In Town

So my mother in law Kris came in to town on Tuesday. She has been a real big help. Alex has loved having someone else besides me to boss around and play with. I love it because if I need to run upstairs or to the bathroom or outside Kris is there to watch Alex. Boy am I going to miss the help when she leaves tomorrow. Well yesterday was mine and Jordan's 3rd wedding anniversary. He couldn't be here to celebrate with me but he did send me a fruit bouquet from Edible Arrangements. It was totally cute and really yummy. It has some grapes, tons of strawberries, and pineapple in the shape of hearts. Some of the pineapple was dipped in chocolate. So good. Well since last night was our anniversary and he couldn't be here to do anything with me I decided to go out and celebrate anyways. I took my friend Heather and we went to a concert at this place called The Black Sheep. We saw 4 bands play, Ten to None(amazing), A Fall To Rewind(ok), As Told By(good), and Dance Gavin Dance(amazing). I had a great time. These bands fall under the scream-o catagory for music type so they are loud and play hard. So that being the case there was needless to say a giant mosh pit in the middle of the floor. We were on the outskirts of the mosh pit and as a result a few times we were hit, elbowed, fallen into by the guy that would trip and fall or generally not know where they were going. I don't have any bruises today so far but my right arm is killing me. It's really sore like I worked out sore. You know if my arm is going to hurt like that I would prefer it if I really was working out. Well Jordan will be home in about 17 days. I can't wait to see him and I can't wait for him to come home for a couple weeks. It will be really nice to spend some time with him and for him to get to know Alex again and for Alex to get to know her daddy. She was too young to really remember him when he left so hopefully now that she is older when he does leave to go back overseas she will remember him a lot better. Well I better go have a crying baby to tend to.

Yes I know

Yes I do realize that it has been like 6 months since my last post. Apparently I am really bad at it. I guess one of my new years resolutions will be to post a blog more often. What is new with me you may want to know? Well I came home to Utah for 3 weeks to spend the holidays with the family. I came out on the 15Th of December and sad to say I leave today. As much fun as it has been to be out here with my family it will be really nice to be at home in my own bed. I'm sure Alex will feel the same way since she has been sleeping in a porta-crib and not her bed, which I'm sure is much for comfortable. The wonderful thing about her being so small is she doesn't know that she can complain and she can't really talk so that is another perk. Well I was able to talk to Jordan today for a little bit. I found out that yesterday afternoon (Sunday) that him and 13 other people went out on a patrol and two IED's went off and killed 4 people and seriously wounded 2 others and many more scrapes and bruises to the rest of the platoon. Jordan received some injuries but he will recover from them. He had a ruptured eardrum and he hurt his knee pretty badly. No one ever said that war was easy and pretty but I never knew what it was like till now. No one knows what it's like until they have to experience it. It's very sobering to hear these things. My heart goes out to those family of the 4 killed and others wounded.

Jordan is gone

Well Jordan left for Afghanistan on Tues the 26th of May. He flew out of Colorado Springs, landed in Maine from there he went to Leipzig, Germany. He ended up in Kyrgizstan, from there he flew to Kandahar. Tomorrow he will fly to FOB Terminator. Where that is I have no idea but the general area is in the southern region. He is doing well and is safe for the most part. I have no idea what he will be doing out there. I don't know how much or how often we will be in contact. He won't know till he starts getting settled in. I'm sure for at least the first month things will be crazy busy for him and he won't be able to have much free time. Their First Sergeant is a bit extreme. This is Jordan's second deployment but his first one was in Iraq. This one will be a lot different. They won't be doing the same things. When I have an exact address for him I will let you all know as well as the approved and non-approved items that you may send if anyone does want to send out a care package.

As for Alex and I we are doing just fine. She is still young enough that she doesn't realize that daddy is gone but I do talk to her everyday about him and I show her his picture. Hopefully one of these days she will retain a little bit of what I am saying. I'm doing great. This time around isn't as hard because it is my second deployment, but is almost harder because I have Alex to look after and he is in a different area and I don't know what he will be doing and what it will be like for him. But all of us are safe and well.

