Life is hard without friends...

This evening as I'm laying in bed on the laptop while Mister is zzzing away I decided I would read a few blogs. I look forward to certain bloggers to post and Kelly is one of them. I read this post tonight and of course it made me think.

So I don't have this circle of friends like she does and I can say that I so long to have that. I mean of course I have friends, but not a group like she talks about in this post.

Yes I have my Best Friend Megan

This is my wedding night and Megan giving her MOH speech. If it weren't for Megan I probably wouldn't be where I am today. She has been the Best friend anyone could ask for.

I also have another very true friend Letty.

(We don't have a good clear picture together but I figured this one will do)

Letty and I started as just co-workers. But as the months of us working together went on, we started to talk and soon became very close! Letty has given me some very good advise on life, marriage, and friendships. I know that I can always count on her to be here for me! And I for her!

I also have Leo and Laura

Leo and I February 2010

Laura and I February 2010

Leo and Laura are my married friends. I worked with Leo at the PD before I got married and moved away. Thats how I met Leo. I met Laura of course through him. They have by far been awesome all around! They have done so much for me! They now have a little boy Vincent who is my favorite little boy ever! I make it a point to see them when I go home.

Now I must admit these friends are the best that I could ask for. But they aren't friends with eachother. (mostly because they don't live in the same town ha)

I would love one day to have a group of friends like Kelly. A group that we all have a good time and laugh and cry. A group that will also have a very strong Christian faith!

I have thought about getting involved in the churches here (when I find one) and the one I went to in Monterey like I was back home. But I feel that the second I get attached I will have to leave again and start over so I figured I would wait until I got to our final duty station (because we will be there for about 2 and a half years). So that is one thing I have to look forward to.

Do any of you have a group of friends like Kelly??

A BEAUTIFUL Weekend.

This weekend was a very fun but relaxed weekend.

Friday night we went bowling with a few Marines at the on base bowling ally! I loved how "cheap" it was to bowl. You don't have to pay for shoes, and its 2 dollars a game. Mister and I played 3 games and we didn't even hit 20 dollars!

Saturday Mister surprised me with a Mocha Frap from Starbucks! We watched a few movies while he did paperwork for work. Then we headed to base because he had a "interview" (well sorta its hard to explain) with his squad leader. Then we drove over to the baseball field. We played a little ball and then walked over to the batting cages. He batted a few times.

We came home and hopped on the bikes and went for an hour bike ride. It was a nice ride. We stopped at DQ for some icecream YUM!

Saturday night we watched more movies and then went to bed.

This beautiful Sunday morning, I got up and ran to the store so I could make my favorite Sunday meal! A Pot roast with carrots and potatoes!! I'm also going to make a HOMEMADE Cheese Queso for our ladies night tonight at a friends house. Her husband has duty tonight so we love to do girls nights when the men have duty ha!

I hope the Queso comes out the way it sounds ha! I'll post pics and maybe even share the recipe if it comes out great!

I was ready to got to mass today until I took a venture out and tried to find the church. I couldn't and it was already  1115 when I realized I wasn't gonna find it. I should have looked it up on the internet but I didn't. I will for next week and when I do I'm going to check if they have an evening mass and I'll make that for sure! I was a little sad that I missed mass today! :-(

I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend!

50 Things

I saw this post here and thought it would be fun to do the same. So here we go:

1. I have a slight obsession with crosses! I love my crosses!

Yes I have posted these pics once before. ;-)

2. I love love love DVDs! I love going to walmart and going through the $5 bins of DVDs. Ha

3. My cell phone is ALWAYS on me! I don't think I have ever left the house without my cell!

4. I love to travel! I'm a total travel bug and I love to see new places.

5. I'm from Alpine, Texas (a small town out in the middle of WEST TEXAS) I have lived in North Carolina, San Diego, Ca, Monterey, Ca, and now San Angelo, TX!

6. I married my high school sweetheart! Mister

Picture from March 2007 Our first picture taken together at his sisters wedding.

