Navy life

It has been awhile since the last time I have been able to blog. Everything has been a crazy whirlwind out her in Illinois. Definitely a new way of life but we like it. It is going to be different when it snows because everything shuts down. That is going to be a new experince. Anyways everyone is good. We try to stay as busy as possible and enjoy whatever small amount of family time we have. Keira has made friends with the neighbor kids and is growing by leaps and bounds. She is very proud of her daddy and tells everyone she knows her dad is in the military. She thinks him being in school(despite the long hours) is the coolest thing ever. Mainly because she wants to be in school more then anything and is counting down the days till that happens. One more year!! AAAAHHHH! We don't want to even think about it yet. When did my baby get so big? Maybe it was when she started with the eye rolling and attitude. Hmmmmm. lol. I always tell people," Oh yeah she is sweet until she decides she is mad at you. Then the attitude comes out. Everything from the eye roll to the hand on the hip." She is also bit of a smart ass. Mostly I blame Blake for her attitude but the smart ass I have to take responsibility for. I do it to her dad often and obviously i need to tone that down. Whoops!

I have been staying busy with basically taking on everything so Blake just has to do school. There is never a day that I'm not in the car going to drop off/ take dinner/ pickup Blake, going grocery shopping, running errands, going on base, etc. Can't say that I totally mind because I like to stay busy. I have been keeping my weight down and I'm officially back to my pre baby weight. Yay!! I haven't been this small in awhile and now I can just stick my tongue out at Blake for complaining about me keeping skinny jeans around that i couldn't ever fit into. Now i do so take that. lol. I have been a little resistant to join anything that the wives do out here just for the fact that we aren't staying here very long. Most of the wives out here are here for 2 to 3 years so it is okay for them to get involved in things. I don't know when we are moving so that is why I have avoided them for right now. The heat was killing us the first week in July. On July 4th it was 105. I thought I was going to die. So this past week it has been in the high 80's and feels amazing. Never thought I would say that but the humidity is really bad out here when it is that hot. Blake keeps laughing that I have been wearing nothing but shorts and tank tops and I still do not have a whole lot of color to my skin. He loves to put his skin next to mine and then just laugh. I accepted it a long time ago that I'm just white and it takes a while for me to get color. Oh well. Other then that I haven't been up to much. I have been reading a book that a friend requested and spending time with the family. When it is not so freaking hot out here it is very pretty outside. And when it cools off we are going to see about going camping (my first trip. Aaaaahhhh) and there are some hiking trails by our house. We also want to go and experience some more things that this city has to offer because we don't know if we will ever be back here again.

Blake has been good. Very busy, but good. He is loving school and doing amazing at it as well. I haven't seen him this driven about something in awhile. He is pulling an A average, been offered to apply for a leadership postion and is already talking about being a career guy. Oh boy! We will come back to that. He loves that he has job that he knows how to do well and actually likes, while taking care of his family. Most of the time it didn't match up perfectly like that. I'm still adjusting to new and improved Blake. His personality is still the same sweet guy but he is a little more regimented then he use to be. ( I know your thinking well duh he is in the military, but i kinda thought he would slack off bit after awhile when he was at home.) For anyone who knows Blake you would never believe that he usually gets up about 630 every morning(even after being switched to night school) always puts his uniform away nice a neat, runs errands for me without having to be bugged for hours on end and the biggest kicker is that doesn't play games for the entire day. He plays them for about an hour or two to wind down and then comes downstairs for family time. Now if I could just get him to do the dishes life would be amazing. lol. But I'm not ready to push my luck just yet. Give it a couple more months. I do have to say that since his friend Marc has been coming over a lot that he is willing to go above and beyond and vacuum or put away the dishes. Never wash. He always stops after he puts everything away. Such a weirdo. But his one constant duty is trash and I'm thankful for that because i hate taking out the trash. I'm thankful that Marc comes over whenever he can. Blake and him were in the same division at boot and have stayed close friends ever since. Keira absolutely adores Marc and I love having him over. He has been postponed before going to his duty station and even though I was sad for him not getting to leave when he wanted but I'm kinda glad to because of the company. He is like one of the cousins and I know when he leaves Blake will stay in contact with him. Hopefully we will meet up with him again because in the military you never ever say goodbye but see you again.( And if Blake gets his way of going to Japan we just might see him sooner then we thought.)

With being here has brought up the talks of what's next. Where do we want to go and what do we want to do? As I have mentioned base stations on the table are England, Japan, San Diego, Washington and Florida. Of course there are pros and cons to all of them. My biggest thing about overseas is that i don't know if i would want to have a baby overseas. The whole thought of it scares me a little. Mostly because it is the unknown and I don't know anyone who has had there baby overseas. Obviously baby talks are happening now because this is the only time that Blake is guaranteed to be in one spot for almost two years. That means he wouldn't really miss anything including the birth which is the most important to him. He also wants to be done with kids by the end of this 6 years. Which is totally do-able. Why not when the military pays for everything you could ever need? Also Blake has only been chomping at the bit for another kid since Keira was 2. lol. I can't believe we are back to that stage again. When we had Keira it seemed so far off because we swore we would never have another kid without being prepared. We wouldn't survive it and we would never do that to Keira. So now that we are as prepared as we will ever be I guess it is time to just jump in. Easier said then done but I am interested to see how different it will be with another kid to add all the extra joy and love when the time is right.

So back to Blake being a career guy. As I have told him before, it is all fine and dandy to say that right now but lets just wait to see what happens after you get out of school. It is going to be totally different then what your experiencing right now. The job will be about the same but everything else will shift. With moving, deployments, adding to the family, finances, and whole lot more that i know I'm blanking on right now. I'm all for it if at the end of the 6 years he decides this is where he needs to be. If he willing to sacrifice his life and put some of his dreams aside to pursue a job that supports his family and makes them safe, then how could i say no. But I have told him that I do still want him to get his college degree so he has another option. I want him to take advantage of all that the military is going to offer him. They have an amazing program called troops to teachers and I think it would be perfect for Blake to do. We have both sacrificed a lot in the past 5 years together but the one thing that has never wavered for him is that he wants to be a teacher. I think he would be an amazing teacher. Even in school his friends look to him for advice or help with just about anything. It isn't just because he is a smart guy. He is caring and good natured when helping people. That is one of things that I love so much about him. He will bend over backwards for anyone that is important to him. Blake loves to share what he knows with other people and when you see him teaching other people it actually pretty neat. He is the type of person that wants to be needed. That is why the military has also been a good fit for him right now and whether in 6 years or 20 years he will make an amazing teacher. I want him to do what makes him happy and we will figure it out from there. Lifers in the military was not the life plan but hey plans change and you have to learn to roll with it. So I want him to really think about what he wants in this next 6 years while taking full advantage of everything he has at his fingertips.

Hopefully it wont be so long for another post next time. I doubt it due to the fact that I have a little more time on my hands now that Blake is in night school. We miss everyone!!!