headaches && energy

so i dont know why, well maybe i do, but i've been getting these terrible headaches and i'm pretty sure the biggest thing is me not drinking enough water. i really do try to drink as much water as i can a day, but i have to drink it in little doses otherwise it makes me sick to my stomach. one day i even went to the doctor because i had a headache for pretty much 4 days straight and tylenol wasn't working since that's the only thing i'm allowed to take. anyways, the main point is, the other night i got this horrible horrible headache and of course the pills weren't working! then add in the fact that i was reading the third book of the hunger games trilogy and the first book already gave me crazy nightmares and this one night in particular my nightmares were horrible! don't get me wrong! i love the book, but i guess pregnant women have some pretty weird and vivid dreams and this one was definitely no exception. i kept waking up due to my dream being so scary and my head was just pounding. i tried to get myself to dream of something else, but every time i fell back asleep my dream would start right from where it left off, which of course is pretty lame! anywho! i had to wake up early the next morning for work which sucked because i had hardly gotten any sleep. rey being the awesome husband that he is stopped off at rich's bagels and got me a cheese bagel and that seemed to make my morning a tad bit better, that is, until just after i finished it i felt that familiar sick feeling and ran to the bathroom. i was pretty mad that morning because i had just gone 9 days without throwing up and for me that was a pretty big and huge thing! things just got even worse once i arrived at work because as soon as i entered the building i had to run to the bathroom again. in the one hour that i spent at work that morning i had thrown up 4 times! i felt so bad and luckily got someone to cover for me because i could tell if stayed it would be one miserable day! in the end i just came home, snuggled up in my pj's and fell asleep! i think that was definitely what i needed because later that day when i woke up i was feeling good and energized! since rey works nights he was still sleeping so grabbed the computer and started looking at pinterest and blogs! one of my friends had posted a recipe she made of philly cheesesteaks and homemade fries and it just looked delish! when rey woke up we went to the store and i bought all the ingredients needed to make it! normally i can't even go near the kitchen sink or stove without getting sick but for some reason i just wanted to cook! rey has been super awesome and has totally taken care of me in every way and has taken care of all the cooking and cleaning and i don't think he minded at all that i wanted to cook! just like i figured the recipe was super yummy! thanks kaele! then today was my actual day off and once again i felt the urge to cook and made a super yummy recipe that i had found off pinterest a little while ago but had always been too sick to make! now, i don't know if all this energy is just from me not working the past two days, but i'm hoping that i'm finally in that feeling better stage because it makes me feel good and useful instead of just sleeping all day or having to have rey make me food when i'm hungry! as for me getting sick the other day i'm not sure if it's because i ate something the baby didn't like, or if it was just the lack of sleep and that horrible headache but i'm hoping that will be the last time because that was just miserable! so here's to hoping that i'll continue to have more energy and finally be able to take care of rey and repay him for being such a sweet and awesome husband!

baby && birthday

sorry i haven't posted in a really long time! life has just been a bit crazy to say the least. seriously my life these days consist of me working and sleeping. i feel like i'm working a ton these days which actually i am pretty proud of myself for since here i am pregnant and working full time. when i'm not working i'm generally sleeping! i swear i am tired all the time! they generally say the second trimester is where you start feeling better and have more energy, and while i have felt a little bit better i swear i'm just getting more and more tired. i'm so stinking glad to be coming out of the morning sickness phase! i know this is all probably tmi, but i was generally throwing up anywhere from 1-5 times a day! no fun! especially when you are working and you have to run out of the stand at random times. i figured morning sickness was obviously going to suck, but i never imagined it feeling the way it did. even when i was feeling "good" my stomach had this weird nasty feeling going on. Plus, since that lasted close to six weeks it was really getting hard to imagine what feeling normal would feel like. luckily these days i'm starting to feel a little bit better. i only throw up once every couple of days now and i'll now go for a few hours with my stomach feeling normal! i'm really hoping i can get rid of that feeling all together, but for now i'll take it! so tomorrow i have another doctor's appointment and i'm pretty excited because i'm pretty sure this is the day we'll be making our appointment to find out what we are having! it's so hard to not stop and check out the baby section whenever we are shopping and i can't wait to finally start buying the baby some stuff. rey has already started buying the baby some disney stuffed animals but i just want to wait until i know for sure what we are having before i start buying anything! so as most everybody knows yesterday was my birthday!!! since it was a sunday we couldn't do very much but we just hung out and watched movies all day that we had rented from redbox the night before and seriously it was beyond perfect! rey was super cute too because he gave me a birthday princess button to wear all day! he also told me he had a surprise cake for later. for dinner he remembered me mentioning how much i loved lasanga a couple of weeks ago so he cooked that and some garlic bread and it was delicious! after dinner we did my cake and it was beyond perfect!! i posted pictures on facebook but it was a cinderella cake and it was actually really yummy too! since we couldn't really do much yesterday because of it being sunday rey and i are going to head downtown tonight for some melting pot, and after that we are going to temple square to check out the lights! i seriously couldn't be more lucky! he is the bestest husband ever and i can tell he is trying so hard to make this birthday perfect due to all the ones he has missed! although in my opinion just the fact that he is here with me makes it perfect! just a few days ago his old unit deployed, which means if he had stayed in he would have once again missed my birthday and missed all the big baby moments like feeling the baby's first kicks, and finding out the sex of the baby, and of course missing the birth! i know without a doubt that Heavenly Father is looking out for us and has led us in the direction that we are supposed to be going! yes, we found out that we were pregnant right around the time that our military insurance ended, but rey and i have been able to save a decent amount of money and i now have insurance through my work, and honestly everything seems to be working out in our favor. sure, we now need to pay some money out of pocket to have this baby, but like i said earlier rey will get to be there for everything and with rey starting school soon with his GI bill we are way more than okay with money and if in the future i need to quit my job we'd be fine! honestly i just feel so blessed!

oh baby!

well, as most everyone knows by now i'm preggo! yay!! rey and i are so stinkin excited! it's actually kind of funny because we had tried in the past to get pregnant when rey was in the marines since we had free insurance and everything would have been paid for, but it never ended up happening. we were pretty sad for a bit, but we decided it was probably for the best and figured we would wait a while for rey to get a job and get school going before we tried again. well, surprise! i ended up getting pregnant pretty much as soon as he got out. actually, i think we found out around the exact time that our insurance from the marines stopped. i actually think the way we found out was pretty funny. we had spent the day fishing and at night i realized that i was a day late for my period, which happens, but not too often. we knew it was probably too early to be taking a test, but we had one left over from back in cali so we figured we would try it. well, i took the test and a very very second light line showed up, which to me was crazy because all over tests always had just shown that one line. i began freaking out and quickly started googling and everything said even a faint line means you're pregnant. even though it was really really late at this point we ran to wal mart and bought the expensive tests that actually say pregnant or not pregnant. when we got back home i took the test and it said pregnant! rey and i were so extremely happy! even though we weren't trying and been planning on waiting a little bit we were just so excited because both of us wanted to become parents so bad! i think one of the funniest things is when i had read up on being pregnant it said the more morning sickness you have, the less chance of a miscarriage you have. well for the next couple of weeks i was freaking out because i wanted morning sickness, and it ended up starting at about 6 and a half weeks and now i am absolutely miserable! i can't believe i had actually been looking forward to the morning sickness stage! i'm definitely ready for the second trimester to come and i better not be one of those women that have it their entire pregnancy! being sick is no fun, and since i'm working full time, it's definitely not fun to be in the middle of my shift and having to run to the nearest bathroom to puke my guts out! another thing i think is funny, which is actually pretty sad on my part, but when i thought of being pregnant i was all stoked thinking about being able to eat whatever i wanted since i had to eat a little bit more since i would need to eat more because of the baby. well, eating is actually a HUGE pain in the butt! nothing ever sounds good, and when i finally find something that sounds good, when i eat it i throw it up so i'm back to square one! PLUS, i think i ruined cafe rio for me! i ate there one day and that was actually my worst day yet of throwing up and now just thinking of cafe rio makes me gag and sick to my stomach! i'm just hoping that maybe some day it will sound appetizing because that would make me sad to not want to eat there again since it has been one of my favorite restaurants! i know it may seem like i am complaining a lot, but like i said earlier, i am so excited to be pregnant. when rey and i went to the first doctor's appointment that was seriously one of the best day's ever! i was actually a bit paranoid since i have been reading WAY too much stuff and i read about how some women will have all the symptoms of pregnancy, but when they get to the doctor they find out they miscarried and it's just an empty embryo or something like that, and i was so paranoid that that was going to happen to me, so when the doctor did the ultrasound and showed us the baby's heart beating i was seriously so unbelievably happy. although, i think the best part was actually hearing the little heart beat! he had a hard time getting it since it was moving around a lot so we only got to hear it for like 5-6 seconds, but it was so awesome to hear! i can't wait for my next appointment and for the little one to get bigger! well, i think that is all for now, but i'll try to keep my blog posted about updates, and maybe when i start taking belly photos as i get further along i will post them on here.

