peace out 2010!

wow!! i can't believe how fast this past year has gone by! i can totally remember last new years eve where rey and i went to his dad's house.. ate chinese food, celebrated the new year at nine and then came to my parents house and watched the movie stand by me, said happy new year at midnight with a cute little kiss and then we both rolled over and went to bed! ha! 2010 was definitely a crazy year! pretty much as soon as rey got home from leave last january it was pretty much all about him deploying with stupid ship ops with him leaving for two weeks at a time, not getting off until super late most nights, and even having to work weekends! i remember i was not a happy wifey, especially since all i wanted was to spend that extra quality time together before he deployed! pretty much the only happy time in 2010 before he left were those 11 days of leave he got! we had so much fun and did cool, possibly once in a lifetime things like going to the price is right! sadly, those awesome 11 days had to end and rey deployed! while that deployment was super sucky, looking back on it i really can only look at the positives! i was so so so lucky that he only went on a ship and didn't deploy to afghanistan! i'm so lucky that it was only a seven month deployment since now i am hearing meu deployments are now going to be eight months now! i am so lucky to have such awesome parents who let me and my sometimes very annoying little puppy chloe come and live with them! i am so lucky to have such awesome friends who helped me and supported me through the whole deployment process! i have other marine wife friends who had some super sucky and anything but supportive friends and mine were always there for me and i can't help but feel blessed! i am so lucky to have had my job at jordan commons! it was so nice to have a little extra cash and a perfect way to keep busy and keep my mind off missing my husband! i guess the last reason why i feel blessed because of this deployment is because i feel like i will never take for granted the time rey and i have together! i know what it's like to miss the person you love the most and i know what life is like without them, so even if he does something stupid that annoys me.. i can now look past it and realize i would rather have him do that here with me, then not have him here at all! i am also so incredibly lucky to have had come home just in time for christmas!! i seriously cannot express how blessed i feel to have been able to have him here! i know that there are so many families out there who had to celebrate without a loved one due to a deployment! looking back i can definitely see both the positives and negatives to 2010, and even though this past year included a deployment, i seriously wouldn't change any of it because i have learned so much about myself and rey and i as a couple due to it!

2011! how crazy is that?! all i know is i am definitely looking forward to what it has to offer!! in the very near future rey gets about 2 weeks of leave and i can't wait to spend all that quality time together, and so far we already have a disneyland trip planned and possibly a knotts berry farm, and magic mountain trip planned as well! i'm also kind of thinking of doing the price is right again because that was just too fun! also, rey has a mess night thing coming up, which is kind of like a mini marine corps ball thing since he was gone for the ball! rey is excited since now that he is a nco he gets to have the blood stripe on his pants, so that should be fun! i guess beyond that the other thing we are looking forward to in 2011 is rey getting out of the marine corps in october! still quite awhile away, but it's a little too hard to not get excited about! i am so looking forward to living in utah permanately and being around friends and family! it will definitely be an adjustement and may be somewhat difficult at first since we will have to get jobs, get rey enrolled in school.. and blah blah blah, but in the end it will so be worth it! another thing that would possibly be nice in 2011 is starting a family! rey and i both feel we are ready to have kids, and even though it could possibly be a little difficult with rey getting out and all, we just can't help but want to start a family! at this point all we can do is put things in the Lord's hands and if he decides to put a little child into our life i know we will be able to handle it and everything will work out!! well, that's all for now!

peace in the middle east,
kristen