TD- why?

sooooo... Nic left for his six month TDY on Friday.
It was rough. He had his alarm set for 5:00 but he turned it off so that we could spend some time together. As he was doing some last minute packing he wanted me to stay and chat with him. I had been doing a great job at holding it together but if I stayed and watched him pack I wouldn't be able to hold on much longer so I tended to the dogs. He stayed on the couch and watched the news with me until I basically kicked him out. The waiting was terrible. He said goodbye to the dogs who cried which broke my heart. Then with a slightly tearful goodbye... he was off. Friday he drove all the way to Tennessee. Once he got to Nashville he attempted to check into a hotel where he had reservations. He looked at his room and he asked for a refund because not only were they planning to charge him more than they quoted him but Nic said it was scary. Now for Nic to say something is scary I can only imagine what that place looked like. So he went across the street to a much nicer hotel and crashed for the night. I was lucky enough to have a girls night that night to take my mind off of everything that had happened that day. Besides Nic leaving I was attacked by a dog. I informed the owner of the dog's menacing attributes only to be met with... surprise... OPOSITION... go figure.. well at least I had the scratches, bruises and bite marks to prove it huh? lucky me.
Finally on Saturday I had a girls day all by myself. I walked the dogs, got my nails done and did a little shopping before church that night. Church was great. Sunday morning was nice as well I had lunch with some neighbors but Sunday night was a long one. I think the dogs just figured out he wasn't coming home right away and they were testing my patience until 3 in the morning. Nic made it to TX where he set up his room and is preparing for class to start tomorrow. I have been swamped with homework and housework and work work :) the dogs are finally starting to mellow out. hopefully this lasts through the night. more updates to come....

Tech School- Aerospace Medicine and my life

So Nic officially got the job he wanted and his retraining process is now fully in motion. He got official orders and a report no later than date. He is to be in Wichita Falls TX at Shepard AFB on April 6, 2010. He will be there for his phase one which lasts 3 and one half months. After that he will have to finish the remainder of his school OJT ( on the job training) at one of five Air Force medical training hospitals. There is one at Andrews AFB right up the street but I doubt that we will be so lucky to have him home so soon. After he gets back then we will begin his out processing from Bolling AFB and we will move to our new base (which we do not know yet) once he comes back. I spoke with his supervisor about the time frame for our orders for the new base and she said we should know by at the very earliest two weeks before he leaves and the very latest two weeks into his tech school, so it's coming up fast. I am itching to know where we are going so I can begin my portion of the move... EVERYTHING! :) I was told that it is extremely likely that we will get one of our first five CONUS (Continental United States) picks. Aren't you impressed with my extensive jargon? Our bases are: 1. Travis AFB (San Fransisco) 2. Vandenberg (Santa Monica SLO area) 3. McChord AFB (Washington state) 4. Scott AFB (Illinois) 5. Eglin (Florida) We also found out that if Nic calls and chats up the unit there he will increase his chances for acceptance at his choice base. We are just trying to get everything together. It is the typical hurry up and wait game. I have already looked at the housing on all of the bases and for right now I am very happy. As long as I leave the negative energy and the humidity behind I will be as happy as a clam. so now... we wait.... :)

Afore Mentioned Surgery

So this is nana before her surgery.... Nic and Auntie Cherish before nana went into surgery. This is a picture of Dreamer, my Grandma Teri's horse. This is the last walk I took with my Grandma Teri up the trail to feed Dreamer. I didn't notice it then but I was making a memory and I'm sure glad I brought my camera.

Holguin Wedding

So while we were in California for nana's surgery we also attended a wedding for Nic's very good friend Rick Holguin. They enlisted in the Air Force together so we definitely had to be there for his wedding. He is a Southern California boy who married the cutest little Georgia Peach. I think they're great together and here's just a few shots from the wedding....

The bride and groom.... and Nic and me...

This is Nick and Breanna.... in case you don't remember Nick was a groomsman in my wedding. He and Nic have been good friends since high school.... oh and also Breanna and me...

so this is the suit that we were so worried about. Why they decided to put Nic in a khaki suit we will never know. But thank god she decided to give him the pink tie instead of the yellow one. he would have looked like he had jondus... but somehow he pulled it off and now the suit sits in the spare closet.... where it belongs.

Belated Mother's Day Post

Ok. So if you thought the last post was late well this one is so much worse. So last mother's day nic surprised me at work by sending me these gorgeous flowers. The Honor Guard was selling them as a fundraiser. I work with a lot of other Honor Guard wives who did not get flowers and they were rather jealous but I on the other hand was walking on cloud nine. ...
you know it's the times when i forget about it all that that man of mine catches me off guard and really comes through. i just love him.

Baby Eve

So I have this friend Ashley who lives on this base and she is so totally nice. She's the girl you kind of hate because she's freaking perfect. She is gorgeous and while she was 6 months pregnant she was still able to fit into her size zero!!! jeans. She's the nicest girl ever. Well she invited me to her baby shower and it was great. I don't get along with the other women here because they think I should stay home and have babies and because I do none of those I am excluded, mostly. Regardless I had a great time and I won a prize for knowing most celebrities babies names.... ok so when I'm bored I read Us weekly online... it's a guilty pleasure... a secret guilty pleasure. I never knew it would come in so handy and I would win candles for my quick memory recall. So anyway.... it was a very creative gift and I thought I would share few pictures of the gift.

ok.. and this is so freaking old that Ashley already had her baby... her name is Eve and she's beautiful.

Playing Catch-Up

So there is so much to tell....
This weekend I plan on arranging everything and uploading like crazy. So please just hold on a little longer.
Don't worry there is much to tell...