Merry

With the officer at work tonight, I find myself just lounging around on Christmas Eve. It's not a bad thing, I visited with my grandparents earlier in the day and got some stuff ready for the family gathering tomorrow. After this holiday season, I am all cooked and gifted out. Nonetheless, the officer has Christmas off and it's always a bag of surprises when our families are involved.

I figured this would be an appropriate post to communicate how thankful I am for everyone and everything. Warning, this will be long. I am thankful for my husband and the joy and love that he has brought into my life since the moment I met him. Almost 5 years with this guy and it still feels like we are a giddy, newly-dating couple. I am thankful for my family who love and support me even when I'm not very deserving of it. I am thankful for my awesome in-laws. Don't hear that one often, do you? I am thankful for all of our extended family. I am thankful for my incredible friends. Life would be so dull and lonely without you guys. I am thankful for our current home and our soon to be home that is under construction. I am thankful for my job, which I truly love. I am thankful for my hubby's job because it is one that he loves and it makes me brim with pride. I am thankful for our beautiful wedding this year. I am thankful for all of the amazing people I have met this year, especially all of the LEOW wives. I am thankful for all of the deep conversations held over wine and coffee. It's crazy how much soul-spilling is done when there is a glass in hand. I am thankful for my best friend's adorable, healthy son. The list goes on... But seriously, whatever complaints came from my mouth this year all amount to nothing.

So on this Christmas Eve, I will be thinking about all of the LEO's out there and wishing for their safety. I will be thinking about all of my family and friends and I will be thanking my lucky stars for all that I have.

Now, enough with this sappy nonsense....

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

The world keeps turning

Things are finally beginning to wind down. I find it bitter-sweet that the wedding is over. A whole year of planning for one day. I'm not saying it wasn't worth it, it was the best day of my life. On the contrary, it was so perfect. Thinking back to it I become an emotional basket case, but what's new there? Since the big day, the officer and I have been going through a roller coaster of emotions. Happy ones, but we have found ourselves shedding a few tears looking through the wedding binder, first dance video, the flowers, everything. Neither of us know why this is but I hope it tapers of because I would like to be able to listen to Michael Buble and Allister again without the waterworks! All I know is, the venue was perfect, the music was perfect, everything was perfect. All of our friends and family have smothered us in love and kindness, we couldn't be more thankful for all of the people we have in our lives. But the most important thing of that day was him, he is what truly made the whole day amazing. I cannot wait to see what the future has in store for us. I am just beyond happy that I will have him to share it all with. Afterall, the point of a wedding is to mark the beginning of a lifetime. Photos will be coming soon...

We went on our honeymoon to Mexico shortly after the wedding and it was a blast! It wasn't as hot as we thought it would be in June but it was so humid compared to what we're used to in Colorado. The officer was kind of nervous leaving the country for the first time and of course I pick the least tourist-y things to do so poor guy probably wasn't too thrilled. We took a taxi to downtown and spent the day wandering around. It was so beautiful and so different from what we know. Sad as this sounds, it was the first time I had ever seen roads made of stones. The Spanish colonial architecture was amazing. We had a few crazy taxi drivers... I will leave it at this: thank goodness for traffic laws and traffic law enforcement! It was so nice getting away for a week and being surrounded by palm trees and the ocean, it was long overdue. No cell phone service, no internet, no work to do... I miss it. But now we're home and it's back to the daily grind! My next project is helping with the baby shower for one of my amazing friends! I can't wait to meet that little boy for the first time, ah!!

That's it for now!

Life in limbo

It's been a while, 7 months to be exact. I found myself driving to work today thinking about how much I miss keeping my public "diary" of sorts. Then I realized just how behind I was on it. My reader count is low (extremely) so luckily I don't feel too guilty for the neglect. Anyways... What happened since last July? A lot. I'm sure everyone saw the news or experienced the flooding here in September. It devastated so many communities. The area where we live wasn't damaged but so many others weren't as lucky. The officer was called into work the day after the rain began and didn't come home for a day or two; it's all a blur now. It was heart breaking to see the destruction it caused. Then came Halloween. The officer was a trucker and I was a rabbit. There we were sitting in our costumes all excited for trick-or-treaters but do you think any came by? Just one. One trick-or-treater. I was so disappointed because Halloween is my favorite holiday but hopefully we will get more once we move out of apartments. I must say though, that kid made off like a bandit, business man in the making. Since he was the only (or one of a few) trick-or-treaters in the building, everyone must've given him all of their candy. We sure did, 2 bags worth! Then came Thanksgiving and Christmas, the usual.

A new job emerged in August and I couldn't be happier. Time truly does fly when you're having fun and I am always wondering where my days go. Most days I am mentally exhausted but I honestly couldn't ask for anything more. When I first began in August, I had no idea how much training and learning I was in store for. Now that I could kind of see the light at the end of the tunnel, I am so happy to have gone through that tunnel. There's nothing better than surprising yourself with what you could do. The people I work with are amazing and not a day goes by where they don't make me laugh so badly it hurts. I truly am lucky. Most important thing I learned in these 7 months? How to faux-curse... Son of a biscuit!!


On another note, wedding planning has been steadily kicking into high gear. With 3 months left until the wedding, I am in a slight panic. Final appointments with caterers, floral, venue walk through's, rehearsals, payments, DJ song lists, seating charts, RSVP's? Thinking about it all makes me want to go insane. The whole planning process has been a challenge for us for various reasons. The officer and I pretty much have opposite schedules so whenever I get to spend time with him, I don't want to spend it doing wedding things. So our only option is to split duties and go it alone. Everyone warned me that family will become even more difficult to deal with once a wedding is underway. What they didn't tell me was that my family would be in a maniacal frenzy! The Officer and I have considered just going to the court house and calling the wedding off on more occasions than I can count on two hands! But we made it... Almost... All I know is I can't wait to seal the deal. We have waited so long and worked so hard for this. It's almost here!

The Officer has been on overload at work, it seems like the crazies just multiply. It still baffles me how busy they all are on any given weeknight. He got a 15 minute break today where I was able to talk to him and that is a good day in my book! I always figured weekends would be the busiest times for them. Boy was I wrong... Go to sleep people!! It's too early in the week and too late at night to go crazy.

To be continued...