Wow

I can not believe that it has already been 2 weeks since Matt left. I thought that the past two weeks would crawl by but they have not. This Saturday morning, I will be on a plane to Arizona to spend 2 weeks. I am so excited to go back home to AZ. I also found out that on top of my friend Kimberly from here is going to PHX for Christmas, one of my students is as well. I plan on having lunch with both of them sometime while we are there together. I am really excited for 2 weeks off and just doing nothing and hanging out with my family. So, for those of you that I will see in AZ, see ya really soon, and for those of you that I will not see, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Hummm...

So I might be one year older but I am not too sure about the whole wiser part. But you never know. :)

Be Safe

This one is for Matt:

May you be safe and sound as you are in a very dangerous place.

May you think of me often.

May you do your job well.

May you learn more about yourself and what you can do.

May you know of the love that our friends and family have for you.

May you remember that our Heavenly Father is watching out for you.

May you hear all the prayers that are being said for you.

May you know that Archer and I are being taken care of.

May you know of how much I love you and wish you were here.

Please be safe my love.

B.

*Matt left last night for his civilian deployment to Afghanistan for his 4 month deployment. Please pray for his safe return unharmed and better than he left. Thank you for all of your support and may the Lord be with you this Holiday Season and bless your family as much as He has blessed mine!*

**I just got my one call from Matt. He has arrived safely in Qatar. He will be catching his next flight to his final location on the 4th. He basicly is getting 2 days of "free days" where he doesn't have to do anything, cause he really can't. So he has already been hitting the gym there and meeting some other co-workers.**

Thanksgiving Week

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

Just wanted to give a little update on how our Thanksgiving has gone thus far. Wednesday Matt took the day off so that we could do some field hands on weapon training. Yep that's right, we now own hand guns. Weird huh. Well Matt wanted me to have training on the proper way to use a gun and also to learn self defense training with the gun. We had so much fun. It was just the 2 of us for this class. It was just a ton of fun. Here are some pix of our target. Mine is the one with the most holes in the center part,which is really really good, and the teacher was really impressed since this was my second time shooting a hand gun. Matt was really proud too, but I got to take my time shooting.

Thursday, beautiful Thursday. It was just the 2 of us. Elizabeth was on her way to drive up here on Wednesday and she got stuck in traffic for hours and was barely out of Birmingham when traffic finally got better but it was already 5 in the afternoon and it was not worth the risk for her to drive out here and get in at like 3 am so we scrapped the weekend. So Matt and I celebrated Thanksgiving by driving 40 minutes to Boston Market and pick up food and bring it back home and eat it. Yummo. It was really good. I made my famous streussel topped pumpkin pie which turned out the best I have ever made it and Matt loved it. He actually only has 2 slices left and has been eating it non stop. Here is a pix of it.

Today, Friday we woke up at 3:30am and left at 4:20 am to go to Bed Bath and Beyond to hit the amazing sale and get some items that they only have like 2 of. Bed Bath and Beyond was supposed to open at 6am but when we got there the store decided to open early at 5. I got everything that was on the list, including my new bedding set, yea!!! When Matt is leaving I will be painting the house so I got a head start on decorating. It looks amazing and I am excited for the whole project to be done with. I'll post some pix later with our room, probably when it is painted cause the curtains get lost in the wall cause they are currently the same color.

Tomorrow, Matt and I are going to see Twilight together. Yeppers I actually convinced him to see it with me so we will see what he says about it. I think he is secretly curious about the movie and really wants to go but will never admit it.

Sunday is our Primary's Sacrament program, and I am the chorister so wish our primary luck! We hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Matt is leaving Monday night so remember to keep him in your prayers!

We miss and love everyone. Happy Thanksgiving!

TWILIGHT IS HERE, FINALLY

It has only been a few months from when my major OCD over Twilight started, I don't even what to think what is could have been like if I read the books when they first came out a few years ago, anyhew well the movie is finally out. So even if you haven't read the books GO SEE THE MOVIE, why because then you will want to read the books and the books are just amazing. Even Matt tried to pack my hard copy of Twilight to go with him to the Middle East. I quickly told him no and that I would buy him a paperback copy, smaller and I don't want my book to be ruined. Hope you enjoy the movie!

GO SEE THE MOVIE THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!

Unreal. A Sign Of The Times

I was deeply saddened by the following news pertaining to the proposition 8 that was passed in CA on Nov 4 to make the CA Constitution define marriage between male and female. On Nov 13th the LA Temple was the center of a rally against the LDS church because of its involvement of endorsing the proposition. Interesting thing is that 52% of people in CA voted yes for prop to define it as marriage between a man and woman, and only a small amount of people in that 52% were LDS. Anyhew there are articles all over the place but I feel that it has more impact when you can see what happened. So here is a link to a youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxagcNFyHyc

People CAN Change...

My goodness it really can be done, people can change especially me. Today Matt and I got to spend the day together so we made a day trip to DC to pick up some supplies for his deployment for next month. Matt had me drive because he is just tired of driving all the time and he will be driving to North Carolina this Wednesday night and will be there for a few days. So we drove up through Fredericksburg and then hopped onto the 95 to go north to round out to the 495. Anyhew for those of you who don't know the people who drive on the 95 are very aggressive people, and if you are not going at least 80 mph they will run you down.

WAIT! STOP! HOLD THE TYPING! Some of you are probably saying. Most of you know my driving habits and know that I am a major lead foot driver. With my 3 speeding tickets and have been known to go 100+ from the drive from Flagstaff down to Phoenix. Yes I know I am bad, but since moving to slow-ville VA where the cops will give you a ticket for going 10 over your driving habits kind of change. I usually do not go faster than 72mph on the freeway here because I am so scared to get a ticket, which the law here is not a lenient as it is in AZ. So driving on the 95 today freaked me out because I was going over 72 mph. I was very skiddish about it. Remember the screaming Dion from Clueless as she accidental went on a LA freeway when she was practicing driving, that was pretty much me. SO I have officially realized that I can change especially my driving habits.