Happy Thanksgiving

We are very thankful for our family and friends. We love you guys!

Spending the day apart has not been easy, but it's apart of the Army lifestyle, so we just go along with it. Luckily we will get to spend Christmas together, which I was afraid we'd miss as well.

One week tomorrow and then Mandi gets to join Steven! We are both very excited about this!

Our little house

So Steven went and looked at a house the other day for us to rent. He took a few pictures and yesterday he moved in! Since our furniture and other belongings aren't going to be there until Jan. the Army set us up with loaner furniture, which if we hadn't of  rented a place on Post we wouldn't have any furntiure until ours go there. So we got really lucky. God truly has blessed this process...even on days when I'm about ready to give up!

 Here are a few pictures, they are from Steven's phone so they aren't the best quality.

He also bought a used car last weekend.

The front yard...there are a few palm trees!

This is a big room that we'll use as the living room and dining room....the whole house has this dark floor except the bathrooms which have white tiles!

The kitchen, it isn't really big, but it'll do for now!

This is the little laundry room, we have rental washer/dryer right now, so we'll have to buy one later!

Here is the 2008 Ford Focus he bought....I am taking my car on Dec. 3 to have it shipped and then I'm hopping on a plane on Dec. 4 to head to Hawaii!

Married Life

So Steven left Sunday for Hawaii. I dropped him off at 5:30am in Atlanta. I cried, I couldn't help it. I didn't think I would, but I did. It was sad.

He got in about 11pm Eastern time. I'm not sure the time zone, but they are 5 hours behind, so he got there about 6pm Hawaii time. We talked for a bit, I couldn't sleep, so we chatted, and I finally got some sleep about 3am. Woke up and then fell back asleep until almost noon. And shortly after waking up he texted me to tell him he was up. It was 7am.

We called on Wednesday or Thursday last week to check on when the movers/packers would come. They freakin' lost our paperwork so we had to fax it to them. I called to let them know we had sent it. The woman said to put the 15th on the paperwork, and when I called to let them know we had faxed it, the same woman told me that was wrong. I wanted to scream...but luckily she could change the date. So I hadn't heard anything, and so I called today and they haven't even gotten to our paperwork....she said to call her back Thursday if they don't call me. But crap they'll call Steven and he's in freakin' Hawaii....I just thought about that, ugh....

We are still waiting for our marriage certificate to get here. The lady at the probate court said she put it in the mail the other day, and I was expecting to get it before Steven left, but it hasn't come yet. His grandmother said it should have been here by now, since we're having it mailed to an address just down the street...she said it takes like 1 day to get mail from Dahlonega to another address in Dahlonega. I will be calling tomorrow to find out what the deal is if we don't have it. Steven has to have it for Housing and Finance and to pout me on the orders, and I need it for my Social Security and Military ID, and other things, I'm sure.

I took a butt load of texts books to a bookstore to sell them, I mean, like 30 books. I sold TWO.....I put the rest in a box they had for books for Africa.

Went to Wal-Mart and bought Steven his Fry Daddy, and a few other things for the house. We could possibly live on Post. He's going to get on the list, hopefully they'll find something, and if not hopefully he'll be able to get a loan from the Finance Department for first and last months rent. We'd be without any furniture until ours got there, but if we live on post we can rent or borrow furniture from the Post. Can't do that if we live off Post.

Anyways, this is pretty long, so I'll let ya'll go. Just thought I'd update everyone on married life so far!