And so it begins!

And so it begins....the countdown to when Adam comes home! Although I really don't have an exact count down because we really don't even know when he'll be coming home. Thank you for everyone that came and supported us in this new journey that we are now taking.

One the the guys in Adam's plattoon proposed to his girlfriend in front of everyone 10 minutes before they left. So in a way it was a bittersweet moment. You get engage yes, but the your loved one leaves.

Standing in first formation. Adam is the 5th one from the LEFT

 Adam and I. Yes I did cry a couple times and I did try not to but I couldn't help myself. I am going to miss this man so much. I knew this day was coming for some months now and it has come up so fast and I can't believe it. Even though Adam and I had lots of kisses and hug it was not near enough and I so wish I had another day with him. For now though talking on the phone at night will have to do and I'll pray that they get some days off before they go overseas.

 Adam and Logan

 Logan trying to give a salute

 Brielle, Adam, Logan and Ethan

Brielle and Logan kept giving me hugs and kisses the whole time that they were there. It made me feel so loved.

 Adam and Michelle

 My Grandparent and us

 My Family along with a little man who didn't want to let go of Adam.

 Need I say more about these next two pictures

 Adam standing in last formation before they get on the planes

 Their plane. Adam got a window seat just so he could see me a little longer. Normally he get the aisle seat since he is so tall and needs to stretch his legs out.

 Adam walking to the plane

 Adam getting on the plane

These next months to come will be hard for sure and I'm sure I will be crying quite a bit. I will miss him more than he'll ever know. But now that he has left the sooner he can come home. I LOVE you ADAM and I can't wait for you to come home. 

One of the other Army wives posted this song on her blog and I thought I would share it with all of you. 

Scorpions

Back in April Adam found out that Scorpions was coming to Utah an he really wanted to go and it just happened to be 2 days before he left for deployment. So on Monday we went and it was AWESOME!! We had so much fun!!!!

USA

I found this on pinterest and so I decided to make them. On pinterest they use 5 x 7 frames which are pretty big so I used a little 3 x 5. I know that July is still a couple months away but I couldn't help myself and with it being Memorial Day I thought I would post them.

Big shout out to all my family member who are serving in the armed forces (Jason, J. Ryan, and Roscoe), and an especially big thank you to my wonderful and amazing husband ADAM! I LOVE you Adam and I appreciate everything you do for me and your country.

Pre-deployment shoot

A couple weeks ago Adam and I had a Pre-deployment photo shoot. My old friend from elementary school, Alishia, took them for us and they turned out great!

Let me warn you that there are a lot of pictures! I couldn't just pick a couple so here ya go.

This weekend is memorial day weekend and I'm so HAPPY because Adam gets it off and doesn't have to go back to training until Tuesday at 7pm. Thank you again Alishia for taking our pictures, we love them.

Going Away Party

On Wednesday my wonderful sister-in-law Michelle threw a going away party for Adam.  It was mostly a party for people on his side of the family to see him one last time before he leaves next week. I think it went really good and we had a lot of fun. Thanks Michelle!!! and for all those who came.

This is the cool display that we put together. On the right side of the fireplace we had an ammo can with, "write a letter to J. Ryan" so people could write him letters. 

When we came over to drop off some chairs and tables and Brielle and Logan had their faces painted. I got quite a bit of paint on my shirt by the end of the party. But don't they look good.

The night before the party we brought over some stuff for the display and we had Brielle, Logan and Ethan try on Adam's helmet and body vest. We kept asking them if it was heavy and they kept telling us, "no". The pictures are not too good because the flash on Adam's cam was not working because his battery was almost dead.

Brielle

Logan...you can barely his feet

Ethan

Well tomorrow we are off to vacation for the weekend. It should be fun and then on Tuesday we are going to have pictures taken of us. So EXCITED!! oh and on Saturday we get to go to the temple with all my family.

Gift in a can

So I made a couple of thank you gifts so some of the providers at my work because they wrote letters of recommendation for me applying to nursing school. I found this idea on Pinterest and thought it was super cute!

You take a can that had a pop top and then you open it from the bottom, wash it out and then fill it with goodies! Then you glue the bottom back on and you have a great looking gift!

This is what the finished project looks like

NURSING

Ever since High School all I have ever wanted to become was a nurse. I look a class to become a medical assistant my senior year, just to make sure that I liked the medical field...and I LOVED it. I love what I do at my job. I get to see so many people every day and all of them have some different story to tell. I get to see lots of cool things, and I get to make people feel better and maybe put a smile on someone's face when they are feeling sad. I also get to see lots of pregnant people and their CUTE babies!!! (yes it does make me want one sometimes but then I think that I really need to finish school). Back to the whole nursing thing, I applied to UVU last semester to get into the Spring 2012 class. I got to the interview part and thought that I did really good, but then a couple weeks later I got my DENIED letter and I could figure out why I didn't get in. I know now that it was not meant to be at that time for some reason or another. It could have been because Heavenly Father knew that Adam would be getting deployed and thought it best that I be with him as much as possible but who knows.

So I'm getting ready to apply again I took my TEAS test again and did a little better. I am really nervous because I found out that you can only be interviewed twice in a 5 year period and if you don't get in on the second time with a 5 year period, well you don't get in. Nursing is all I have every wanted to do and I don't know what I'll do if I don't get in. So I'm asking everyone a favor...pray for me!!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE pray that I get an interview and that I can get into the program. This is my dream and I want it so bad to come true.

I did apply to MATC's LPN program but when I took my application up I just had this weird feeling that something was not right about this. The feeling came before I even headed up to go hand it in. I felt like, "should I really be applying here?" So I hope that is a sign of some sort. I did turn my packet in anyway so we'll see where that goes.