a not much update

alright, last night Laura informed that I hadn't updated my blog in almost a month so I figured I'd do a quick update even though there really isn't all that much to report on at the moment. as i mentioned in my last blog the hubby is home and it's AMAZING!! even though we do have opposite schedules a lot of the time it is still so amazing to at least get to see him everyday and know that he's safe. our schedules are about to get a little bit weirder and possibly harder, but at last we are in the same state. he is starting a job working at a marriot near the airport as a night time security guard/shuttle driver. he will be working from 11 PM to 7 AM. So he's going to be sleeping a lot during the day, so that might stink.. but for now it will work. i'm just proud of Rey for how fast he got a job. He came home and during the first week he had six interviews and out of those six pretty much got offered three, even though one was pretty much a scam, and another one he might possibly take but it isn't till January and it's a paid internship at Zions bank where they teach you all these management skills and then after three months you start the job and since you did the internship it's really easy to get promoted there.. so he's probably only going to do this night job until january and then in january do the zions thing and school.. like i was saying though, i'm so proud of him for wanting to take care of me and our future family. he has a lot of buddies that got out and don't even search for a job and just live off unemployment and just spend their days drinking and partying, and chillaxing.. one friend just spends his days fishing. now i know rey would fish every day if he could, but he's doing what's best for us! i'm super duper lucky! really, there isn't much going on at the moment.. i'm just working, and rey's working.. we have gone fishing together twice which has been pretty fun. actually the first one was the fun one because we woke up early and drove to this pretty lake and we were actually getting a lot of bites and catches.. and the second time we went to a close by, but very nasty lake where rey got eaten up by some nasty mosquitos. so yeah, that's my update for now! oh, and rey wanted me to say that he's super cool. the end! kristen

the hubby is home

yay! rey is home for good!!! on wed i flew to california and i swear it was the longest flight ever after not seeing rey for two months. the worst was i was at the back of the plane and the people in the front took forever! i was so close, but felt so far! after about ten minutes of waiting for slow people i speed walked my way to the baggage claim area! i know i have done worse, but it definitely felt good to be in his arms after two long months apart! the next day we went to disneyland and oh my gosh! it was freakishly hot!! california must have been having a heat wave or something but it was 95 degrees at disneyland! i think the hottest i have ever been before was 85 degrees, so waiting in the heat was pretty uncomfortable and miserable, but we still had fun. because it was september and the slow season lines were pretty short which was awesome, but the park was only going to be open till 8, and sadly rey and i only made it till 4! on friday rey and i drove back to utah. it was pretty sad to leave california since that has been my home on and off for the past 2 years and it's been rey's for four years. in the end we both knew we had something better coming for us so we were pretty excited at the same time. the drive wasn't too bad since rey and i have been apart for so long that it just felt good to be together and talk.

so it's now been almost a week since rey has been home and i love it!! the first two days were a little rough since it was all moving in, unpacking, and getting a lot of stuff done, but just the fact that we are finally together is making it all worth it! it's kind of funny because during the two months that i was working before work i'd always be so bored and watch the clock move slowly till i had to get ready or leave for work, and now that time goes by so fast because i love spending all this quality time with my naldo! i'm pretty stoked for tomorrow because it's finally my day off and rey and i have a super fun day planned. tomorrow we are waking up at 4:30 and heading to the lake to go fishing! also, i just got my very own hot pink fishing pole and i'm not going to lie, i'm pretty stoked about it! we are going to spend the morning fishing and just hanging out. after we finish fishing we are going to head to some property that his family owns. pretty much from when i first met rey he has always talked about this certain piece of property and how much he loves it, and how his grandparents have said that someday it will be his.. so in the end this piece of property will someday be ours. so yeah, i'm pretty excited to see this place that i have heard so much about. kind of sucks that i have to work saturday morning because it could have been fun to stay the night and camp there! anyways, i think that's about it!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

ungrateful people annoy me

yep, the title says it all! ungrateful people ANNOY me! the other day i was working and a girl comes and tells me that she was so pissed because on her lunch break she was driving to chick-fil-a and it turn her an extra five minutes to get there because there was a stupid marine's funeral going on. number 1. does she not realize my husband is a marine? 2. five minutes? really? oh no you poor thing! 3. a marine just gave up his life so other's can have a better one and his family is grieving and feeling so much pain and you are over here complaining about five extra minutes! seriously i wanted to slap the girl!!

then today i'm working and was talking about how excited i was that my husband is going to be home for good in two weeks and the girl i'm talking to is saying how she wishes that she could spend time away from her husband and how being married is hard.. and how it sucks! i went on to say how being married to a marine who has to spend all this time away makes you realize that the small stupid stuff you fight over isn't worth it and how you learn to appreciate each other and how precious time together is and how i'm so excited! she then goes on to tell me that as soon as he gets back i'm going to wish he was gone again.. nope sorry! sure, rey and i have our moments, but i'd give anything to be with him.. sorry lady! having a husband be gone all the time sucks and i hate that some people don't realize this.. seriously! be grateful that you have a husband around 24/7 and know that he's always safe and that you can call, text, or be together whenever the heck you want!

sorry, that's my little rant! the end!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

bloggy blogging

since i haven't blogged in forever i figured it was time to update, however, there truly isn't much for me to update on. life here is pretty darn boring! seriously all i do is work! for those of you who don't know, i was promoted at work to supervisor so that was pretty exciting and i'm now working full time which is pretty nice, especially since rey is going to be coming home soon and it will be nice to be working full time while he looks for a job! i'll get to rey coming home in a minute. one of the other perks of being a supervisor is that i get not only TWO free tickets, but i get FOUR free tickets! i'm pretty stoked on that, but right now it isn't all that cool considering the movies out right now aren't the greatest.. and seriously good movies aren't really coming out till the end of september.. oh well! i don't really have all that much free time to go and see movies anyway!

now, as for rey the last i blogged he was supposed to be getting out august 12th, but of course somebody lost his paperwork and was now supposed to get out september 14th! WELL, finally some good news and it looks like rey is now officially getting out aug 31st! woot!! the only problem is.. tmo, the people who will come and pack up your stuff and move you for free aren't coming till september 6th.. so he's stuck there until then! in the end i don't think he'll mind too much since i kind of think he will like having six days just to himself since the marine corps has pretty much controlled his life for the past four years! so the plan is now that i will fly down on sept 7th at night.. and that will give him time after tmo has packed everything up to deep clean the apartment and turn in the keys during the day on september 7th. that night rey will pick me up from long beach and we will drive to anaheim. we are going to stay in a hotel right next to disneyland and stay there the night.. the next day we will spend the day at disneyland for the last time for a very long while.. and then on the 9th rey and i will drive back to utah! so yeah! rey should be here hopefully on the 9th of september! i of course get to see him on the 7th, which is actually kind of funny since the last time i saw him was july 7th! so we will be seeing each other exactly 2 months later! i can't wait!! we have been so lucky to be able to text and skype whenever we could, but nothing beats spending time together and i am so thankful that from the second i see him on the 7th we wont ever have to spend any time apart! sure, we will probably be super busy, especially when he starts school and is working next spring, but at least he will get to come home to me every night! well, i think that is all! sorry for the lame update and taking forever to do it!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

grenade

well, the marines have once again decided to screw rey over! after rey being in for almost four years we are pretty much used to the disappointment that they have caused on many occasions, but this time they have outdone themselves. after rey's unit got back from bridgeport they were told that the guys could do the early release program and that rey could get out of the marines early. well, everything was working out so it looked like rey was going to get out aug. 12th, and even though rey was one of the very first guys to put his paperwork in he had to wait for his paperwork to be submitted so other guys could put theirs in too. turns out rey's got lost and all the guys that took forever and turned theirs in way after are getting out in august, but now it's looking like rey is not getting out till mid september and possibly not even getting out early and just staying in till his original october date. this is just so frustrating because the only reason i came back this early was because he figured he would be back in no less than a month and now we have to wait over two! this is one of the many reasons that rey is getting out! unless it has to do directly with them nobody cares about you and everyone does whatever is best or easiest for them!

at this point i'm just stressed to the max! since we figured he was getting out in august we canceled the lease and now that he's staying he has to pay a bunch extra and now i'm stressed about money.. certain people that you thought you could count on screw you over, i'm working a ton, i'm tired, and basically nothing is going like it should! i'm really at my breaking point point because i'm not sure how much more i can handle and i know that it's only going to get harder! with rey getting out he's no longer going to be able to take terminal leave, which is leave that they can take and actually be out of the marines, but you are still pretty much getting paid so it's like having an income while you look for a job! so now we are going to have to rely on my paycheck until he gets a job and since i'm only part time that's kind of a problem! grrr! i i'm so annoyed! right now and just keep listening to the song grenade by bruno mars! it's a good angry song and it's making me feel good to vent and be angry! i seriously feel like this song is so fitting since rey has pretty much given everything for the marines and they just turn around and screw him over.. and then there are certain people who just take take take and never give anything back and it's just so frustrating! well, that's my vent! enjoy!

