Our Charlie Brown Christmas tree

We decided not to get a tree this year because I am leaving on the 13th.
And we won't be back home until after the new year.
But after helping our friends decorate their tree, Ryan suggested we get a baby tree.
So we headed to Target and bought a 3 foot prelit number.
We decorated it tonight and put it on a table in the corner.
Ryan said it looked like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
But I think it's adorable.
I took this pic with my phone so it's kind of fuzzy but you get the idea.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Prayer update!

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been baby step praying.
I have an update!
We have been having A LOT of trouble with our baby doctor out here.
She is literally never available.
She is on leave, then she immediately goes TDY, then comes back but has training, etc.
I have been praying about what to do about the situation.
So here is what has happened.
I called my regular doctor and told him about it, he put in a referral for a civilian baby doc (CBD).
They gave me an initial appointment date of Dec. 6th.
I started praying that someone would cancel so I could go earlier.
I kept trying to get a hold of my military baby doc (MBD) as well.
You can't have too many opinions, right?
Well I finally got ahold of my MBD's nurse on Wednesday and she PROMISED that my doc would call me on (this past) Saturday.
Surprise, surprise my phone never rang.
So I prayed last night that something would open up with the CBD.
I called when I got up this morning and they said a cancelation just happened, come in on Wednesday!!!
Who knows how this will all play out, but it seems like things are working out so that I will meet this new doc.
Hopefully, something great will happen with him.
Please keep me in your prayers this Wednesday!!

Today I am motivated to clean my house so that's what I will be doing.
I finished a 10 pager last night for one of my classes so I am feeling pretty impressed with myself.
2 weeks until Oklahoma!

**UPDATE** About an hour ago, my CBD's receptionist called to say that if I wanted to I could come in tomorrow if I wanted to! How cool is that? So if you don't mind say a prayer for us tonight!!

The sweetest thing.

I have been babysitting our neighbor's baby boy.
He is so precious.

Thankful!

I am feeling very blessed this year!
It has been a really awesome year for Ryan and I.
Ryan accomplished his lifelong dream and I am working on mine.
We have an amazing family.
We have friends all around the world.
We have the coolest dogs ever.
We live in paradise.
We found a church we love.
We love our house.
We love our neighbors.
All in all, things are going great for us.

We wish we could be with our loved ones today.
It would be nice if we could be in Oklahoma, Utah, Kentucky and North Carolina.
But I guess were stuck with Hawaii.

Today has been pretty eventful.
I woke up early and headed to Walmart for some last minute items that I thought I got yesterday, oops!
Headed home and peeled, cut and cooked 10 pounds of potatoes.
Now they are in the crock pot soaking up butter.
Went over to my friend Claire's to test her stuffing, yummy!
She has never made it before, silly Brits.
Just kidding Claire!
Anyway, now we are just waiting for 3 to roll around so we can pig out.

Oh and my house smells amazing because my Scentsy gear arrived yesterday!
Blueberry Cheesecake is in the air.

Time for some Christmas music!
Love you guys!
Happy Thanksgiving!!

What's up Wednesday?

I think that I am going to try to make a "what's up" post every Wednesday.
So here's my first one.

- I have 8 assignments left to finish in order to finish this semester!!
- Tomorrow we are having a neighborhood Thankgiving.
- I am in charge of making 5 pounds of mashed potatoes.
- I leave for Oklahoma in 19 days.
- Ryan had his first flight in Hawaii yesterday and it went great!
- He gets to fly twice next week!!
- The lease was signed for the new renter on Monday!
- No update on the new baby doc.
- Still no news about getting Milly paid for.

I think that is about it.
As always, Murph and Duke are great.
And Hawaii is awesome.

Love you guys!

My birthday bird!

Just before our "superman" training. 

 Our amazing Thanksgiving dinner that we made all by ourselves!!

 On our way to Black Friday. NOOO sunlight.

 Decorating the tree.

Robin's 26th birthday!!

 Getting ready for my big day

 Sketchy casino in Antigua

 

 Family photo shoot!

Just arrived in Antigua :)

Robin seeing my dress for the first time.

Okay, I have found a lot of randoms pictures, so no more titles, just pics.

ENJOY!



This makes me smile :)

Ryan's GI Bill came through!!