missing Cali

Lately I have been missing California a WHOLE lot. It seems like out here it has been hot and humid and I miss my dry heat weather. We have been going to the pool every day for the past few days and we both have gotten some color. I am getting Tanner by the day and tomorrow I am going to buy some actual tanning spray to help it along while Peter is gone. Keeping with the theme of missing Cali so much I have come up with a very short list of things I miss at the moment from there...

* my mom

*my sister

*my brother [even though he usually only makes fun of me ha ha]

*DISNEYLAND

*The Beach!

*the mountains

*the Moreno Valley and Valley View Wards.

*all of my girls that I used to hang out with.

Basically I am having Cali withdrawals because we haven't been there since the end of January. We have also decided that we are not going to be able to go home until Christmas, so I am looking forward to spending time if we can actually manage it

leaving again. ...

Not me. Peter. He is leaving for NTC and I am really feeling this now. i have tried hard to either, not think about the fact that he is going to be gone for almost all of July, or to think about the "vacation" time he gets when he comes back. We were going to be going to Cali in August to see our family, but now it looks like money will be just a little too tight by the time we get back. I hate money being tight so we have now decided that we are going to try to just go to Houston Texas to visit Garrett and Tiffany [Peters cousin and his wife]. We will see what happens though. I am just going to try and save as much as i can while Peter is gone and hopefully we will have enough to go somewhere! ♥ I am going to try and stay positive. We haven't been apart for more than 2 nights since January 28th. Yeah yeah yeah, i know. I NEVER enjoy being away from him. I am sure no woman likes to be apart from her love, but I especially do not like being apart from Peter. It is hard to breathe, and i always breathe better when he is around. I know he will miss me, but he is going to be busy. I am going to just try and be as active as i can with out spending money. HA HA yeah i know women being active without spending any money sounds like a joke. Actually there is a fitness center across the street where i can work out with out having to pay a gym membership. They also have a pool where i can swim and burn off some extra calories, while getting a tan, and I can Volunteer at the USO right around the corner which is free and I can have conversations with people! I am also going to hang out with some Army Wives i have met here and hopefully that will make my time with out Peter go A LOT faster! ♥ we will be 1,400 miles away from each other and then we will be together again. That is all I could ever ask for.

Slacking off....

I have been absolutely awful about blogging. I thought it would be easy to get back into, but NOPE, i was wrong. I always think about things to blog, and then when it comes down to it, i never get it on the site. Distractions are my main problem. I look at one persons blog, and then it leads me to someone else's blog...etc... I get so sidetracked and spend sometimes hours looking through other peoples blogs [mainly crafty blogs] and i forget about my own sometimes. I hope my blog doesn't hate me for neglecting it so much. I swear ill try to be better. Especially since Peter is going to be heading off to NTC [National Training Center] at Fort Irwin in Cali. It is going to be weird not having him around the house. I know some women are in the mindset that "i get the whole bed to my self. or, I dont have to do his laundry, or cook for him." Yeah, NO. I LOVE having Peter home with me. I love Cooking for him. I love doing laundry [seriously, its the one chore that i actually like doing.] I love seeing him sitting on the couch, or in bed playing video games, or being on his computer. It makes me feel safe. As an Army Wife, i have been told MANY times that i would feel differently when he leaves but i think it is all a matter of personal opinion. When Peter is gone, I am a freaking obsessed person about having all the doors and windows locked. When he is home, i dont even check them. I cant tell you how many nights we went to bed, and the front door was unlocked. [we live on a military base and no one is going to break into a Soldiers home while he is there] I dont feel like i need the WHOLE King sized bed we share, all to my self. I have plenty of space to sprawl out when he is in bed with me. I like to hear him whistling in the shower or singing. I love when he plays Music on his computer and sings along to it. His voice is my favorite thing about him. [well one of my favorite things. haha] I just have been reading on a lot of Army Wife Forums and blogs and pages on Facebook, about Women who dont care that their husbands are gone "because it is part of the job he signed up for". I completely understand him signing up for it and yeah i signed up too because we were ALREADY married Before he joined. Is it such a bad thing to not like having an empty bed, or be able to talk to or see your best friend everyday? I just hope that in time i will be more "ok" with having him gone. For now i will continue to LOVE having him home every second he can be. NOT because i am controlling but because i like to spend time with him. When he is near everything feels completely fine. ♥

Clock that i want for my wall...

I found this while looking through some pages! i think it is AWESOME and would look GREAT for my clock wall! now i just need to save a little bit and then order it! I m really exicted!

Time Fades wall decal from Threadless by Blik

all pictures are gone!

Freak! we deleted our email accounts and made an account for the both of us, and now all the pictures tied to that account are gone!!! booo! ill try to re upload the pictures but dont know howlong it will take!

Nina

♥ Winter Quarters Temple ♥

We had the wonderful opportunity to go to the Temple on Saturday. it was AMAZING ! Peter got asked to be there and since I am not one to skip out on going to the temple if i can, we decided to make a day out of it. Little did we know when we signed up to go that we would be leaving at 4 AM to make the 4 hour drive from Fort Riley Kansas to Omaha Nebraska! i didnt go to bed until 1:30 am, and we had to be up at 3:15 so i got maybe an hour and a half of sleep. it was more like a power-nap haha. Peter slept alot of the way there, so it was nice to kind of feel alone in the car and get the chance to watch the sun come up. it was beautiful =D




we thought it is just a beautiful Temple and we are so blessed to be able to go inside and do the work of the Lord. we are going to go back as soon as we can. ♥




we decided that it was time for us to take some pictures, it was hot and we got kind of sticky from all the humidity but we had to! haha next time ill make sure and take alot more pictures ♥

it was all around a great day!