quick update

well, i figured since everybody that i come across asks me what's the dealio i figured i'd let everyone know! although, i do have to admit that so much of it is up in the air that i'm not exactly sure what is going on myself and it's all subject to change! alright, so i'm back in utah! woot! i talked to jordan commons and they said i could have my job back and today i went and filled out all the paperwork. she figured i'd get a phone call in the next 2-3 days and i'll find out when i'm going to start working, which actually could happen this weekend.. so who really knows! also, i'm thinking i'm in the deli! for me this is both a good and bad thing! good because it's pretty much the only place in the whole food court at jordan commons that i haven't worked so when it comes time to promote it will look awesome that i can go just about anywhere! now the bad is pretty obvious.. i don't know what i'm doing there! honestly, to me it doesn't seem that smart to put me in one of the busiest places with the most to learn on the busiest weekend of the summer.. i mean really? what are they thinking?! haha! instead of putting me some place where i could be a big asset, they are placing me in a place where i'll be like a newbie! oh well! either way i'm stoked to start working again! i'm just hoping i get a decent amount of hours.. anything over 25 i will be thrilled about.. i'm also hoping that a supervisor position opens up shortly because that would be amazeballs! i guess i shall just have to wait and see!

now, the dealio with rey is pretty much the same as always.. we have no idea what is going on! okay, so maybe we do have a little bit of an idea but it's not set in stone! as of right now here is what is looking like it's going to happen and what i'm hoping will happen! due to early release rey could officially be out of the marines on august 15th! yay!!!! not only that, but he'd get 15 days of leave! so basically he'd be done on the 1st and probably drive back to utah on the 2nd! so i could be reunited with my hubby in 3 weeks! ahh! that would be sooo amazing! i'm trying not to get my hopes up too much since with the marines things seem to change and they always seem to screw us over.. but as of right now that is looking to be the plan! are you stoked or what?! i know i am!!

anywho! that's my quick little update! how it was awesome and informative! any questions? hit me up fools!

kwisen!

too many emotions

well, i have less than a week until i leave for utah and i'm definitely having some strange emotions.. i'm excited, i'm nervous, i'm sad, i'm happy! ahh! too many feelings! i'm so sad that this is my last week living in california and i'm going to miss rey, i'm going to miss the beach, i'm going to miss this apartment, and i'm going to miss disneyland! however, i'm so excited and happy that rey and i's real life is about to start. yes, we may be starting out in my parents basement but we will finally be able to start working on our real future and real jobs in utah. i did make a couple of friends here and i'm going to miss them a lot, but i'm so excited to be back with my bestest friends whom i have grown up with and i have definitely missed them! i'm even more excited to be around family! it will be so fun to be able to go to family bbq's and go to sunday dinners and spend holidays with them! as of right now i'm thinking of how this fourth of july will be the last holiday we will spend in cali away from our family! it's so crazy! i wish rey was coming back with me and i'm sad that we will have to once again spend a little time apart but we are pretty sure the longest it will be is a month and a half and since we have phones and skpye it shouldn't be that bad! hopefully it's no longer than a month, but knowing that this will be the last time is making me pretty happy! well, those are a few of my thoughts and since i am on pills i hope that made sense.. if not! oh well! love you lots!

kwisen

anniversary and other such things!

i know it's been awhile but i feel like i have been super busy lately! the number one thing that i want to blog about is mine and rey's anniversary! it was such an amazing anniversary and i'm already feeling as though i'm forgetting some of the good stuff so i figure i should post before it's too late!!

well, since rey's unit is off at bridgeport (well, they are coming back today) he has been getting off around 1, so on friday the 10th rey got off at 1. We took Chloe to my friend's house that was watching her for the weekend, stopped off at quiznos for lunch, then made our way to disneyland! Since we had to drop Chloe off and then ate lunch we got there around 2:30, which worked out pretty good because we technically couldn't check in until 3 but I heard that they will check your luggage and then you can go to the parks and they will text you when your room is ready and you can go up to your room and your bags will already be there. In the end our room was already ready so we went on up! The room was seriously amazing! everything was mickey and i wish i would have taken more pictures of all the mickey themed stuff! Although the best thing about the room had to be the light up head board that played music! I want one! The only thing that I could probably complain about was our room view was slightly tainted and lame since there was some construction going on in the back which ruined our view! Anyway, after checking out our room we went out to the brand new pool which had only been opened for like a week! It was so cool because it had waterslides and they were super fun! Besides me and Rey it was only little kids going down so that made me feel a little stupid but it was totally worth it! After our dip in the pool Rey and i came back, showered up and went to Goofy's Kitchen in the Disneyland Hotel. It's a buffet where characters walk around and take pictures with you. I had heard some bad reviews about the food and said that it was more about the atmosphere but i thought the food was amazing! they had kid foods like hot dogs, mac and cheese, and this amazing pb&j pizza.. then they had really adult food... i can't remember what but it was almost as if they had to make it seem really adult to try and appeal to the adults.. either way it was delicious! Then there was dessert! They had like two full tables full of desserts and i think i ended up with like 20 things on my plate! it was ridiculous! After dinner we decided to go and walk around downtown disney for awhile since it was right outside of our hotel! We walked around a bit and we started our very own disney vinyl collection! They are so fun to collect since you pick a box without knowing whats in it and hope it's one of the ones you wanted, and if its a repeat you can try and trade! It's a fun hobby and fun to collect, but its very addicting and you can spend way too much money on it.. which we did! ha! As were walking back to our room we passed by the movie theatre and saw that super eight was playing so we decided to go and see it. We bought our tickets and had about 30 minutes so we decided to run our new vinyls back to our hotel room since it was literally like 2 minutes away. At this point we had probably been gone for 2 hours and we came to find our room all decked out in flowers! It was super cute! We then went and saw Super 8, which we both really liked and then headed to bed since we were waking up early for our day at the park!

We ordered breakfast through the hotel and had it delivered at 6, and after eating breakfast we made our way to the park. Since we were staying at the hotel we got to go in an hour early at 7! Since star tours just reopened it's generally about a 2 hour wait so we hit that up twice, then rode space mountain before the park even opened to the general public! After that Rey and I went and started a locker RAK! I have recently become obsessed with an iphone ap called mousewait! Basicallly you can check wait times, but there is also a lounge area where people can post pictures from the park, and everybody talks about disneyland, and people at the park do things called RAKs which stand for Random Acts of Kindness. The most popular ones are where people will hide fastpasses and you can go find them, or they will have something like a pin or a vinyl and you go and find them.. or there is the locker RAK like the one we did. What you do is someone gets a locker, leaves something in it and a book that people can sign to say they stopped by your locker. All throughout the day people will stop by, take something out of the locker and then leave something for the next people! It was so much fun and by the end of the day we ended up with about 25 signatures from people stopping by! We said it was our anniversary and some people wrote the sweetest things and I am definitely keeping it as an amazing memory of our anniversary. We also then went to the train station and made a reservation for the Lilly Belle. The Lilly Belle is a cart at the end of one of the trains that Walt had decided he wanted to have when VIP's came to the park. He ended up dying before it opened so his wife Lilly decided to finish it and designed it to look like Walt's Apartment in Main street. It even has the same carpet as up in Walt's Apartment. Riding that was seriously one of my favorite memories since not many people even know about it and very few actually get to ride it.

Basically we spent the day having fun and went back to the room around 2:00 for a nap! We actually ended up waking up around 4:30, which was kind of crazy because I really wanted to make it the flag retreat ceremony at 5:00! Luckily we made it just in time and oh man that was such an awesome experience and I reccomend everyone does it at some point! I have always known that they have done it, but I didn't really know exactly what it was. They do a special ceremony and sing some songs and invite active duty and veterans to come and surround the flag. Rey didn't want to which was kind of lame, but there was a guy there that had recently recieved a purple heart and it was just so amazing. When they were taking down the flag and singing I was pretty much bawling! It was such a special ceremony and I think it's awesome that Disneyland does something that is so patriotic and that also thanks our troops! After that we made our way to the Blue Bayou for our dinner reservation. The Blue Bayou is the restaurant inside of Pirates of the Carribean and we even requested a seat by the water. While we were waiting we even found the place where Club 33 members enter into Club 33. Club 33 is an exclusive resteraunt where it's like a 35,000 dollar membership and each plate there is around $100! So it's pretty crazy and when celebrities and high up people come that's generally where they go! Well as we were waiting the fire alarm to the Blue Bayou and Club 33 went off since Club 33 is just above Blue Bayou. Rey ended up standing right next to the Club 33 door and watched all the people come out. After about 30 minutes and 30 minutes past our reservation time they finally let people back in and after about 5 minutes we were in with a seat right by the water! We had eaten there on our honeymoon but in the back, so this time it was so much more special and romantic, plus a couple next to us got engaged.. so it was pretty adorable! After that I can't really remember what we did, but we basically spent the night riding rides and having a blast!

Sunday we sadly had to check out and we were pretty depressed! After spending the past two nights at this amazingly beautiful place it was sad to say goodbye. We decided to spend a couple of hours at the park and went to breakfast at the Plaza Inn that is a breakfast buffet and disney characters walk around! If you want to eat at a cool place at disneyland and don't want to spend a buttload this would be my suggestion. It's still $25 bucks a person, but its a buffet and we had at least 6 characters come by our table! super fun and super worth it! At around 2 we left and picked up our chloe who we both had missed!

So yeah, our anniversary was pretty amazing and i couldn't have asked for a better one! yes, we spent way too much money but we figured since it was 2 in 1 and our first one together we figured it was worth it! Plus we made a pact to come back to disneyland for our 10th anniversary! we want to try and save so we can bring our kids and stay at the hotel again, so hopefully it works out! As for everything else it's going good, i'm just getting ready to move back to Utah in two weeks! I'm super sad to leave the beach and most of all disneyland, but i'm excited to be back with my friends and family. We are hoping that Rey gets to get out in August but we'll probably find out for sure this week! So I guess we shall see! I'm hoping he does get out in August cause we wouldn't even have to be apart for a month which would be fantastic!

