day twenty-eight

day twenty-eight: my year in great detail

okay, so i'm not gonna lie.. earlier i was super pumped and all ready to blog and then my blogger thing wouldn't work.. but now that it's working i'm sleepy and just not in the mood to blog.. but since i have already fallen behind i feel as though i should.. so here goes!

September 2010: well, i already blogged about this month so you should already know about my new car! woot! i can't remember if i blogged this or not but rey got marine of the week on his ship which i am super proud of him for! i wish i could say that he was promoted to corporal but since the marine corps has screwed him once again that didn't happen.

August 2010: um.. after rey left all the months have sort of blended together and august was mostly spent working.. so yeah!

July 2010: pretty much the same as August.. my brother's family from Idaho did come down for the 4th and that was pretty fun.. other than that.. just work!

June 2010: i started work during the middle of this month and i have to say that just about saved me! from my experience with these two deployments i have learned that the first month is always the hardest and this made everything a lot easier to deal with since it somewhat took my mind off of rey being gone.

May 2010: this month was both an amazing month and a sad month all at the same time! rey got his pre-deployment leave from may 1st-11th and that was by far some of the best times we have had since being married. for once we got to act like a real couple and didn't have to worry about him going to work and it was just me and him the whole time. yes, we did slowly pack up our apartment little by little, but we got to do things like the price is right, and celebrate our one year anniversary, ( a month early might i add). sadly, he did have to go back to work and we prepared even more for rey's deployment! he ended up leaving may 22nd and i have to say that definitely tops my list of saddest days ever.. there is nothing more horrible than saying goodbye to your husband for seven long months not really knowing when you will hear from them next.

April 2010: this month was pretty much spent getting ready for deployment.. the worst part of it was rey spent two weeks on the ship practicing and training for the real thing.. so pretty darn sad!! oh, also both rey's mom and his dad's family came to visit, each for a couple of days! it was fun for him to have his family there... but of course when rey finally gets a day off it's the day that the dad is there.. so we didn't even really get to enjoy it the way we would have liked

March 2010: same thing as april.. just trying to spend as much time with each other as possible in between all of rey's ship training and weekend training!

February 2010: so let's see.. rey and i finally got to spend a valentines day together!! yay!!! even though we had been together since 2008 the first one rey was in cali and i was in utah, and the second one rey was deployed so we were pretty excited! we both picked out a box of chocolates for each other and rey surprised me on valentines day with some flowers, some perfume and lotion, and a pair of usmc sweat pants! i know we went out to dinner that night but i can't remember where.. somewhere awesome i am sure, and then went and saw the movie valentines day! best v-day ever!!

Janurary 2010: not gonna lie, this month sucked! we had just spent two weeks together in utah with family and then we had to come home and get thrust into rey's deployment training.. pretty much as soon as they got back they started working longer hours, more weekends, and started going out on the ship every two weeks for two weeks at a time! not fun!!

Decemeber 2009: so, to start this month out rey was in twentynine palms doing training so i was back in utah with my family! since my b-day is december 4th i went to dinner with two of my bestest friends, vanessa and laura, and then afterwords we met up with more of my friends at my house for games and cake! to top it all off i got a phone call from rey.. definitely not my ideal birthday.. but pretty good considering the circumstances! also, i went to the forgotten carols with my friends vanessa and katie, one of my favorite holiday traditions! i seriously can't wait until i can some day take rey! finally rey's training ended and i flew to california for a week, and then we drove to utah together for rey's christmas leave! it was super fun and we got to do both christmas parties with both mine and rey's side of the family, and of course got to spend our very first christmas together! it was actually pretty funny too because rey and i must have gotten a little excited about it being our first christmas since we bought each other a ton of presents and were still opening ours long after every one else finished! we also got to spend our first new years together as well! we went to a little party at his dad's house but they celebrated it at 10:00 so we left a little after ten and celebrated our new years snuggling in bed watching a movie! not too exciting, but a super perfect way to spend ones new years!

November 2009: Um.. well, rey hasn't celebrated a thanksgiving in the 3 years he has been in and will miss it again this year, but since he knew he was going to be in twentynine palms during thanksgiving we had our own celebration and made one huge turkey with all the trimmings such as potatos, stuffing, yams, rolls, pie.. the whole shebang! it was awesome, but of course i had to go to utah.. this time however i had chloe which made things a tad bit more difficult since rey and i didn't trust me driving the truck alone. luckily i have this awesome friend named miksexy aka mikaele.. she came with her boyfriend (now fiance) and picked me up and drove me home! woot!

October 2009: Rey has known pretty much since he first met me that i have always wanted a pug and since he knew he was going to miss my birthday yet again he decided to get me a little puppy as an early birthday present and so this is the month in which i recieved my cute little chloe! also, rey and i got to spend our first halloween together and it was pretty exciting! we decorated our door and bought tons of candy hoping that kids would stop by! sadly we only got like 3 groups of trick or treaters.. but i will never forget how excited rey looked when some kids knocked on our door! i can still remember being all snuggled up on the couch watching ice age and waiting.. such an awesome halloween!

okay.. so that's my year in as much detail as i can remember!! enjoy!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen