Our very own piece of the beach

We are finally pretty much settled into our new home, it is an adorable 2 bedroom, 1 bath house with all hardwood floors and a fireplace, which we used for the first time the other night! Every thing about this place is so fun, its an older home and has a lot of character to it, plus our views are incredible! Out our front windows you can see Mt Baker, which is where we go skiing, The Cascade mountain range, and Mt Rainier! Probably the best part though is that the beach is just a short walk away! Chance and Duke have settled in nicely, Chance enjoys watching the world go by, while Duke has claimed the area in front of our house as his very own playground! It is very peaceful where we live as we only have 8 houses on our block and the closest neighborhood to us is a good walk away. The Navy Lodge is just off to the side by us and is only a short walk across a field, so any visitors can enjoy a stay there or in our guest room! Things are starting to fall more into a routine now and its amazing getting to be together. What a difference it makes when you aren't looking forward to another deployment, we are so very thankful that we get our well deserved break and get to enjoy each others company for a change! Thank you to all who helped us get through all the separation, its definitely been worth the wait!

Duke's Playground
Dining area looking into kitchen
Living room from the front door
Kitchen and off to the right is our laundry room

Our Bedroom

Hallway looking into bathroom
Kind of our project room (spare bedroom)

New Art!

Just added a set of indie ink drawings that I finished finally.

Have a look! More to come in the next month!

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On the last leg!

Haven't been on here to update since christmas and figured it's bout time I do an update! We are officially past the half way point of the deployment, after one extension already, so it's time to start gearing up for Troy to come home! FINALLY! And this time he should be home for a little while, as in longer than a few months!!! I'm looking forward to that for sure! We plan on taking our honeymoon (only 2 years late) when he gets home. A wonderful cruise to Baja, Mexico is just what the doctor ordered if you ask me!

I am currently in Boise coaching softball at my old high school, it's been a lot of fun to get to see the game from this perspective. You actually learn a ton! The girls on the team have been a lot of fun and I'm enjoying coaching with my mom. It has been keeping me very busy which is nice for passing the time. Now that the sun is coming out and it's starting to warm up here it's time for bike rides and BBQs! A week from today I turn 22 and can't wait! Since it's my favorite number it almost more exciting than turning 21 :) I plan on doing some golfing this weekend followed by a wonderful pedicure and a yummy sushi dinner with the fam on wednesday! It's going to be a great week!!!!!

Troy is back to being an MA and keeping extremely busy, he has been taking college classes, getting new qualifications, and applying for another MA school for January. We both are ready for the deployment to be over since this is basically our 4th one in 2 and half years :/ yuck! It's definitely stressful spending a lot of time apart and it takes a lot of patience and trust in one another. I have learned quickly that being a military wife is in no way shape or form an easy job, and to those that don't think it's a job I'd love for them to walk a mile in my shoes! Because he is so very prideful of his job it makes it a little easier to go through what we do so others can enjoy their freedom! I am very proud of Troy and all that he does!

We have about 1 year left till our new duty station and I can't wait, 3 or 4 years of no deployments is going to be amazing! We are looking to go overseas somewhere and experience a new culture and new countries. It will be so nice to see different parts of the world, although it will be far from friends and family we know it will be well worth the experience! And where ever we go our door is always open to those who want to visit :)

Busy time of year

Just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! Have lots to update on but no time to do so. Troy is leaving soon and we are trying to just spend every chance we get together, but as soon as I get a chance, probably beginning of January, ill get pics up and what not. Hope everyone has a great time and gets to spend the holidays with the ones they love!

Our newest addition

Just wanted to introduce our newest addition to our family! We decided Chance needed company so we adopted "Duke" from the pound last week. He is Black lab mix and about 6 months old, and very much a puppy! He loves to play tug o war and is very smart, we were so lucky to find such a good dog. Chance absolutely loves his new buddy!

Navy Birthday Ball 2009

October 17th, 2009 What a night it was! The theme was 1950's and everything about that night was a blast! Can't wait for next year definitely going again!

First Year Down!

well everyone says your first year of marriage is the toughest but we made it through! Still can't believe its already been a year! Celebrated our anniversary at the Tulalip Resort, it was so romantic wish we would have gotten a picture of the dinner. They brought us out a chocolate desert and wrote in chocolate sauce on the plate happy 1st anniversary it was so cute, we had a blast!

Just had to take pics of the room, it was incredible, didnt have a chance to take any other pics we were to busy enjoying the casino :)

Even the bathroom was incredible! haha! Had our own personal robes and everything!