So let's see.. I'm getting my wisdom teeth out on tuesday and i'm pretty much freaking out about it, plus it's kind of stressful cause rey's little sister is here and she is flying back to utah on thursday but rey isn't sure he'll be able to get off work to drive her, and we're figuring i will be on meds so i shouldn't be driving.. so who the heck knows!! Well, that is all for now! sorry this was probably super long and boring but i wanted to try and remember as much as i could and write it down before i forgot!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

disneyland season pass

dear disneyland season pass,

you are the best!

love,
kristen

but really! it's amazing! during the month of june i will probably be going to disneyland 7 times.. and no, i'm not sick of it.. and no it hasn't lost any of it's magic! in fact, it just gets better and better! every time i go rey and i do something different and i have found out so many cool facts! for instance, there a tons of hidden mickeys all throughout disneyland and it is so stinkin fun to look for them and find.. especially ones that i haven't read about and find on my own! another cool thing is there is a train in the back of one of the disneyland trains and it's called the lily belle and it is a super nice car and back in the day they only let celebrities and high up people ride in it.. in fact, the only way to ride it now is to get there super early and see if at some point in the day they will let you ride it. it's such a special train car that you have to have a cast member sit in there with you and when you get off you can sign the guestbook. i haven't done it yet, but on rey and i's anniversary we are planning on making it happen! also, another cool thing that i have found is a phone app! it's called mouse wait and if you are planning a trip to disneyland i would totally recommend it! not only does it have wait times, but there is a lounge area where people can talk and the people at the park will hide things for people to find or you can find the person and they will give you something cool! for instance yesterday at the park we found a girl and she gave me a little mermaid pin! how cool is that?! seriously i have had so much fun going the past couple of months and by the time i move back to utah i will probably have gone about 20 times or more! yes.. the pass was about $450 but it has saved us sooo much money.. like i said.. more than 20 times and i get free parking each time and now parking is up to $15 so right there we have saved $300 dollars and we get discounts on food and merchandise! plus, in the past couple of weeks i have gotten to ride the new star tours ride and the little mermaid all before it has even opened to the public! seriously! i am so stinkin lucky! i can't remember if i mentioned it before but rey and i are going to spend our anniversary at the disneyland hotel and i am so excited! everything i have seen about this hotel just seems amazing!! plus, they just redid the pool and a couple of other things at the disneyland hotel and it just makes me even more excited! basically keep an eye out for photos because i'm pretty sure i'm going to take a bunch! anywhoo... i'm out!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

GLEEEEEE!!!!

while it's fresh in my mind i wanted to blog about glee! oh my goodness! twas amazing!! i saw the set list a few days ago and some of the songs i wasn't too happy about and was super sad that they left out some of the good ones.. but honestly every song was AMAZING!! plus, they even did a few songs that i wasn't expecting them to do and that made it even better! the only bad thing i can say about the show was it was supposed to start at 7:30 and at 7:30 there was a 30 minute dance number by some dance crew in LA and they weren't really that great.. i dunno.. wasn't impressed! then after that we had to wait another 30 minutes for the glee stuff to start! some of the highlights from where i sat was we could see backstage a little and i got to see artie, rachel, sam, and mercedes before the show even started! OH! also, the girl who plays becky was sitting near our section.. like i was in second 219 and she was in 220! tons of people were storming her for pictures and autographs but i felt bad and didn't want to bug her so i didn't.. although it would have been cool! she seemed super nice and sweet!

Some of the favorite things about the show was that it started out with them obviously singing don't stop believin' and instead of them doing the version where everybody gets to sing, which in my opinion isn't as good, it was just rachel and finn!! it was so good and i have to say i was pleasantly surprised with finn's voice! i really think that they worked with him and trained him since i know when he first started on glee he wasn't that great of a singer. actually, the only person that i think lipsynched tonight was brittany when she sang slave for you! also, i kind of have to say the singer i was most impressed with was artie! he was amazing!! he seriously has such a good voice and when he danced in safety dance it was awesome!! some of my favorite moments were when finn sang jesse's girl! he did a pretty good job, but i kind of think they turned up the music super load to drown him out a little bit! as most people know i love me some finn and throughout the concert i would watch him and he was always doing something funny and dancing along! speaking of things that i thought was cool about the people.. brittany and rachel were the best at interacting with the crowd and waving which i thought was really sweet! okay, back to the good songs! i loved when rachel sang firework.. and they had actual fireworks on stage which were pretty awesome! one thing that i loved that i wasn't expecting was kurt doing the single ladies dance! it was awesome! also, when i saw the set list the other day it didn't show them singing new york, which is one of my favorite songs from this past season and when they sang it i started to freak out! i did whip out my camera, but sadly i missed the part of finn rapping! it was pretty shweetest! my other favorite surprise moment was when the guys sang friday! when we drove up i told rey that i really hoped they would sing it.. and they did!! ahh! i can't wait to see this again in theatres this summer.. is that lame?!

anywho! i could go on and on but i think i should stop for now.. i will update with videos and pictures tomorrow! the videos turned out decent.. but the lighting for the pictures wasn't always the best.. oh wells! also, we were pretty close to the stage and the pictures just don't do it justice..

peace in the middle east,
kristen

catching up

i just looked at my blog and realized it has been WAY too long since my last post! well, as most of you know rey just had his surgery to get the tumor removed! yesterday was definitely a LONG day! we got there at nine in the morning and checked in, but ended up waiting in the waiting room till 10:30! so at 10:30 they took him back, but apparently he just laid in a bed for awhile. i wasn't really nervous for him until he was gone, so it was definitely a long wait! at 1:30 a nurse came into the waiting room and told me rey was done. so i walk in the room and rey just looked out of it. he had this huge smile on my face and starts telling me about this guy juan, who is not really named juan, but that is what he calls him, and how they keep telling him that's not his name but he doesn't care. seriously i wish i could remember it all because it was freaking hilarious! i was trying super hard not to laugh, but it really was funny! we finally got to leave around 2:30 and rey came home. for the most part he has been feeling pretty good due to all the meds but he is tired constantly and pretty out of it! every so often he's in pain, but luckily the meds work really well and kick in pretty fast! i just hope he starts feeling better soon because these meds are annoying! haha! he's basically a zombie! the one pretty funny thing is, is rey was really worried about chloe since they always play rough together and she walks all over everybody.. well, pretty much as soon as chloe was around rey she knew something was off. she has been super gentle with him and never leaves his side. rey even decided to sleep on the couch last night and chloe stayed out on the couch with him. i definitely think she is making sure he is okay!

so besides the surgery the good news is... REY DOESN'T HAVE TO GO TO BRIDGEPORT! i'm pretty much freaking out!! i was starting to get really annoyed of the fact that we weren't going to spend an anniversary together till our third anniversary, especially since there would be no point in him going this time around since he gets out of the marines in october.. but it all worked out! even though this is our two year anniversary it is the first one we get to spend together so we are going all out! not only are we going to disneyland (surprise surprise huh?) we are staying at the disneyland hotel!! i'm so stinkin excited! last time we stayed at the paradise pier resort and it was awesome!!! but this time we are staying in the actual disneyland hotel! we even made reservations for the blue bayou.. yep, the restaurant inside of pirates of the carribean! can it be june 11th please?!

so besides that i guess the only other cool thing is.. GLEE CONCERT ON FRIDAY!! ahhh! i'm freaking out! i get to be in the same room as cory monteith!! although, i did see the set list on perez hilton and i have to admit i'm not too happy about some of the song choices.. some of them are awesome.. but another couple are lameo flameo! oh well! either way i'm stoked!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

Patience

since yesterday was all about me whining and complaining i figured i should write this, especially after i saw a post on facebook that my sister-in-law posted. honestly, i wouldn't be surprised if this post was meant for me. it definitely wouldn't be the first time this has happened. for those of that you that read my blog during rey's last deployment i posted a story about this guy who's car broke down and how he just had to trust in the Lord and keep going.. well, i was having a hard time at that point and just after praying my sister-in-law had posted that on facebook and that one thing seriously helped me so many times through that deployment. a few months later i told my sister in law how that had left a huge impact on me and she told me she just had a feeling she should post it, and she actually posts a lot of church related stuff.. well, last night she posted this..

