Moving Means Crazy Food To Eat

While i am cleaning out the pantry and i am googling recipes with the ingredients i have on hand. I am refusing to grocery shop for anything other than milk, fruit and bread types of food! Soooo, with the peppermint marshmellows and chocolate chips i made a yummy pink rocky road and with the fruit, pineapple, etc i made a big ambrosia salad! YUM!!! 

I Got Ready Kinda Fast Today!

I guess i wasn't paying very good attention when i was getting ready this morning! I looked down at my hand and noticed my rings! One of them is definitely NOT EVER worn on my ring finger!!! Hahahahahahahahaha!!

Blind Spot Will Have A Season Two

I love the show Blindspot. Usually shows that i REALLY like do not come back for a second season. I guess i have terrible taste in television shows.....but i just found out that Blindspot will be around for a second season! 

Soooo, this is a perfect picture for this post! I find it hilarious!!!

Yay For Big Bathrooms

Good thing we have a big bathroom! These dogs always want to hang out with me every morning while i get ready. I chit chat with them while i get ready. Gonna miss these big ole dogs when they are gone someday..... 

Last Freshman Friday

I had to get a picture of Ryan this morning and he wasn't very obliging....but it's his last Freshman Friday of high school EVER!!!  So he paused for a quick second!!! I can't believe how fast time is going! It still seems odd that i only have two kids at home and both are in high school!!!  The time is flying!!!  But life is great and has been great, so i guess i'll just continue to just go with it and enjoy every single minute of it!

Sports Awards Time

Ty and Ryan had their sports recognition ceremony today. Ty received his Varsity letter for Football and Track and Ryan for JV Football and Track. Gonna miss this itty bitty school in the middle of the desert! 

And fun photo bombers!

Desert Skies Are Beautiful!

The skies out here in the desert are just breathtakingly beautiful!!! I never grow tired of them. Sadly my phone does not capture their true beauty....



















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Farewell From The Stables

It is really sinking in that we are leaving....The Dude In Cammies had his first farewell today. It was at the stables. There are several events going on from Redding California to Washington DC and Colorado that they wanted to have his farewell from the Mounted Color Guard before they hit the road. The stables is always such a peaceful place....I went straight from work so i was a little early. I spent some time with the horses and Kishaba and Naha, love those two barn cats!



Kisses for Ford


He loves the very top of his head rubbed, right where his bangs grow in.



Moses grilled some yummy food and the Marines arrived.

This is such a small base so everyone knows everyone. It was fun just sitting and listening to the Marines. They are hilarious! I had a delicious bacon cheeseburger.

Ed said a few words to the Marines but other than that it was just a perfect afternoon with some of Americas finest.....

Later Ed and Gunny Flores went for a little ride.....

Chit Chatting With Kishaba

I saw that the stables was out of cat food when Ed and i were there on Sunday. I bought a big bag and swung by there after work today.  I filled up the cat dishes and put the bag where it goes and than sat down and chit chatted with Kishaba. I'm not sure where Naha was, she never came out but i saw her Sunday so I'm sure she was just napping somewhere. I held Kishaba for awhile and than went and said hi to the horses. I love being out here, so very peaceful......going to really miss this place. 

Remembered The Helmet

Ryan won a bike at school because of his perfect attendance. I've been trying to remember to pick up a helmet for him but keep forgetting! I even forget when he is with me! I finally remembered to get one.  I was walking down the aisle at the PX on Ft Irwin and saw bike helmets and remembered! I sent him some pictures of helmets to choose from. He picked one and i brought it home to him. He put it on with the tags and all. As he sat there watching TV wearing it he let us know that it is really comfortable and continued to wear it! He is funny!