7. My favorite color is Pink, but now that I am starting to get older I am LOVING RED.

8. I love all things animal print (mostly Zebra)

9. I love to cook and I love making new recipes.

10. I'm not the best at baking but I'm starting to get the hang of it! (I just never had the confidence to bake)

11. I almost always set off the smoke detector. I forget to run the fan above the stove ha.

12. I LOVE TO DECORATE for EVERY holiday!!

13. When I get older I secretly want to have a farm. I want to have a horse, 1 chicken, 2 goats, and maybe a milk cow.

14. As much as I say "I dislike our dog Allie" she is really good to me when Mister isn't home. ;-)

15. I would love to go to DC and go to the National Mall.

16. I hope to someday have a son that joins the Marine Corps like his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.

17. I secretly "suck" at games like bowling or pool so Mister wins and can "teach" me how to play ha.

18. I sometimes lay awake at night and love to watch Mister sleep.

19. When Mister is sleeping on his back and snores I pretend I'm asleep and put my arm in his face so he rolls over ha!

20. I'm not afraid to tell my secrets like 18 and 19 because I know Mister will never venture on here to read them ha!

21. I'm 21 years old this year!

22. I am always on facebook which I hope one day I will not be!

23. Mister calls me a "hoarder" but after the past 2-3 weeks he has seen that I am not so much! ha (because I almost got rid of everything we have and he had to start saying no to the things I was getting rid of ha)

24. I have to have my chocolate! Or some type of sweets after dinner!

25. Nicolas Sparks is my favorite Author! I love all of his novels.

26. In 2009 I was contacted (via facebook blah) by my biological father, his gf, his gf daughter, his daughter (my half-sister) and my bio-grandmother. I don't really like calling them sister, dad, or grandma. I know that is kinda mean, but I have a DAD, I have 2 SISTERS, and I have a grandmother who all have loved me as their own or full sister!

27. I went to school at Sul Ross State University for 2 years. I have most of my pre-reqs to be a kinder-teacher, but now with Mister in the Military I've been thinking about becoming and LVN. I have 2 aunts who are LVNs and one RN and they love it!

28. Mister makes me drive EVERYWHERE and I hate it! ha

29. I love board games!

30. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong time! Ha. I think I would have made the perfect house wife, military wife in the 1940s. ha

31. I love to get out of the shower and just get in my new pink robe and sit like that for hours. Mister doesn't it like it. He wasn't very happy when I got the robe for Christmas, he knew I would never get dressed Ha!

32. I love church and I love the way I feel every Sunday, but the last time I went to church was Christmas Eve. :-(

33. I can't stand it when women wear sweatpants out in public. I understand if they just finished working out and need to pick something up for dinner, but if they wear it out of pure laziness it drives me bonkers.

34. I love to read and learn about our bodies. Mostly the reproduction system. It is very interesting.

35. I am a terrible speller! Sometimes spell check doesn't even know what I'm trying to spell Ha!

36. From the 3rd day of being married til the day that I bought it I searched EVERY store I went into looking for a picture of the Last Supper!

37. In our house there is NEVER a dull moment. We are always laughing. (Mostly at something not so smart that I did or said ha)

38. While Mister spend time on the xbox you can most likely find me next to him on the computer. haha

39. My favorite Airline is Southwest! I think they are the BEST!

40. I will never again fly into LAX! That is by far the worst air port EVER!

41. Car problems stress me out to the max!

42. Along with my cell always on my you can most def. find my camera on me to! I love taking pictures of EVERYTHING and ANYTHING!

43. I really really want to be a mother someday!

44. I can't stand people who continue to brag! I got it the first time, I said congrats now SHUT THE HECK UP! I don't do that to others, it is very rude!

45. I one day will give BONE MARROW! It is #1 on my bucket list!

46. I will also one day give blood! I have never been able to b/c I'm anemic. But one day I will!

47. I love to do volunteer work! It warms my heart!

48. I love West Texas rain/thunderstorms.

49. Would love to be on What Not To Wear!

50. I am not big on watching the news. I usually try and don't understand whats going on. ha!

This week...

