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Hey girls :) I've started a website for my jewelry hoping it will help me get more into it! Go check it out maybe you'll see something you like! Here's my latest creation, a simple Peace bracelet! I love Peace signs :)

Beautiful Blogger Award

YAY! What a great way to start a morning! Thank You so much! The rules to this award are that you have to say thank you, list seven things about yourself, and pass it on. So thank you very much! =)

1. I am MAD CRAZY in love with my husband, and he' s the most important thing in my life.

2. I can't wait to have children, but I won't for a couple years. 

3. I'm addicted to Pepsi =)

4. I hate drinking from cups in a restaurant without a straw, I know I'm weird.

5. I love to go out dancing with my husband

6. I take photos like a crazy person, I have thousands lol

7. I miss home, but I'm loving Virginia more and more every day!

I am passing this award on to...

Christina - Married to a Sailor: The Journey of a Navy Wife

Rachel - A Little Pink in a World of Camo

Ashley - Adventures in Motherhood 

Karie - Wife of a Wounded Marine

Mrs. G.I. Joe - ACU's, Stilleto Shoes, & Pretty Pink Tutus

Dani - Hard Corps Love 

Becca - Lovely Yellow Ribbons

I love your blogs and you guys are BEAUTIFUL! =D

Jewel Parties

A few months ago I got into jewelry making with my husbands mom. I was still living in Texas and I REALLY needed a hobby to pass my time. It's a lot of fun to be able to create jewelry to match any outfit, and it's a great stress reliever. In the picture is one of the necklaces I have made. I was really hoping to get together some sort of jewel party where the other military wives can come and learn how to make necklaces, bracelets, or earrings. I would charge a small fee but provide everything needed tools, beads, stones, all of it and teach you how to put it together. So let me know if you would be interested!

I Love My Sailor

I am so excited today I can't even sleep, not that I do much anyways. There are only 11 more days 'til my amazing husband comes home to me! He has a three day weekend when he gets back and I can't wait to spend every minute of it in his arms! It's been rough since he left and I'm ready to have him back home so we can spend some quality time together. The months are flying by and soon he will be deploying. Our first deployment is going to be really rough, we're so close. I have faith though and I know we will get through it. I have decided I am definitely going back home to Texas though, there's no way I can survive here for that amount of time without him. Enough of that though! I am so excited I want to scream, I got a lot to do though before he gets home! So off to work I go! I want to plan a special dinner or a picnic or something for when he comes home. This has been really rough and we need something special. He loves Chicken fried steak, so maybe I will get my mom's recipe and try to make that, along with some good wine! MMMM! =)

From My Hubby

"TOGETHER"

by: Lorenzo Gamboa

together we make breakfast:
french toast with bacon on the side
almost next to naked
we have no shame only pride

together we are naked
pretty much all the time
making love creating love
together we're sublime

Together we go see movies
action and adventure
we even watch childrens
regardless of others censure

Together we take strolls
leisure and the like
virginia beach aquarium
where I asked you "be my wife?"

and apart we are but pieces of ourselves
but together we are whole
together we make sense
together we will grow old

and as the twilight dwindles
and our movements have grown slow
We will have each other
a fact I've never been happier to KNOW

Thank you

Every couple has a song, ours is called "Thank You" by Keith Urban. We tend to go out of our way to do things for each other, writing poetry, little messages, whatever we think will brighten the others day. It's part of what keeps us going strong, so this is for you babe. You mean the world to me!

"Thank You"

For being united to me

For being part of my life

For you love, strength, and honor

There will never be a price

For all you have taught me

I respect you more than you will ever know

For the way your lips move

For your comforting words

For speaking to my soul

For being more than just special

You deserve the world

For loving me like no other

For being my best friend

With all of me I promise

You are my heart until the end

- Betty Gamboa

p.s. iLy daddycakes :)

UP!

"Missing you gets easier every day, because even though I'm one 

day further from the last time I saw you, I'm one day closer to seeing you again."

So as of today I we only have 13 more days til we will be together again, and I am getting more and more excited and looking UP as each one passes. I can't wait to have our lazy days back, and our BIG breakfasts on Saturday mornings, walks in the park, and most of all those soft kisses he gives on the eyelids! =) It feels so good to know that each time we are separated like this our love and will to get through it only gets stronger.

We love to watch the movie "UP!" Its "Our Movie" and right now it's the way I feel. Like I'm soaring through the sky with thousands of colorful balloons and nothing can bring me down, no distance, no obstacle, no deployment. I have my sailor and he's the only thing in the world I need, no matter where in the world he may be.

