See You Later Baby

Today turned out to be not as bad as I thought it would be. Turns out hubby got to come back home for a couple hours and caught a ride with the neighbor to the ship, so he could leave his car here. So somehow getting to see him once more made it a little better. We spent our time holding each other and watching Avatar, which I won from Amber over at Goodnight Moon. I was very excited about that because I had never seen it, but it was AWESOME! So thanks again Amber! We laughed and talked while we watched it. We talked about how awesome it would be if we could build a huge tree house in one of the humongo trees in their forest. It wouls be like a mansion. I loved all the colors, and crazy flowers, and trees they had. It was a great movie, so glad we were able to see it together before he left. I also being the the pathological picture taker I am, took more pictures before he left. I want to thank you all again for all of your support today and every day. You guys are amazing and I appreciate all of your comments and support. It really means a lot to me, especially on days like this. 

That's Not Cool

First I just wanna say this is not directed at any of my followers! You guys are amazing!

Second, I'm pretty sure this is my first ever so called "rant" but this girl just REALLY pissed me off! First of all I'm kinda new to this whole Navy life stuff. Hell I have only known my husband for 10 months total. So yeah of course I am going to miss him like crazy when he leaves, we've had a long distance relationship pretty much the whole time we've been together. I just moved in with him three months ago. He's hardly been home since. I know it could always be worse, and I'm sure it will be at some point. I'm lucky that I get to see him when  I do, and that we have such a great relationship. I know that these times we are apart only make our love stronger, but...

What is wrong with missing my husband when he's gone???

I am so tired of all the negative remarks and comments I have received from other wives. We are supposed to be here to support each other, to help each other through the hard times, and to provide a shoulder or an ear when we need some support! We all go through the same issues when dealing with this military lifestyle. They all have under ways, workups, deployments. That's just how it is. Regardless of how long my husband is gone, I still miss him the same. Why is it that just because he's not gone as long as someone else's husband this time, I have to get shit for it?!?! Makes no sense, all I know is I will be more careful when choosing who I am friends with in the military from now on, because I am not going to have someone who I hardly know, who's SUPPOSED to be a "friend" treat me badly. That's not what I need nor what ANY military spouse needs in a time like this. This has not been a good start to what was inevitably going to be a bad day anyway. I'm over it though, sorry but I had to let it out! Going to take a nap now hopefully things will be better when I wake up.

and off he goes...

This weekend was absolutely amazing and romantic I spent the last three days cradled in my husband's arms dreading one thing... Monday morning, which has come. It seems like he just got home, which he kinda did. He's only been home three weeks and already he's off again. It's different this time though, he's going out on the ship this time. It's a very scary thought to me. No hearing his voice before I go to sleep. No good morning text messages. Just emails when he gets time... this is not going to be fun! I promised I was going to be strong though and be strong I shall!! I just keep telling myself not to think about what he's doing out there, not to think about him being on that big scary ship. Just imagine he's still on land and I'll be okay, I think... Well I managed to get some great pictures of us before he left so that is helping out just being able to see his smiling face.

and the winner is....

Okay girls I'm so sorry wasn't able to post yesterday, my hubby just left for his first time actually on the ship so you all know how that goes... ANYWAY! The winner of my Gambizzle Jewels giveaway is Star Spangled Stockings!!!

She has an adorable blog, and the cutest little love story she entered for my contest! Go check her out! & here's a link directly to the story she submitted for my giveaway...

The Blue Burka Story

So send me an e-mail with your address so I can send out your prize!

The Final Product! YAY!

Okay all my lovely blog friends! I am so excited to present to you the finished project! I worked on this sucker all day! lol Once again thank you all SOOOO much for contributing your photos! I had so much fun making this for you guys, i can't wait to do another one! So enough of my rambling, here you go, hope you enjoy it & share it with everyone!

Picture Request

Okay so I've seen these cute little videos everywhere where of military couples, I really would like to make one with all of you in it! SO I was hoping I could get some of you to send me pictures of you and your husbands, boyfriends, fiancees, kids or whoever else I'm mostly looking for military themed photos. You know in uniform, or as they're leaving stuff like that... You can send photos to my e-mail at MrsGambizzle@yahoo.com 

I really hope you guys will participate I think it will be so much fun to combine all of my readers photos into one amazing video to show our love and support for our men! Tomorrow is military spouse appreciation day so I just thought this would be a fun way to celebrate all of our hard work! Thanks for reading, I'm looking forward to seeing your photos in my in box!!! Going to try to have this finished sometime tomorrow!

Reasons to Love a Military Man

So I came across this idea somewhere a while ago and I don't remember where but I thought it was so cute! most were just silly reasons, but i still thought it was cute! So I hope some of you will participate with me! Just leave a comment with you ten reasons or post it to your blog. 

