Well, just as I expected things are perfectly fine with my husband and I. Arguing is by far the worst part of a relationship, but it's a given and I knew that going into my marriage. My husband generally has a very short temper and I've known that as long as I've known him. Lately work has made it worse because he's working his ass off so we can have a nice life and sometimes I take that for granted. Everything he does now he does for me too, not just himself. He jokes around about me not having money and that I need to get a job, but he's been totally understanding because I left school and my job to be with him. He takes care of me just as he's always done. He really is the perfect husband, I just lose sight of all that when we're not seeing eye to eye. I've known that he's my soul mate since I met him when we were 11 years old. The life I have right now is the one I've always wanted and I wouldn't trade it for the world, even with all of the arguing!

I had my first job interview in Hawaii yesterday. I'd be working as a preschool teacher if I got the position which I really want but I don't think the interview went well. I always bomb at interviews, I get nervous and what I want to say never comes out right. I really want this job, my husband and I need me to have this job but because of my mistakes it probably won't happen. I'm destined to work in malls or food service for the rest of my life! Those jobs are the only ones I seem to do good at. Although I've baby-sat for the majority of my life and worked at a daycare and am qualified for this position, once again my mouth and nerves screwed it up! They said they'd call if I get the position, but that generally means thanks for coming but we're going to go with someone else. I'm probably just overthinking like I always do after something important in my life.

Today also sucks because my husband started duty today so I don't get to see him again until tomorrow. When he does get home he'll probably just want to sleep since he probably won't at work. This is the first night in over a month that I've had to go to sleep without him, which means that I probably won't sleep. Oh well, just another part of being a Navy Wife.

My best friend is coming to visit today from Tennessee!!! It's only been about a month and a half since I've seen her, but I miss her like crazy! I'm so looking forward to seeing and hanging out with her for 9 days! I think my husband's dreading it because he knows how crazy we are when we're together, but he misses her too. 5 hours and 45 minutes til her plane arrives! I think I just realized this morning how excited I am! Ah, I can't wait!!!

Another sleepless night because my husband is on duty again. It sucks more this time because I won't see him first thing in the morning like I did when he had duty on Friday, this time he won't be home until he gets off work tomorrow! :(  It's not as bad though because I don't have to be all by myself, my best friend Amber is here from Tennessee! She got here yesterday and we went to the beach but she didn't feel well so we didn't do much. Today we went souvenir shopping but once again we didn't get to do much because when we went to leave the battery in the car was dead! That was my fault because I forgot to turn the lights off but it was totally an accident! Since that happened Rhonda had to cart us around town. I applied for 2 more jobs but don't know if anything will come of them. Well I'm gonna go watch more Newlyweds and hang out with Amber!

I have another job interview today for the childcare position! I know this is good that I got called back and it should be easier, but I think I'm more nervous about the interview today than I was for the initial interview! Ricky, my husband, and Amber, my best friend, both have faith in me and think I'll get the job and I really hope I do! My husband and I could use the extra money and working with children is what I've always wanted to do.

Amber's still visiting us until Monday which I love! It's so great to have her here with us and to be able to hang out and talk the way we used to without having to use the internet or telephone! I know she misses her family and friends, but I'm glad she chose to come spend time with me and my husband! I feel bad because I don't think she's had a lot of fun so far, but now that my husband fixed the car she and I can go out while he's working and hopefully she'll have more fun. I know she didn't come to Hawaii to sit around the house and watch T.V. with me. We're planning on going to the beach today, but right now it's cloudy and looks like rain. I hope it goes away so we can try to get some sun. Well, I'll write more later. Wish me luck on my interview!

