Week 2

I'm sure most everyone who reads this already knows that Ricky is gone. He has been gone for exactly 13 days, not that I'm counting or anything. :) I was told that an average 4 month deployment lasts about 120 days, but I was also told to expect delays and other such happenings that might cause his returning date to come later, so I'm going for about 140 days which is 20 weeks. I can count weeks better then days, cause there's not as many and I'm really trying not to keep track of days so that I don't get caught up waiting for Ricky. I still want to live my life with out completely loosing my mind while he's gone. Sorry I'm rambling, I'll get down to business.

For anyone who doesn't have it already, Rick got his address and all letters and packages should be sent to

Richard Farnsworth

386 EMXG

APO AE 09855

Also note that only the US postal service will ship over there and it can take up to 3 weeks to get there, so they suggest no fresh food. They also said no porn or alcohol, but if you know us, you know we wouldn't ask for that stuff in the first place. 

So life with out Ricky has been tough. I'm not gonna lie, I don't like it. I miss him terribly and I've had to cry myself to sleep some nights. Mostly I try to not think about anything. I'm going for numb and out of it, and so far it's been working. *Just so no one gets over excited I'm making this my disclaimer. I'm trying to be funny. I'm fine I promise* I've also been trying to stay busy. I've been working a lot more. I am constantly having friends trying to get me to go out and do stuff with them, and sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't. It really just depends on how I feel. I'm kind of touch and go with my mood swings right now. But I am keeping busy with Mutual and Chester so I'll talk about those right now. 

For mutual a couple weeks ago we made these boards. (I apologize about the quality of picture, Ricky took our camera with him so I've resorted to using my phone till I get my Christmas present.)

I'm not sure what they're called but they were a pain to make but we had fun doing it.

Chester has been a monster since I started to potty train him, but I think we might have it down now.

 He's growing so much. In a few weeks I'll have to take him in to get his shots. That should be fun.

I also have been slowing rearranging my house and trying to decorate it more. This is the latest thing I've done.

 For those who don't understand I switched my bathrooms around so that the 2nd bathroom is what we call Ricky's bathroom and our bathroom in our bedroom is now mine. Ricky wanted duckies and I agreed as long as I could take it from him and make it the kids bath, as soon as we have kids. (And no I'm not pregnant, I'm just home alone and can do what ever I want)

 This is my bathroom. I decided that I wanted it back and that is why I switched the bathrooms around.

This last picture is on here because I'm starting to get really excited for Christmas, and I decided to get my family presents. *This is a disclaimer saying that I do not have the means to get everyone in my family presents (this means extended family) so I apologize if I got your hopes up, but I'm poor and am still working on getting the money to be able to come home for christmas. No hard feelings*

If any of you (my siblings) are reading this and are curious, yes everyone is getting the same thing, this was all of the wrapping that I've gotten done so far. If your wondering what it is well too bad. I'm not telling. You can find out on December the 25th!  Oh and Nikki thanks for the idea. :)

Well thats how life is going so far. I'll be sure let everyone know how Ricky is doing (right now he's fine, he's really enjoying being on the flight line there. He's finally feeling appreciated for what he's doing, and he feels like he's doing something really important, cause he is. I'm very proud of him.) and try to keep you updated about both of us as best I can. For now just know that I've got about 18 weeks till I see him again. I hope it goes fast.

Crazy, Crazy, Crazy!!!!

So life keeps getting crazier and crazier... 

You know how my car battery died a few weeks ago, well this last week or so the battery to Ricky's truck died. So we had the joy of trying to find a vehicle big enough to be able to start it. But we were able to get a new one and the truck is "running like a champ" as Ricky says.

 Our destructive dog just got to be too much so we had to get rid of her.

This is the corner that she dug out so that she could get to 2 of our neighbors yard.

This is the 2nd whole she dug when we blocked off the first whole.

This is the corner that she and the neighbor dogs have been chewing on to get to each other.

This is the other fence that she's been tearing the wood off to try to get to the neighbor's yard. 

So we got rid of her and got a new puppy. One that gets tired after playing for 20 minutes. 

We got a Great Dane!

His name is Chester.

I know your all jealous cause he is super cute and lots of fun. 

I also got a hair cut.

 What do y'all think? 

So I now know when Ricky is leaving, but that is classified information, so I can't tell you till after he's gone for safety reasons, and if I do I'd have to kill you. But the reason I'm telling you this is because I decided I needed a few more pictures of us together before he goes. So we got creative and went out and took some pictures of us!

 This is us in our back yard, you can see Chester trying to play with us.

 These next few were at fort phantom hill. We found it while we were getting lost trying to find the lake. It was really pretty there so we decided to get some pictures there.

 Me

 Ricky by the cannon.

 Us by a window in an old store house.

Us in the window on the other side. It was a cool window.

So y'all will have to tell us what you think of all of them. I would absolutely love some comments, especially if they are compliments.