe that Jeremy and I started this annual picnic 5 years ago. When we were only dating for 6 months we really wanted our families to meet so we had everyone meet at the park for a picnic and we have just been keeping it going every year since, and it keeps growing! But the only thing missing this year...is Jeremy! :( I know he so wishes he could be there with us and so do we. So, I will be taking TONS of pictures for him.
Well I'm getting pretty tired, I feel like I'm writing in a diary. Lol. So, there's a little bit about what's been going on with me lately. I will blog how the picnic goes tomorrow! =]