Today was my first day of work at my first job in Hawaii. It's only a seasonal position til the end of August, but at least it's some extra money for a while and maybe by then I'll be able to find another job or be working at the daycare. It's at a retail store in the mall as a sales associate which I've done before, but I was an assistant manager at my previous job and now I'm starting over which sucks! I know today was only the first day but I didn't really like it. It wasn't what I expected it was going to be, but I have to stick with it. I'm doing this for me and my husband. We need the extra money and he's proud of me for doing it which is what I've wanted. I can't just quit something whenever I want to anymore because I have to think about him too and what he would do if he was in my situation and I know he doesn't really like his job right now but 1. he's stuck with it for a few more years and 2. he does it because it takes care of me and him. Part of what sucks about my job is the dresscode because I'm going to have to buy new clothes and shoes which normally anyone who knows me knows I would be thrilled about, but things are tight with my husband and I right now and I know we can't afford it. I'm also afraid that it's going to cut into the time I spend with my husband. We already fight over not spending much time together because he's always tired when he gets off work and every 4 days he has to work for about 30 hours straight so he's even more tired. Nights and usually only one weekend day are the only time I get to see and spend time with my husband and if my job makes me start working nights then I don't know what I'm going to do because as much as we could use the money I'm not sure if I'm willing to sacrifice my time with him to do so. I mean what's the point in having a job so we can have more money to do things if we don't have any time together to do anything, you know? I don't know, I'm stressing about it already and I may just be making a big deal out of nothing. My husband told me to take it with a grain of salt and to take it one day at a time and that's what I'm going to try to do.

I haven't written in a couple days and my best friend was getting on to me for it today, so here's what's been going on with me lately. Just a warning: it's not very interesting. Friday night my husband and I went out to dinner at Planet Hollywood with some other couple friends of our's then after we went to see The Longest Yard, which is a HILARIOUS movie!!! I highly recommend everyone go see it! Then on Saturday we went to the zoo with another couple, Cody and Rhonda, for Military Appreciation Day. All in all it was a good day. I haven't been to the zoo since the last time I went to the one in Knoxville which was a VERY long time ago. We walked from the parking lot to the zoo because my husband got tired of waiting on the bus, that was a mile walk in scorching heat, gotta love Hawaii! We did have a small argument while we were there, but we worked it out in a few minutes and that was actually the first one we had all week and we haven't had one since, knock on wood! After we left the zoo we spent the rest of the day at the swimming pool on base which was tons of fun! I love going to the pool and laying out in the sun and he loves swimming so it was perfect for both of us! Sadly, I had to spend the day by myself on Sunday because my husband had duty. I didn't even go to his work to see him all day, which is rare for us, so I REALLY missed him! I didn't really do anything except lay around the house watching tv and did some laundry, real exciting huh? Then yesterday he got to come home at 12 and didn't have to go back to work! We had to run a couple of errands, but after that we spent the day at the pool again. Right now he's still at work so I think we're just going to spend the day/night at home, relaxing and just being with each other. There's not really much going on with me. I still haven't started at the daycare yet because I still don't have glasses. My husband and I went to pick them up yesterday, but when the lady was getting them ready to give to me, they got scratched so they're being fixed now. Also, when we pick them up we have to pay the remaining balance and we don't have the money for that right now. In a way I'm fine not having them because I'm really nervous about starting work at the daycare! I don't really know why because it's what I've always wanted to do, but I'm worried about it taking time away from me and my husband. I know that's a stupid and selfish reason because I took the job for us because we need the money. But I'm really close to my husband, we spend all of our time together when he's not working. Since this job is an oncall position I'm afraid that I'm gonna have to work when my husband's home. The good thing though is the latest I'll have to work is 6pm and I get weekends off. However with it being an oncall position, it's not permanent and it may just be a waste of time because I may not make as much money as I need to in order to help out with our bills. I'm being overanalytical again, I'm like that with everything in my life, except my husband. When he came back into my life and asked me to marry him, which meant I'd have to leave college and move 5,000 miles away from our hometown, saying yes was the easiest decision I ever made! I wish everything in my life could be that easy!

Today was a pretty boring day. My husband's on duty which always sucks, but it's his job. I finally got out of the house for the first time since Monday. I went to the pool with my friend Rhonda and her brother-in-law. I did get to see my husband for a few minutes tonight when he got off watch because I took him some more food. I swear he's a bottomless pit! He's already gone to bed because he has to be up early for watch again. Going to bed without him is the hardest part of him having duty. Everyone says it'll get easier and I'll get used to it, but I don't know if I ever will. I did get to talk to my best friend on the phone today! That's a treat for us because I don't have many minutes so we usually just talk online, which is still better than nothing! I love you Am! Other than that, it was just another day doing boring housewife work, cooking and washing dishes. Oh and my dog ran away again, for like the millionth time! I'm pretty much to the point that I don't even care anymore. I also still don't have glasses, maybe tomorrow will be my lucky day. Well, I'm going to go finish watching the MTV Movie Awards and then try to get some sleep. Night All!

