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What a week or two it has been! I had to catch my breath to make sure it was real. Ok, a little background... I was born in Toledo, Ohio. Not the most glamourous place on earth, more like an industrious city with the blue collar working class making up most of the population. Lots of train tracks, factories, and commuters to Detroit. Jeep is/was there, Ford, Chevy. Most people know someone who knows someone who knows you. That type of place. Small town feel in a pretty decent sized city. Freezing ass cold winters, hot humid summers, and not much in between. Anyway, my dad and his side of the family still live there, and I moved with my mom at the age of 8. ALL of my family with whom I have the closest relationship and really grew up with is here, in California. My grandparents, who I am very close with, my uncles- most of them, are here and of course my mom who I have lived more with than without. I lived with her until she moved back to Ohio for a bit, then again until after Jeremy and I got married. We lived with her for the first year while we waited for the school year to let out and get a house on base. Anyway, my point is, I was very lucky to meet my husband who PCS'd to Travis. Travis is only about 40 minutes West of Sacramento/Elk Grove area, which I call home. I still see my mom at least every week, talk daily and visit the folks a couple times a month. Last week I was waiting for J to bring the truck home so I could head to Sac to visit mom for lunch. He calls me outside to "talk privately"...not a good start to ANY conversation in my opinion. We don't talk at all. He hands me a piece of paper he printed off of MPF. MPF? I don't know what it stands for either. I just know it is the place you go for everything in the military. It houses all the member's info. They can reacg it via secured internet connection and check it "virtually". So, vitural MPF has ORDERS waiting for my husband as he logs in to cancel a request for orders he put in a while back. OMG. We have been reassigned. We are moving. Where you ask? Hill AFB, UTAH. Talk about cold winters! Yikes. So after 5 years of being a military girlfriend, then wife, I am finally going to find out what it's like. My husband has never been deployed anywhere scary, he did a small stint at Edwards AFB, which if anyone has ever been there knows it is pretty much one step from HELL. Its ugly, dry, hot and has scary wild animals running all over base. They tell you not to leave the house after dark cause the animals come out to play. Serious. Its just past the Mojave Desert. Back to my point. Jeremy kind of has it made here at Travis. He has made some great 'contacts' within the Force, he has a prime position right now which is VERY family friendly, and he never goes anywhere. He doesn't TDY or Deploy.... I am really afraid for him to be the new fish at a base where people are already established like he is here. I know I married into this, and I knew what I was signing up for, but I am really nervous. Especially since I won't have my support system right there if he does have to go somewhere. I will be in a new place, surrounded by people I don't know. Poor me, I know, but this is my version of a nightmare. I am not the most ourgoing girl you have ever met. I am pretty quiet, and rather shy IRL. I don't- rather can't, walk into a room and just put myself out there. Needless to say, this move is both exciting and terrifying for me. I am glad however that we got Hill. Jeremy was going to get orders handed down to him anyway. He has been here for 5 years. His time is up so to speak. His position ends in December, and then he would be going back to working engines. While he has been on this assignment, his shop has been undergoing MAJOR changes. Command has turned over, his shop has moved and his squadron is going from 39 troops to 11. The new kids are the ones who get to stay. The more seasoned guys are all being relocated. Either to new squadrons here or getting orders. Jeremy filled out something called a BOP which is a base of preference. Its basically a form that says if orders come down for me, this is the place I want to go. SO when the Chief heard that all these guys were going, he pulled in a favor so that Jeremy could get the best set of orders from the bunch. for that, I am grateful. It was going to happen anyway. It could have been Clovis NM, Phoenix or Withita Falls, TX. Those are the ugliest, in all meanings of the word ugly, bases in the US. So, that's that. I am moving. Either in Feb or June, if we can extend so the kids can finish this year out. ugh. 12 hours away from my family, and 12 hours closer to his. haha. We are going to be halfway between the two places which is good for him. My whole life is here though. Its going to be really hard for me. All of my friends have been my friends for decades. Seriously, I have been with the same people for YEARS. I don't know how I am going to do this. ahhh.... I just hope God can still hear me when I am in Utah.

Thank goodness for the internet. :)

Oh, and the kids went back to school today. I started yesterday, and my baby girl was in daycare for the first time ever. Talk about a tough pill for mommy to swallow. Deep breathes.