Track CIF 2016

Ty had his last track meet today. It was in a tiny little town just north of Santa Barbara. There were 40+ schools there. His only event was the 4x100 relay. I thought they did great, their time was the same as their best time they had logged in this season but since they were in the heat with the fastest relay they felt like they got smoked! Their relay team is 2 sophomores and two juniors. Not bad for running against mostly seniors! They came in 31st out of 44 schools with a time of 46.01. We stayed for a chunk of the meet and than Ed and i left around 2:30. We took our time heading home stopping at a few places along the way. It was a beautiful drive along the Pacific ocean for part of the way. Soon we will be living by the ocean again!!! Ty got home around 1:30 in the morning. They stopped at the beach on the way home before they stopped to eat. 

They weren't smiling!


So I joined in on the serious faces!


Ty said he would take a picture with me but he was not going to smile, and he didn't!

Laundry Bonus

Every once in awhile i get a nice laundry tip! Usually it's just a penny or so but today it was $13.00!!!  Lucky me today!!!

Mothers Day 2016

Ed and the kids were so sweet today to me. The boys got me the gag gift they started a tradition with. I got a pair of orange 99 cent flip flops, my favorite chocolates, and a fitbit! Sooo excited to have a fitbit!!!



Vicki sent me a purse that i love and an adorable clip on air freshener for my car, and nice thick exercise socks! I threw out all my old exercise socks and replaced them with my new ones!



It was a totally great day! The boys even took pictures with me! That was my favorite part!

Mothers Day Memories

A picture from 5 years ago popped up in my memories today on Facebook. I laughed when i saw it because i still have the giant card Jorden had sent me from Basic Training. I also still had the same clothes and purse so Ryan took a picture of me reenacting the photo. 

Here is the original picture from Mothers Day 2011


First attempt....Ryan realized I was missing sunglasses!


Second attempt, perfect!


And than just the front of the card for fun

Breakfast In Bed

The dogs just have no sense of the weekend and sleeping in. I got up to let them out and feed them. When i came upstairs Ryan was coming out of his room. He had a sad face and said he was going to make me breakfast in bed. I told him i was going back to bed so he could still make me breakfast in bed. I went back to bed and actually fell asleep for about an hour. When i woke up Ryan brought me breakfast! It was delicious! I LOVE waffles!!!

Time To Update Uniforms

We left this morning for 29 Palms.

We are coming into crunch time before Ed will be wearing Sgt Major chevrons so we zipped to his favorite tailor and dropped off his uniforms.


After we dropped off the uniforms we went to the PX, the boys had their favorite pizza, and than we went for a drive. We headed over to the training areas where Ed has been too many times to remember how many!









It was fun to see the actual places he's stayed since we have only seen pictures or heard him explain it or the conversations I've heard him have with his buddies when they were here.  It was great for the boys to get a visual too! He was out here when we were on Okinawa and he left to go to Iraq with a battalion from Camp Lejeune. He's been here for training with tracks at Camp Lejeune and with a CLB from Camp Lejeune for an Afghanistan deployment and again for Advisory training before going to Afghanistan. He will be back here in October for training for a deployment in 2017 with his new unit. He jokingly calls it his home away from home!    

The boys were like, 'Wait! There's Marines in there!' Ed laughed and said yes, that is where we live when we are out here. I said and there is no AC in those! Ed chimes in, and no heat! I forgot he's been here during every season! 

It was hilarious! We would be driving along and than a random arm pops out of the sand out of nowhere. Ed laughed and said that is a Marine trying to get a signal or take a selfie.

Not Wonder Woman & The Marine

I made a super yummy Cinco de Mayo feast for dinner tonight. Afterwards Ed had to put on his uniform to go to an event out in town. I walked him out to the front porch. The boys were out front playing catch and took this picture of us. It captures us perfectly!!! Ed the Marine and me, well definitely NOT Wonder Woman, more like a giant wreck! But i can pretend....

Pumpkin Pie In May

It's getting close to moving so I spent the day cleaning out the pantry. There was actually some canned food that had expired before we even arrived here!!!! I guess i missed those when i was cleaning out the pantry at our Bonanza house in NC! But i went thru everything and got rid of everything i pretty much haven't used this duty station. There was a can of pumkin that was going to go bad by the end of May, so i had to make a pumpkin pie today....moving is rough sometimes.