Merry Christmas to All!

I hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas season and just the Holidays in general. I know I am.Probably because my one and only is home...Daniel. My future husband is FINALLY a solider of The United States Army. Pretty stinkin cool. Not going to lie...the uniform looks good on him. He looks a lot different, he lost a lot of weight which I know he is happy about.

It was a long 2 1/2 months to get him back but we finally did it. He leaves again on January 3rd again. Not suppose to talk about solider orders on the internet so I will just leave it at that. If you want to know details...ask him! haha

This will be a short post just because I have better things to be doing at the moment, and I don't think anyone cares but hey! I tell it like it is! Again I hope everyone has a really Merry Christmas and that every one of your wishes and dreams come true. Don't forget what Christmas is about either, I know that without our God we wouldn't even have Christmas or this great time of year. I know without him, I wouldn't have all my family back together this year and I am lucky to have Daniel home for even this long. Just feeling really blessed this season...definitely a Christmas for the books.

Thank you!

I only have 8 days and a wake up before I see Daniel. He has done it! Well...almost. He has to make it through Victory Forge this week and I am still not sure if he passed his final Physical Training test. But I am sure he did and he wasn't one bit worried about Victory Forge, so hes basically done!
Oh and if you are wondering what Victory Forge is it is a 5 days field training exercise that the Soldiers in Training do at the end of their 10 weeks at basic, like a passing into becoming a solider, for lack of better words. Also they have to do a 10 mile march back, ew!
Anyways!
For everyone that has stuck by me these 10 weeks, thank you. You all have been nothing but supportive and encouraging. This was a very new experience for me and I couldn't of made it through this without the help of a lot of my friends and family and soon to be family. I did a lot of praying and looking to God for answers this past 10 weeks and I know more than anyone God has held me up through this. This experience has reinforced that feeling of knowing their is a higher power and it is something much greater than any of us.

I was really fortunate during this experience. I had built it up in my mind that I wouldn't speak or hear from Daniel for 10 weeks. Luckily that was not the case. I have recieved many letters and A LOT more phone calls than I ever imagined. I never expected phone calls and they've been coming regularly on Sundays since about the 3rd week. I thank God for those phone calls, they brought me back up when I was the most down.

My friends have been most awesome during this experience. They were there when I needed them and were a shoulder to cry on when I needed them. People I barely know have become my support system and that is really refreshing.

I thank God for the people in my life...I couldn't do it without them.

The preparations for Daniel coming home have begun and I am overly happy. I am going to the grocery store soon to restock my house with our usuals. That excites me...it's the small things right?

Thank you to everyone who has been there for me through this! You are all amazing people!

This Old House

Since I have been living in my grandparents home and getting it ready for resell...it really just makes me dream and re live a lot of memories.

This house was built by the hands of my grandfather,my father,and my uncle and many of their friends. It holds a lot of personal value to a lot of us. As a child this house was the biggest playground I had. From upstairs in each of the bedrooms to the 10 acre spread of land I could run all over. It was a childs dream to say the least.

I love this house with most of my being. You aren't suppose to love things...but I love this house. I love it because it just isn't a thing to me...it's a lot of my memories. I fear that once we no longer have this house the memory of my grandparents will fade. Now deep down I know they won't but in my mind I don't have many memories with them not in this house.

From Christmas time in the nice living room where if you dropped any food on the carpet my grandmother was likely to murder you or from spending the night and going back in my grandfathers shop and eating pop corn and watching movies...I love the memories.

I will never forget them as long as I live. It is unfortunate we cannot keep this house forever and whenever we need it to be there it will be...but that is unrealistic.

I can only hope that some family with kids lives here and those kids get have this amazing play ground like I did when I was a child....but I can only hope.

My biggest dream is to come back in 10 years and this house still be standing here...in all of its glory...but I can only dream.