Well things have been a little busy and a little crazy since I started working. I took this job thinking I wouldn't be working everyday because they said it was a flexible on-call position, but I work every day from 6:30-9:30 then 12-4. It really is a great job. I'm just not used to getting up at 5:45 every morning and it is a little harder for my husband and I to spend time together. However we're making it work as best we can. It is a transition, but we're getting used to it. Ricky has the day off today and I have to work, which sucks, but at least I don't have to work all day. Hopefully after I get off we're going to go to the beach this afternoon! He's helping a friend of his from work move out of his house and into a new one right now. He's been helping him since about 8 or so this morning. He picked me up from work and just dropped me off at home so he could go back over there. I'm glad he's helping out a friend, but I'm selfish and wish he was here with me. I'm on my 2 1/2 hour break from work and he's off work, but I'm sitting at home alone watching tv. I know I'm just whining but every second I have with him is precious now since we don't have as much time together. At night we're both tired from working and usually go to bed early. I'm really looking forward to this weekend though. He has duty tomorrow so he'll be home about 8 Saturday morning. Saturday night we're going to Sunset on the Beach which is where they show movies on a big screen on the beach. We're going to see Oceans Twelve. Then either during the day Saturday or on Sunday we're going to the fair. We'll I'm going to go relax before I have to go back to work. I'll write more later but I'm not sure when. Hope everyone has a great day! :)

My husband and I both worked our regular shifts on Thursday. Thursday night we went to the Beeman Center on base and watched Robots! Yes I'm 19, almost 20, and love cartoons and animated movies. Then on Friday we both had the day off again. This time it was by our choice, well mine was, his was mandatory because it was for a boat function. It was the Commodore Cup which is a competition between the submarines stationed here. There were 6 subs that participated. My husband's boat didn't do so well so I feel sorry for the guys because the COB takes this very seriously! But it was still fun, probably the most fun I've ever had at a boat function. It was on the beach so that was pretty cool. They had a blow up jumpy house for the kids to play in and a blow up thing with 2 round platforms on it that the guys got on and hit each other with like American Gladiator. It was hilarious! My baby got up there a couple of times but he never won. He wanted me to get up there and the other guys on his boat wanted me to get up there and fight him! He told them no way because I'd kick his ass and they all said exactly that's what we want to see! It didn't happen though. After we left there we went to the Auto Shop where our car is and had to show the lady all the damage that wasn't there before it was stolen. She wrote everything down even our story of how the car was stolen and everything. She said they'd also have to do an automotive check where they'd check the engine and transmission and such. After that then they're going to have to see if the damage is more than what the car's worth and if it is then we don't know what we're going to do because I don't think the insurance will cover it if it is. So it's pretty much just a waiting game for now. She said our insurance company should be in contact with us soon. It'd take about a week for them to order the parts if it's repairable and then they'd have to fit it in with all the other cars so she said she'd call with an estimated finish date. To me it sounds like all of that could take a while and we only have our rental car for 30 days. Oh well, after that we went over to Cody and Rhonda's new house! They moved in yesterday and finally got all of their household goods and Ricky and I went to help them unpack, arrange, and hang stuff up. It's a really nice place and I'm very excited for them because they've been living in a 1 bedroom apartment for almost 5 months. I went with them to go look at a puppy which Rhonda did get, finally, while Ricky took Cody's brother, Cord, with him back to our house and they played video games. I had a hair appointment at 6 and we were late getting back and I tried to call Ricky twice but he let one of his friends borrow his phone so I couldn't get ahold of him. So when I got back I came in the house and said "Let's go" and he looked at me like I was crazy. Also 2 of his friends were here at this point that he had invited over without talking to me about and made plans for us for the night with them, without me again. All of this led to a huge fight that I'm not going to go into, Am I'll tell you about it later! We finally left and I got my haircut, finally after begging my husband since we moved here! It ended up being a little shorter than we discussed, he loves my hair long, but he says he still likes it. My hair is naturally curly and the shorter it is the curlier it is, which he loves the curls but he's not really sure about the short part, and my hair had gotten so long that it was just sort of wavy. It wasn't really curly anymore. But it is now, when I pull it straight it sits like right on my shoulder but when it's curly it shrinks so it's about to the middle of my neck, maybe a little longer. It was to the middle of my back! I just couldn't handle it that long because it's so hot and humid here. I wore it back in a ponytail everyday, now it's almost too short to do that. Ricky's on duty today so I'm going to go over to Rhonda's and help her out some more. Well I've rambled on enough and I need to go get ready so I'll write later. Hope everybody has a good day! :)

