Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Quick Update!!
I am sometime emerged from the darkness!
Life has been so crazy, I haven't had a moment to get a post up here! I am uploading this via my cellphone so hopefully this works, probably no pictures this time around. I plan on having Internet within the next week.
Ryan left for Afghanistan last week and has since arrived. Saying goodbye to him was one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life. It is hard saying goodbyes in genera but not knowing 100% that he will be safe and also him being gone for so long made it so much harder. I might expand more on this later but for now that is all I can do.
Ryan's parents came down to send him off and also helped me move back up to Washington. It was a two day trip, and they were amazing. I am so grateful to have married into such an awesome family! They took out so much of the stress of the whole ordeal, and I just can't say enough how much it was appreciated. We all got to bond over
Our collective road rage. :-) Poor Gavin doesn't stand a chance.
We are getting settled in out here in the country. And boy what a difference going from a noisy apartment in SoCal to complete silence out here. I am loving it. My family is helping me get the yard into shape and I will post pics of the place once I am unpacked.
Gavin is literally growing like a weed! I swear he will start crawling soon and is almost sitting up on his own! He still has the sparkiest blue eyes and chunky monkey legs. I just love him so much!!! I can't wait to put some pictures up!
I will have Ryan's address available soon if you want to send him a letter or package!
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Promised Photos
I'm up late, the first time in a while. I am completely filled with dread for the upcoming events. I'm trying to distract myself with tasks, so here I am uploading photos...
Ryan, Gavin and I went for a little workout at the Gym. Gavin and I were walking around the track, when he decided it wasn't fun to be in the stroller anymore, so we laid around in the grass waiting for daddy instead. It was such a beautiful day!
Our little man cub is 5 months already?? When did that happen!!!!???
Bear cub.
Daddy loves his little baby boy.
Ryan, Gavin and I after Gavin's Baptism on June 10th.
Three Generations.
Beautiful Eastern and Western Washington. We miss the PNW.
G-Unit in his Cee Lo Green Glasses
So sweet.
We had to go to Cabela's while we were in Washington...
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Our First Family Road Trip
This post is only a few days shy of being a month since my last post...oops, but hey, we've been BUSY. I think that when I finally have a chance to slow down and blink, I'll find myself in a nursing home, probably with Alzheimer's and food in my teeth!
We have been on our "block" leave for the past 18 days, and it was glorious! We had a bit of a rough start, because we took Miss Kitty up with this haul. We got a good start, about 1 or 2:00pm, and we had decided not to get a carrier for the cat because she generally does really well in the car so we just set up her litter box and kitty home and threw up a prayer. Well, she started wondering a bit too close to the front and it was giving me an ulcer thinking she would get under the petals and cause us to wreck or something, so we stopped in Temecula (15 min north of Fallbrook) to get a carrier. When we opened the door to grab her, she escaped and fled under a car in the parking lot. Luckily, Ryan was able to get her easily enough, and we got in her in the carrier and it seemed to be good to go. We drove probably another 30 miles or so and she was meowing the entire time. All of a sudden she kind of started flailing in the carrier so I turned back to see what the deal was, just in time for her to fling cat piss (excuse my language, but seriously, when you get cat urine flung in your face, you have the right to refer to it as cat piss) all over. It was starting to go everywhere, so we stopped at the nearest exit to get her out and to attempt to clean her and the carrier. She was super freaked out by this point, so when we found a parking lot, stopped and opened the carrier she bolted. Again, Ryan was left to chase her down, while I dealt with the baby pee. Now, Ryan has cat piss all over him, and he shoves the cat into the litter box, which she was in just long enough to cover her WET PISS fur with litter and then escape to the back of our car, getting cat piss covered litter all over all of our stuff. Luckily, it never got on to the seats or carpet as we covered them with blankets. So here we are, swearing under our breaths trying to figure out how to get the cat out of the back without her escaping and getting more mess on us and everything else in the car. Ryan finally grabs her and I am holding the cat carrier, he shoves her in and the cat carrier just completely collapses and falls apart. At this point, I am laughing because I am so angry, and that's what I do, I get hysterical and bipolar, and Ryan is just flat out pissed. We are both trying to fix it and getting in each others way while at the same time glancing around looking for an animal shelter we can dump this cat off at. We ended up duct taping the carrier together, and we were off on our way again, both paranoid that the cat was going to pee again. We were not even 45 miles north of our home and we had been on the "road" for three hours already. Needless to say, we got off to a rough start.
Gavin was a trooper in the car! He did so well, especially to his feline counterpart. We made the drive up in two days, stopping one night in Sacramento. We stopped to see a friend of Ryan's in Redding, but other than that we pretty much just powered through. Other than the first couple hours, it was a beautiful drive and we had great weather. We took our Tahoe up, and both LOVED it for the road trip. So comfy and XM radio is a now must have for long car trips.
