Mid Week Craziness!!

Hey guys!!
So nothing overly exciting has happened this week, but I got some more good news about Australia my scholarship was FINALLY approved meaning I only have another 1,500 to pay!! Whoohoo!! who can beat a 3 week trip to Australia for $2,000!!! And I applied for my passport today, which might I add was a very obnoxious project, but it is done and not only did i get my passport I also go my passport card.
Education time: for those of you who don't know the difference, passports are currently running $110 and you have to have those if you are planing on flying to another country. Passport cards are running roughly $30 and are more convenient for those of you who are just wanting to drive across the boarder to Canada or Mexico, SOOO for those of you planing on visiting us in New York I would recommend getting a passport card especially if you're going to drive and want to see Niagra falls from the Canada side!!

Anyways: So this little man is feelin in the dumps lately :( he went to the vet 2 weeks ago for his heart- gaurd test, and they told me it was possible he had allergies but today we had to go back for more shots (lepto and lyme disease) so I had the actual vet take a look at his eyes again and it turns out he might have curled in eye lids, causing his eye lashes to rub on his eyes. This could be because of allergies still but it could also be something he was born with which will require pinning surgery to make his eyes normal again :( He is on a series of medications for the next couple months just to see if it is allergies, 2 forms of a tear stain remover and benedryl twice a day which results in this ... poor sleepy puppy :(

So back to my weight loss/in shape goal for when Cory comes home, this week I have lost 2 pounds and kept it off all week! Not much but it is a start whoohoo!! And accomplished a personal best of 4 miles on a tread mill in 43 minutes!!! And am SERIOUSLY considering signing up for a half marathon with Emily this September!! I mean I am doing what many find impossible and spending a year without my husband while he is in another country the least I can do is run 13.1 miles in honor of him!! Sooo input should i do it?!?!
With that being said I leave you with these pictures for excitement!!

whoo officially OVER half done!!!

4 miles 43 minutes!!! Personal best soo pumped!!!

Lonng Week!!

Hey Guys!
Soo not much of anything has happened the last few weeks but I figured Id check in just for fun!! I only have one week of school left then finals week!! THEN SUMMMER!! although the weather is not cooperating, ughh!!
Haven't talked to Cory to much this last week, he's been switched to night shift this week which means we work and sleep at the same time now, which normally would be a good thing but in the situation it stinks and I miss him a lot :( and apparently working nights means he get part time to play video games, COD to be exact and I'm praying he doesn't come back a gamer or I may lose my mind lol!!
Had a vet. appointment last week, and on the plus side Martin is Heartworm free (not surprising but made me happy !!) On the downside, I learned he has seasonal allergies which is the cause of the extreme goop in his eyes causing the ever so annoying and ugly brown eyes that no one likes to see one a white dog... we think it happened from being in the grove so much on the farm so he is now on 2 different OTC meds to help fix it, but if it isn't cleared up by July it could mean surgery to unclog his tear ducts. So for those of you with dogs that have excessive long term tear stains, please know it could be causing uncomfortable presser in there eyes and causing them to have those gross tear stains get it checked out!!!
Anyways I'll stop bothering you for now!! Hope you all have a great Easter!!

GOOD news Monday!!!

Hey Guys
So this weekend has been pretty uneventful ... until today at least!! Today was probably my last day off for a while so i decided i really needed to get some things done. So I drug myself out of bed pretty early to run with martin and it was Beautiful out a nice 2 mile run bright and early always is a good start to my day :) After that I decided to email the lady that is in charge of the study abroad program since its getting closer and closer to July and I just couldn't handle not having an answer anymore! And even though I expected her to tell me no decisions have been made yet, she surprised to with a response only minutes after telling me I WAS APPROVED! And I will be headed to Australia July 14 only 10 days before my birthday!!! WHOOOHOOO!!
And to top that off with even more good news, last night I decided to once again look through craigslist to see if any more apartments have opened up in New York and to my surprise some had!!! I found a cute little complex only minutes from base that have openings and they will even hold one for us as soon as we put a deposit down... so anxiously this morning I waited to talk to Cory, which I wasn't sure was going to happen... BUT eventually he got on too, and he loved the apartment too!! So within the next few weeks we will have an apartment waiting for us!! I am so excited!!
The rest of my day was pretty uneventful... cleaned and unpacked my room (finally), gave Martin a must needed bath, He still kind of smelled like the farm lol! Paid some bills, mailed a package to Cory, and took Martin to get some blood drawn (he was less than thrilled to get a bath and shots in the same day lol) and washed and vacuumed the car!! Hope you guys all have a great Monday and a good rest of the week!