Wow, I've been so busy the past few days! I didn't mean for it to be this long before I updated. Well, my weekend was awesome! Rick took me shopping on Saturday, well he shopped too so I guess we just went shopping together. It started with breakfast at our favorite breakfast place here, then shopping at Sears and Old Navy at the biggest mall here. It's a four level outdoor mall that has all my favorite stores, even the expensive ones that I love just to look around in, like Louis Vuitton! Then we went to the NEX, Kmart, and a household goods store that we'd been wanting to check out. After that we grabbed some fast food, came home and ate, spent some time together watching tv and Ricky dyed my hair blonde again then went to bed. :) Then on Sunday we slept in late, well we stayed in bed late anyway ;), then we washed our car and returned our rental car. Then we went to the NEX to get lunch and then to the Swap Meet. Rick said he thought I broke some kind of record because I spent $60 in 5 minutes! Lol. I told him that wasn't even a record for me! Then we came home and ate dinner and then Rick helped me clean the house! After we cleaned we set up our spare bedroom. And in the whole weekend we never argued once! We've been doing so well lately and I love it! Yesterday was about as good as a Monday could be. Nothing really exciting happened at work. Rick surprised me when I got home by having a desk with our computer and stuff on it in our spare bedroom! But then I could've killed him because he waits til I get home from work to sleep for 2 hours, then I tried to wake him up for dinner and he told me just to fix me something. So I fixed chicken nuggets and french fries for both of us, but when he woke up I guess he didn't realize that so he fixed himself something else, which made me mad. Then he spent an hour on the computer and comes out saying he wants to go get the ignition part for our car at 7 pm, so I said ok but he didn't tell me where we were going. We went to an auto parts store about 30 minutes away! So we didn't get home til about 8:30 and I had his laundry going, a load in the wash and dryer, so I had to finish that then I took a shower and went to bed. Today he's on duty so I'm just sitting here catching up on my soap operas and hopefully I'll get to sleep early tonight, but I'll probably toss and turn all night cause he won't be here! Hope everyone else is having a pretty decent week. Sorry my life's not very exciting to anyone but me!

Just a warning, this is going to be a very long entry so if you don't feel like reading it all, that's fine. Let's see, Friday night Ricky and I went to dinner at a Japanese restaurant and saw Dukes of Hazzard. Dinner wasn't that great. I love Japanese food, but it was nothing like the Japanese restaurant back home which is one of my favorite restaurants. The movie was hilarious! I totally recommend going to see it. For those of you who watched the original tv show, I think you'll like it too. My husband and I both watched the show and still loved the movie. Jessica Simpson is actually really good and her southern accent is hilarious! Unfortunately Ricky and I were fighting during the movie b/c we got into a stupid argument after dinner, but we made up afterwards. We slept in on Saturday til 10 then had a little fun before actually getting out of bed! ;) Then I got in the shower and when I got out Ricky was cooking me breakfast! He cooked me an omelette, bacon, and hashbrowns! I love when he surprises me like that! Hopefully he'll do that for my birthday! We went to the swap meet so I could get Am's mom a wedding gift and Rhonda's birthday present. Of course we bought stuff for ourselves too. I got a dolphin necklace and beach towel and Ricky got a shark's tooth necklace, beach towel, and knife. After that I had to talk Rhonda in to going shopping so the guys could get ready for her surprise birthday party. That was not easy! She didn't feel good so she didn't really feel like going anywhere, but we finally convinced her. We actually ended up having to take one of Ricky's friends gas b/c his car ran out of gas and he was at the mall, which was where we were going anyway. When we got back to her house, she was actually surprised! She had no idea what was going on. Her birthday's actually today, but we couldn't have the party on a Monday. It was a lot of fun. She opened her presents, we ate, played twister, listened to music, then ended up going to Dave and Buster's and staying til 12:30! We didn't get back home til 1 am and had to be up at 8 to go to church! This was our first time going to church together and I really enjoyed it! The church is called New Hope and we went with Ricky's LPO and his family. We went to the early service then ate lunch afterwards. The church provides lunch for $3 and Ricky's LPO bought it for us. We had salad, lasagna, and a meatloaf sandwich. It was really good. He says we're going back this Sunday, so hopefully it'll become our regular church! After church his LPO's kids came over to our house so they could see and play with Tyger. They ended up playing playstation 2 with Ricky more than with Tyger, lol. After their parents came and got them we took Tooker's Jeep back, so now our "garage" only has 2 motorcycles! We then went to put up flyers about giving our dog Gracie away and not even 10 minutes after posting the first flyer a man called saying he wanted her. He was going to come get her last night, but something came up so he's supposed to come get her tomorrow. I'm gonna miss her, but I'm glad she's going to a good home and not back to the shelter. We went to Blockbuster and rented movies to watch, then went to Ala Moana (mall) and Ricky got the new PS2 game he'd been wanting. We watched Constantine last night. It was good, but long and I was very tired! Our weekend was great, but seemed to fly by, like always! Now I'm looking forward to next weekend because my birthday's Thursday so we're both off on Friday and he got the whole weeekend off! We have a 3 day weekend which he says he already has planned out and I'm excited to see what all we'll be doing! Today was ok. You know how Monday's are. We had a new baby at work. She's already 1 and has never been in daycare before. She was a handful and next Monday is going to pre-toddler, so that ought to be interesting. They changed my schedule again, instead of working 2:30-5:30 it's 2:00-5:30 in the afternoon, which isn't bad, but it's in the pre-toddler room! :( That means I'm not going to be working with my babies at all anymore :(. The plus side is that the pre-toddler room is going to be connected to the infant room, so I can still see them, but it won't be the same. Ricky's on duty, as I said earlier, so I have to take him dinner at 8. He's on watch right now. I'm spending my night doing the usual, laundry, dishes, cooking, watching soap operas, then going to bed. Sorry this was so long, but I said it would be. Hope everyone has a great night and rest of the week. I'll update again as soon as I can! :) Oh, almost forgot, 3 days til my birthday!!!

