Just a small, random, post. Now that Christmas is over, I just have January to look forward to. I cannot wait for Den to get home. Before he left, I pictured this time away from eachother a lot easier. I find that some days are easier than others. But overall, this is by far the worst expierence I've ever been through so far being married. I don't expect it to get any easier. Sometimes I question if I'm cut out to be a military wife. I want to be the best wife to my husband that I can. Because he deserves it. But, I'm scared of the future, being alone. With family so far away, from everyone that I love. This isn't the easiest life but as long as I can be with Den I am a happy camper. I will make the most of our time together, and when he's gone on diployment I know that my family and friends are just a phone call away, and a skype away! ;) I am love with him, and look up to him with everything he does!!

I found these poems and want to share them:

Dear Lord,
A Navy wife I choose to be,
My husband's job to keep me free.
He must sail to foreign lands;
While he's gone, hold thou my hands,
When worries seem too much to bear;
Embrace me with thy loving care.
If days are boring, and nights too long,
Keep me father from all the wrong.
When I am weak and torn by fears,
Please father, dry my helpless tears.
You know indeed that I am frail;
Help me to send him Cheerful mail.
And as my lonely vigil stand,
My prayer is this: Please hold my hand.
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Dear Lord, give me greatness of heart to see,
The difference between duty and his love for me,

Give me a task to do each day,
To help pass the time while he's away.

Give me the understanding, so that I may know,
That when duty calls he must go;

And, Dear Lord, When he goes out to sea,
Please bring him home safely to me.
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I have to say, I am thankful for the man I have. For the unconditional love he has for me. Even through all my imperfections, and faults, he is there for me. I adore him, and will forever be thankful for this sacrafice he has made for us. Because as hard as it is for me to be away from him, I know it's just as hard for him. I pray, that I may be positive and supportive and whatever else he needs from me. I hope I can fullfil those emotions for him!

Craf-tee!

Sara and I have caught the craft bug! We started out with our stars. We baught a large size metal star, scrapbook paper, and modge-podge, and went to town creating our stars! SO FUN!

Says "Harris"

#2: "GIVE THANKS" These were spur of the moment crafts, we had everything, and just went to town! Just in time for Thanks giving!! :)

Our mess---haha.

#3: "JOY" Sara went to Trinity Treasurs here in town and found these block letters that we used scrap book paper on and modge-podge, and sand paper, also very fun!

My sanity for now!! ;)

So I'm dedicated this blog to our good friends the Hirschi's! I've been so blessed to have such good friends welcome me into their home, to spend time with them while Den is gone. Since I got back from seeing Den in CT, I've been kinda lonley. And Sara and Spencer have taken me in more or less. I spend a lot of time with them, and it helps with the time to go by quicker! Dennis and Spencer have been friends since High School. Sara and I have been friends since serving together in Relief Society together, and became best friends when we started dating the boys, and still spent a ton of time double dating, and doing things together. Spencer is the kind of guy who will drop anything to help anyone. He is so patient. When Dennis was in bootcamp, my grandma got really sick, and needed a blessing. The only person I knew to call beside Cliff (Den's dad) was Spencer. He'll never know how much his friendship means to us.

Sara is the same. She is the only other person who knows me really well besides Den. Yup, she knows 98.5% of my life...hahaI tell her everything. She probably knows more than she'd ever want to. haha. I just love her and am so thankful for her friendship!But these are the friends that we will keep for life. They are huge blessings and I love them and appreciate them so very much! And it helps when their kid is so dang cute!!! :)

More Pics

So, I'm retarted when it comes to this. I just got a newish computer and cant figure out why my pictures won't work. I've never had this happen to me. But Hope you enjoy the rest of the pics!

Time For an update!