Sorry I've been MIA. Its been a very weird week for me.

Lets back track:

Sunday on our way home we had a light come on in our car.

Monday we took it in to Midas and I knew what they were going to tell me. Our radiator had a leak. I knew this because in 2009 it had broken. I took it in and I fixed it for $500.00. I wasn't a happy camper! After it was fixed I noticed it didn't drive right but we didn't have to "big" of problems. Sure enough it finally let us know he (I named my car Blackjack) was sick. So we had to pay $711 this time and I was really unhappy!!

Tuesday was back to work for Eric and that was the day I posted my "sap" post on my weight and working out.

Wednesday was our weekly coffee meeting. We learned that one of the ladies is pregnant with her 3rd and I couldn't be more happy for her!! That was some exciting news!!

Wednesday evening I took a nap from 8pm til midnight. I got up and hopped in the Best Friends car. We drove down to SA to drop her and her son off at the airport she had a 6am flight to catch.

Thursday morning: I then drove back. EXHAUSTED lol. Got home at 8am and showered and to bed I went. I slept until lunch (when I heard Mister home for lunch) I then got up and did a little bit of cleaning and scrapbooking.

Mister got home and we made a trip to Wal Mart (I don't really like Wal Mart, but I do like the low prices, the fact that its right there, and its a 1 stop shop).

Came home made dinner only to turn around from the kitchen and Mister was gone. Ha learned he had to run to base to get some info on his Marines (He just made fire team leader and has 4 Marines under him, but his squad leader is fixing to leave and when he is "gone" or "busy" Mister takes over the squad. So He has been tons more busy. I at dinner alone last night haha. I was trying so hard to keep my eyes open to stay up for him to sit with him while he ate. Then I realized it was Thursday and Greys Anatomy was on so I had TO stay awake for that lol.

This Friday Morning I woke up and hopped on my bike. I went for a 45 mile bike ride (with my new helmet). I didn't realize it was a little cold this morning. And I walked out in a tank top and shorts ha, only to turn right around and put on a sweater and some sweatpants. lol. The bike ride was nice and it felt great! I would have kept going but my hands were starting to hurt (I didn't wear gloves and my hands were so cold mostly because of the wind chill and it was 35 out this morning).

Mister said this weekend was going to be busy for him so we will more then likely be staying in. Which is ok with me. Our pay has been messed up since January and we have been over paid. I'm waiting for it to be fixed, but it has been stressing me out. So I'm not really allowing Mister spend money (I'm not spending either) Because once they fix it, what they have over paid us they will hold from our future checks until the balance is back to 0! BLAH! haha.

I hope y'all have been having a GREAT week! I promise the next posts will be more exciting and have some pictures!!

My mind is not set...

This post is a rather long post without any pictures. Bare with me on this post and I promise tomorrows post will be more interesting. ;-)

Last January I got married, packed up my old life, moved to a new state, left my family and friends to be with my husband and start a life with him. Little did I know that I would soon become "sad." I didn't know anyone out there in California. I didn't have my family there to see everyday and Eric was at work all day so I was home alone! To add to my "sadness" it was the rainy season.

I then just began to eat. I learned to make new recipes and I made all sorts of new things. I learned the taste of flavor and sweetness! I learned the wonders of butter and salt and mustard. I learned to love FOOD!

Back track: in high school I was very active in sports. I weighed 100 pounds my senior year. I wasn't very good at "eating" well. I skipped plenty of meals and sometimes it hurt me and my game. So in a short story I wasn't fond of food and I wasn't really into the whole eating thing. As silly as this next line will sound its how my mind was: food wasn't really important to me.

There were plenty of times I had to be forced to eat! I also had a few spells where I went so long without eating I fainted a few times. I always forgot to eat.

Now fast forward to today. I went and ate at iHop with my best friend. We mainly went to eat because we were next door at Midas waiting on her car to be fixed and we needed something to do. I hadn't eating yet today so I thought well this is ok. As I'm looking over the menu and I pick what I want to eat it shows the calories next to it and lets just say they were up there. It kinda hit me looking at that. I told Mister that I wanted to start counting my calorie intake, I wanted to really start working out, and I wanted to really start eating healthy. I want to get back to my high school weight. (Ok maybe not 100, but I would like to lose about 10-15 pounds and I'd like to do it before April/May!