First Day back :S

Hey guys! So this posting thing probably won't happen everyday.. I really don't lead a very exciting life but I figured I'm sitting here tonight doing nothing so I might as well do something haha!
Cory left last night around 7:30 and since then I haven't heard from him so I'm honestly not sure where he is at or when to expect to hear from him. This is for sure the worst part about him being gone is the days I got without talking to him or knowing what's going on... I do know however that once he gets back to BAF he will be getting his flight physical done :) so one step closer to having his Warrant officer packet done Yahh!!
Other than not hearing from him I suppose today hasn't been to bad, it was back to school/work for me today so that helped keep me occupied most of the day. I also decided that come Monday I'm going full force on this 'diet' thing I keep trying I have 6 months to reach my goal of 20 pounds and I think now that the weather is nicer I can do it this time!!! If you have any good recipes that are healthy please throw them my way I;m learning that the reason i typically fail is because I run out of good foods to eat and start craving.. dondondon MCDONALDS ...never a good thing!!
Anyways I better start playing with my attention needy dog before he claws me hands to death (his way of telling me I spend to much time on the computer lol) Hope you all have an amazing weekend!!!

The Begining of the end !!!

Hey Guys!!
So I'm new to this whole blogging thing, but I realized that the next 6 months are going to be crazy busy and exciting for Cory and I, and I know how hard it is to talk to everyone sometimes (especially family) soo I thought this would be a fun new way of letting anyone know how everything is going and keep everyone updated on our life!!
As you can see its stinkin early in the morning and typically I am not up this early EVER!!! but I just got home from dropping Cory off at the airport which was awful and for those of you who know me I'm sure can probably guess, tears were falling the entire time... but I'm not exactly sure it was all sad tears, part of it I think was happy tears knowing that in a week or so he will be back finishing up the last 6 months of this ridiculous deployment!!!!  YAHHH!
I got this blog idea from a friend who's husband is currently deployed. Cory met them last April through Church and Seth deployed shortly after, but I had was lucky enough to meet his wife Emily a few weeks after he left and I found out last night he has begun his journey home!!! And in a few days will be in the states for good, safe and sound! But I ask that everyone say a few last prayers to make sure his last flights go good and he returns home quickly!!
I promise not all my blogs will be this long, but I want to thank everyone who helped make our time home so much fun!! I honestly couldn't have imagined a better time home!! Here are a few pictures to show everyone what we were up to the two weeks we were home!!!

 Boys will be boys..Mark, Trent, Josh, and Melinda all came to the farm to do some shooting.. If you look close you can see cory on top of the ranger!!

 Stupid snow! Good thing 2 days after this we left for Florida!!

 Enjoying a little alone time on the beach!!!

 Cory made me real "sandals" lol!! Looks pretty legit if you ask me!!

 Dinner at V!! Sweet tan line huh?

 Not a very good picture, but this is the day we got home from Florida and martin gave me the cold shoulder all night and decided he missed Cory more than me I guess!

 While Cory and Jon were playin around Martin and I went for a walk and he decided to test out his swimming skills! And I think he liked it

 Jon decided Martin needed to protect his ears while Cory shot his big guns! It clearly didn't go very well!

 Documentation I actually beat Cory at something!!!

 This is the tree we planted when we got married and the little pot next to it is literally a twig we dub from the grove that I'm going to try and grow into a big evergreen~ wish me luck..!!

 Cory diggin holes to plant trees at the new bin site!

 Jon and Pam working on lining up the flags in a straight row

 Martin thought he needed to help dig some holes too!!

 This is officially martins tree!!

The only tree I actually planted out of the 10 we planted while we were there lol!! I think it's a little sideways!! *don't tell jon though ;)

Like I said all my blogs won't be this long, But I hope you enjoy them!!