Well, its about time I quit putting off updating the blog. I need to get with the Program! So first things first. I cant figure out how to move the pictures where I want them. So you get to see them first. :)

...after I got home from Chicago. (Which is by far the worst place I've ever been to visit!) I got all of Den's things ready to ship to him. The most important thing being his cell phone! I must say, he did pretty good making sure to call me off the pay phone for a few days until his phone got there. He would call me once a day, and we'd talk for about 10-15 minutes a day. This was the best to finally talk to him everyday! But I came to the conclusion for the first little while it was rough having to go from talking to him through letters, and now we are able to talk whenever we wanted. Mad me miss him tons more! But I was thankful to get to talk to him all the time!

Before I left Chicago I remember Den telling me how fast 14 weeks would go by fast. Psh! Who was he kidding?! I wasn't about to wait 14 weeks to see him again! Once he recieved his phone one of our first conversations was about when he'd be home again. And once he decided he wouldn't come home for Thanksgiving or Christmas, I took matters into my own hands. And started looking for flights to go see him. Ofcourse, I couldn't just jump on a plane and go see him, I had to talk it out with him. While we were talking one day I just happend to be checking our online banking, and saw that there was a charge for plane tickets...as much as I wanted to jump up and down. I kept my cool and waited for him to tell me, but he just kept talking and talking, so I prolonged our conversation until he finally said "Oh by the way, I found a good price on a plane ticket for you!!!" Thanks Honey!!!!

Now for the good part. Dennis has always been so frugal with our money, which is so good, but not in a case like this. I was supposed to fly out on Friday November 5th. and come home the Monday the 8th. Now writing this, I realize I must sound so selfish, but I really wanted to spend as much time as I can with him. My itenerary said I arrive to Connecticut at 10 pm, just in time to go to bed! haha. But really I am SO thankful that I was abel to be with him. And we made the most of our time together. We stayed in Rhode Island the first night.. And bless my husbands heart, again he was looking to be frugal and save some mula, so we stayed in two more different hotels for the next 2 nights after that. haha. I asked how much he saved and he said $25..and if it were me, I would've just spent that extra money to stay in the same hotel. But oh well. It made for good memories! haha

Before we left Rhode Island, we took a little tour around the city, and stopped at the mall. This mall was HUGE! Not as big as Mall Of America. But it was pretty big! On our way out of the mall we saw a bunch of people so excited, out side Barnes and Nobel. So I decided to give it a look and to my surprise it was BUDDY from Cake Boss!! too some pics! He is soo nice!After that we drove to Groton, which is where Den is stationed at the moment. We drove through thee most BEAUTIFUL towns! Oh my heck, they were pretty. And it was the perefect time of year, with all the trees turning colors and the houses. Oh my heck, it kinda reminded me of a town like on Hocus Pocus. Not as creepy, but old houses and tall colonial style houses and the trees. I was secretly wishing that we'd get stationed there! :) Then we arrived at our next Hotel for the night. When we pulled up I had to have a little giggle. This hotel was cute on the outside but was a joke on the inside. It had walls of paper in there. I was woken up at 3 am to the sounds of "shouting for joy" in the room next to us. I couldn't believe Den could sleep through that!!

The next day we went to the Ocean, where I saw my first lighthouse! It was soooo pretty! It was at that moment, when I thought that as much as I hate the idea of living far away from family, I am so thankful to be able to travel and see all of these things, in which I otherwise wouldn't have been able to see. Later Den took me on base and showed me around. We weren't able to take pictures there because of confidential something or other..but was impressed how big base is. We had so much fun being together! I miss him everyday, and some worse than others. But in the big picture we have eternity to be together! For that, I will be forever thankful!!!!

My first video!!

So I've been wanting to do this video since I got back. But I am not really technically inclined. So It's taken me a few days to get it done. And here it is!!

We have a Sailor!

Ok friends. I've been meaning to blog, and blog, but for some reason keep putting it off. So here I am. FINALLY blogging. I was reading some of my older blogs about Den leaving, and almost being done with Basic Training. I can't belive that time has came and passed! It's been quite a rollercoaster ride! But all worth it! I have a lot to catch up on. I left for Minnesota to visit family the 24th of August. My aunt and I had to come back home a few days later because my grandma got really sick. If I'd have known just how bad off she was before I left I wouldn't have left. But I had the feeling and was confident that all would be well. Maybe that was just because I was wrapped up in getting to see Den. I hate those kind of homecomings. All of my moms brothers and sister came home to say their goodbye's.