‎"Perhaps there are those who demand rather than request.There may be those who pray for certain blessings without any questions in their minds as to the value of those things to them. Perhaps they are disappointed and even shaken in their faith if their prayer is not granted.Remember that our prayers are often as inconsistent and inappropriate to our Father in Heaven as are the demands of our little children upon us. What earthly parent would give a little one a bottle of poison with which to play, even though the child might ask and demand and cry for it? . . . And yet we sometimes ask for just such impossible things, just such dangerous things, and the Lord in his mercy withholds them. Let us pray with the attitude always of the crucified One, 'nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.' (Luke 22:42)" (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p. 123).

last night when i read that it hit me super super hard! as a lot of you have been able to see rey and i really want a baby and that has been in our prayers.. and every month when we find out another month has gone by without us getting pregnant we do remember that it will happen in Heavenly Father's time.. but it's still pretty hard. i dunno, this was just another good reminder that it will happen when it's supposed to!

well, that is all.. just thought i should share that with you since i was such a little whiner yesterday!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

life is... frustrating and annoying

not gonna lie! i'm not a happy camper! the marine corps is seriously pissing me off! first off, rey is supposed to be getting out of the marines in october, and secondly, he is supposed to be having surgery on may 23rd, and the marine corps wants him to go spend a month training at bridgeport from june 1st to june 25th! i'm sorry but that is bull crap! he should be concentrating on getting out, but all the marine corps cares about is themselves.. even though it seems stupid to train with guys that wont even be there when you deploy... they want him there. let's not forget about the big HOLE that is going to be in rey's back.. and he might have a drain coming out of his back till june 6th! his stupid 1st srgt who is really wanting this to happen is saying that he can go to the doctor up at bridgeport.. but really? if he's not going to be much help why take him? basically at this point he only wants to take him to prove a point! sorry, i know i am just venting, but i am so annoyed! we figured that rey wouldn't go to bridgeport since he'll have just had surgery and there is no point and assumed that i would come back the first weekend in july, but now i may be coming back in june! i mean why stay if he's going to be gone all month? the only problem is, rey wanted to drive down with me on a friday after he gets off work, stay in vegas, then finish the drive on saturday, and then sunday he'd fly back.. but now if i leave before he goes to bridgeport it all seems like a huge pain! i mean, we have the glee concert on the 27th.. so we'd have to drive all day on the 28th only for him to fly back on the 29th.. but he will have just had surgery on the 23rd so that just seems stupid!! GRRR! i'm so so so mad! i mean, there is still a possibility of him not going, because his surgery doctor wanted rey to come back on june 6th for a check-up.. so maybe that can get rey out of it.. but who knows! it's just annoying that we probably wont find out the for sure plan till it gets super close to bridgeport! so utah peeps.. who knows! you may be seeing me in less than a month!

also, i know i'm just being a whiny baby.. but i am seriously sick of all these preggo chicks! i know it's jealousy.. but really? i now have SIX chicks on my facebook who are preggo and pretty much each and every one of their posts is about being pregnant! i'm almost to the point where i want to block their posts cause it's just getting to me! rey and i really really want a baby, but when girls, like the most recent chick that announced her pregnancy said that it was unplanned and that they had wanted to wait awhile.. it just really annoys me! i know, i'm a jerk for feeling like this, but i really can't help it! i just wants me a baby! anywho! i guess that's it.. i shall stop complaining!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

Military Spouse Appreciation Day!

yay! today is military spouse appreciation day! to celebrate i think i'm going to make rey take me to see something borrowed tonight, although i think he wants to see it anyway so it all works out! i can't believe this will be my last military spouse appreciation day as a military spouse! growing up i told everyone that i would never marry someone in the military because i didn't want to have to deal with being away from my husband.. surprise surprise i married a marine! as hard as it has been i wouldn't change it for anything! i know that sounds a bit crazy since rey and i have missed out on so much time together, including our first anniversary, but i have learned so much! the biggest thing i think i have learned is a HUGE appreciation for the military and their families for all that they do and sacrifice for this nation! another thing i learned was how strong i am! during my time of knowing rey (dating and married) we have gone through time with him in the field, ship training for two weeks at a time, and two seven month long deployments missing anniversaries and plenty of holidays! heck, my birthday is a pretty big deal to me and i have always loved birthdays and rey has yet to be here for even one of my birthdays! basically i have learned that I can do things by myself and that I can handle very tough situations! Not too many girls my age, unless they too are military spouses, can say that they went 7 months without seeing their significant other, and went almost two months at one point without talking to or hearing their voice! i have heard countless times from people, 'oh i could never do that,' and heard many girls complain that they missed their significant other even though they were only gone for a weekend or something. i'm not trying to diminish that, since i know that for them that was probably tough, but i have come to the realization that i am a super strong woman and that i can handle so so much! lastly, i learned to not take the time i have with rey for granted! especially during the first part of our marriage when we knew rey was about to deploy, rey and i spent as much quality time together as possible and took in every possible moment. i learned what it was like to be without him, and know that we can make it through anything! i really am excited for rey to get out of the marines in october and for us to start our new life together, but i really will look back on this time, despite how tough at times, and be thankful for all that i learned and for how it changed my life!

i also want to end thanking all the other military spouses out there for the sacrifices that they make for their husbands and for their country! i know how tough deployments can be, but there is no better feeling than running into their arms when you get to see them for the first time after many months apart! seriously, every single marine wife that i have met is amazing and i want to thank you for your great examples on how to be tough and make it through! a real special thanks to melissa and autumn for being such good friends! i love you guys a lot and will definitely miss you! hopefully we can stay in touch and we can all be lifelong friends!!



peace in the middle east,
kristen!

oh yummy food...

it's official! i'm addicted to food! i recently have discovered a sad addiction that i have to both gummy bears and gushers.. every time i head to the store i always find myself gravitating towards it! then there are potato chips.. yum! the worst part about this is, if i didn't always snack or could control my snacking i'd probably be losing some weight! a little over a month ago rey and i got a 24 hour fitness passes. my two good friends out here have them too and we go at least five times a week. mondays we take a turbo kick class and this one is my favorite! tuesday is zumba which is super fun, wednesday is a super hard and intense class called 24 set. basically it's a step class but you add on weights and it's just super intense! you get an awesome cardio workout as well as a good toning workout! thursday we just go and do the elipticals for an hour and maybe go do some weights since my friend autumn knows what she is doing and is basically our own little personal trainer, and then on fridays we do a class called body pump, where basically you are lifting weights and working on every single muscle group! it's awesome cause you can do it at your own level and you tone up! i can tell already that my body is toning up, but my clothes all fit the same and i weigh the same! i've been doing this for a whole month now and get some good workouts in! seriously! i'm sore a majority of the week from these intense work outs! seriously, i just wish i had the willpower to eat healthy.. i keep telling myself i will, and then i see my favorite foods and am like.. 'well, i worked out today,' and then i eat! luckily i am working out otherwise i probably would have gained a bunch of weight, but it would be nice to lose a pound or two.. sad day!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

Oh life...

Well, as some of you may have seen on facebook we got some sucky news the other day! Rey has had this pain in his back for a little over 2 years now. I thought it was just a swollen lymph node and Rey has been thinking it was a cyst.. well the other day we finally went to the doctor since this was the first time someone in his command has let him, (bullcrap i tell ya) and we finally found out what it was.. a freaking tumor! i can't remember the exact name, but the doctor said it was a tumor and that most are benign. when they said that it definitely took a lot for me not to cry! i did my best and remained calm, however i forgot to ask what are the chances of it not being benign and when exactly will we find out if it is or not.. seriously, i was not thinking all that much after we found out that news! i do have a feeling that it's all going to be okay and i'm just going to keep praying that it is, because honestly that's all i can do at the moment. sadly, the first day they could fit him in for surgery is may 23rd, so it's over a month away which is kind of stupid, but i am glad that he is finally getting it taken care of! the good thing about this however is, he probably wont have to go to bridgeport! after the surgery he gets 4 days off of work, then ten days of light duty at work, and he'll probably even have a drain in his back. his 1st srgt has been pretty lame and has been saying that everyone is going and they can do light duty up at bridgeport, but he's going to have to go in 14 days after his surgery for a check-up and to possibly take out the drain, and bridgeport is about 8-10 hours away so i can't exactly see them taking him back and forth.. so as of right now it is looking like he wont go which makes me very very happy!! that also means i will be staying in california a tad bit longer! we've decided that i will go back in august if he for sure doesn't go to bridgeport. he'll probably get to come back to utah end of august, early september, and this way i can have time to get my job back and already be working, and if there is a chance for some reason they wont let me get my job back i can start my job search since that would give us two months before he gets out to search for a job so i have some income coming in when his stops coming in november! its definitely nice knowing that he is getting out of the marines, but definitely stressful as well! i just wish it would hurry up and get here!! OH! so guess what! i knew something was going to get in the way of the glee concert! rey's surgery is may 23rd and the concert is may 27th so we have no idea if rey will be able to go or not!! we are going to see how he feels before we make the decision, but if he can't go i guess i am going to ask one of my friends down here if they want it.. one lucky friend may be getting a $120 glee ticket for freeeee! haha! poor rey though! he has been so excited because he loves glee too and has never been to a real concert! oh well! so is life!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

how silly was i?

so, i don't really know what i was thinking back in the day, but growing up i always figured that as soon as a couple wanted a baby.. BOOM they would get preggo.. but i have definitely found out that is far far far from the truth! yes, i know, with rey getting out of the marines it may not be the best time to be trying to have a baby, but both rey and i really really want to start a family. also, something my mom said a couple years back has really stuck with me.. she told me that having a family was one of the greatest blessings and that one should never wait for "the perfect time" to get pregnant because you'd be missing out on so much and how that it may be tough, but you will figure everything out. basically, all i know is that both rey and i can't wait to be parents so why wait for that "perfect" time? anywho! this whole baby thing is crazy! i have read up on it quite a bit lately and even with a healthy couple there is only a 20% chance of getting pregnant with doing everything at the right time.. it's just craziness! i also read that most healthy couples will be trying for 6-12 months before they get pregnant! BOOO! that's way too long! plus, when there are shows like 16 and pregnant where these teens who shouldn't even be parents yet get pregnant.. and then people i see on facebook are all announcing being pregnant and it just makes you wonder what's up with you?! one of my best friends in california is also trying to have a baby and she is experiencing the same stuff as me! rey the other day made a comment on how he felt like we were in a competition with them to see who gets pregnant first, but honestly i would love it if she got pregnant! it would show me that it is actually possible! ha! plus, i know how she is having the same thoughts! it's just so discouraging when there is nothing else in the world that you want more! i know i just need to put my trust in the Lord and know that he will bless us a with a child when the time is right, but i think i'm a tad bit too impatient.. especially when i know how good of parents both rey and i could be.. so wish us luck, because this whole baby making thing is tough! ha!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

for everyone asking...

