5th anniversary

Today is Sam and mine anniversary. We have been married for five years! Sam had duty today, which means that he has to spend the whole day on the ship!! He tried getting out of it because it is our 5th anniversary but his chain of command said no! But them Jeremy flew into town last night to visit with Sam and to see him before he deploys (if they did not see each other it would be 18 months since/until they saw each other). When Sam told them that Jeremy was in town and that he just back from Iraq they let Sam leave the ship for six hours!!! So we all went to the beach, (saw a seal that was there, but I will talk about that in another blog), went back to the hotel and chatted while G&G took a nap, then we went out to eat dinner. After all of that it was it was time for Sam to go back to the ship. We all went back to the ship with him and hung out with Sam. So that is what we did for our big 5 year anniversary! In a nut shell it sucked, nothing big or nice. But you know what I got to spend time with him and that is all that matters! I bought Sam a camera as an anniversary gift and he bought me Happy perfume, which I love and had been out of it for over a year now so I was very happy to get some.

Tomorrow Sam deploys! I really don't know what to say about that so that is all I will write about it for now.

back in SD again!

We flew into San Diego yesterday. First of all let me say how much I love flying Jetblue. I love that they have a direct flight from SLC to San Diego!! That the flight is under $100! The flight was not full so they set aside two seats for G&G so they had their own seat for the flight. Both G&G loved how they had their own personal TV in the seat. Gilbert's face was priceless when he realized that we could watch TV during the flight. Gilbert sat next to me. Gwenith and Sam and in the row in front of us. They were good the whole flight! In case anyone wanted to know yes Jetblue has changing tables in the lavatory and we used them. Gilbert loved it. He like how he could see himself in the mirror. Because no one else was in the row with us both daddy bears had their own seats but Gilbert said his daddybear was lonely so Gwen's daddy bear joined him in his seat to have drinks and the snack Jetblue gave us. Don't worry they are both seat belted in, lol.

We checked out of our (military) house today. I was really scared about the check out
inspection. I cleaned for days. I washed the walls. I dusted places I had never dusted before. I vacuumed so many times the last two weeks that I lost count of how many times. I even had help cleaning by four ladies in my church (ward). I spackiled the nail holes in the wall. I even locked us out of rooms after I cleaned them so no one could mess them up. Sam mowed the lawn and I weed whacked the edges of the lawn. But when it can time for the inspection all the lady did was was inspect the cupboards of the kitchen and bathroom. Looked at the master bedroom and one of the other bedroom and said we passed. I know she did not look in the third room or the down stairs bathroom. I don't think she looked in the dinning room, the laundry room or the lawn. We thought we were going to be charged for carpet cleaning but she said it was normal wear and tear!!! I don't know for sure what I was expecting of the inspection but it was not what I was expecting. I thought they would look more in dept at the cleaning and look for things to charge us for but they did not! So own nothing and we can move back in 6 months from now.

just a reminder!

Please don't leave your children in the car!!!! A 18 month old died yesterday here in Utah. The mom left her baby in the car while she was unloading her groceries and somehow forgot he was still in the car. She thought he was napping (he was in the car!). I don't think the outside temperature even reached the 80 mark (but I could be wrong about that), but the inside of the car must have gotten really hot! Please remember that babies heat up faster than adults. Their body core temperature gets to a higher temperature much quicker than adults' temperatures do.

Don't leave your children in a car to run a quick errand!!!

Back in Utah!

We arrived in Utah Thursday night, but in St. Gorge, Utah. We got there at 11pm just in time to catch the last five minutes (not game time minutes) of the Jazz vs. the Rockets. We were so upset that they lost, that we stopped for the night there. Not really but we were tired, Sam had been up since 5am so I was afraid of him falling asleep while driving , so we stopped for the night. We checked into this dingy motel. I will not stay there again. There was nothing really too wrong with it, but it was just not as clean as I would have liked to see motels/hotels. We were back on the road by 8am. We arrived home in SLC by 1130am. We were counting police cars that we saw Friday on the drive and there was eight total, that does not include that accident (the aftermath) we saw a couple minutes out of St. Gorge. It looked like the SUV flipped end over end! The driver was ok he was walking around. When we got here to SLC we went to my mom's work. Gilbert got very excited he knew where we were and started to say Grandma, but it is more like amma. He ran into the store and started to look around for her. It was so cute. Once he found her he gave her a big hug! Gwenith just giggled.

here we go

well the house is pack and all of our belongs are in storage (beside G&G toys and things we needed to have). I have been cleaning the house off and on for three days now. It has been kind of hard with two 21 months old running a mock. But four ladies from church came over yesterday morning for two hours and helped me clean the kitchen and the bathrooms! They did a much better job then I could have done by myself! I have just vacuumed the house the the thousandth time in the last three days. I don't know why I have vacuumed so much but I just love the look of a fresh vacuumed room!

