Sorry its taken on so long

Hello everyone sorry its been forever since I updated. I have been so busy and time has just flown by. Justin left in May 13th to Georgia to Train for his deployment. It was really hard to say good bye and even harder to watch young children have to say good bye. Justin has a buddy who he calls Vogel (since they must go by their last names) that he is really close to and plans on sticking with while they are deployed. I have gotten really close to Vogel (Rodger)'s family. His mom Tricia is wonderful and has really helped me in this rough time. Rodger's sisters Krystal and Kerrie are great to I have been hanging out alot with Kerrie and its been making my summer fun even though Justin is not here with me. His dad Rodger very nice and has a funny side to him that you can't help but laugh at. I finished up school and actually had an awesome semester not one grade lower then a B. In June I turned 21. Whoa yeah. lol not really. I still wanna go pull the lever at the slot machines but I haven't gotten to do that yet. June 21st I went to Denton, Maryland to be a counselor at kids camp called Kamp KaBoom. I had 16 girl and 2 counselors in training. It was such a fun, tiring, exciting, mind blowing, crazy, hot week. But I loved every minute. Then I came home for a week only to unpack and then pack again to go see Justin before they left the country. They were given what was a 4 day pass in the begining but the story changed everyday. Thats the army for ya. I left with the Vogel family from Greensboro Maryland at 5:15am on July 2nd. We got to Savannah Georgia around 5:30pm the same day. And to our surprise we actually got to see our soldiers that night. It was awesome. I hugged Justin forever. The next day they had a deployment ceremony which I made these shirts and then they were free to go with their families. We had fun spending time in Savannah on the river front, going to the beach, watching fireworks, riding go-karts, going on a ghost walk, eating alot, spending time with the Vogel's, relaxing and just being together. It was tough to say good bye again but seeing him was well worth it. July 11th Kim (my little sister) got married. It was a fun day. Her belly is getting big as the twins she's carrying grow. She is due new year's eve but if she makes it to 37 weeks (full term for twins) we will be happy. We find out in August the sex of the babies and I can't wait. Justin left the country also on July 11th. I can not give out very much information over the internet. Just know that he is safe and well. Please continue to pray for him and the entire 262 while they are defending our freedom.


Right before Justin left for Georgia


My group at camp along with Pastor Marilyn


Justin and I on River Street


Justin and I am go-karts


Savannah


Over looking River Street


Kim and Larry's Wedding Cake


Kim and Larry before the Wedding


Kim and Larry right after they got married!

We're ENGAGED!

Justin and I went on a little vacation before he leaves for Iraq. We went away for two days to Cape May, NJ. We had a blast. We toured a WWII Aviation museum which was really interesting. For some reason we have a lot of fun in museums. Then We went and saw the half sunken concrete ship on Sunset Beach. We had time to kill before the sunset so we went to dinner. It was one of those places where the more expensive it is the smaller the portion. But the food wasn't to bad. Then we went back to Sunset Beach to watch the beautiful sunset. I took tons of pictures. And as we were sitting there Justin got down on one knee in the sand in front of me. When he asked me to marry him all I could say was I love you and I started crying. We hugged for a minute and then he turned to me and said its a yes or no question so whats your answer. I looked at him surprised and said ah YES duh. lol. It was great. We ended up back at the hotel watching reruns of House. On Saturday we got ready early and by 9:30 we were getting breakfast. We went and checked out a light house in Wildwood and then on our way back to Cape May. Cape May is actually exit 0 off of the park way Justin thinks thats so funny. Once in Cape May we took a historic Carriage ride around the town and listened to history. Then we went and toured a restored WWII lookout tower. Which was really really cool. Then we went back to the beach to walk for a little while. Then back on the ferry to come home but it was a great trip!

Here is Justin in an Army Helicopter


Here is Justin posing with an Atomic Bomb


Here is an old WWII bunker on the beach.


Here is the Conceret Ship the USS Atlantus


Here is the Sunset


Here is where we were sitting when he popped the question
Its so much lighter then the sunset because we took the picture
of where we sat the next day. Sorry for the confusion


Here we are Right After it was very windy so excuse the hair


Here is a better picture of the ring

Sorry it took so long

The end of December and January went by so fast. As we get older time goes by faster and faster with the blink of an eye. I tried to update in February but again I ran out of time again. So since its a snow day I have some time to let everyone know whats going on in our world. I'll start with December and do a slide show of pictures for each month.
Christmas was a fun but busy day for us. We woke up at home and opened presents with my Mom, Dad, and Kim. Then we went to my Grandparent's house in Maryland for a 2:30 dinner. Then off to Magnolia to have dinner and open up presents with Justin's parents and siblings. We really enjoyed getting to see so many people in such a short amount of time. I think my best present was my new digital camera and the wii fit both from Justin. Justin said his best present was his new chucks and his bible concordance.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

January
I took two classes in January and did an internship at The Little School in Dover. Justin got settled into his new job that he started Christmas week at Smartis Inc. We start hanging out with some new friends Kristin and Ryan and their two children Matthew and Makayla. Paige had her baby and after a few days in the nicu he was ready to come home. Our church also had their unbirthday party. But thats really all of January. Oh yeah and Kim moved out and started renting a house. And our church had its first month of being an Angel Food Host site which is really cool to be a part of.

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February
Okay so February flew by and it wasn't our best month. Justin got new orders stating that their two weeks scheduled in the summer usually would now be March 2-March 15. I feel like they get 13 months why do they need two more weeks. But what do I know. My spring semester started. I am taking 3 classes up on main campus and two online. I have class on Monday, Wednesday, and in the morning on Friday. When I'm not in class I work but my work schedule has been modified so that I can spend alot of time with Justin. His deployment date is now April 13th and he is due home May of 2010. It sucks really bad. I have no idea what I am going to do without him for such a long time. I got sick and went to the doctor she wanted to run test thinking that I might have rheumatoid arthritis. So I had to get blood work done. The test came back and my doctor sent me to a rheumatiologist. So that was a little uneasy to swallow. I went to that doctor on the 23rd thinking that he would say nothing was wrong but instead I found out that the blood test reveal I have lupus. That was actually really scary the way the doctor was talking about it. So now they are going to take some more blood and keep an eye on me. The doctor said that I might also have rheumatoid arthritis with the lupus and future blood test will either confirm or reject that idea. So we got some things that we really weren't expecting to happen.
So now you have the scoop hopefully I will be able to update more often and i will keep you updated on Justin and how he is doing once he is deployed.
Hope everyone has a safe, happy, and healthy March.