Sunday, October 28, 2012

Engaged...Married...Moving

AHHHH! So much in such little time my brain is exploding lol. I'll start from my last post, and apologize I haven't posted anything in a month. I was on the money with my last post and Jared proposed in front of his entire platoon. Just like our story of how we met I honestly don't think I will ever get tired of telling this story either. I drove my 9 freaking hours to Ft. Leonardwood from where we live in Texas and got there Friday afternoon. I got to see him for like 4 hours thankfully before I had to drop him back off. We talked that night on the phone and he kept telling me tomorrow is going to be such a great day... I'm like why WHY tell me WHY lol. I went to go pick him up and his cover story was that his friend, Van Rossum, was going to meet me by this huge tree near my car... in my head I'm thinking, ok, Van Rossum knows what my car looks like, so why is Jared making me stand by this tree. We actually got into a fight about it haha cuz I didn't want to go stand alone by this tree and he was yelling at me from across the street pointing at this dang tree lol. Finally I was like whatever! and went to stand by the tree. All of a sudden his entire platoon (which were in formation) started to march up the street. So now I'm pissed, I'm like, wth they aren't even releasing him so why am I standing here, They march up the street and start to cross the street, I'm like wahhh? Then they head towards me, at this point I'm like RUNNNNNN! lol so sweet, yet embarrassing. He marched the whole platoon right in front of me, they all took a knee around us why he gave his speech, which he wrote down ahah, so cute cuz now I have it framed :) He got on one knee and asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. I couldn't help but giggle while I said yes and everybody screamed HOOAH! Almost everyone in the platoon recorded it and snapped pictures. Youtube Ft. Leonardwood proposal, it's there haha. I'll try to post it on here.


And if the proposal wasn't cute enough, he some how pulled off the ring. I didn't marry Jared for his money, so I was expecting something small and simple, which was fine with me. But he had something up his sleeve, I know today some of the ways he pulled it off but he worked hard to get me what I wanted. He wanted me to have something nice, and I stare at it everyday, it's amazing!
 His mom, my dad, and sister were all in on it lol. I knew my dad, but my sister! All the way in Colorado, don't know how she kept the lid on that one. I couldn't wait to get home and show it off. I was a little worried how everyone would perceive it just because of everything we have gone through and all the ups and downs my family and his have see us endure but lucky enough for us, things have improved so much over the years, I was welcomed with open ours and happiness from both of our families. Not being from a close tight nit family, it meant a lot to finally feel accepted. I love my in laws and his family so much, there's no doubt in my mind, that's my family to now. They are seriously the best, and we have come a long way lol. 

Now Jared's home and we got "officially" married at the JOP just for military purposes, we still plan to have our wedding. We just had our engagement party and send off party for Jared yesterday because he leaves the 1 of November for Alaska. Unfortunately I will have to wait to get command sponsored before I can head up there to. Hopefully it won't be to long. It's so great to see how many supporters we have and how many people came to see us off and congratulate us, we seriously have the best family and friends anyone could ask for!

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Going to visit my Boyfriend... and somethings up...

So I'm heading up to Ft. Leonardwood to see Jared and he's been acting very funny! Not in a bad suspicious way but questioning me about things that normally come after a proposal. Now, I know a proposal is coming when he's home. We talk about it all the time, shoot all his basic letters were about getting married. It's going to happen. BUT, there is no way for him to buy a ring on base really, I mean there are the rings at the PX but not to sound totally greedy, they really aren't my style. Over the 4 years I have provided him with the necessary documentation he needs to get me exactly what I want haha. Gosh that sounds horrible lol. No really, I'd be happy with whatever, as long as it comes from him on one knee. I got home from church the other day and my dad said Jared called him to talk about asking my hand in marriage... wahhhhhh lol. We've talked about this and he knows he needs my dads permission, so why is he asking now. And if he's doing it this weekend, why is my dad spilling the beans haha, what a horrible secret keeper! Anyways I will be excited to see what happens. I love him so much and want nothing than to just start our lives together :)

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

I forgot the pain of a blog...

I forgot how frustrating it is trying to get your blog perfect when you start one out! I use to be a whizz kid at computer codes and html coding but man! I forgot how much there was to it lol! Finally I think I got everything worked out and am ready to finish everything up and blog it up with all you other bloggers and army spouses/families. I'm really excited to answer questions, give experiences, and just hear all about everyone and their lives. I guess it depends on the day but I can go from being a social butterfly to a complete shut in so its so nice to have my blog to let it all out to on days I don't get that social interaction! Especially being a newbie moving to freaking ALASKA where I will know absolutely no one lol. My boyfriend originally got orders for KOREA! Can you believe that? I about had a cow, omg I was freaking out! Much to my relief his orders got mixed with a roommates and Alaska was our new destination. I'm all for experience and excitement and traveling the world with him but Korea... for our first duty station... so far from both of our families! I was not excited. Alaska is far enough for me. I really didn't want to go overseas and even though Alaska IS considered overseas, I don't consider it that. Plus I've heard nothing but good things and I know it's beautiful up there and it's somewhere I've never been, and I've been a lot of places lol, so I'm excited!

I'm suppose to go visit Jared this weekend in Missouri and I'm so excited. I went over Labor day weekend last time which I think was only like 3 weeks ago but I miss him. Of course, I better get use to it, but with my best friend and main person I hang out with out of town this week as well I have been extra super bored! Although I have been sick so I guess its good they're both gone because I need to rest. With them here I'd never get 5 minutes alone to myself lol. I'm excited to see all the guys Jared's made friends with as well. As weird as that is to say, I really like these guys. If you've read my page about Jared you know he's not the greatest at choosing friends haha so it's a dang miracle that he finally has some good guys! Well that's all for now really, just a small update. Time to get back to perfecting this blog. I really hope you all enjoy and we can share throughout the day! :)

Monday, September 17, 2012

Starting out yayy!

I’ve always loved blogging and I’ve always loved writing out what I experience or need to vent about so I’m glad I found this site. Love love love it! I’ll warn anybody now, if you know me personally you may find yourself in these posts but it’s at your own risk that you read them lol. I blog to get it out, not to cause drama. I don’t intentionally post things about people to hurt their feelings, in my perfect world, you’d never see what I post lol. But anyways…

I know for some reason I’m up in the middle of the night again, with the urge to type out my problems and not want to sleep. It’s not that I can’t sleep, it’s almost like I don’t want to, idk. I’m so ready for Jared to be home so we can leave! I love Texas and have enjoyed the 6 years I’ve been here but I’m so ready to be on my own. I’m not eager to be grown or grow up to fast, I just feel like I’ve mooched for to long. Even though I pay my dad bills that he doesn’t ask for, so I’m not necessarily mooching, I just feel like at 22 you should probably be out of the house. I know me and Jared aren’t technically married or engaged yet but it’s pretty much there and if your old enough to make that step and go through EVERYTHING we’ve gone through, i think we can handle being on our own. I know it will be difficult with me being away from my daddy and him being away from his mom but I’m ready. No offense to anyone in particular but I’m ready to not have to worry about every ones 2 cents that they insist on putting in on our relationship. Thank you so much for your advice, but it’s funny… the people who give me the advice are the people that have NO IDEA what goes on between us and really have NO IDEA who me and Jared are, as individuals and a couple. We need a new environment. We need to be surrounded with people like us, who will support us and not tear us down when we make the slightest slip up!

I’ll miss it, but it’s that time!