He looks sexy in his uniform

He's even SEXIER out of it

He's got the best haircut handsdown

Endurance... 'nuff said!

He can do his own laundry

He never complains about dinner

He almost never gets lost

He came trained to obey orders

Most of all he's my HERO!!

So can you come up with ten more reasons? 

Add your blog in the link below so more of our bloggy friends can add theirs too!

New Jewels

Hubby has gone off to work so I decided to work on some new jewels! Haven't done any in a while, and I've gotten in new stuff since then so I'm pretty excited. I think these turned out pretty well! They are all for sale so leave a comment if you are interested or you can always e-mail me!

 

 

Yay for Giveaways!

I ABSOLUTELY adore all of my bloggy followers! I'm almost to a hundred readers and I'm so excited, so since there are so many new people just within the last few days I'm going to re-post my giveaway and extend it til Sunday May 9th. So once again the rules are as follows:

• You must submit a post on YOUR blog about the most romantic evening, event, or moment spent with your significant other. It must be complete with a link to my blog, and you need to leave a comment here with a link to the post. 

• Second you have to bring at least one new follower to my blog, and have them leave a comment in this post saying they found me on your site! 

EASY PEASY

 Pretty simple eh? and it's all for this pretty little necklace handmade by moi! It's sterling silver and Garnet and selling for $50.oo on my site. So get posting! Have Fun!

Nerdy F-U-N !

It's been several days since I posted about all the fun hubby and I are having, but let me tell you there has been tons of absolute nerdy fun going on. I love that he is my best friend and we can be nerds together. Normally i don't like to post with lots of pics but I don't know how else to describe all that was this weekend without them.

We spent an entire day lounging around being lazy, eating, and watching "Ponyo" & "Rescue Me" and I got to see this amazing smile all weekend. It's one of my favorite things about him.

We went out with a group of friends to a house party which is something we haven't ever done before so that was exciting.

There was lots of  beer and this monstrous sandwich involved. Hubby likes to cook for me sometimes and he decided to make the biggest breakfast sandwich he could, I then proceeded and failed to eat it. We also learned to play some drunken game called Cornhole, found a guy at the party who can do our tattoos, and ended the night laughing and dancing away at some night club down the street from us!

We spent a day at the botanical Gardens here which was amazing. It was very hot which was wonderful considering the weather we've been having. I felt like a kid in a candy store here with all the gorgeous flowers, and pictures I took, oh and there were lots! 167 to be exact, hubby kept asking for a break lol

 

We played with the spiders while we were there, well not literally but we spend a ridiculous amount of time watching them crawling all over the statues. They were interesting, bouncing up and down, and hanging upside down. There were tons of them crawling around. 

You'd be surprised at the places we can have fun! We did some much needed grocery shopping, and made out like bandits! We hit the commissary on a day they were having a sale on literally everything on our list! We then went straight home and decided to play chef which resulted in our favorite asian food, Sesame chicken which was OMG delicious!!

So we have a few more fun filled days to enjoy before Mr. Gambizzle is off again to some place we shall not discuss, but let's just say I'm not looking forward to this trip.

I am off now to find yummy recipes for dinner and desert this weekend, and maybe even something crafty to do with the kiddos I will possibly be babysitting!

Photo Contest & Prayer Request

I decided to join this photo contest I saw this morning, I can't ever get enough of trying to learn about photo editing. It's a pretty simple contest thee aren't to many rules. Basically you just have to edit this photo....

and improve it any way you like, and here is what I came up with....

First I cropped the photo the way I liked it, then I put more focus on the subjects with the "depth of field" I created a new layer using the channel mixer so I could make the beautiful little girl stand out since she was obviously the focus, & Last I added a frame to make it pop a little more.

So after that I was looking at some of the other contestant's photos and I discovered that the little girl in this photo is Abby, Brent's daughter! Read more on her story here & pray for her please! Help spread the word the more prayers the better!

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You can find details on the contest here: MckLinky Blog

Tag Along With Me

I am loving these blog hop adventures! I am finding some really awesome blogs to read! So here's another one for you all. Tag along with me over to Twee Poppets who started this one! Just add this button to your post...