blah! blah! blah! so, on april 28th rey is going to the doctor for an MRI to find out what is up with his back! i think i mentioned this before, but he has this weird lump thing on his back which causes him a lot of pain and sometimes makes his whole leg go numb, and any time he has mentioned it to one of the corpsman (navy doctors who aren't even real doctors) they just tell him to take some advil and call it a day! it's crap! well, since nobody has done anything about it for two years it has gotten bigger and worse! well, he finally made it in and they at first thought maybe it was a cyst, but if that's what it was, it probably would have just gone away on its own after two years... so now they think it could be something worse, and it's really close to his spine which could cause even more problems.. so as of right now, best case scenario for his back it's just a cyst and he'd only need five days to recover.. if it something really bad and requires some hardcore surgery it could take up to three months of recovery time and they can't have him leaving the marines all jacked up so he could even possibly have to stay in the marines longer than october! he wouldn't have to deploy or anything since it'd be about making him get better, but i think we are just so ready to move on and start our real life together this would just be a pain! so yeah! if it's just a cyst or something simple he will go to bridgeport in june, which means i will go back to utah and get a job. he'd come back from bridgeport in july, and since he has at least a month of leave time saved up he'd probably get to come back to utah end of august or early september.. which is why i posted the status i did the other day ("already i'm so lonesome i could die - leaving on a jet plane) i know that it would only be about 3 months apart in all, and two of those months i could call or text him any time i wanted, but after two deployments apart i'm just ready to not be away from him! just the thought of it makes me so so sad!! however, if it's some intense surgery and he misses bridgeport i'll obviously stay in cali and take care of him and hopefully come back when he does in august or september! all i know is i am ready to come back to utah and get our life started!! well, that's all for now!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

i love the church!!

so, as pretty much anyone in the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints, (mormon church) knows saturday and sunday was our semi-annual general conference. for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a conference that happens twice a year where our prophet and apostles and other high up leaders of our church get together to speak to us. every time a conference comes up we are told that we should pray and think about what we want to get out of this conference and we will get our answer during the meeting. mine and rey's number one goal is to get sealed in the temple so we can not only be together in this life, but also in the next! leading up to conference this is obviously what i prayed about since with the marine corps it truly did feel like everything was in our way! well, conference was pretty amazing but there were two talks that talked about the temple that just hit me and my prayers were definitely answered. i think it was during president monson's talk that he talked about this family that lived super far away from the temple and the family knew that they needed to be sealed in the temple so a dad and one of the sons went and worked at these mines for 4 years so they could save money to get their family sealed. eventually they saved up enough money and the family, all but one daughter went and were sealed. the father went and worked another 2 years so the daughter and her husband and child could be sealed as well! I know for me it has felt like there has been so many things standing in mine and rey's way, but i am so thankful and grateful for how many temples we have nearby and how it wont take us 4 years to save up enough money.. all it will take is some persistance and patience and we will end up there! i seriously cannot wait for the day that rey and i can be sealed together for time and all eternity!

after the last session of conference ended rey and i had a serious talk about what we learned and what we both wanted and how we would be able to get there. well yesterday, the day after conference rey said all day at work that was all he could think about was how we could make this happen as soon as possible for us since he still feels like he has a little bit of work to do to prepare himself since he didn't grow up in the church like me. well, a few weeks back the missionaries had asked to stop by, but of course the night they had planned to come over rey didn't get off till way late so we had to cancel. so yesterday, when he was really trying to figure things out they called and asked if they could come over to talk with us. so last night they came over and asked what they could do to help and we decided that every wed they are going to come over and give us lessons to help us get ready and prepare to go to the temple. i am just so excited that everything is finally seeming to work out in our favor. my guess is we wont be able to get sealed on our anniversary, june 11th, due to things going on with the marine corps, but i just need to remember that things will happen in the Lord's time! i am just so thankful to have this church in my life and for all the blessings that have and will continue to come with it. i know that it wasn't by chance that the missionaries called us yesterday of all days to come.. i know that Heavenly Father is answering our prayers and helping us to move closer to our goal of someday getting sealed in the temple!

other than that, everything is going good in the lucero household, other than my massive sunburn.. probably the worst i have ever gotten in my life, but as of right now i couldn't be happier. so i guess that is everything for now!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

WHEN?!?

when i ask you will the marine corps stop being such a lameo bully?!? i really do have a love/hate relationship with the marines.. sometimes i have so much pride in them and feel so proud of my husband, and then there are times like these where i just roll my eyes because they just can't seem to get it together. rey has less than 7 months left in, yet they are treating him like he is staying in and not giving him time to take care of the things that need to be taken care of.. like medical! rey has had this back problem for almost two years now and it's pretty well documented but they kept saying it would leave and to take just some advil.. well before he gets out he wants it taken care of, but they never let him go to the doctor.. which is stupid because he does nothing all flippin day! lame! sometimes i feel like punching some of these stupid people in the face!! however, this isn't the biggest thing.. the biggest thing is rey and i were planning on getting sealed on june 11th this year.. our two year anniversary.. well, probably not going to happen! even though he is getting out he has to go to bridgeport for a month which just so happens to be over our anniversary! BOOO! his 1st srgt has already said nobody can take leave over that time which means even though he has time saved up he has to go, even though when he will be getting back from bridgeport he'd only have less than 3 months left.. what a waste of time and money!! i'm so so so pissed! so i guess rey and i will just have two dates we get to celebrate each year which will be kind of cool, but i was just really hoping for our anniversary! as of right now we don't really have too much of a back-up plan, but if rey does in fact go to bridgeport in june i'll probably be heading back to utah. summer is obviously a big time for the movie theatres and i could probably get lots of hours which would be nice since i could make a little extra moolah before rey gets out! plus, he'd probably get to come home end of august, early september with his time saved up so i'd probably only miss out on two months with him.. which yes, would suck super badly.. but at least i could text him whenever i wanted and call him which is a major major plus! also, this would make it so we could get sealed in utah if we did it in september which could be pretty cool! if we did it on our anniversary it'd be here in cali, but if it goes this way we could have it in utah and have all of our family, or at least my family, there! so yeah! everything will work out the way it's supposed to i guess, i just wish i could know for sure what's going on so we could make solid plans, but as always one must be super flexible when it comes to the marines... anywho, that's all for now! we have the missionaries coming over tonight for some strange reason that i have yet to find out and i need to make this house spotless so i am off to deep clean! adios!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

100th BLOG POST!

100! crazy huh? i blame rey's deployment! anywho! it has been awhile so i figured it was time to update! i guess i should start with my vinyl business i started! it's been going better than i thought! i've already made quite a few vinyls and my fan base just keeps getting bigger! i'm not making a huge amount of extra money.. but it is some so that is nice.. especially since i can still stay home.. clean, be with chloe, and be here when rey gets home and still be making a little extra moolah! plus, i can now make myself as many vinyls as i want! all i know is i love them! they are so pretty and classy looking!

okay, so what else? oh! i am UBER obsessed with call of duty.. it's pretty ridiculous! i even have my own profile and play during the day while rey is at work! my favorite though is to play with rey! i love having him as my wingman.. even though it's generally me going out first and dying so he can get the kill! haha! tis the best.. so if any of you have call of duty black ops you should add me and rey.. my name is kritomiester and rey's is naldomister! rey wanted to be naldomiester, but he spelled it wrong and is now naldomister! also, can i just say how cool of a movie battle: l.a. was? maybe it's just because it was the marine corps and they filmed part of it on camp pendleton.. at rey's actual camp.. camp horno.. but it was such a good movie! it definitely made me feel proud that my man is a marine! also, i think they did a really good job or portraying actual marines! if you haven't seen it.. keep an eye out at the start for the main guy on base at camp pendleton.. that's my husband's actual camp.. also, the gate that he drives through.. that's the one we go through! super sweetest!

so recently i have been reading a couple of blogs where women are going through deployments right now and can i just tell you how much i feel for these woman? every time they post a sad blog i feel sad because i can remember what exactly i felt at that moment when that same thing happened to me.. or when they post a happy blog about getting a phone call or an e-mail i get so excited as well.. as i read these blogs i seriously cannot be more thankful that i will NEVER have to go through that again! although, i will say this.. while at the time i hated deployment more than anything, i am so grateful for the opportunity because i am able to value things that regular couples take for granted every single day. also, it gave me a pride in our country that most will probably never ever feel. when rey gets out and we move back to utah i'm definitely planning on keeping the troops and their families in my prayers and will do anything i possibly can to help.. like send packages.. donate to causes that support our troops.. or even just do something as little as thank a military member for their service.. even though rey wont admit it, i know he definitely feels appreciated when someone will take the time to shake his hand and thank him for his service...

