ok ok I am updating!  Brenton and I are doing well! We have become really good friends with the neighbors and hang out with the quite often. Today we are going to the feild behind our house so we can all fly kites. They have a 4 month old baby boy who is adorable and loves me! Brenton is starting to want babies too. Its been talked about between us but we are waiting.

I have a job substitute teaching at the disctrict schools. Its fun, but i wish I could work more. Sometimes I dont even know what the job is for and i go in and im in a class where its like whats the game plan today? I dunno Im so lost. I like the kids when we have recess though. and when i teach junior high and high school I like my prep period. Not that I prep a whole lot.

I wish I could come home for a visit. I dont think I am ready to leave CA for good yet! Is that bad? I will miss my friends out here and its like Brentons and mines first house so its special. Plus the winters arent half bad out here either. Not that I am not thrilled about going back to IN, but i will definately miss it out here.

well i have to go get ready to fly my kite.... holla at your girl.... (sorry we get ghetto when we get bored)

YAY. I dont know why I just said that.  It is officially 28 days til I am in Indiana. Christmas is going to be so great, especially since I will feel like I am at home.  I get to go back and work so I actually will feel like I am contributing to my marriage financially. Brenton and I are having a hard month. Mainly because buying plane tickets home is a beast.  We dont really have any money to buy gifts for anyone, but at the same time they know that we would have the money if we lived at home and didnt have to fly.  Oh well. Being with the family is the most important gift we could give to them.

Our baby puppy is getting HUGE.  We underestimated his size when we bought his kennal and now we have to go back and exchange it. Problem is: The dog ate my reciept. For real. How lame is that.

I have been working out lately. Losing weight is becoming an obsession. Brenton told me last night I was obsessing. When I pass a mirror I look and see if I look smaller. I ask constantly if I feel smaller. I am so sick in the head. I am enjoying working out though. I am getting some muscle built in my arms and my legs. My stomach has always been a problem so I really need to start focusing on it. I want to be around for my kids so i want to be healthy. I know it will be hard to maintain with the holidays coming up, but hopefully I have enough will power to at least have portion control. 

We are supposed to be spending Thanksgiving with the Purcell's. I like them and all, but they are kind of strange. AND there are 13 people going to their house  All of them were invited by them or are their family members who are coming to visit. SO they want me and Brenton to go in half for food. HALF! WHAT! are you kidding me!Brenton and I dont eat enough for half! And they want like MONDO amounts of food. Probably because 10 of the people are guys and they are Marines/Navy and eat like monsters. Well whatever. I am too nice to tell her we cant afford to go half so I guess we will figure it out some other way.  I really wanted to go to Cabo for Thanksgiving weekend, but since i am flying out to Indiana a week and a half later then we decided we should make Cabo a spring trip when Brenton has more leave days built up and after I have made some money.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sent me a letter in the mail. Yes! They have openings for Youth Correctional Counselors. Problem is...1) the closest one is 2 hours away   2) the test is Monday at 7am   3) Brentons truck broke so that leaves us with one vehicle 4) I have to take a written test, physical abilities test, and THEN go for a personal interview-- maybe I'll have a job by the time we relocate! Great opportunities out here in Cali, just none near me.  Although the salary starts at 78,000 and goes up. If I cant save money with that I dont know who can!

Missing home and cant wait to get there!

Well Brenton is gone again until Thursday-- again. I get so bored when he is gone. I have become lazy this weekend. Brenton and I went on a couples date on Friday and Saturday night. On Friday we went to the movies and saw Gridiron Gang. It  was really good.  Then on Saturday we went cosmic bowling on base.  THAT was fun. The girls sucked but thats how we roll.  I did get a strike but even brenton with his bum arm beat me.

I am really hating it out here.  I wish i was at home with my neice and nephew. Elena is counting to 15 now and Carter is sitting up on his own and weighs twice what he did when I left. Thats so crazy to think when I left Carter wasnt sitting up and when I come home he will be almost walking. Im ready to see them and all my other family. My cousins! my brothers and sister! and my mommy!

Well Brenton and I never have made it to Sea World because we really just have a hard time waking up.  AND the Walmart I transfered to sucks because when I was working there I never saw my husband. I went on leave of absence to find a new job. Brenton asked if I want to go to Price I Right. Heck yeah! In honesty I hate it out here. Everyone is mean and I get bored SO easily All I have is my puppy and my husband who was on duty this past week and basically  i never saw him. He had to go take a guy to the hospital thursday and friday went into work at 530 and wasnt home til 8 pm because a boiler burtsed in the building next to them. Then he had to check on two guys every two hours to make sure they werent dying. So at 1, 3,5, and 7 and 8 he was up and checking on them. all the way through the whole day on Sunday he was checkin on his boys.  Then today he had to get up at 5 and be at work because he is on duty. and wont be home til who knows when. THEN  tomorrow he goes to the field to sit there til Thursday.... I need a pal. Not to mention, out fire alarm/carbon monoxide detector keeps going off.  There isnt a fire though.