Hammer time!!! hahaha

     

Matt and Josh playing the Wii, Kristen and I were dying!!!!

Just because my cat and husband are crazy

My amazing husband playing the Wii with Josh HILARIOUS!!!!

The Kitty being adorable!! (Although in the first one it looks like he's thinking "Really?? Do you really have to be taking my picture right now? I was just sleeping ya know...")

       This is what happens when you give Melanie a camera and her cat is being a cute/wierdo

September Days and Nights...

       Since Matt has been home life has been wonderful! It's been busy, had it's up and downs with Matt's stress level and being so out of control busy with school. But all in all I've loved having home to talk to and to be able to have my cuddle time again. While Matt was gone I didn't really think that I missed/needed it as much as I let my self think. Since I've had that again I found a new level of happy that I wasn't expecting to find when he came home. It's been so nice to have that again!!!
     
       Shortly after having the love of my life come home I was able to walk for my graduation from nursing school. I didn't think walking would be that exciting, but when the time came it was amazing!! I was able to show my wonderful family that I can do this and that I will fulfill my dream of being a nurse! I've only wanted this since I was 5 so ya know, it's about time that it finally happens right?? Now I just have to make sure I don't let my fear of failing cripple me when it comes to taking the test.

       Let's see other then that life has been pretty normal. Matt spends most of his days either at school or doing homework. And I spend my days working on Christmas Presents, housework, and studying for the NCLEX-RN. With it being a $300 test to take I want to make sure that I'm completely ready, but at the same time I feel like I'm letting my fear of failing take control. So I've decided that I'm never going to feel completely ready and I'm giving myself until October 31st to take the test. So what that means is that I've got to start cracking the books harder then ever. Hopefully it'll pay off...  (and now that I've just written that I'm starting to doubt myself, so it's time to get off the computer and start studying!!)

Since He's Been Home...

       This past week has been a busy one for us. I picked Matt up on Wednesday and dropped him off at school. And life has been amazing/crazy ever since. Because he had already missed two days of classes he was determined not to miss any more. I was expecting him to come home and sleep for a little while, but he had other ideas. So to school he went. I picked him up after his class got him some lunch then took him back to school. Thrusday was about the same, except we made a run down to  Matt's Unit in  Spanish Fork, where he almost wasn't going to be able to come to my graduation. But thankfully, because he was the Distinguished Honor Grad (Highest of all of the classes) He was able to put off reporting until Oct (Whew...). We also found out that Fort Sill didn't send Matt home with all the papers that he needed to report. So We've been trying to track all of those down and get everything all squared away and done. Hopefully sooner rather then later...Friday he went to classes as normal and then I kidnapped him for the weekend.

       We went up to Park City and had a mini getaway before both of us had to start getting back to reality. We stayed up at Waldorf Astoria and had a blast. It's such a nice hotel, they had free valet parking, chocolates (like real chocolate) on our pillows each night, a heated pool, and tons to do around it. We went up to Park City Mountain Resort and spent Saturday just playing up there (so much fun!!) We both got a little bit burned but not too bad. While we were there I got a job offer working were I used to up in Eagle Mtn managing a shipping place I worked at during high school. We really weren't expecting it but it was a really good surprise for us both!

       Sunday we walked around Park City Main Street saw some interesting things, walked around the open air markets and just enjoyed being outside talking and walking around. When we had seen all that we wished to see we jumped in the car and headed home. unpacking everything and putting Matt's pile of Military stuff away and getting it off of the living room floor (seriously didn't think that they sent him home with that much stuff until I saw it all over my floor)... Once that was done Matt started doing things that he needed to get done so he would be ready for school on Tuesday and I worked on cleaning up more of the house.  That night we went over to see Matt's parents, got some amazing raisin cinnamon rolls, visited with them and pick up Bray'Tac.

      Basically the moral of this post is that MATT'S HOME AND I'M LOVING EVERY SECOND OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Anyways, time for me to start cleaning again...

~Melanie