busy busy busy

the past few days have been everything but busy! well except for my little dog who is still sick. we are taking her to the vet tomorrow becasue she isnt eating and i think she might have caught something and didnt shown symptoms of it until we got her. now im just worried about her becasue she is sooo little. hopefully we can just get some kind of medicine and she can go back to being a healthy little girl again =]

lately i have been missing hime. home is in Moreno Valley California. yes i was born in Riverside but raised in MoVal my whole life. I miss my family and my friends. its lonely here durgin the day when Peter is gone and its times like these that i wish i would have kept my car. if i had my own car i could find a job to keep me occupied. although i know that it doesnt make any sense to get a car right now for me, becasue when Peter deploys we will be paying his car off finally and then i wont have to worry about that car payment and the insurance will go down to almost $500 YEAR! plus ill have his car while he is away and we can save up and get a nice "family" car. we both have some cars that we really like...

top of the list is a
* Chevy Equinox
then maybe thinking about the Mazda CX9. its a really nice car and i LOVE Mazdas. i just want a good car that i am not going to have to worry about breaking down all the time. Peters Honda Accord has been really good to us and i actually like it. i will like it more when its finally paid off!

until we get a second car or peter gets deployed its basically me being stuck at home during the day and then spending the evening at home because he doesn't like to go out really after work, which is totally understandable becasue he works super early in the morning, but i have got to find something to do or i think i will go crazy!

things i want and need

i decided that i needed to make a list of things that i can show to Peter when he asks me "what do you want?". i have a very bad habit of not voicing things that i want when he asks so i end up with nothing... =[ my bad haha. so here we go...

*Cricut Expression


*Nikon D40


*Scrapbooking storage
[different kinds]

*Sewing Machine
not sure what kind right now....

well that is alot of things right there and just by posting them i feel selfish!
do you ever find yourself feeling selfish for wanting things? I always am thinking of what Peter needs and how we can get all the things he wants, and i sometimes forget about me. im way more willing to return something that is mine for the greater good of our family than to ever ask him to return something that is his.

out to the Field...

for four days Peter will be out in the "Field" doing his job... ♥ to me it is basically a glorified camping trip with the boys haha.

I dont know what is going to happen when Peter gets deployed, and im in the process over the next few months of deciding whether or not i want to move back to Southern California or stay here at Fort Riley Kansas for the whole year he will be gone. =/ the biggest factor is whether or not i am pregnant [cross your fingers that i AM!]. We really want a baby. also, i dont know too many peolpe here [DUH we dont have kids, so play dates are out of the question!] I am going to start being more active in church, becasue our Ward here is pretty much a Military Ward. although alot of the ladies here have young kids, babies or are elderly. i dont mind elderly women but i want friends that are around my age.

Pros for Leaving Kansas:
*All my friends are back home
*my family is home
*Peters family is back home
*I know SOOO many people back in our OLD Stake
*I can get my old job back and can work doing something i like

Cons for leaving Kansas:
*Lose our spot in housing and we are going to be getting better housing next year
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* ummm thats about the only CON to leaving Kansas... haha

its going to be a LONG hand very HARD decision to make becasue we will be here for most likely more than just 1 or 2 years. we might be here for about 4 years!

so anyway while Peter is out to the field ill be home alone with just my little doggie to keep me company... maybe ill play Assassins Creed... ♥

Lily Wannebo

is the cutest [and i mean this Literally!!] most adorable little Chihuahua/MiniPincher mix ever! I found her on this FortRileyYardSales online website, kinda of like Craigslist but specifically for Fort Riley, and there was a listing on there with these two pictures that just melted my heart! i had to have her! i went back and forth for a few days wondering if Peter would actually like her becasue she is a chihuahua and he likes bigger dogs... after tossing the idea around for several days we decided to actually meet her and see if we clicked. The moment i saw her i knew i had to have her! she is sooo sweet and loving.

Best part about the whole thing is that she is trained to Sit, Stay, and sleep in her little doggy carrier. She is also Potty trained. she lets me know when she needs to go outside which is nice!!

I know she will bewith our family FOREVER! i could never give her up. Peter loves her and is just as sweet as can be with her, even though she growls at him when he comes home from PT in the morning, but she warms back up to him as soon as he crawls in bed... haha

we love our girl

Long time no post...

Peter had finished Basic Training, AIT [Job Training] and we have moved to Fort Riley Kansas! WOO HOO! , well we had heard awful things about how bad it was here, but we have not found anything like that! we took some time and explored and found some really neat places and things to do. There is a town called Manhattan [No not Manhattan New York] and it is home to the great Kansas State University! so yeah they have a college town about 20 minutes away from an Army Base. I thought that would be cool, but apparently the College kids are less than thrilled that there are Soldiers here. so we have been warned not to go out to "Aggie Ville" in Uniform. Roger that!

We have onpost housing, and it is really nice for us. we dont have to pay for it, becasue the Army gives a housing allowance that covers the apartment. =] We are right down the street from where Peter works which is nice becasue i had heard that it sometimes takes people 20 or 30 minutes to get to work ever morning. it takes us all of about 5 minutes... =] Our apartment is 2 bedrooms which is nice becasue i am going to start collecting scrapbooking items and build my own area to sit and comfortably scrapbook =] AWESOME!

so i havent been keeping up my blog as much as i would like, but i am hopefully going to start blogging more about all the cool things i am working on for our house and scrapbooking-wise... you might also see me post alittle about Military things and all the crazy stuff i see... =]

until next time, Love yah!

Nina