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Ricky went to housing yesterday and we got put on the waiting list for the brand new housing! We're number 71 so it should just be a couple of months. We're hoping we'll get moved in by Halloween! I'm so excited! Yeah, it'll be a bigger house for me to clean, but it'll be a nicer house and better house for the baby! We discovered last night that the thing in our laundry room (I don't know the name of it.) that goes between the washer and dryer and the water heater is leaking! It's completely full of water and our entire laundry room is soaked! So at 11 last night Ricky called maintenance and they were supposed to come between 7 and 9 to fix it. Well it's 9:30 and they haven't shown up, so if they're not here by 10, they'll be getting a phone call. I got my new cell phone yesterday, but I have to activate it, so as soon as I do, Am you'll be getting a phone call! I have a doctor's appointment at 12 to have another ultrasound done, so I'll update about that later. I had to take the whole day off work because of the laundry room and the doctor, but I'm not complaining! Well, that's it for now. I'll write after the appointment.

Tonight is a lazy lounge night for me. Just relaxing on the couch and watching tv until I go to bed. Ricky's on duty today, so that always sucks, but I spent the day doing nothing besides work earlier. I took Ricky some dinner so I got to see him for a little while. He's so excited because he's already lost 3 pounds on his new diet and exercise routine. He thinks he's overweight and doesn't look as good as he did last Christmas when he proposed to me. I tell him he's crazy, but of course he doesn't listen. He has gained weight since we've been in Hawaii but so have I (even before I was pregnant). I'm trying my best to be supportive but I love him the way he is. He was this short chubby kid when I first met him and that's who I fell in love with 9 years ago, nothing's ever going to change that! I'm probably going to be the same way after I have the baby so I can't really say anything. I'm not dieting with him but I am making sure that he watches what he eats. I talked to my family tonight. My mom was already in bed so I talked to my dad and my sister, nothing really new there, but we talk every day so there's not going to be a whole lot of change. I didn't talk to my Am today, but I talked to her for about an hour yesterday so I guess that's ok. I hope she had a better day today. Well I'm gonna go take a shower before my shows come on, Gilmore Girls premieres tonight and Big Brother's on after that! I hope everyone has a great night!