anywho! that is all! kind of a lame 100th post.. but it's all i got!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

well, it's been awhile so i figured i should post! well, things here are going pretty well and i can't really complain! all i know is that i am one lucky girl because i get to live in the beautiful state of california all while not having to worry about snow and i get to spend every single day with my bestest friend! as cheesy as it sounds i really do love rey the super mostest ever and i love hanging out with him! i actually can't believe he has been back for almost three months now! it has gone by so fast and i still miss him everyday while he is at work and get so excited when i get the text that he is off. not that he was a bad husband or anything before he deployed, but i guess he just had a lot of time to think on the ship and he felt like he wasn't doing enough for me, so he cleans a lot more and will take chloe out at night if she wakes up.. even if he has to wake up early the next morning. he is all about making me happy and i seriously feel like the luckiest girl ever!

so let's see... what else?! well, i think most everyone knows.. but i quit that stupid nanny job! it was crap! she told me it would be watching the kids with light cleaning like maybe run the vaccum or pick up after the kids.. well it turned out when i got there there was a HUGE list of chores for me today like 5 loads of laundry.. wash, dry, fold, and put away.. clean the kitchen, clean the kids rooms etc! oh, and when we were talking before she said she likes to charge anywhere from 30-40 a day plus doing extra stuff for money which meant i could make 800 a month with a chance to make more.. well guess what.. she decided to pay me 30 a day which means i'd only make 600 a month.. i'm sorry but i did not sign on to be a housekeeper working 10 hours a day for only 30 bucks.. yeah, NO! yeah, after the first day i quit and she said she needed me the next week so i went the next monday and it was the worst ever.. the little girl would not wake up for school.. the little kids were going crazy and the boy even tried to choke me.. i once again cleaned their place as best i could all while trying to keep an eye on the kids and that night the lady sent me a text saying 'they would have to let me go' it was like they were firing me.. yet i already quit.. but i didn't mind at all because those two days were two of the worst days of my life! plus, rey has been getting off a bit earlier the past couple of weeks and if i worked till 5 every day i was going to miss out on some prime husband time! all i know is that right now i want to spend all the time with rey i can since when he gets out and we move back to utah. i am starting to get a little worried that when we move back to utah we wont be able to spend much time together. i mean, i'm going to get a job at the commons again and once i get a supervisor position i'd be working full time (which i definitely plan on getting), and then rey will be working and going to school so i just don't see a lot of couple time.. BOOO! oh well, i guess that's life for you!

well, we got our taxes back! woot woot! with our tax money i got a cricut and i LOVE it! i'm obsessed with making vinyl stuff for the walls! it's such a pretty way to decorate! i ordered some vinyl online since it's the way cheapest way to go, but waiting for it to get here is driving me crazy! i wants to decorate! haha! i even started me an online facebook business.. the only problem is that it wont let me invite my friends to join.. so if you see my page, joyous walls boutique, please join and maybe let some of your friends know.. haha! anywhoo.. i think that is it for now!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

insert cool title here

so, v-day was fantabulous! rey and i hit up disneyland and once again, it was a freaking BLAST! the only sucky thing was the past couple of times we have gone the longest we ever had to wait was twenty minutes and we were actually walking on most rides, but yesterday we were generally waiting 20-45 minutes for most rides! kind of lame, but we still had fun! i saw a cute mickey jacket earlier in the day that i thought was cute, and as it got later i regretted leaving my jacket in the car cuz it was cold, so rey suggested buying me the one i wanted as a valentines gift! super exciting! oh, we also got a super super cute pin! it's a limited edition pin and it's of cinderella and prince charming! i would post a picture of it and my jacket but my camera cord is missing! the best part of the night was probably when mine and rey's picture made it onto the magic, the memories, and you show on the front of it's a small world. it's a new show where they do this cool light show and show pictures of people taken throughout the day and ever since it opened i told rey it was my goal to get on it before we moved back to utah and it happened yesterday!

alright, the other cool thing that is going on for me is my job search! i actually have an interview for quiznos subs tomorrow since i'm not that picky and any job would be cool because it would give me something to do and a little extra moolah! well, today i was looking on pendletonyardsales because i found my extra instyler today and decided to sell it, and i saw this ad about a lady looking for a nanny for her three kids. well, i applied and she got right back to me. i went over to her place, met with her kids and she said she loved me and really wants me for the job and just has to talk to her husband. i'd start on possibly friday, and if not friday, on monday! i'd work from 5-7 in the morning depending on what time her husband has to be to work and be there till 5 at night or whenever her husband gets home.. so kind of a long day, but it would give me something to do all day and the moolah would be super shweetest! from what we talked about i would be making about 800 a month or more depending on what i do! like i would take care of the kids throughout the day, pick up toys, and possibly sweep or vaccum if needed, but she will leave various other stuff that needs to get done and if i do more i'll get paid extra if i choose to do it or not! plus, the kids were super cute! i would be with the 1 and a half year old and 2 and a half year old all day and then the six year old would go to school so i'd only be with her for a few hours! she said she really likes me the best so far and is just going to talk to her husband and get back to me to let me know for sure, but i am really hoping it works out! the only downside is chloe would be home alone all day! although there will be days rey will get off around 1 or 2 ish so he could be with her, but it'd still be sad! she gets really really sad when she's alone and i think she has seperation anxiety, but i think after awhile she'd get used to it. oh, i guess it also would suck for rey to get off at like 1 or 2 and not get to be with rey till 5, but i would get weekends off and any other holiday that the marines get off so i would always get to be with rey that way! so yay! super exciting! hopefully everything works out cuz i would love an extra 700-900 a month! plus we would probably save most of it since we will need a good savings for when rey gets out! life is looking good!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

GLEEEEEE!

yep! on may 27th i get to see glee live in concert!! so so so stoked! plus, we got lower bowl seats! i seriously feel like the luckiest chickita in the world! i get to be in the same room as cory monteith, lea michele, mark salling, dianna agron!! ahh! sorry nsync, bsb, and even you jo bros! i think this is going to be the best concert out of all of them!!! can it be may yet?! anyways, that is all! i just needed a place to freak out and share my crazy joy!!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

digging life

i'm definitely digging life for the time being, although part of me is just waiting for the marine corps to get in the way and ruin things, but i guess i will just try and not worry about that till it happens. number 1, rey has his marine corps mess night this upcoming friday. basically it's like the marine corps ball since they missed it while they were deployed and i'm pretty excited to dress up and see rey in his dress blues for one last time. since he is now a corporal he gets the blood stripes on his pants and while it cost a buttload of money to update his uniform, it will be fun to see him wearing the uniform! then on monday it's valentines day! last year it was so fun to spend v-day together and i'm so excited that we get to celebrate it together again! plus, we are planning on hitting up disneyland on v-day and that should be super fun! oh, i also forgot to mention that on friday rey is going to a mike platoon (or at least i think that's what it's called). basically it is just a platoon that they made up for all the guys in 1/4 that are not going to deploy and FAP'd out yet! they know they aren't going to deploy so they are still going to be part of the unit, but they also wont have to do all the super crap and will hopefully be getting off a lot earlier.. like rey thinks all they will have to do is working parties and if not they should hopefully be able to just get off.. so i am seriously hoping for that and i am hoping that this means we will get a lot more quality time together before he gets out of the marines. the other exciting thing i am hoping for is glee concert tickets! there are three concerts that are going to be within an hour away from where we are living for the time being and the tickets are going on presale this friday for american express card holders so my dad is going to try and get me and rey tickets! i'm seriously crossing my fingers for these tickets because i think this would seriously make my life!! so hopefully everything pans out for me and rey because i think we deserve it!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

BLAH!

blah! rey goes back to work tomorrow and i am super saddest ever!! the past three weeks have seriously been some of the best few weeks i have ever had! pretty much for the first time in our relationship rey and i were able to spend some real quality time together while just focusing on us with absolutely no worries! before we were married we really didn't get to spend much time together and every time we did it was all about how he'd be leaving soon, or he'd have to spend a lot of time with his family as well. then after we were married it was all about rey's upcoming deployment and he'd leave super early and be home super late. then, before he deployed we got eleven days together but it was all about packing and how he'd be leaving super super soon. these past three weeks have been all about us and just chilling together and doing whatever we want. we have seriously had so much fun and seriously some of the best times we have had have been us staying up till two or three in the morning just being stupid and playing mario kart! it definitely sucks that these three weeks have passed so quickly, but i can't help but feel a tad bit excited for what is to come in the future. only eight more months and then rey is out of the marine corps and we are back in utah living a normal life. i am a tad bit nervous since i have only known the marine lifestyle with rey, but it will be so nice not having to worry about when rey will deploy again and if he will be safe. i am almost positive that these next eight months will fly by and i couldn't be happier! i so look forward to being around family and friends! i seriously can't wait for sunday dinners with the family, and double dates with my friends! it shall be the bestest!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

funniest moment ever!

okay, so last night, one of the funniest moments ever happened! so rey and i were sitting on the couch and luckily we were sitting on opposite ends of the couch, but anyways, we are sitting there and i'm not exactly sure what he said anymore but he all the sudden had a lighter in his hands and was holding it by his butt. the next thing i know he farts and this big thing of flames shoots out, and then i guess it went back towards him cause his butt caught on fire. he obviously freaked out but he smothered the flame with the couch and his hand. i immediately got mad at him and was like 'how stupid can you be?' because he had just lit himself and almost got the couch on fire, but i couldn't even stay mad for more than two seconds because it was seriously the funniest thing ever! pretty much now i am still laughing every time i think about it. rey says he is not even sure how the whole thing went down. i asked him his side of the story and he just said that he felt the need to fart and all the sudden a lighter was in his hand and he never thought that would happen so without thinking he just did it and the next thing he knew his butt felt super warm. oh man! seriously! soooooo funny!