As I have mentioned in a few of my posts when I make certain meals I will add a few spoons of sugar yes sugar to things such as my corn. I also use a ton of butter! I mean a ton of butter!

I told Mister I also wanted to get rid of ALL Sweets in my house. I love candy and we have Reese's and kit Kat's in the house along with chocolate muffins and chocolate chip cookies. Last week I had bought a 12 pack of coke (I'm a huge coke drinker) I decided that that was going to be my last coke (by coke I mean any kind of soda/pop/carbonated drink) buy. Well yesterday when we went to the store they had a buy one get one free root beer. And I esp. love Root Beer!! So we bought two more packs (12) of Root Beer. Of course Mister just laughed at me.

I still don't eat the right amount of meals in a day. I eat maybe 1 meal a day! And that one meal I usually always out eat Mister! I've been able to out eat my father as well. I would like to start eating 6 small meals a day. With very little calories and very little fat. I'd really like to cut out all Sugar from my diet. Now that will and is going to be the hardest part I think.

I would also like to be running a mile in under 7 minutes (like I did in high school) and I would like to be able to do that 3-4 times a week. The days I don't run a mile I would like to be doing some other sort of workout. I ride my bike on a daily basis so I'm not totally inactive, but I don't feel a good work out from it. I ride about 2 miles a day but it just feels so easy. I don't lose my breath nor do I break a sweat.

I don't have a scale, we actually just threw our old one away a few weeks ago. Tomorrow I plan on going to buy a new scale, buying better food for my house. Getting rid of all sweets (that probably means that I will eat them all ha) And I will also get a work out schedule for me. I would like all these changes set by Monday. So I have a few days to get rid of the sweets and enjoy a few more haha. ;-) Wish me luck on this new challenge!

Our Weekend.

Hello all!

We had a fantastic Weekend in San Antonio. We had to come back a day early "just in case" so i was sorta sad about that but we stayed two nights in San Antonio. We got there in the evening time Friday so we just grabbed something quick for dinner and then headed to the hotel.

I love WHATABURGER not only because they have the most awesome burgers EVER, but when you look at their windows they have this:

Got this picture HERE!

We got up Saturday morning and got our breakfast fromt he hotel lobby (I must say I really love free hot breakfasts at the hotels. lol)

This was my breakfast:

Yes it was a TEXAS shaped waffle! LOVE IT!! And it was pretty dang good!

We then loaded up in the car and drove 20 miles to the Wildlife RANCH!

Here we saw all different kinds of animals. I had been here before with my aunt and her family 5 years ago. So I knew I would love it I just hoped Eric would too! Here is a few pictures of a few of the animals:

Reticulated Giraffe

(My 3rd favorite Animal)

My 1st is a turtle and they didn't have any here ha

Kangaroo

Fallow

Baby American Bison (I was brave enough to feed it like this, the other animals I through food out the window.)

 Adult American Bison

Axis

It got up close to Mister and he actually petted the animal.

Damaraland Zebra

(My 2nd Fave animal)

This Zebra came up to my window and this is as far as I would roll it down. I would "throw" the food into his mouth when he/she would open like this. It was rather funny.

Ostrich

And these things were mean!

Sicilian Donkey

Misters favorite to see this day. He had fun witht them and they let him pet them too. These were baby donkeys. They were nice!

Those are just a few of the animals we saw. We saw a ton but I don't want to bore you and upload all the pictures I took haha

Then we went to the Riverwalk and ate at Joes Crab shack. We also rode on the river boats that give an automated tour and history of the riverwalk. Really neat!

Me at the Riverwalk by a waterfall.

Mister at Joes enjoying his drink

Me just finished eating dinner enjoying my water.

Mister and I on the river boat going on our tour.