We spent the first week in Puyallup, where Ryan's mom and step dad live. We were able to see a few of my friends and then also Ryan's sister and her family who recently moved up to Renton! It was awesome to see them, especially because they hadn't seen Gavin yet and I hadn't seen her two boys (one is 4 1/2 and the other is 1 1/2). It was a great week, but it rained the entire time! Then we made the trek over to Odessa and spent the remainder of the trip over there. It pretty much rained the entire time there too, haha! Ryan and I went to the spa for his birthday! We tried out the new Qwest Resort Spa and it was awesome! They have a beautiful new hotel and the spa was amazing. We try to get massages once a year as a treat for ourselves so we were really excited to try this place out. Highly recommend it! We were able to see Ryan's Grandparents, his cousin and her baby and lots of people in Odessa! We also had a very last minute baptism for Gavin that was performed in Odessa by my dad. That was great, and he did so good! He smiled when the water was dumped on his head but when we went back to our pew, he had a total meltdown and cried for the rest of church. Afterwards we had a little BBQ where some family and friends came over, and it was a great day!!
We flew back on Tuesday and started to pack up the apartment...booooo!!! I hate moving so much. I would rather do soooo many other things than move. I would rather sit here and think of all the other things I would rather do than actually start packing...But luckily most of our stuff is going into storage so it will be a quick afternoon and then be done.
I'll do another update soon with more photos and an update on Gavin, who is five months already!!! Holy cow!
We have been on our "block" leave for the past 18 days, and it was glorious! We had a bit of a rough start, because we took Miss Kitty up with this haul. We got a good start, about 1 or 2:00pm, and we had decided not to get a carrier for the cat because she generally does really well in the car so we just set up her litter box and kitty home and threw up a prayer. Well, she started wondering a bit too close to the front and it was giving me an ulcer thinking she would get under the petals and cause us to wreck or something, so we stopped in Temecula (15 min north of Fallbrook) to get a carrier. When we opened the door to grab her, she escaped and fled under a car in the parking lot. Luckily, Ryan was able to get her easily enough, and we got in her in the carrier and it seemed to be good to go. We drove probably another 30 miles or so and she was meowing the entire time. All of a sudden she kind of started flailing in the carrier so I turned back to see what the deal was, just in time for her to fling cat piss (excuse my language, but seriously, when you get cat urine flung in your face, you have the right to refer to it as cat piss) all over. It was starting to go everywhere, so we stopped at the nearest exit to get her out and to attempt to clean her and the carrier. She was super freaked out by this point, so when we found a parking lot, stopped and opened the carrier she bolted. Again, Ryan was left to chase her down, while I dealt with the baby pee. Now, Ryan has cat piss all over him, and he shoves the cat into the litter box, which she was in just long enough to cover her WET PISS fur with litter and then escape to the back of our car, getting cat piss covered litter all over all of our stuff. Luckily, it never got on to the seats or carpet as we covered them with blankets. So here we are, swearing under our breaths trying to figure out how to get the cat out of the back without her escaping and getting more mess on us and everything else in the car. Ryan finally grabs her and I am holding the cat carrier, he shoves her in and the cat carrier just completely collapses and falls apart. At this point, I am laughing because I am so angry, and that's what I do, I get hysterical and bipolar, and Ryan is just flat out pissed. We are both trying to fix it and getting in each others way while at the same time glancing around looking for an animal shelter we can dump this cat off at. We ended up duct taping the carrier together, and we were off on our way again, both paranoid that the cat was going to pee again. We were not even 45 miles north of our home and we had been on the "road" for three hours already. Needless to say, we got off to a rough start.
Gavin was a trooper in the car! He did so well, especially to his feline counterpart. We made the drive up in two days, stopping one night in Sacramento. We stopped to see a friend of Ryan's in Redding, but other than that we pretty much just powered through. Other than the first couple hours, it was a beautiful drive and we had great weather. We took our Tahoe up, and both LOVED it for the road trip. So comfy and XM radio is a now must have for long car trips.
We spent the first week in Puyallup, where Ryan's mom and step dad live. We were able to see a few of my friends and then also Ryan's sister and her family who recently moved up to Renton! It was awesome to see them, especially because they hadn't seen Gavin yet and I hadn't seen her two boys (one is 4 1/2 and the other is 1 1/2). It was a great week, but it rained the entire time! Then we made the trek over to Odessa and spent the remainder of the trip over there. It pretty much rained the entire time there too, haha! Ryan and I went to the spa for his birthday! We tried out the new Qwest Resort Spa and it was awesome! They have a beautiful new hotel and the spa was amazing. We try to get massages once a year as a treat for ourselves so we were really excited to try this place out. Highly recommend it! We were able to see Ryan's Grandparents, his cousin and her baby and lots of people in Odessa! We also had a very last minute baptism for Gavin that was performed in Odessa by my dad. That was great, and he did so good! He smiled when the water was dumped on his head but when we went back to our pew, he had a total meltdown and cried for the rest of church. Afterwards we had a little BBQ where some family and friends came over, and it was a great day!!
We flew back on Tuesday and started to pack up the apartment...booooo!!! I hate moving so much. I would rather do soooo many other things than move. I would rather sit here and think of all the other things I would rather do than actually start packing...But luckily most of our stuff is going into storage so it will be a quick afternoon and then be done.
I'll do another update soon with more photos and an update on Gavin, who is five months already!!! Holy cow!
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