Well everyone it has been a very long time since I’ve posted and ALOT has happened since the last post which happened to be about me venting about hating the army for not allowing us to plan a wedding! Well guess what we got them back! We’re getting married in DECEMBER! Yeah thats right you read it we are getting married in 9 months! I’m so excited and have already gotten so much done! We decided to do this because we just could never tell when he would be home and when they would deploy him so we chose December 20th while he’s home on Christmas Exodus!

I have already booked the church, reception site, photographer, and catering. I have also ordered my dress which should be here on June 28th! I’m on the hunt for a bridesmaids dress that I like and our save the dates are being made as we speak, I’ve made cards for all my girls in the bridal party and mailed them off and should have their replies within a couple of days!  So basically all I can do for right now is done and all I have to do is wait till August to do other things!

I”m getting boudior pictures done for Jonathon for his wedding gift and I’m oober excited about these just gotta get tan and in shape first and find some cute things to wear! My photographer offered me this or a trash the dress session in exchange for engagemnet pictures which we cant have done obviously because he’s there and I”m here so our friend down there is going to take pictures for us when I go down there this summer!

In other news I’ve just been really busy with school and wedding stuff, my parents got a new puppy his name is Jake and he’s so cute! I’ll post a picture of him soon!

I’m going to make a wedding blog and will post the link on here when I have it set up! Any advice you married girls have for me would be great! Once again sorry I’ve been such a slacker!

See told yall I would have some downtime and here I am! I’m at work and have an hour left and I’m STARVIN LIKE MARVIN! So I thought I might write a blog to pass some time!

Shew girls I tell ya what I really HATE the Army right now! You cant plan for anything in advance with them! They originally told us that J would only be at Ft. Rucker until Feb. 09′ well guess what in the pure Army fashion they have changed it to sometime next year! They dont know how to schedule anything! J. didnt have to repeat a course that everyone including his roomate is having to do which is 3 weeks, you would think they would let J. go ahead and skip to his next 3 week course but NOOOOOO they are making him sit and wait and do funeral detail of all things! WTF?! I’m sorry but I have such deep respect for our military and veterans and such as, but dang it they should have let him go on and do his next class that is 3 weeks that he could be done with! But nope that 3 week class starts for him on April 15th, his last class ended March 1st! He’s been on hold basically a month and half what the crap!? Why cant they just put you straight through and get it over with? I mean if they think about it they would definately be saving themselves BOOKOOS of moola! He’s getting paid $4000 a month to sit there! Although I wont complain about that, it’s just the him sittin there doing nothing that makes me angry! He was sent down there to learn to fly not sit there! He’s plenty good at that here at home!

This is all stemming from my pent up frusteration that I cannot plan my wedding because I cant set a date until next year jeez everything will be gone by then, all the nice reception halls and photographers will be gone gone gone! So in my pursuit to snag some of the great ones early I’ve been contacting them by email and telling them the situation! This photographer I am in love with is VERY understanding! She said since she only does a certain number of weddings a year she would keep my date no matter when it was open for me! YAY! I may also go ahead and give her the $135 deposit just to keep her to that!

I went to visit with my mom’s family for easter weekend and got to tell them all about the engagement and I knew that if I sat with my aunt for awhile we’d have the entire wedding planned and guess what we did! We basically figured everything out! She’s going to make my cake and we’re all going to help out with the food, we’re going to have a pasta bar with spagetti, fetticini and then alfredo sauce, meatless and meat spagetti sauce then include chicken and shrimp for toppings! We will also possibly have bread and salad and cake will be the dessert! She thinks we can feed around 85 people with beverages (J has to have his beer or he wont be happy) for around $400! YAY aunt Judy saves the day!

I’m also going to make all my invitations, programs, and also make my jewlery and bridesmaids jewlery as a gift. I’m also going to since I have so much time apparently I’m going to make cards for everyone asking them to be in the bridal party (mostly just the girls the guys would look at me like I was crazy) so that will probably be my first project!

I have to go to David’s Bridal Saturday after I get off work to get fitted and order my dress for my best friend’s wedding so I’m gonna try on a few wedding dresses while I was there and if the one I’ve been eyeing turns out to look good on me (if no other dress I like better turns up) I’m probably just going to go ahead and buy it! So that will be exciting!

As I mentioned in the previous post I’m considering making a wedding blog to just tell about my process of achieving a wedding for UNDER $5000 (yeah wish me luck) as I know alot of brides want to keep their costs low so I thought I might be able to be some sort of inspiration and help? Is that a good idea?

Everyone has been asking me where I’m registered and well since I cant give them a date I havent registered yet but in place of full fledged registering I’ve started making wish lists on www.target.com and www.jcpenny.com so if anyone just feels the urge to go ahead and get me and engagement gift or something they can choose from something we want!

See now why I say I hate the Army? Look at all the fun I could be having right now if I had a date! I could actually find out a time to be able to have engagement pictures and all that fun stuff! But nope the Army has snatched that away for now! I’ll keep everyone updated and as soon as we set a date yall will be one of the first to know!

Whee only 30 minutes of work left and I can go home and eat!

Good lord have mercy girls I swear my teachers ALWAYS know when I have a big trip coming up! I have so much stuff to do this week before I leave on HOPEFULLY Saturday if I can get off work! Everyone cross your fingers my boss can pull something out of his sleeve!

Lets see I got my 12 essay (Luckily not 16 like last time!) exam done just a few minutes ago and it’s turned in, now I just have to wait on the grade I got a 105 out of 100 points possible last time, so hopefully I do just the same this time! I have a perfect grade in that class right now! YAY ME!