Weekend fun

So I had a pretty interesting weekend. On Friday we tried planning a couples dinner night but the guys ended up working pretty late so just us girls went. Heather F, Heather G, Alex and myself. It was fun we went to Friday's, I know the irony is killing me. We went to TGI Friday's on a Friday. Anyways... Well it was fun just hanging out talking girl talk. While we were at dinner Heather G received a text message from Jess asking if the girsl still wanted to have dinner before the guys leave and she moves. We said we were interested but there were things that we needed to talk to her about. Of course she immediately changed her mind and said she didn't have enough money, but we know it was an excuse to get out of talking to us. We are all trying to be adults and just brush off some of the things she has been saying, but about a week ago she posted a blog saying some pretty stupid things. Many of which just were plain false. She never named names but you could tell by the things she was saying that she was talking about me and the 2 heathers. We all have been trying to be as nice to her as we can and just let go of the things she was saying but she went a little far with the blog. But maybe she will start acting like the adult she is and have a nice sit down discussion so we can let her know what she was saying was false. But enough about that. Well Saturday was altogether a pretty interesting day/night. We went over to Laura and Brent Woodwards for a BBQ. There were about 20 people there, some of which were kids. We had a great time laughing and talking and eating and playing games. We were outside just talking and we had some music playing and it was about 10 pm and the cops showed up. The funny thing is we know who called the cops, because for about and hour before the cops came there was this girl staring out her window at us and then staring at us when and after the cops came. Apparently she didn't like that we were talking and laughing and being loud, but really we weren't. I think it just seemed like that because when you have 12 or so people all trying to talk at once it tends to get kind of loud, as anyone in my family would know. We didn't get in trouble we were just asked to turn off the music and be quiet. Which we just went inside after that. I have never been to a get together where the cops have been called so it was pretty interesting. They were joking with us, which made it all the more fun. I don't know why but it did. Altogether a good night. Then yesterday on Sunday Jordan got called back into work. Apparently till they leave they are on a 2 hour recall, meaning when they get a call from their leader they have 2 hours to come into work. Apparently a couple of companies in the battalion have had a few problems and the BC(battalion commander) is getting fed up with it. Which I don't blame them because people are getting in trouble for the stupidest things. When you put that much testosterone in one place things are bound to happen but I guess it's been much worse than normal. Although Jordan's company is not the ones getting in trouble, which I am very grateful for. At least I know the guys Jordan is friends with aren't trouble makers. Well that was my weekend. Alex is, as always, steadily getting bigger and cuter. She is almost talking. She loves to babble but I know one of these days a full sentence will come out of her mouth when I least suspect it. Right now she points at everything and does this little whine to get what she wants is she can't reach it. Otherwise I make her do it herself. She is very independent. I wonder where she gets that from. :)

Story of my life

Well it's been a typical day for me. Waking up, getting the baby fed and ready. Getting me ready. Seeing Jordan off to work and thinking about making dinner tonight. I did go to this place called Puttin on the Paint with some friends. I painted a butterfly for Alex. I get to pick it up next Monday since it takes a week for fire and glaze. Although I do have a party to look forward to this weekend. I am having some of the couples in the platoon over for couples game night. I'm super excited, yes I do realize I'm staying home but I don't mind since we will be having company. Besides it's a lot easier than trying to find a babysitter, plus a lot cheaper. We are getting closer to the day Jordan leaves, don't have a date yet but I know it will be in a month or so. Just one more thing to look forward to as an Army wife. Anyways I really don't have much to say today. I realize it's been awhile since I wrote, but really my life isn't that fascinating. I'm pretty boring, besides I haven't eaten lunch yet and I'm starving. So TTFN.

Jordan's Home

So I guess I could start by saying Jordan is home. He came home on January 30th. So he has been home for a little while I just haven't been on here to update that info. It is very nice to have him home. Although he is very busy at work during the days at least I get some time with him at night. Of course that is after Alex goes to bed. Another good thing about Jordan being home, besides the fact that I don't worry about him, is he helps out with Alex. I love being a mother but it is definately a lot of work. I don't mind it in the least but there are days when an extra hand isn't appreciated. I guess I could tell you the big, but sad news, Jordan will be deploying either the last week of April or the first week of May. I'm trying to convince one of the wives from Jordan's platoon to come move in with me so we are both not so lonely when the guys deploy but I don't know how successful I'm being. I do plan on making trips to Utah as frequently as possible so that should help with the loneliness as well. This deployment will be the hardest for both of us since this one will be the worst one as far as condition and area. I knowthat he will be with some very great guys so I'm not too worried.

Boring

There is nothing new to report. Although I have been keeping myself busy running a bunch of errands this week. I did hear from Jordan that they will be deploying in April, but as far as how official that is I don't know. Alex is starting to get 2 more teeth. She is doing so much better as far as walking goes. She has a little walker that she loves to travel around the house with. She keeps me busy.