Off to clean my house. Ta Ta.

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the previous two posts were by my little guy while I was making dinner. ha ha.. I am not deleting them. They are totally cute :D And someday when I have my blog printed, I will put those pages in his book.

I wish my camera was closer. He (Jammin) is sitting on the stairs right now in his Thomas the train undies, playing with his geo trax and talking to himself. Where is my video camera when I need it? :D He is awesome.

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Cause Chelsea told me to :D

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Check out this site.... great mommy site AND she is doing a g dipe contest! Yay. so excited for this especially since I just bought a pack of gcloth for my g's. Livie just moved out of her small FB's, so I am down 6 diapers from my stash, and BOY OH BOY is my washer feeling it! I am still washing my gcloth, so I can't use the g's just yet (I am out of flushies) so when you look at that, I am actually down NINE dipes from my stash, AND most of my CD cash is g-o-n-e. I found a lady to convert my bum genius, so pretty soon I will be down ANOTHER 8 diapers for a week or so while she converts them to snaps. I may actually have to buy sposies which makes me unhappy :( wahhhh. I promised Jeremy we would save $$ on cloth, and right now I am not doing that. Boo. Anyway, enough of my diaper drama. Go check out Chelsea's blog for all the other super fun stuff!

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Is summer over yet?

This has easily been the most 'eventful' time in my life. Maybe the most eventful year. It started off with me getting sick, which in turn got my baby girl sick, which led to a super fun call to 911 and Jeremy wondering what the hell he was going to do as a single father in the military with a newborn to boot. That led to a 3 day stint in the scariest place on earth; David Grant Medical Center. A month later, an very painful and un fun surgery with a longer than normal recovery, and the loss of an internal organ. Not one I was attached to or anything, but still kind of a big deal. I think things were pretty quiet till mid year. At least nothing stands out right now. Ahh.. enter summer. June 2nd. Easily the worst day of my life. I will leave it at that, cause I don't do the spillage of drama, but this was one speed bump I wasn't sure I would get around. Anyway, slowly, I am getting around it, so that's an upside to this year. Oh, another fabulous upside? My BFF is going to be a mama for the 2nd time, and it's to a little GIRL!! Yae Katie and Ben for giving me something to look forward to and someone to spend lots o money on! tee hee hee... Well, late June rolls around and then comes my road trip to South Dakota. Still can't believe we made it through that one in tact. A total of 48 hours in a car with a baby and a toddler! God was definantly helping out on that trip :) since we got back, things have been a little... well.. shall we say, sticky? Let's just say the transition from 4 kids to 5 has been a little hairy for us all.

The really neat things? Well, besides the announcement of baby girl Gonzalez...MY baby started preschool! What a tough thing for mommy, but so great for Ben. He loves it. He loves having friends, and doing crafts and learning new things. He is doing so great. I am starting back on campus to get my damn degree finished before I am 50 friggin years old, and after two LONG years, Ben got called off the waiting list which means I can take day classes and have the evenings with my family. No one excpet for Olivia will even notice I am in class. She is going to be in the daycare while I am in class. Just thinking about that makes me cry, but it's only an hour a day- 3 hours a week. We will be ok. Right?!

Speaking of Olivia! She is growing by leaps and bounds! She has outgrown her small diapers and is officially a medium. *tear* She is crawling, standing up, trying to walk, talking ALL the time and cutting teeth left and right. Its crazy. The year was so insane I feel like I missed out on all this neat time with her. Me being sick, her getting sick because of me. The time in the hospital and recovering... I really missed alot. Thank god for Jeremy. He was home for 2 months! No wonder she is a daddies girl. Seriously, seeing my husband with his daughter is the sweetest thing I have ever witnessed. He is so in love with her. I love it! She will have that daddy daughter thing I always longed for. I am so glad I can give her that. Well, with the help of my hubs anyway :P


So as it stands right now, I am looking forward to the summer ending and my routine going back to normal. I need some normalcy and relaxation. Otherwise I am blgging form the psych ward. :)

TTFN

Pictures from my very first sugar baby meet up :)

Here are a few shots of Olivia and Keegen from the other morning <3>