I have to finish my 50 question communications midterm and decide on a topic for my informative speech, by the way what person in his right mind gives an exam over speeches!? Owell hopefully I’ll be able to pull my grade up in there because well it’s not as good as the other.

I have 2 chapters of study guides to do for my anatomy test on thursday and probably have things to do for the lab on Tuesday. Ugg this list is getting longer!

I have to get my FAFSA for financial aid done before I leave and gotta get a package returned tomorrow and hopefully my roomate’s boyfriend can fix my cigarette lighter so I can use my GPS (or else I’ll never get to AL without it I dont trust Mapquest to save my life!)

On a sadder note J. is getting sick, which makes me sad, he’s doing so well with classes though and he’s supposed to go to his “dunker” class tomorrow but if he’s sick he wont be able to do it because of the pressure it could mess him up pretty bad, so they’ll probably push that back and which will delay his last class before “contact” with the “little bird”

OH OH and to answer your question Megan, he’s not “commissioned” yet, he’s a Warrant Officer which is still an officer which take their orders from the El Presidente’ and all that jazz but they get “commissioned” once they reach Cheif Warrant Officer 2 which he should get by the time he comes home from flight school, in the next year or so! I hope that answers your question! I’m not real sure about it exactly maybe I’ll make him explain it to me again while I’m down there! Oh I got so excited though the other day I was on the phone with him when he was going through the gate and the woman who let him though said “goodmorning officer how are you today” I got so excited and giggly because that was the first time I’d ever heard anyone call him officer! LOL ok I’m definately rambling! I’ll stop now!

As you can see I’ll be pretty busy all week with school and work but I’ll keep writing leading up to my trip! Everyone keep your fingers crossed I get Saturday off!

Well after a long hiatus, I am back! J. has left again and I’m getting back into the swing of things without him again and just counting down the days until I can go down there for spring break! Only 18 days!

 I had a wonderful time in Alabama and people I tell ya the weather is wonderful down there! I was walking around in spring dresses and flip flops in February! I came back to tornados 70mph winds and our house almost blowing away! Talk about wanting to turn around and go back to Alabama! Where today for example it is 70 degrees and sunny as it has been for the past 2 days other than their horrible storms that hit on Sunday! Luckily the honey’s house is still standing so he had a place to call home when he got back!

He’s currently just sittin around waiting to go to his next school and we’re crossing our fingers that everything goes smoothly and he can make it back by May of 2009! So everyone pray for that!

In other news I hope everyone had a great Valentine’s day and everyone’s respective signifcant other’s treated them wonderfully! I definately got top notch treatment! I had school that day so he took me out to eat at our favorite chinese resturant and bought me the ring set I wanted! (you can see the sets in a previous post, I decided on the square one) The catch is that I will never know when he’s going to propose! He kids me saying it’s going to be years, but it wont he’s not that mean! Or is he……..nah! But the rings should be here by the end of the week and I”m going to take them to get them sized & give the engagement ring to him while I’m down there spring break, and leave my wedding band at home for safe keeping! I’ll be sure to take a picture of the set when they arrive! EEP I’m so excited!

We had a great two weeks together and it was time well spent! But as the story goes the time flew by way too fast and I blinked and was saying goodbye to him again! As much as it pains me to do so, I was optimistic that we would see eachother again soon and this will all be over in time! Afterall, nothing lasts forever right?

For valentine’s day I made a delicious dinner! It was lemon chicken with brocolli on rice! It was great! I was very proud of myself! This gives me hope that I can cook more things within the coming months to sharpen my cooking skills!

&& If you havent looked already go check out my project 365 I need to put day’s 12-19 on there and I’ll do that tonight when I get home!

I’ll also post some pictures of the ceremonies tonight!

Well I’m happy to say that I will be leaving tomorrow morning at 5am to head to Alabama with J.’s mom! It is going to be a long drive (10 hours) but it will be worth it to get to see the love of my life after 6 long weeks!

As you could have guessed I will not be writing much until probably the 17th because he gets to stay home that long. So I’ll be spending all the time I can with him! So sorry for the lack of readage but I’m sure that you guys understand! But I will come back with lots of pictures from the ceremonies and our couple of weeks together and for my project 365 which if you havent checked it out you definately should!

I thought I might post a couple of pictures of each dress I’ll be wearing for the festivities in the coming week!

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The blue one I’ll be wearing for the reception the night before the graduation and the black one for the actual graduation! I’m so excited!

I’ll try and keep up with the reading and commenting of everyone’s blogs!

Everyone wish me luck that when I return to the blogosphere that I’ll have news to tell you all that I’m engaged!

Big news folks! My new camera is in my hands! I’ve been playing around with it trying to figure out all it’s little doo-dads and still havent figured out all of them yet! I will be posting some pictures & possibly a video that will be password protected (so if you want the password leave me some lovin & you can see it) the video will most likely be of my house!

In other news….I got to talk to J tonight I was so happy! I’m so proud of him I tell you what! No words can describe it! It was only for 20 minutes but you know what that 20 minutes made my entire week to come! I thought his emails were great oh no! Phone calls are the best! I seriously almost forgot what he sounded like….I hope none of you girls never know what that is like! It’s really depressing! When he came home for Christmas I almost didnt recognize him his face was so skinny from not being able to eat properly (once again STUPID Army although I love you!) He told me he did well on his test he got a 95% which is really good! He is also the “head-honcho” of his class right now so he gets to tell them all what to do! LOL I got excited and he told me “it’s a pain in the ass really”. Well all in all I really dont care he could have told me the sky was purple and the grass is pink and I’d still listen to him!

OH and can someone help me? I would really like to add some music to this thing and I cant figure it out! The little player they have available doesnt have crap! If anyone knows that would be super awesome!

I hope everyone is having a great weekend! I sure know I am!