Okay okay, I know, its been awhile..

So life gets in the way, and I completely forget to blog. Yeah its been over a year, what can I say.

So a lot has happened, as it should, in the last year and half. Not to long after my last post:
*I went home for a nice vacation for a week: Hung out with my family and friends, went to Kennewick, visited the place the Twilight Prom was shot and had a all around good time not knowing that I would be back really soon.

* Mid June we find out Jeremy is deploying, and in 11 days I pack up our entire apartment and we put it in storage. I return home and Jeremy deploys

* While home I road trip with Kristina to Zion National Park and Vegas, work at the daycare again off and on, spend time at the cabin with Kristina tubing and trying again to wake board, spend Thanksgiving in Medford with my Mom's parents and make it back to Florida around mid Dec. Jeremy makes it back state side just a few days before Christmas to an almost completely unpacked apartment...I'm good like that.

*Mom and Dad come in late January to celebrate Dad's 50th. We go to Disneyworld and have a blast. The last day they are in town we expand our little family with a four legged, furry child named Atlas. We adopted him him from the Humane Society and couldn't be any happier with our little guy.

*I spend February applying to jobs, which I end up getting 3 interviews for and 3 job offers. Yay! I also bought a car, a Escape.

*Started work in March, at Belleair Elementary (Go Tigers!) where I work as an assistant in an EBD (emotional and behavioral disorders) class. Its rough but I love working in a school setting and have decided I for sure want to go back and get my masters in elementary ed so I can teach.

*In June school ended on the 9th and I was surprised on the 10th by my brother Colin and his girlfriend Amber for my birthday. My husband had been planning in since Jan. and was very sneaky...I had no clue.

*The first couple weeks of July we spent in Vancouver, enjoying our time with our family and friends. Unfortunately we also attended the funeral of my Aunt Gail, who we all love and miss very much.

*The rest of July and August have been stressful. My parents house (the one I lived in for 20 years, two decades) burnt down and though they are safe we sadly lost our family dogs Chester and Buddy. I'm sad that Atlas never got to know his uncles, even though I am sure Chester and Buddy would not have been his greatest fans :).

* And now here we are full circle with Jeremy deployed again, and hopefully for the last time. He should be back, fingers crossed, by Christmas though it might be just a little after :( But luckily this is it, this is his last one (again fingers crossed something doesn't come up). We have just a little over a year left and we will be moving back to Vancouver! YAY! It's so awesome to think we are in the final stretch.
Things that suck about your husband being deployed: Taking the trash to the dumpster (its a pain in the but when you live in the building farthest from the dumpster!), having to haul 30 lb bags of dog food up a flight of stairs, doing the dishes...I also miss his lame jokes and his big smile but man his muscle come in handing when doing the tough jobs. LOL

* So now I am back to work, getting the classroom set up and taking beginning of the year trainings. Kids come back on Tuesday and it should be an interesting year. I'm looking forward to some of the things I missed last year because I started to late, like field trips and assemblies.

So that's my year in a Blog. I was going to add a picture or two from each big thing but it was taking to long to load so I gave up and just include the most important one! My baby Atlas. Anyways, we will see if I keep it up this time.

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