Day Three - Eight Fears

So today is day three in the 10 Day Challenge of You. Day three hightlights eight of my fears... These are in no particular order!

8. I fear house fires! Especially living in a Townhouse that is connected to 6 other townhouses... so even if it isn't my house that starts the fire, somthing could go wrong in my neighbors house and still catch my house.

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7. Getting into a car wreck! Being in a big city, this scares me tremedously! I am a small town girl and these drivers up here don't care one bit where you are going or what and who you have in your car! They will cut you off and flip you the bird at the same time! My road rage has severly increased up here. I can't wait to go to a new place where hopefully I won't have to deal with so many crazy drivers and so much traffic!

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6. Somthing happening to my family with me being so far away... I am very close with my whole family!

This picture is missing quite a few people... I say we need to do some family photos!



5. My sweet Leonidas getting sick or injured! I would pay ANY amount of money to do anything to help my sweet healthy boy! He wasn't so healthy when we first got him and I don't ever want to see him in that shape again!

Who couldn't fall in love with this sweet boy?

4. Getting in trouble for any reason whatsoever! I have always been a paranoid person when it comes to this, I have a fear of getting in trouble. I don't understand how people can put themselves in position to get in trouble over and over again, especially at work! If I ever had to get masted and lose rank I think I would just DIE!

From a 2nd Class Petty Officer

To a 3rd Class Petty Officer

To NO collar device! YIKES!

3. The idea of not being able to concieve when my Husband and I are ready to try having a baby. I have read so many other wonderful ladies blogs that are going through this right now. My heart goes out to them! I pray that they will each recieve the joy of becoming pregnant and having a healthy baby soon!!

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2. Being in the Washington, DC area during another attack on the United States. With so many military bases and significant monuments and buildings in the area, it scares me a little living here and knowing that terrorists are constantly plotting against the US.

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1. My number one and largest fear is my wonderful, sweet, amazing, sexy Husband not coming home safe from the war.

I love you baby! You are my everything!

Day 2 - Nine Loves

These are my nine LOVES for the 10 Day Challenge, day 2. They are in no specific order.

9. True Blood! I just can't get enough of it! I think there is far too many months in between the seasons!

8. Sleep! I love to sleep, just ask my husband! He hates that I take so many naps, especially while he is deployed, he worries about me... which brings me to number 7...

7. The most amazing husband in the world! He takes amazing care of my and I am the luckiest girl in the world to have him!

6. My puppers Leonidas. He is my furbaby, my four-legged child! I would do anything for him!

5. My wonderful family! I come from a rather large family, 3 sisters and 3 brothers as well as 1 brother in law!  My family as well as my husband's family pretty much rocks!

4. Reading, I really love to escape into a good book!

3. My friends! They are just an extension to my family!

2. North Carolina! I am a Carolina girl and I always love going home!

1. GOD!

10 Day YOU Challenge

So not too long ago I attempted a 30 day picture challenge on facebook and failed pretty miserably lol. I saw this neat challenge on Liz's blog The Optimistic Army Wife. She found it on another blog who found it on another and the list goes on and on :).  So today I am starting with 10 secrets...

10. My husband's first deployment... I calculated that I slept approximately 3 months of the 7 month deployment away... sad, I know!

09. I am NOT a very good housewife. I have never been the one to keep a constantly clean house. My house right now is pretty horrible!

08. When I was younger I was a girly girl, I have changed quite a bit as I grew. I don't mind getting dirty as much as I did when I was younger and that amazes my mother!

07. My husband and I have a few baby names picked out for when we decide to try and have a baby, we are going to keep those pretty quiet until that time comes though.

06. I cried LOTS in bootcamp... it was a very miserable time for me that I look back on now and laugh about. I think my Company Commanders just enjoyed picking on me.

05. In the Coast Guard, you don't have to qualify with a weapon... however you have to still attempt it in bootcamp, and if you don't qualify, they definitley get on your case about it. Who has two thumbs and shot a big fat ZERO her first attempt at qualifying in bootcamp? THIS GIRL!

04. My furbaby is my child! He is spoiled plain rotten and definitley a mama's boy!

03. I constantly give my hubby a hard-time about being from Cali. Hey, I am a Carolina girl, the South is the only way. In all fairness, he is constantly telling me the West Coast is the Best Coast... yeah right!