He wrote this poem for me about the movie too:

"UP"

The movie magic moves to inspire
To give a little more life to help lift higher
It seems fitting that this is our movie
The title alone inspires and moves me
UP
The intensity, the growth of our friendship
UP
Our faith in one another
UP
Our laughter, our lives, our love
UP
Upward bound to the heavens
Our sturdy love replacing ground
Through turbulent winds we stand
At the ready
Ready to work, ready to cry
Ready to fight, ready even to die
For each other, we need not even ask each other
For we are adventurers, explorers of the heart
In the rarified atmosphere we are privy
to its most beautiful of parts
Happy moving ever onward
Our love pushes ever Upward

- Lorenzo Gamboa

I'm really hoping to plan something special for the weekend when he returns some kind of special dinner or something that we can do together. Any ideas girls? Any good recipes you can share?

The Next Eighty Years

My husband recently left for the first time since we moved in together. We're used to being apart because that's how our whole relationship has been, but it was different this time. I'm in a new city, I don't really know anyone very well yet, and I recently lost my car. I knew what I was getting myself into when I married him, but you're never really prepared for the kind of emotion that comes along with having to say goodbye, no matter how many times you go through it. 

I know deployment is so much worse, but I kinda like these little separations in a way because they give you a chance to step back and really truly see what you have. Every time my husband leaves it takes a few days to get myself going again but, then I can stop and think about all the love we have. We are so crazy stupid in love with each other! He's my best friend, I tell him everything, right down to little things that no one else in the world knows. I love it! I love that we can goof off, and act silly and not care what anyone thinks. I love that we have inside jokes that make us giggle, and I like to think that we have the kind of relationship, and the kind of love that will keep us going strong for the next eighty years. 

When my husband and I were getting married at the courthouse there was a newspaper article on the bulletin board about this couple who broke the world record for the longest marriage. They were married for over 80 years! My husband and I always tell each other we are going to break that record. I love seeing little old couples like that, still holding hands after 80 years. It makes me smile to know that that kind of love does exist, because that's the kind of love I believe we have. When two hearts like ours meet, they create a bond so strong that nothing in the world can tear them apart.

World Record for Longest Marriage

Please pray for Rachel

 

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to lose your husband, and there are no words to explain the amount of pain and sorrow that go along with it. Please keep Rachel in your prayers she's only 23 and she just recently lost her husband who never even got to hold their new baby girl Ariana. I couldn't hold back the tears when I began reading her story, it really hit me hard. I can't imagine what I would do if I lost my husband, he is my everything, my world, my sky. 

Please pray for her and their baby Ariana, they have a tough road ahead.

You can stop by and read her blog here:

  A Little Pink in a World of Camo

A trust fund has also been set up for baby Ariana you can send donations to:

  Aberdeen Proving Ground Federal Credit Union

 ATTN: Collean McKinney for the account of Ariana Ralyn Porto

 P.O. Box 1176 Aberdeen, MD 21001 

From My Hubby

"Virginia"

When our breath hangs low

Fog on the window just to show

Of the love we both grew to know

Late in the chill of the night

Quiver for a kiss

Mourning for this moment we will miss

Mourning for the ending of our tryst

Morning and we both yield to the light

Prevading the sane is the desire to fight

Fight for this loves presence

Fight for this room and all its contents

Contented to fore go today and look past tomorrow

Smile absent minded we forget and fore go this sorrow

Stay my love, stay give hope, show faith, and we will rise above!

Adversity is nothing for we have love, stay!

Moving Day!

I was so ecstatic on the day it finally came! I had been waiting for what felt like forever to finally start my life with my husband. I started the journey from Texas with my husband's mom on February 4, 2010, two weeks earlier than originally planned because I was trying to surprise him like he is so great at doing for me, but it didn't work out so well. It was a very long and stressful trip that took three days to make. Not to mention we were in my little Pontiac G6 with all of my belongings, and two dogs! There was so much crammed into my car there wasn't even room for the dogs to have their crate so they slept in my lap the entire way. They had never seen snow before, or slept in a hotel so I'm sure it was extremely stressful and crazy for them as well. By the end of the second day the anticipation of being in my hubby's arms again was killing me. It had been over two months since we had last seen each other the day we got married. This is where my journey as a Sailor's Girl officially begins...

The Greatest Day of My Life!