Love you always Granny!

My Grandma, was one of my most favorite people in the world. She and my Grandpa always had my back. Even when I was wrong. They made me feel like I was right..haha. My Grandma, was the person I'd cry for when I got hurt, or was in trouble with my mom. I remember her picking me up from school when my mom was in school. She'd take me to her house. And we'd have an after school snack, and watch Super Market Sweep, and the Golden Girls. When I moved in with them after High School, she taught me how to make her mom's famous pancakes from scratch. I was so pleased with my self I made it a ton! Her and my Grandpa were troopers and just ate away! When I got married, she welcomed Den to the family with open arms. And loved him like one of us. I'm Thankful for the gospel. For the knowledge that our family can be together forever!

I ended back in Minnesota, a week before Den graduated. We went shopping at the Mall of America. Which is a GREAT place to people watch! haha, we shopped until we almost dropped! And before I knew it I was flying to Chicago! What an expierence. I arrived at the O'Hare airport, at about 10 am (people there are so NOT personable!). I had a whole day all by my self and had no clue what to do. I stayed at the Hampton Inn. And right next to it, there were tons of food places to choose from. Even a Six Flags across the street! But when I went out there all by my self I turned around and went right back into the Hotel. I kind of chickend out. I was affraid of all those people! Haha. Instead, I just got my outfit together, and relaxed. Thank goodness I had my computer with me That helped pass a lot of the time.

I had to be on base the next morning, at 7 am. So when the taxi guy came to the hotel, we were on our way! I couldn't believe it! The day that seemed to take FOREVER to get here was FINALLY here!

The highways in Chicago have surprisingly slow speed limits. I think the speed limit was like 55. And the guy was doing 75ish. I kept thinking all the way there, "If you get us pulled over and I'm late, I will be soooo angry" haha. But, he pulled up to the base, and actually got me all the way to the building that I needed to be at. From what he says, he's never been able to do that. So I was impressed. Also impressed because I'd done my homework and from what everyone else has said its was quite a jont for them. So I was expecting to walk a long ways! So thank you Mr. Cab driver! I was about 2 hours early. (the time they told us to be there. so we could get good seats.) I was so excited we saw some of the 6-7 week recruits walking around standing guard in their dress whites. It got me so excited! Finally the time came for the ceremony to start. I could hardly wait to see my husband! When they finally announced his division. I looked hard. and couldn't find him. Finally towards the end of the ceremony I found him. and was ready to make a dead sprint to him!

I had mixed emotions about the graduation. I think they drug it on too long. Something that could take 30 minutes. Took an hour and a half. But at the same time. They honored each division. there were 7 or 8 that graduated at the same time. So that was nice. The whole place was quiet and at the end when they say "NOW HEAR THIS, NOW HEAR THIS. LIBERTY CALL!" The whole place went from hearing a pin drop. To a crazy mad house! But that's to be expected. 8 weeks is a long time to be away from a loved one. We spent a few days together. Just kind of relaxing, shopping, and hanging out. It was nice to not have a schedule. But those days went by waaaay to fast. And before I knew it we were saying good-bye again.

Den is in Groton, CT going to sub school, and A school. He will finish there around Christmas time. Which seems like forever away. But I am planning a trip to Conneticut the first part of November. So hopefully that can hold me over until Christmas. I get to talk to him every day sometimes 2-3 times a day. And we get to text. So that's very nice and I'll take what I can get!

Here's a pic of den in his cami's. He is so studly!

Well now that I've written a novel, I'll end this blog with saying again how blessed I am to have such a wonderful husband, that I know with out a doubt will take care of us. Each day I get to talk to him, or I get a text from him. I feel like I'm falling in love all over again. He is the BEST guy, and husband I could ever dream about having in my life! I'm a lucky girl!