02. Before my hubby and I met, I always wanted to name my first son Liam... I never realized that my future husband would go by the name Liam.

01. Hmm... I guess my biggest secret that I have ALWAYS been embarassed about is that I sucked my thumb when I went to sleep until early 2010. I had been doing it since I was around 3 years old and could never break it. Thanks to surgery to widen my palate and having a metal mechanism in the roof of my mouth for months and months, I was able to finally break the habit and havn't had the urge since. (Yes, if you calculate that, I was 22 before I kicked the habit and Yes, I am expecting for you all to laugh at this secret!

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What's YOUR Song?

I have been missing in action for a little while, but I am back and on what better day than a Thursday! It's that time again... time to link up with Goodnight Moon for Thursday's What's YOUR Song?

When I work out I tend to listen to rock music... especially on my way to the gym because it gets me ready. So a few weeks ago I was on my way to the gym listening to a local rock station and I heard the song "Sail" by AWOLNATION. It's different and I really liked it so I chose it as my song this week. Enjoy!

I just love all of the instruments... the video is a little weird though.

Spoiled... just to have my bubble bust...

So the last few days have been pretty BLAH for me. I have figured out that I got too accustomed for pretty much knowing exactly when my Hubby would be calling me. My bubble has definitley been busted though, I havn't heard his voice in far too long! :( I do miss my dear sweet hubby!

On a happier note, Leonidas is loving going to the dog park everyday. I guess since my spoiling has halted, I decided to spoil him. It wears him out enough to where he isn't going 150 miles an hour all day and night. We went to the dog park today only to get caught in a torrential downpour!! We were both soaked by the time we made it back to the jeep... and go figure 5 minutes after getting in the jeep it stopped!

On and even HAPPIER note... tomorrow I get to head to North Carolina after work! It will be a nice long weekend! And the most exciting news is that I get to see one of my greatest friends Kim!! I havn't seen her in over a year when she and her husband got transferred to Kentucky. Well now they are coming to Bragg and I can't be more excited!! I can't wait to be able to decide to go home to NC and visit my Kimmy! It's a much shorter drive than going to Kentucky! AND on top of that, my Hubby is going to be sooooo excited to be able to hang out with Kim's Hubby on R&R whenever that may be!

This is Kim and I all dressed up for the Old Guard Ball in 2009!

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!!

MilSpouse Friday Fill-In

Woohoo for another Friday! Linking up with Wife of a Sailor for MilSpouse Friday Fill In! Link up with her and join in!!

1. If you could have a private concert with any singer, who would it be?  submitted by An Air Force Wife’s Blog

Haha, oh man! I am thinking of how to answer this question without having my hubbster mad at me lol. I know that if I answer Chris Young because he's my favorite right now, that my hubby is sick of hearing about Chris Young on my blog ;). In all reality though I think that I would probaby want a private concert from (not taking into account that the question doesn't say you can't choose someone who has already passed away) Conway Twitty! I love the old style country music and who better to have a private concert with!

2. Is there anything you do to supplement your family’s income? submitted by Our Life, One Adventure at a Time


I am also active duty military  (Coast Guard) so my husband and I both greatly contribute to our family's income!  My husband outranks... I am slowly catching up, but I still contribute and we live quite comfortably. Ask me again in a little over a year when my enlistment ends and I join my hubby in Hawaii!

3. During your pregnancy (whether past, present, or future), what did you nickname your unborn baby before you knew the sex? submitted by Explosions of Love
This would be the future for me and honestly I have no idea. I am sure my Hubby will want to nickname our unborn baby Chuck Norris or somthing silly like that... I guess that's why I love him! I will say that when one of my dear friends was pregnant with her little girl we nicknamed her unborn baby -Pod-. It was cute and catchy!

4. Have you ever won a blog giveaway?  If so what did you win? submitted by Mrs. O’s Life


I have never won a blog giveaway... I have never even entered a blog giveaway. I am still new to the blogosphere so I guess I need to start looking for these blog giveaways!!

5.  If I looked into your refrigerator right now, what would I find? submitted by Married to the Army


Right now since it's just me in the house, in my refrigerator you will find the following:
Fat free milk, gogurt, cheese, homemade sweet pickles, lots of fresh spinach, hotdogs, butter, and fresh asparagus. Pretty boring I know.