It's been a few days since I've updated again. I hope everyone had a great weekend, mine was pretty good. Ricky had the weekend off so that was nice. We spent Saturday looking at baby stuff. We went to Toys R Us, the NEX, and Ross. I found a really cute Sailor Baby set that I want from Toys R Us. It's a teddy bear dressed like a sailor. They have the bedding for the crib, a lamp, a mobile, pillows, it's just so adorable! We also went to lunch on Saturday at Chili's. Ricky had never been there! I was so happy because they actually had potato soup, so of course that's what I ate! Then yesterday we just stayed at home all day. We cooked a big breakfast and I made tomato gravy! I know that probably none of you have heard of that, but it's huge in my family and it's my favorite kind of gravy to go on my biscuits. I did laundry all day, but then Ricky took me to ColdStone to get ice cream after dinner. I got cheesecake ice cream with brownies mixed in. It was yummy! Ricky's on duty today so I'm by myself, but I'm doing good. I go to the doctor tomorrow so I'll found out how much weight I've gained. I'm kind of nervous because it's been 6 weeks since I've been to the doctor so I don't really want to know how much I've gained! 74 days until I'll be home! I started counting down a few days ago and I'm marking it on my calendar! Well that's it for now. I'll update tomorrow after my doctor's appointment.

That's me, 3 months pregnant! My hubby took that picture yesterday.

I know it's been forever since I've been on here once again. I apologize for that, but it's like none of my other friends are ever on here anymore which is why I use Myspace all the time. Anyway, we went to the doctor on Nov. 30th and found out we're having a girl!!! We're going to name her Lana Elizabeth. We're both very excited. My husband told everybody he works with and is already calling her his little angel. Everything's fine, she weighs 12 ounces right now and is perfectly healthy. Of course, I'm getting bigger which I complain about a lot, but I know it's part of having this wonderful baby. Everyone knows except my dad because he doesn't want to know. He wants to be surprised, he's crazy! We leave to fly home in 10 days!!! I can't wait to be back home. It's only for 10 days, but it's a vacation for me and Ricky and it's getting to spend Christmas with our family! Ricky turned 21 this past weekend which was pretty interesting. I threw a party for him and of course he got drunk, but it wasn't really good so now he's sworn off drinking. We're having another party for him when we go home, but he's saying that he's not going to drink anything. We'll see. Well that's about all that's been going on with us. If I don't get on here again I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :)

I had my 28 week check-up last Friday. Everything's still great. I got tested for gestational diabetes but they said they'll only call if the test comes back abnormal so I'm not worried. My arm is still bruised though from the woman who drew my blood. She almost missed my vein so that didn't feel very good. They also said I gained 8 more pounds which is a little more than I should've so I'm trying my best to watch what I eat now. Saturday Ricky took me shopping for some more maternity clothes and he even got some new clothes too and a new pair of tennis shoes, and so did I. Saturday night I thought we were going out to eat with all of our friends because it was Rhonda's last weekend being here, she leaves this Friday to go back to Illinois, but it was actually a surprise baby shower! I was so surprised and so happy! We got a ton of stuff, pretty much everything we needed and asked for. We had great food and we played 'Guess the baby food'. Sunday I just hung out with Rhonda while Ricky went with our neighbor to watch the Super Bowl. Then after the game we decorated Lana's room. It's so cute! Oh, and her name is officially Lana Olivia Mount! I found out this morning that my great-uncle died last night which is sad, but I'm 5,000 miles away so there's nothing I can do. He was my mom's favorite uncle so I feel really bad about not being there for her, but hopefully she'll be okay. Well I guess that's about it for my weekend. I hope everyone else had a good one!

For those of you who don't know me or my husband, my new picture is my husband, Rick, holding our adorable daughter, Lana!

My daughter is one year old! It's so hard to believe! Her birthday was last Friday, May 4. My husband took the weekend off. We celebrated her birthday and then threw her a party on Saturday. We think she had a great time and of course she was spoiled by us and our friends and family! This year went by so fast. She's grown so much. She weighs 23 lbs. 13 oz. and is 30 inches long. She's walking everywhere, talking (only 5 real words, but she loves to make noise!), eating solid foods now, and has almost 6 teeth! I just love her more than anything and she still continues to amaze me!

Our lives are kind of up in the air right now though. My husband's going to be having hip replacement surgery within the next month. That's good for him, but unfortunately it will end his Navy career. Of course we're excited about being able to go back home, but we're worried about the surgery and recovery and what it's going to mean for us in the long run. His time in the Navy is up next February, but due to this we may end up going home sooner which is good and bad. He could possibly get medical retirement so we'd still get all the benefits and he'd still get paid, but he could also just get discharged and would get a nice amount of severance pay, but that's it. We're just having to take things one day at a time right now so if you would just remember us in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you!