Post-deployment photo shoot

A couple weeks ago we had our sister-in-law do our photos. She just started up her company not long ago and she does an amazing job.  I wanted to get photos done after Adam got home, with him in his multicam. Sorry for the photo overload, but there are just so many that we love...so I just chose a few.

When taking these photos everyone driving by kept slowing down and looking at us. We even had one guy yell out of his truck and say thank you. I am so grateful for people out there who truly realize the sacrifice that military families go through. 

I love my husband and how good and amazing he looks in his uniform.

Believe it or not these photos below with the blue wall was taken at the Napa store.

I love these photos, they make my eyes look so blue.

These photos were taken at my father-in-law's house

I love h ow you can see US ARMY in the background

Can I saw that I have a HOT husband!

So this photo of poop on the wall was pretty funny. We were there taking photos and then we look over and see poop, so naturally we had to get a close up of one.

Thank you so much Bethany for taking our photos!!! WE LOVE THEM!!!

 Everyone should check out her Facebook page and see her other photos.

4/25/2013 Part 2

 So here are the picture for part 2. 

Some of my nieces...don't you just LOVE their skirts!!!!

 Best friends reunited again...FYI: I'm his bestest friend and Jake is his best friend...and yes Jake did get a little teary eyed.

 Brother! They have not seen each other since March 2012 when J Ryan went off to basic training for the National Guard.

 My wonderful Grandparents!

 

My family and Roscoe cute girlfriend Allie

 Adam and his parents

 Everyone that came up to the airport

 Now here is the part that I really love. I was so stressed out the day before Adam got home because I had ALL of this lined up....

 The flags once you go over the overpass...yes there are over 100 flags that our ward set up for us. It was so cool and was almost like tunnel vision flag style.

 More flags

 My father-in-law had this awesome idea to get a HUGE flag...I didn't know anyone who had one so then I talked to Adam's uncle who works for the city and he let us barrow this one and then we hung it with my brother-in-law's crane.

 IT LOOKED SO COOL

 The flags in the yard and in front were flags that my parents' ward let us barrow. Thank you ERIKA!

 oh, and a lady in my ward donated the balloons for us.

 Adam's amazing banner!

Well now you can see what an amazing display we had going on for Adam when he got home. He thought that I was just doing the huge flag, so when we went over the overpass and he saw all the flags...he was surprised. He loved it!!!

 

Take back to 4/25/2013 PART 1

Part 1:

So some of you have heard my awesome story about Adam coming home, but here is part one.

Tuesday 4/23 Adam called me after I got home from school and from my tan (spray tan-love it) and told me that he did have a hernia...back story to that...he was having pain while running one day over in Afghanistan and then in Texas they did a CT scan...Well then he told me that he may not get to come home but we wouldn't find out until Wednesday morning. We decided not to tell anyone that night just because we were not sure. Wednesday morning comes about and Adam went to his appointment and they told him that he was going to have to stay in Texas for 1-2 months. I was heart broken when he told me. Then he text me saying that he was going to try and make them send him home....10 minutes later...he was told NO. UGH lot of crying then happened on my part. If anyone know what I did for his homecoming you'll know why and I think back now and think it really was not as big of a deal as I was thinking it was. But I was still heart broken.

Well Adam decided that he really did want to come home and so he had to try and denied treatment. LONG story and I mean LONG story short...Adam got  yelled at a lot...he talked to a lot of people that he should not have gotten to talk to in one day...the end results...Adam denied treatment and was given 30 days to get it taken care of...So he was told he could home home!!! Which was the next day. YAY...by the way I was texting everyone that he was not coming home, wait he is coming home, wait he's not, now it's maybe...okay now he really is coming home. A BIG thanks to WOODY who went everywhere with Adam that day and stood by him while he got yelled at. I can't thank you enough.

APRIL 25, 2013 12:15PM

Adam got off the plane. they weren't suppose to even land until 12:45pm...

and here is the most precious moment captured by my cousin Shalona.