Here's how it works:

• Create a new Tuesday Tag-Along blog post. Include the Tuesday Tag-Along button by copying and pasting the code above. (You are also welcome to copy and paste these instructions in their entirety, or any portion of this Tuesday Tag-Along blog post!)
• Add your blog name and the URL of your TTA post to the MckLinky below.
• Follow Twee Poppets, the hostess blog listed in the first slot. Leave a comment saying you've followed, and Twee Poppets will follow you back!
• If you can, please follow the blogs in the three slots before you (e.g., if you're number 20, follow numbers 19, 18, and 17). This is not mandatory, but it will help ensure that everyone who signs up gets a few new followers!
• Follow as many other blogs as you want. The more you follow, the more that will follow you back! Be sure to tell them that you're following from Tuesday Tag-Along! You may also want to leave a link to your blog so they can return your follow more easily.
• When you get a new follower through Tuesday Tag-Along, be sure to follow them back! It's just common courtesy.

Gambizzle Jewels Giveaway

Okay as I promised I have decided to do my first giveaway, I know how you all love those! This giveaway is to celebrate all the love of my current followers, and the achievement of reaching 50 followers in less than two months! I never thought I would do that! So thank you all so much, I REALLY appreciate all of your comments, and all of your support!  

SO I'm sure you are curious as to what the prize will be??? Here you go, this pretty little one of a kind necklace handmade by moi! It is made with sterling silver chain & REAL Garnets!

The rules of the giveaway are as follows...

• You must submit a post on YOUR blog about the most romantic evening, event, or moment spent with your significant other. It must be complete with a link to my blog, and you need to leave a comment here with a link to the post on your blog. 

• Second you have to get at least one new follower to my blog, and have them leave a comment in this post saying they found me on your site! 

•  You will get one entry for every follower that you send to my blog, and one entry for the post you submit on yours.

• The giveaway will end on Saturday May 8,2010. 

• Feel free to e-mail me or comment with any questions! Have fun!

AHHHH! Excitement!

OMG! I am so excited, just hit 50 followers in less than two months! Gonna do my first giveaway, come by tomorrow for details! WOOHOOO! :)

Uh-mazing Evening

Just took a lovely walk down to the beach with the hubby, it was the first time we actually got to go together so it was nice. The weather was absolutely amazing today! Took some great pictures too. I am so grateful to live right by the beach, it's uh-mazing! Another great start to what will be a fabulous weekend! Going to the Botanical Gardens tomorrow and then going to have a lovely dinner with Lolo (That's the hubby's nickname) to celebrate five wonderful months together! iLy x sideways 8 baby! hehe

Spreading the Love

So I just joined this really awesome giveaway over at Goodnight Moon I really love her blog, it's one I  read like every day! The rules of the giveaway are posted on her blog but basically you have to follow both her blogs, answer a question, and blog about it, and you get an entry for each. Woohoo!

So go check it out & tell her I sent you and I'm spreading the love!

So to answer the question, which was: If you could do any one thing, and get away with it what would it be?

I decided I would kidnap my husband and run away with him to some place where there were no more deployments, or work ups, or any of that yucky stuff to take him away from me. As much as I love this life of ours I think I would much rather just have him home, he's gone way to much for my liking!I mean how could i not want this crazy, nerdy, silly man around like all the time just look at him...

MilSpouse Blog Hop

I'm so happy someone started one of these! I love reading other Military Wife Blogs!You can join in the fun by going here Riding the Roller Coaster

So here is a little about myself:

My name is Betty Marie, I have been married to my sailor exactly five months today!!! He is my world! He joined the Navy in August of 2008 and we met July 30, 2009. We got married exactly four months after we met on November 30, 2009. We are stationed in Virginia Beach, VA right now, and he has about two years left. We are both from Texas and lived in the same town for years without ever meeting. When he came home on leave after finishing A School we met through a mutual friend. Our relationship moved very fast, but it's been an amazing ride so far!

It's easy to join in on the fun:

* Post a brief bio on your blog introducing yourself.

* If you want to help spread the word, link back to me in your post.  I have a button on my sidebar, but a simple link is fine. 

* Add your blog name and URL to the Linky.  It's best to put a link to your post, not your home page.

* Follow any or all of the blogs on the list.

* For those you choose to follow, leave a comment letting them know you found them on the MilSpouse Blog Hop. Include your blog link in the comment to make it easier for them to return the visit.

* According to blogging etiquette, you should follow everyone who follows you. But this doesn't always happen. So please try not to harbor any ill feelings if you follow someone and they don't follow you back.

* The Linky list will be up until next Thursday night so if you don't get around to everyone today, no worries.  Keep hopping throughout the next week! 

Please Pray for Her

Please pray for Karie...

I can't even begin to imagine the immense amount of pain she is going through. Please keep her in your prayers, She's only 24 and she just lost her husband Cpl. Jimmy Kinsey II who was a Marine. She is asking for any of you who would like to donate to donate to two causes that meant a lot to them.

Wounded Warrior Project 

Wounded Marine Semper Fi Fund