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!!!

Temple trip!

This beautiful girl below is my sweet cousin Jessica and one my best friend growing up. I was always up at her house a couple times during the summer months growing up. We played Barbies together, we would pretend we were speaking Spanish when we really didn't even have a clue, go to Lagoon, and played countless hours outside. Well in a little over a month she is going to be leaving for 18 months to serve the Lord in the Bacolod Philippines Mission. I'm so excited for her and so sad that I will not get to see her for 18 months.

On Saturday I had the wonderful opportunity to go and do a temple session with her. We went to the Draper temple. Neither of us had ever done one there and it was so beautiful. The spirit was so strong and I love the feeling of peace and worry feel that you feel when you are in the temple. During the session I started to think what a better way to celebrate Easter then going to the temple. It was such a wonderful experience. Now I just can't wait to do it again when Adam gets home.

Here is us in front of the temple...after all the brides had gone home...there were a TON of them.

The lady we asked to take our picture kept pushing the wrong button on my camera and so we stood there for a long time. It was getting a little chilly standing in the shade.

After we went to Kneader (one of my FAVORITE places!) We got the Turkey, bacon, avocado....SO GOOD!

Well that was my Easter celebration and it was so wonderful. I know that Jessica is going to be an amazing missionary. 

Love you Jessica!!

5 years ago....On March 1st

5 years ago on March 1st, it was a snowy day and Adam picked me up in his blue Jeep. We went to Ruby River and hung out with some of his friends. Yes that was our first date on 03/01/08. I can't believe that Adam and I have know each other for 5 years now. It has been the most wonderful 5 years ever. I love having Adam as my best friend. One thing that I finally put together after 5 years was that Adam and I had our first date together exactly 18 years after his Mom passed away. I don't know why I haven't put the two together before. When I told Adam he said that he had never thought of it before either..

On to the next thing... On March 19, 2013 I came home from school to find a white box on the porch...I opened up the box and this is what I found...

I continued to dig through the box and found....

A message in a bottle is what I found. SO CUTE!!!

Inside I found the sweetest little love letter from Adam. In case you were wondering..Yes I did cry when I read it. He is so super sweet to me and I am so lucky to have him in my life. In part of the letter he wrote how he remembered talking to me the first time and what I was wearing...that really got me. That he remember what I was wearing and how I did my hair. I really do have the greatest husband ever!

Now this girl....She too is awesome.! This last Friday Stella hung out with me after we both got off work. We went and checked out Gordmans that just opened up here. Let me just say, "THANK YOU CHELSIE!!! Thank you for introducing me to this most wonderful store!!" This store has EVERYTHING. I love it and I got a super cute top. After we went to Wingers, and it was super yummy and we were too full for dessert. All we can say is that we are both super excited for our hubbies to be home with us.

So thank you Adam for the most wonderful gift of being my best friend and for the amazing message in a bottle. I love it so much and have read the letter a whole bunch of times now. 

Then a special thank you to Stella for being such a good friend and hanging out with me.

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.

Baby gift FUN!

 One of my very best friends Mindi is having a baby and yesterday was her baby shower. It was so much fun! Her sister made it an owl theme and she made owl cake pops, and deviled eggs. It was super cute! She got a TON of cute stuff! I just love baby things and I can't wait until Adam and I get to have kids of our own....although I may be in trouble because of how cute everything is...

For Mindi's gift I had a Motorcycle diaper cake. I love making gifts with diapers...I have made many diaper cakes, and I've made tricycle diaper cakes.

Here is the motorcycle..EVERYONE loved it!!!

 Here is the back of the motorcycle. I made a license plate for it and since they have not picked a name out yet I just did their last name. 

 I really like the handle bars, they're super awesome!! One of them is even a mirror.

I couldn't think of were to do with the outfit so I decided to do this....

I saw this idea on pinterest, it only had the diapers with the blanket though.  I think it all turned out super cute! I am so excited for Mindi to have her baby and meet little mini Garcia!