Happy Thanksgiving!!

Have you noticed that I am rubbish at blogging when my husband is around?! It means I am for sure going to be amazing at it when he is gone as there will be no distractions! I have been keeping up with all of your blogs though so don't you worry I am still here. Block leave has been very productive so far, we have been continuously organising and packing for my move and his "vacation" to play with Iraqi sand haha. Ooohhh and we went to see the Blind Side and it was AMAZING, seriously, go and see it! I think when Mr Soldier is gone I have decided to skip most movies that come out and rent them all on DVD when he is home so that he doesn't feel like he's missing out too much.....although I will allow myself the girlie ones that I know he won't appreciate sitting through! This week is my third Thanksgiving in America and we are off to Virginia tomorrow to spend it with Mr Soldier's family. I am looking forward to seeing everyone but I know it will be bittersweet as it will be his last chance to say goodbye to people before we leave. Afterwards though Mr Soldier's darling stepmum has arrange for us to spend 3 days away in Williamsburg and I have never been there before so I am very excited to go there and switch off phones and be away from reality of the real world! I probably won't blog again until we are home next week but I wanted to say that I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and get to spend it with the ones you love. I am definitely thankful for a whole lot.... I am thankful for my healthy family, for my gorgeous new husband, for our baby that's rapidly growing inside me, for my mischievious puppy, and for the next few weeks with Mr Soldier before he leaves to be my brave hero.

Block Leave : )

This morning, Mr Soldier and I have woken up to two weeks of block leave and I am sooooo excited to spend quality time with my husband (ah I still love typing that word!) I have to admit, however, that I do have a little voice in my head reminding me why we have block leave and that Iraq is quickly approaching but I am trying to drown that voice out and just enjoy every second right now. Today we are going to run errands and then reward ourselves with watching The Blind Side, have any of you seen that yet? (No, I'm not rushing off to watch New Moon, I have to say it doesn't appeal to me....please don't judge haha). I hope you all have a great weekend : )

Paperworkkkkk

I have woken up to another massive "to do" list today, including point #1, deciding where to live and have the baby when Mr Soldier is deployed....ermmm yea kinda significant! Yesterday, I was officially enrolled in DEERS which means I can now get through the gates without handing over my passport and being looked at like I'm an alien. As Mr Soldier pointed out with a big smile on his face, it also means I don't have to drag him around the commissary any more! I also faxed in all of the paperwork to become enrolled in Tricare Prime which is obviously the major thing as I am a first time mum so I would like to actually be in contact with a doctor and I am also trying to push for another unltrasound soon. In England, we seem to have a lot more help on this front and when I found out I was pregnant, I got an ultrasound within two days in order to get an approximate due date. However, now that I am here I am being told I have to wait till 20 weeks to get another one....ermmm no?! Now don't get me wrong I am not going to go in there kicking and screaming until I get one but I have managed to talk to the chief patient advocate( a complete accident as I didn't realise who she was until she gave me her card!) and she has told me to go in on Monday and she would get me situated with whatever I wanted to hear and know...hallelujah! I am now set to enroll myself online with Tricare Dental and Mr Soldier is at work trying to get our BAH changed....blah blah blah, they do make it difficult don't they?! I think we need a bigger filing system for all the paperwork we are acquiring right now. Last night we had an FRG meeting to tell us a bit more info on location and dates for this deployment and it was nice to get a chance to meet one or two of the other wives and at least put faces to names. Are any of you active members of the FRG? I had heard quite bad things about it to be honest but I am sure it varies from place to place. With me moving away from Georgia for the year, I am not going to be able to help as much as I would like to but once I am back, I will probably volunteer on post more.

Mrs Soldier : )

I'm backkkk.....sorry I haven't been blogging but life got kind of hectic! I am now officially Mrs Soldier and I am loving every minute of it. We had a small, intimate ceremony and the weather was amazing for photos after. I am so grateful to family members who travelled to Savannah for it and I am so glad that we made the decision to get married now instead of waiting for the big day in 2011. Since Monday, the army unofrtunately hasn't let us slow down and we have had deployment briefings, legal and medical matters to attend to....and that's just for him! Today, I am going on post to meet my HUSBAND (hehe, sorry I still love that!) and start the DEERS/ Tricare process which I am sure will be another headache but fingers crossed! Mr Soldier got his orders the other day so we are definitely running out of time but we have block leave coming up and for now I am loving life and ignoring people who call me Mrs Soldier in public as I have yet to get used to it being my name...oops!

Here comes the bride....

I'M GETTING MARRIED TODAYYYYYYY!!!!

Reality TV

Please can I make a guilty confession? Ok here we go.... I completely over indulge in "junk TV" as my mum would call it! Whilst I am sooo happy to be home, I have a huge to do list including cleaning the house, food shopping, washing the dog etc etc before family get here this weekend and guess what....erm, yep I'm watching the 2hour wedding special of Keeping up with the Kardashians instead...oops?! I will get my list done before Mr Soldier gets home from work but why put him through hours of E! and The Hills/The City? This is my justification, he won't enjoy it so why don't I watch it when he is at work...erm yea ok so when that is said out loud that sounds kind of bad...he is at work, Im at home doing...nothing? Ok maybe I will start polishing the furniture with the TV on in the background....maybe?!

There's no place like home

AHHH the bliss of waking up in my Mr Soldier's arms : ) I had a LONG day of travelling yesterday with the end of Hurricane Ida causing some uncomfortable moments but I got through it and I was home sweet home in time for the end of Veterans Day- how fitting. Six weeks has been a long time to be away from my Mr Soldier and I know that with the deployment there is only worse to come but I am so proud of him. He is my brave hero and he is doing what he beleives in and serving his country dutifully. For now though, he is mine, we still have a few weeks together and I plan on enjoying every second of them. Today I am just going to have a lazy day sleeping and unpacking and playing with my insanely big puppy- she has tripled in size since I saw her! I think we are going to go out for date night tonight when Mr Soldier gets home from work and have dinner somewhere and just talk for hours and hours in person- no more webcams! I love being home and I know that the baby is listening to Daddy's voice now and Mr Soldier gets to touch the baby bump as much as he wants : ) I just wanted to say thank you to all for your supportive comments through this rollercoaster and for letting me vent to you over the past few weeks!