Fall is in the air!

Hello all my wonderful bloggy friends! Fall is in the air!! These last few days in Virginia it has been in the high 60's during the day and maybe low 50's at night! I have totally cut off my AC! I think Fall is probably my favorite season. I enjoy wearing sweaters and hoodies and boots! not to mention super cute dresses with tights and boots! Another reason I like Fall being in the air is that it is another Season closer to my Hubs coming home! We still havn't had R&R but we are almost halfway through this dang deployment! WOOHOO! I have another appointment with my orthodontist this upcoming week, we will start getting measurments and impressions for the big surgery which is most likely going to be in November. Like I said in my last post, I am back in school! I am currently taking American Literature from the Civil War to Present, it's keeping me pretty busy as you can tell I havn't blogged in a LOOOONG time! This class is one of my last four classes before I get my associates in Public Health... THANK YOU COAST GUARD for paying for every bit of it!

I have some pretty exciting blog posts coming up! I have to blog about a giveaway that I won, the prize will be here this week, just in time for my birthday! I will probably be holding a giveaway with this company! So keep an eye out! By Friday I will have posted all about the giveaway I won and hopefully have information about how YOU can enter to win!

I also am so excited to blog about some AMAZING 8th graders and what they have done for my deployed husband and the guys that he is with! Keep an eye out for that! I am just waiting to get approval from their teacher to post the pictures they sent me :)!

Last but not least! I am being featured on Mystery Monday's by the lovely Suzanne at All Because Two People Fell in Love. Check her out to see what it's all about and if you are interested in being featured let her know! She just started Mystery Monday's!

A Productive Saturday!

The picture above is what a productive Saturday for Leonidas and I leads to... cuddling together! I started out this morning by getting up bright and early to volunteer with the USO on Fort Belvoir. We stuffed over 5,000 care packages in less than 4 hours!! It was awesome!! I had a friend from work and her husband there that I knew already and I met a ton of great new people as well! I came home and hung out around the house with Leonidas for a bit then decided to take him to the dog park to maybe run off some of his energy. We had a great time, he loves playing with any pooch that will wrestle with him a little! We came home and I brought him inside and gave him a treat before I turned around and went right back out... I was on a mission. I have been wanting to get Leo a doggie pool for a few months now and finally decided to go out and get it! I found one at PetSmart for like $10! We didn't get to play in it really today before the sun went down but I am hoping that we will get to test it out tomorrow during the heat of the day! I also bought some new running shoes! WOOHOO for me! I have to convince myself to get up early in the morning and go to the gym since I didn't work out Friday or today. I also have a Trace Adkins concert to go to with some great girls tomorrow evening! I am pretty excited! This weekends activities has definitley kept me for sulking around at home because I havn't heard from my hubby.

I hope that I have not bored anyone into a coma tonight with my ramblings... Looking towards Leo as in example, I fear that I just may have!

Leo during my blogging...

Who needs a pillow pet when I have the best pillow pet around!

I hope you all have a very relaxing Sunday! And just remember... tomorrow is the end to another full week during this deployment!!

Another Full Week Down!

I went to bed pretty late last night, somewhere around 3am and woke up to a whiney puppy around 9am. I couldn't get back to sleep so I started my day of laundry. Laundry is probably my LEAST favorite chore! I don't mind putting the laundry in the washer or the dryer, it's the folding of the laundry that I loathe.. I try to be a good housewife but I royally fail at it when it's just me!

I began feeling pretty lazy around 5pm, when I started thinking about somthing to eat. I didn't feel like cooking but I also didn't feel like leaving my house. I finally convinced myself that I needed to cook so I could have somthing to take to work for lunch this week. It saves me money and it's healthier! So I cut up three chicken breasts and added my favorite spice, Roasted Garlic & Herb with a little olive oil and threw it on the baby foreman grill!

I also cooked two filets of tilapia with lemon pepper seasoning. I am really bad about cooking for one person. Our last deployment, I would skip dinner usually and just go to bed because I didn't feel like cooking for just me. This deployment though, I have found that if I cook on Sunday enough for dinner and lunch, normally all I have to fix during the week is a side such as spinach or rice and therefore I am not skipping meals because we all know that is not good for you!

On another note, yesterday I found some of the cutest little solar lights at Wal-Mart when I went to get the right size bobbins for my sewing machine. What's even greater about these super cute solar lights is that they were on SALE! Who loves a good sale? THIS GIRL!! Today I put the solar lights out on my front walkway and I must admit, I love them! Especially with a deployed husband!!

Nice and Patriotic!!

They work!!

So happy that today is Sunday, even though I am not ready to go back to work tomorrow, I am ready to have this deployment over with! This is just another week down! Have a wondeful Monday!!

Wordless Wednesday... What fun!