I consider the greatest day of my life to be the day I married my husband. November 30, 2009, exactly four months from the day we met. It was only the third time we had ever met, I flew to Virginia for Thanksgiving so we could be together since he couldn't make it home. We had a really good time going to the park, seeing a movie, and spending an entire day at the aquarium. We had talked about getting married already but we were planning on waiting until at least the following summer. I guess he decided he didn't wanna wait that long because while we were on the trail walk at the aquarium he got down on his knee and asked me to be his wife! I was supposed to leave that night but I ended up missing my flight because we lost track of time at the aquarium. So we spontaneously decided to get married the next day! It was so romantic! No one knew we were married til I flew back home to Texas, I was so nervous to tell the family. They reacted better than I thought they would, surprisingly. Unfortunately I had to leave the same day we got married, but it was so worth it. iLy babe MUAH! 

It's not always easy being in a military relationship. Time apart is stressful, lonely, and it happens often. Not to mention the many people who try to make it harder by adding in their drama, and horror stories. Marriages take a lot of work in general but add in deployments, and long work days, and the other numerous occasions you will be separated, and comments some have made like "It's destined to fail." I don't believe this for a minute, with the right amount of commitment from both people, and the willingness and strength to get through the time apart it can be an amazing journey. A journey I am so excited to be making with my sailor.

From My Hubby

Her body moves delightfully, not the most graceful or fluid but so beautifully impassioned, her body whispers, speaks of a flame dwelling deep, flickering. It speaks just briefly here and there, suggesting, begging, hinting to be free. Suppressed by her mind, her judgment subconscious as is mine. Willing to give in, but not yet willing to let go, timid now, but yet beautifully bolder she grows. I want her, her compassion, her understanding, her desire to better herself, her stunning eyes that shimmer with innocence, admiration, and appreciation, and peer through the minutia of gaudy flashy words, to the meaning, to the person, to the soul, even if she can't describe what she's seeing. Eyes that possess a soul far older than her, eyes that can appreciate not only what something is, but what it can be. Eyes that believe in me, eyes that trust me, eyes that drive me without thought and seemingly without effort, to be something better than myself. Her body, her eyes, her love... I want her... I love her.

Our First Goodbye

    Just a few days later I found myself saying goodbye to this man I had fallen head over heels in love with. It was August 7, 2009, and he had to leave for Virginia. I was so terrified that i wouldn't ever see him again. I don't think I've ever had so many emotions running through me at once! I was excited with this new found love, but so scared that it would slip away as many long distance relationships do. So we hesitantly said our long goodbyes promising we would meet again. The next two and a half months were the hardest months of my life, but we spent every waking moment talking on the phone or texting. During this time came the first "I love you's", both of our birthdays passed, and I spent my time keeping myself busy the best I could until we could be together again. October 17, 2009 was the day it finally happened. It was my first time ever on a plane but I was determined to be with this man again! It was totally worth it, we spent the entire week in each others arms, laughing, smiling, and falling even more in love!

A Perfect Love

Three days after I met the man of my dreams I knew with absolute certainty he was the one I would spend the rest of my life with. He asked me to meet him at his house for a special night out. When I arrived he met me at the door with a single red Tulip. We made our way to Valentino's for a nice dinner and he said he had a story to tell me little did I know it would end with me in tears!

 Here's the story...

A sturdy Persian youth named Farhad, a prince some say, was deeply in love with the fair princess Shirin. When her father got word of this love he said the only way Farhad could have her hand in marriage would be to complete an impossible task. It was decided that he would have to dig a canal by himself, that would take him years to finish. One day when his task was almost complete, word reached him that his beloved had been killed. Gripped by unbearable grief, he mounted his favorite horse and galloped over a cliff to his death. From his numerous wounds droplets of blood trickled onto the ground. From each drop of blood a scarlet tulip sprang, a symbol of his perfect love. So it was that in ancient Persia the red tulip became a symbol of passionate love.


Later that night I found myself calling my good friend and exclaiming how I was totally in love, this was the first she had heard of him so all she could say was "With who?" 

Friendship set to music

I met the most amazing, wonderful man on July 30, 2009. I was dying to go to this Kevin Fowler concert and even though he had no clue who he was he was eager to take me. We had an amazing time that night which led right up to our very first kiss... it was wonderful, and unexpected! I was so into the music I was shocked when he leaned in and kissed me! We just couldn't get enough of each other that night, so after the concert we decided to go out dancing. I was so intrigued by everything he had to say, he had such a way with words. We never ran out of things to talk about. We stayed out 'til the next morning when he made me promise to call and let him know I had made it home safely. I was the happiest girl in the world just from one little kiss! 

"Your Kiss"

I can't resist the temptation

It's so deliciously sweet

Like candy for my soul

It's the only drug, I cannot recover from

I'm addicted

It makes my heart race

Sends the blood rushing through me

My whole world disappears

Into a moment of pure bliss

Every time I taste your sweet kiss