This was a cute buggy we saw on our walk back to the parking garage. It has my high school colors purple and gold how cute!!

This was this afternoon after we already got back home. We went for a bike ride to Acadamy to buy Mister new running shoes and we bought myself a helmet! cute huh?? (This is for Diana! ;-))

Whats for dinner?

This is nothing special, but it is my new favorite meal to make!

I think I posted last week what I do to make this, but I'm gonna do it again with pictures.

2 Chicken Breast cut up and cooked in "butter" and olive oil

Chicken flavored rice. My FAVE

Corn with butter and sugar for the sweet tooth I have! ;-)

Olive oil and Poultry seasoning.

Misters plate.

My plate.

Don't you just love my zebra print plates?? I sure do. ;-)

This weekend Mister gets a 72 plus a half a day today! We are going to San Antonio for the weekend. We plan on going to the Wildlife Ranch and the River Walk. I would also like to do Sea World b/c they let Military and spouse in free! But Mister doesn't think we will have time to do that.

We will have a blast either way!

I'll try to post this weekend but If you don't hear from me until Monday I am sorry! I hope you all have a GREAT weekend too!



St. Patricks Day decor.

We love St. Patricks Day. These were up the day after Valentines Day. Haha

Tablecloth! LOVE IT! ;-)

2 new Dish cloths.

So cute!

My "Welcome" sign!

This week the weather has been so nice and beautiful. Its hit about 82 every day! Tuesday I played a little outside with the BFFs son! Yesterday I finally pulled out my swimsuit and sat by the pool! I took a two hour nap haha. It was so nice! Today its looking like its HOT again! ;-) I'm just so happy about this weather!!

I hope you all have been having a GREAT week! ;-)



Valentines Day and a few "house" pictures.

A few Marine Men for Mister for Valentines Day.

He also got a Single Marine in a bigger box.

 

His fave candy Reeses in a large heart

Mister playing with his Marine toys.

Please excuse the clothes on the floor. Those are from his AM PT

So serious

I think he liked them...

Mister taking a bit of his heart. haha

He got me the new Black Eyed Peas CD! And we are going out tonight where I don't know but I'm excited! ;-)

On this wall I had my china cabinet. Now that it is gone I put up these pictures What do you think?

My TEXAS Cross Wall!

(its got a few more then Cali, and I still have a few to put up.)

These crosses where on the entertainment stand (that my sister took this weekend) so I put them on the bookshelve. I think I like them here what do you think?

I hope Everyone is having a GREAT Valentines Day!

Weekend Recap.

Hello all and Happy Sunday!!

Our Friday night we stayed in and got the house re-organized because we were "down sizing" our furniture (pictures to come later). We watched a few movies on tv and enjoyed a relaxing night in.

Saturday Morning my little sister and her boyfriend came up for the weekend. I was super excited. They came to see me and to take our entertainment stand for their house in June (I know its early but we will be moving before June or by June and this seemed like a good weekend to come.

We did a little bit of shopping and for dinner I made them Green Chicken Enchiladas and spanish rice (their fave).

After dinner we got ready to go out for the night. By Bff Brittany joined us and we went to a local bar that allows 18 and up (I was the only one old enough to drink and Mister didn't go). The place has different rooms with different types of music. We had a total BLAST!

Little Sister and Boyfriend

Myself and BEST Friend.

Best Friend and I dancing.

Line Dancing

Having such a blast!

Best Friend is married to a Marine who has been stationed with Mister and we hope we both move to the same place in June (We both will have the same orders).

Mister and her Husband have been good friends. They both met in January before I and Best Friend moved out to Cali. Luckily our men got us together and we became Best Friends.

We got home late and went straight to bed. This morning we missed church do to over sleeping. We got ready and headed to Rosas for lunch.

When we got home we loaded up the entertainment stand and they had to take off.

I asked Mister why when family leave I feel so sad. He didn't have an answer but I really don't like that/this feeling.

They say it gets easier being away from family, but I really don't think it does!

I hope you all had a Great weekend. Lets go this week! ha! (trying to motivate myself)