SEASON PASS HOLDERS BBY!!

yep, rey and i are season pass holders to disneyland! woot woot! not too long ago when i was online i saw that season passes went up to $700! i love disneyland, but even to me that just isn't worth it! well, the other day when rey and i went we got a military three day park hopper for only $99! well, i posted that on facebook responded and said that you could upgrade your ticket to a season pass and use that $99 you already spent and use that and just pay the rest for a season pass. i went to see if the season passes had gotten any less or more expensive and realized that they are back down to 450, and with 99 off we would only have to spend 350 more for a season pass! plus, we already know of quite a few times in the future that we are planning on going to disneyland so we figured we might as well get the season pass! parking alone at disneyland has gotten up to $15 dollars a day which means in just those three days we would have gone with our military pass we would have spent $45! we also get discounts at the stores and restaurants so in the end i think these passes will once again pay for themselves! so if anybody is in cali and wants to go to disneyland hit us up! the other day when rey and i went to disneyland it was seriously one of the funnest days i have ever had at disneyland! since we knew we'd be coming a lot we took it super slow and rode the rides we wanted and just walked around looking at shops, watching all the shows, and even got our pictures drawn! plus, while we were getting our picture drawn the girl asked what was on my necklace and i told her it was the ega, the marine symbol, and she asked if rey was a marine and he said yes, and she asked if we had gotten any military discounts at the park, and rey said he did with the tickets and the lady was like well we will give you a free frame for your picture.. and the frames there are like $30 bucks!

well, today means we only have one week left of rey's leave and i have to say i am pretty depressed about it! we have had so much fun and it has been so nice to not have to worry about anything and just spend quality time together. to finish off our leave i think we are going bowling tomorrow, to dave and busters on wed, and possibly disneyland again on thursday! man i love leave! i just wish it could last a little longer! the only upside to this is we are even closer to rey getting out of the marines. he has been back for almost two months now and i can't believe that we will only have like eight months left! craziness!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

i don't think i could even begin to express how much i love having rey on leave! we stay up as late as we want and sleep till whenever we want, plus, waking up next to rey every single day is pretty awesome! i'll try and give a little update on everything we have done! we started rey's leave out by going bowling! i think i mentioned it in my last blog about how you get unlimited bowling for three hours for only $10! it was such a blast! most of the time rey won, but i did win a few rounds and we are planning on going again next tuesday! last thursday we had planned to go down to the hobby shop on base and paint some stuff, but my phone decided to randomly stop working! it was just so weird so we took it to the apple store and even they were baffled by what was going on! luckily my warranty still covered the phone so i got it replaced for free! so basically i have an all new shnazzy iphone, but i did lose all my data including numbers, songs, apps, everything!!! after that we knew we wouldn't have enough time to paint so we saved that for the next day and went shopping! rey has a mess night thing coming up where he dresses up in his dress blues and wives/dates wear cocktail dresses so i had to go and find a pretty dress! cali makes it a little hard to find a modest dress but i did find a pretty cute classy halter dress for a decent price so i got that along with a few accessories! the next day rey and i went to the hobby shop to paint! i painted another ice cream cone cup and rey painted a mug! today we get to go pick them up and i am pretty excited about that! on sunday rey and i went to church and we had set up a meeting with the bishop so we got to meet with him and discuss the plan for rey and i getting sealed in the temple! the bishop even thinks that we will be able to get sealed on our anniversary so hopefully by june 11th rey and i will finally be sealed for time and all eternity! so let's see.. what else! on tuesday rey and i went to disneyland!! woot woot! there is a deal going on right now that is for southern california residents where you get a two day park hopper for $109 and we were planning on doing that, but when they asked for id rey showed his military id and they said they had a military thing going on and we got a 3 day park hopper for only $99! it was awesome! we had such a blast and we got to go on everything at least once and we rode our favorites a second time. the longest we ever had to wait for a ride was 20 minutes and we never even had to use a fast pass! we are actually planning on going tomorrow too! we wanted to go on a weekend so we can watch all the shows like fantasmic and the fireworks since they only do that on weekends! hopefully after going on a weekday it isn't too crowded, but since it is in january and a friday hopefully it's not too crowded! i actually heard from a friend that you can upgrade your ticket to a season pass, and we just saw the other day that the season passes are back down to 450 so after our 99 we would only have to pay 350 for a season pass! this would give us free parking, 10% off at merchandise stores, and 15% off food at disneyland! mine last time totally paid for itself and if rey and i both get one we could pretty much go whenever we wanted and if one weekend we want to get out we could just hit up disneyland which would be awesome! rey is a little hesitant and still thinking it over but i am going to try and convince him! plus, we will be filing our taxes soon and since i worked a little bit this past year we should be getting a bigger refund than last time so i am almost positive i can convince him to do it! so that's about all of the big stuff we have done.. we really have just used this time together to hang out, play mario kart, watch netflix and so forth! speaking of netflix! rey and i have become obessed with veronica mars! seriously, that show is awesome and i totally wish i would have watched that show while it was on tv back in the day! it's super intense and every episode you are trying to guess what is going on, and it's pretty funny! for all you netflix people i totally suggest it, or if you don't have netflix you should find a way to watch it cuz it's an awesome show! anyways, i think that is all for now! rey and i need to go pick up our stuff from the hobby shop so i am out!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

p.s. i will be posting pictures probably on saturday on my facebook so keep an eye out for that!

LEAVE!!

yay!! as soon as rey gets off of work today, rey's post deployment leave starts! three weeks of just me and rey!!! before he left on his last deployment he only had 11 days off, so to have this long together sounds amazing! yes, he did have christmas leave last year, but since we were in utah everyone in his family wanted to see him so we pretty much only got one day in all that of just us! people may think i am selfish for wanting all this alone time with rey, but i definitely feel like i deserve it! i may be here living with rey, but he leaves early in the morning and often times gets home really really late.. that is if he isn't going into the field for a few days, or on duty! let's also not forget that i have spent the last seven months without my husband!! i know that there were other people who missed him during this deployment, but nobody's day to day lives were as affected as mine.. pretty much every single thought the entire time he was gone was about rey, and i was the one who had to go to bed alone and wake up alone with the constant reminder that my husband is gone. either way, rey is all mine for these three weeks and i couldn't be more excited!! on our fridge we have a leave calendar all made up and we have days filled in with stuff we want to do like, disneyland, knotts berry farm, sea world, price is right, fishing, and bowling! tonight we are actually starting our leave out by bowling! at the bowling alley we like to go to, on tuesdays they have a special that you get unlimited bowling plus shoe rental for $10 a per person after 9, so we are going to bowl all night!! woot woot!! the number one thing that i am looking forward to is disneyland! for those of you that know me, you know i love disneyland and in 2010 alone i went about 9 times, but i still can't get over how much i love the place and i am so so so excited! they are offering a special deal to those that live in california that you can get a two day park hopper for $109 so we are going to try and go on a slow day, which will be next tuesday, and then next friday, since i do want to go on a weekend since on weekdays it closes at 8 and there are no fireworks, whereas on the weekend there is fantasmic, fireworks, and it closes at 11! so many fun things to look forward to in the upcoming weeks.. now i just need my hubby off so we can start all the fun!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

i actually feel like i don't have that much to post, but it feels like i haven't blogged in quite awhile so i figured i should write something! so let's see.. yesterday rey and i have officially been married for nineteen months!! woot woot! now we have spent around 9 months of that together, and 10 months apart, which means this should be the last month that rey and i will have ever spent more of our marriage apart.. next month should be we have spent the same amount of time, and then the next month we will finally have spent more of our marriage together than apart and we definitely plan on keeping it that way! other than that not much going on here! rey goes to work.. i do my wifely duties and clean up the place, blah blah blah! once all that is done i watch netflix until rey gets off.. right now i am currently watching all the episodes of instant star! i forgot how much i loved this show back in the day! when rey gets off work the first thing we do is go to the gym! rey loves working out since that's pretty much all he did on ship and it is the best because now i am always motivated to go to the gym with him. yes, i am super out of shape, but every day i get a little bit better! rey starts his leave on the 18th and is off till the 7th, and my goal is for us to go out running in the neighborhoods by the time he finishes leave and for me to be able to somewhat keep up with him! his favorite is to run around town, but he is waiting for me to get back in shape before so right now we are just running on the treadmills at our apartment place gym! after the gym we come back, shower, and then one of us makes dinner! after dinner we generally watch tv, watch netflix, or play wii! we generally finish the night by taking chloe on a 30-45 min walk! so yes, i may be spending most of my day sitting around and being lazy, but luckily i think i am evening it out by running and taking chloe on walks! so yeah, like i said, i don't really do much and don't really have much to say but i felt like i needed to say something! anyways, that's all for now!

peace in the middle east,
kristen