It is about time for us to start driving back to Utah. We are just waiting for Sam to come home from work and then we are off!

busy weekend

On Saturday and Sunday a few guys from church (the missionaries), and a guy from the ship helped Sam moved all of our belongings into a storage unit! There is nothing left in the house beside a few items I want to being with me to Utah and what Sam wants to bring with him on the ship. I was watching G&G while that was being done. I wanted to be cleaning but I swear every time I turn around G&G are making a new mess. I did manage to clean the kitchen today. It took all morning long and during nap time. I cleaned all the cupboards, the counters, the oven, the pantry and the freezer! I did not do the floor yet. I did not do the refrigerator either. That is because there is some (very little) food left in there. I did not want to clean out the refrigerator with cleaners and then put all the food back in there to sit and sock up the fumes. So that will have to wait until Thursday. I washed the walls in the dinning room and the front room. I started to clean the walls in the hallway but then I got on a kick of vacuuming, don't really know why I will have to vacuum again on Thursday. I manage to vacuum the front room (this will be the third time in three days it was done), the dinning room, G&G room and Sam and mine room. I guess I did it because I wanted the place to look clean even thought it is not. Some ladies from Church are suppose to come over Wednesday to help me clean the rest of the house! So I am not stressing over the cleaning.

In some of ways I don't want to move home any more. I really like my neighbors and I love the location of the house. I love the people at my church (ward). But all those things will be here in 6 months from now too. I am afraid that I will just hibernate in my house while Sam is gone. I know that is a little hard to do with two toddlers that want to go outside. But still I am afraid that I will not do things while Sam is gone and I will become like my dad (long story and I wont go into it right now) so I think in the long run it is best for me and G&G to go live with my mom this deployment. I will have family around for me and G&G during this hard time, which I know will make the time go by so much faster. I know we can get the same housing complex when Sam gets back. I am going to plead and pray that we can move back on this street. I really do like my neighbors and I love this part of the complex. The next deployment, which hopefully will be in 1 1/2 to 2 years from now, we will stay here in Cali. Things will be different that time around. Only 10 more years until retirement!

diaper change

Gwenith is trying very hard to change Gilbert's diaper! She has now mastered unbuttoning his onesies and taking off the diaper. but she has not figured out how to put a new diaper on. It is so cute to watch. What is funny is that Gilbert just lays there and let her try to change him, even if I had just changed him, notice the used diaper in the back ground yes that was Gilbert's. I had just finished changing him! oh just in case you were wondering yes she takes off her diaper too!

UPDATED INFO

Jeremy is Topeka, KS!!!! Which I think is a hour or two away from base. They are doing something there and then they get bused to base! So it looks like he will be on schedule to be there about 3 am (local time)!!!

Stateside!

Jeremy is stateside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They got here a head of schedule, go figure. Jeremy got here (he is in Maine) this afternoon. He was there two hours and now is on another plane heading to Denver, CO and then to Kansas. So in case you missed what Jeremy has done he went from Baghdad to Kuwait to Germany to Maine to Denver and finally Kansas! Why they are doing that I have NO IDEA! I know they are not dropping off anyone and they are not picking up anyone so who knows why?????

They should be in Kansas at 3:30 am! They are doing a welcome home ceremony at 4 am! I totally understand why they are doing that so early. It is so they family can see the soldiers as soon as they get off the plane and the soldiers don't have to set a round for another 4 hours until the ceremony was suppose to begin. I just feel bad for mom she drove from Denver (which is funny cuz Jeremy went there, lol) to Kansas today. Luckily she got there early this evening so she had some let down time but she now has to get up at 3am to go see Jeremy. But hey if I was there I don't I could sleep, knowing in just a couple of hours I would be able to see Jeremy again!!

Twilight

I loved this book and I am so excited about this movie. The book is really well written. My sister (who thinks she is a vampire) did not want to read it because there is no sex or graphic violence or gore. She thought it would not be interesting like the Anne Rice books. I finally gave her all three books for Christmas and guess what she read all three books within a month! She could not put them down! Sam is now reading them! He is on the second book. Sam says he found them to be more interesting them the author noted above. I promise these books are a real page turner. Me who hates to read (I did not read a book cover to cover until I was 15) read each book within a week after they were published!! The fourth book comes out this August I can't wait!!!! The movie comes out this December! Here is a link to the fansite about the books

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