This was us on JUNE 13, 2013 at the send off.

This is us on APRIL 25, 2013

Adam is so good looking in his uniform. We had so much fun that day. I'll post more picture of it later once I get them onto my computer.

Back in December I contacted Adam's cousin, who's husband is a medical artist. He is an amazing artist. I asked him to draw a picture of one of our pre-deployment photos as a homecoming present for Adam.....and here it is...Thank you so much David!!!

Here it is added to our American wall. I think that it looks great!!! The one in the frame is the original. After he did that he scanned it into the computer and added the digital to it.

I LOVE IT!!!!

...wait for....TEXAS!!!

So something AWESOME happened yesterday....

This is a picture of Adam's unit getting off the plane in...wait for it...TEXAS!!! I'm so excited that he will be home soon. Adam is not too excited to have to be back. Because he has enjoyed his deployment so much he wished that he could be spending more time and doing more for the people.

While Adam was away he was able to use his phone to call me using wifi. Well when he made it to the States his phone was not getting any signal. I got up yesterday and saw that everyone was getting text messages from their husbands and I was not. I knew something was wrong with his phone because that is not like him to not text or call me. So then he called me from a buddies phone. Well I called our service provider and long story short, his phone is broken and they are sending us a new phone but we don't know if we should sent him his phone since he'll be coming home so soon. I guess we shall see what to do when the time comes.

I love Adam so very much and I really can't wait to be back with him. He is my other half that completes me and makes me so happy. It makes me sad that while other wives are getting to text their husbands and call them...me and Adam only get to chat on facebook and chat on skype. I am grateful for those things but it still makes me mad/sad that his phone is not working.

So here is to my sweet love and the fact that he will be coming home soon!!! It is going to be an AMAZING day!!!

The LAST PACKAGE

THE LAST PACKAGE!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!!!

So this was a bitter/sweet moment. I sent of Adam's last package and he just got it a couple days ago. I can't believe that it was the last one to send to him before he gets home. I have loved putting together all of the packages and coming up with ideas for the next one.

Here is the inside.

So since it was getting close to Easter Adam wanted some Cadbury eggs. We both love them and I found a 36oz bag of them for 10 bucks at Sam's club. I took some out for myself of course. I didn't want to send him all candy for Easter, so instead of putting candy in the plastic eggs I wrote little notes for him. (sad part: Adam said that some of them were broken when he opened the box, oh and he opened the box upside down...) Adam also wanted Almond Roca. The pistachios I thought would be nice for the trip home. He said that he has little baggies that he can put them in. I told him to give some to his interpreter when he gets back from seeing his family. We are hoping that his interceptor gets back before they have to leave because he was going to be picking up some stuff for us. The fruit snacks are from my parents. Adam LOVES fruit snacks.

The saying at the bottom of the box

 I wanted to add a little piece of home to this last package so I made brownie in a jar and also blueberry muffin in a jar. Adam said that they were super good!! They were even still moist! One last thing that I sent along was a can of Dr. Thunder. The night that he got the package he drank the thunder and also ate a brownie. To say the least he was in Heaven. I told him that there will be Dr. Thunder in the fridge when he gets home.

My niece Ella colored this for Adam.

I can't believe that Adam is going to be home soon and I have so much to do before then!!! :)

Adam is doing really well, he is busy now packing up his "home" as we call it because he has lived there for a while. They just finished a big project and part of it Adam got to design and build a Grizzly...no not the bear...it's a type of rock crusher. It was pretty cool looking and I'm so proud of him for all the hard work that he has done. 

As for me..School is going good. We just took our midterms and I did AMAZING on my pharmacology test...192/200!!!!  As for my Mental Health class...that test was a joke and I still ended up getting above average on the test but it was a joke and everyone agreed with me on that. But we all passed which is good. I know that there are a couple of people that didn't pass and I feel really bad for them. :( So here is to 2 more months of school and we will be done for this semester.