Week 6!!!

We are 6 weeks down! And officially 1 week away from seeing our soldier again! Today is also the 9 year anniversary of me & Dick's relationship. I can NOT believe that it has already been 9 years! Its been fun. Hard but fun. I wouldn't change it for the world. Looking back today I would have NEVER imagined that we would be where we are.

It is so hard to believe that we are already 6 weeks into this thing. The days have just been FLYING by!

This week has been by far the CRAZIEST week since Dick left. And what do you know? I have NO pictures from this week. I know I'm a failure. But I have a good excuse! This week Dick and I decided to move! We are going to be moving into his mom's rent house. Hopefully we will have it bought within 6 months! So like I said GOOD excuse. Anyone that has moved knows how time consuming that is. And if you have ever moved with your husband deployed. Well props to you! Its tough work. Plus with buying the house we are trying to get help from the Cherokees since Dick is a Wagon Burner. (I say that with much love.) So that means constantly playing phone tag with them and trying to jump through all their hoops.

This week Harley was also sick. Mostly just a low grade fever and sore throat. He threw up once but even that wasn't much. Very weird. Just glad it passed quickly. BUT that meant missing his Christmas program that he has been working so hard on for weeks. We were all completely bummed out by it.

This week I didn't get a care package out to Dick like I wanted either. Like I said... Failure. I will be making it tonight and sending it tomorrow tho. So he'll have it soon. But what I'm putting in it takes FOREVER so I just haven't been looking forward to making them. It will be well worth it tho. As always I'll be making a post about his care package and it will be included in next weeks blog.

I HAVE packed 35 boxes this week. So that's something to feel good about I guess. LoL. I REALLY wanna be completely packed and ready to go at least by the night before. Hopefully sooner. I'm hoping this move goes as smooth as possible. Next week is gonna be CRAZY busy. I am gonna try my best to blog next Friday like I do EVERY Friday but not sure what time I am gonna head out to see the hubs. I am BEYOND stoked so if I leave earlier then I'll just catch up on the blogging when I return! And I'm sure that will be one LONG and eventful post since it will include a road trip, Christmas & Time with all 3 of my guys!!!

As always I hope everyone had a great week! Stay safe during this holiday craziness!

Week 5!

We are five weeks into this deployment now. Things are still going by pretty quickly. This was actually a pretty busy week!!! We started our advent calendar and have been busy with activities all week long!

This we I:

• Went to Winter Wonderland @ the boys school. It was a lot of fun! We decorated paper snowmen and Christmas trees, had cookies and hot chocolate and watched Frosty the Snowman! It was for Harley's grade so all of his friends were there. It was a lot of fun watching him interact with his friends from school. He was a bit rowdier than I would have liked but most of the kids were so I let it be.
• Went to the drive in! It was the last showing of the season so we loaded up the boys in mom's suburban and went! We watched Breaking Dawn pt 2 and Wreck it Ralph. I love BD2 obviously since we went to the premiere but I also thought Wreck It Ralph was super cute. The boys like it too. Just wish they would have played it first!
• Read Snowmen at Night with the boys. It was Nathan's pick. SUPER cute book. And we all know I love me some Schneemann!!!
• Watched Naughty or Nice with my boys. Harley's pick on his choice of movie night. I recorded it off Hallmark Channel. A really cute movie. Good story that's not boring for adults but fun enough to keep the boys entertained.
• Made Dick's 3rd Care Package. Still no word on if he's gotten it yet. I'm kinda nervous since he's a scrooge. :)
• Took the boys to the dentist. Not as great of a report as I would have liked but not horrible either. But the dentist pissed me off. I think I may request a diff one next time.

Our elf has still been visiting us each day. :) But I have been as good about taking pics of him this week. But he brought the boys some coloring books. They were really excited about that. Hes also hung out in the kisses for Daddy jar, went for a walk on my treadmill, camped out in the tree, and looked through the advent calendar. The boys LOVE having the Elf. So if it makes them happy it makes me happy. I'm just glad I haven't forgotten to move him yet.
I have been doing okay on my workouts this week. I started a Holiday Squat-a-thon and have done it everyday. Plus been doing the treadmill and my daily workouts so I'm pretty pleased with it. But I didn't weigh in today like I usually do. Last night was a rough night. :/ I'm just gonna keep at it this week and see what I'm at next week. :)

That's about all that is new in our life. Its been a pretty busy week and is gonna be busy til Christmas at least. But that's okay. I get to see my husband this month and I could not be happier!
And as always, some pictures from our week. :

 

 

Care Package #3: Christmas

Well today I spent the day making my advent calendar and working on Dick's 3rd package. I bought WAY too much stuff for this package so it has turned in to AT LEAST 2 packages. Ill send the first one out tomorrow and then the next one or two out on Friday or next Monday. I had a lot of fun making this package tho. But I was TOTALLY BUMMED I ran out of my tape runner. So gonna have to buy more of that before I make his next package. I got the double sided tape to work better this time but it was still a pain in my ass.

Anyways in this package I included:

• Cake Balls (43) I made 50, me and the boys each had one & I had 4 that wouldn't fit so the boys got those too. :)
• A dozen Cookies
• A bag of Hershey's Hugs & Kisses
• A box of Peppermint Candy Canes
• A big candy cane filled with Reese's
• Santa Brownies
• Peppermint Muddy Buddies Chex Mix
• Some drawings Harley made
• Christmas Card from the boys
• Christmas card from me
• Letter from me as usual
• Christmas Tic Tacs
• Snowman Pez Dispenser
• Swedish Fish
• A Chocolate Snowflake

Like I said I still have at least a box worth probably more. Oh well. if this stuff even shows him an ounce of how much I love him then it is well worth it. And I know he won't be able to eat it all but it's Christmas. Its the season for giving. And sharing. :)

And this doesn't even include the baked goods. Lol. My hubby is DEFINITELY spoiled. :)

ONE MONTH DOWN!!!

Only 11 More to go! Its so hard to believe that we are already a month into this deployment. It seems like just yesterday we were saying goodbye at the airport. :( But we have gotten through our first month of this & we get to see him this month! So that makes it all the better. We have been looking forward to December since he left & its FINALLY here! We are already over halfway to seeing him again and I can not freaking wait! The boys still don't know about it. We have decided to surprise them. I think it will be a GREAT surprise & they will be stoked. They were even excited with the surprise when we picked him up in Missouri and he had only been gone 3 weeks and they even knew he was coming home that weekend.

I haven't been doing great on my goals so far. I have been averaging a care package every OTHER week instead of every week. I just feel like with him not having much room to store stuff at the moment that every week is too much. I dunno. But the Christmas care packages will definitely make up for that!I know I am going to have at least 2 boxes of goodies to send. I'm thinkin of spreading em out at least a few days. Maybe a week. I dunno but he's gettin a LOT. Definitely enough to share which I am sure he'll do. I really don't think he's gonna want to eat 24 candy canes. LoL. Oh well. He has never complained about what I sent before so hopefully he'll enjoy. And my weight loss hasn't been going GREAT either. I've lost 3 lbs in the last 3 weeks tho so I guess its better than nothing. I got a treadmill from his mom that she wasn't using so that helps a lot. I've used it almost every day since I got it. :)

I'm really hoping the next months fly by as quickly as the last one did. All with the exception of when we get to see him. Then I'm hoping time just stands still. That would be nice. But if R&R told us anything last deployment, time will just speed up. But that's okay. We will enjoy the time we have. :) I hope everyone had a great November and has a wonderful December and a Merry Christmas!!!