On Wednesday December 22 2004 my roommate and I went to our normal bar for happy hour and line dancing. We had a friend in town from NY so us girls were having some fun and enjoying ourselves. The one of us knocked one our purses off the bar and it landed standing up right, square on this tall Marines foot. He just stood there saying "maam your purse" there was no way he was going to touch a ladies purse. Then he just kept coming around so I finally cornered him and asked him if he was going to buy me a beer or not? We met up a couple more times and within a month I could expect to have him up from base almost every weekend.
Went spent most of 2005 together then we got the news he was deploying again. He was assigned to a 14-month deployment and since we had only been together for a year we decided to try and stay together through the deployment. He went home to CO for 2 weeks in the summer of 2006 and I was there. Then in the fall he called my Dad from Iraq and asked for my hand and then ordered a ring and sent it to his folks. So I started planning a wedding he got back in January of 2007 and we were married in July of 2007 and went to Disney world for our Honeymoon.
Shortly after being married we got the news of another deployment so I got a friend for this one. In October I got my bulldog and in November my new husband was gone again. That year I spent my first Thanksgiving with his family on my own in WI, not many people spend holidays with their in-laws without their spouse, but I will learn later this would be something I would get used to (good thing I love my in-laws). He got back in the summer of 2008 and we went straight back to Disney World for trip number 2, I had created a monster, who would have thought my big tough Marine would convert to a Disney nut too!! Then I finally got him home for a while which was fun but defiantly a big change and a lot of adjusting to get used to.
Then we started house shopping and never thought it was going to be a 9-month process from the first house we saw till we closed escrow on our place here in Carlsbad in August 2009. In that time I was laid off from my job and was just doing little temp jobs and we had gotten pregnant and were expecting our fist child. Once we got the house we found out another deployment was in our future, he had been home for a year and half. He left again in November of 2009 and I was 23 weeks pregnant. We got lucky enough that he got to come home for the birth of our son for 4 weeks before he had to go back out. He got back in June of 2010 to come home to a 5 month old and now I was a full time stay at home wife and mom. So again we all needed to adjust to our new chapter in our life all together, so went to Disney World for family trip #3 and the first one for the boy.
He has been home for over a year now. About 8 weeks ago I found out that very unexpectedly we were pregnant with baby number 2, we were planning on waiting till September to start trying for #2. Well God had a different plan for us and so did the Marine Corps again. A week after finding out we were expecting we got word that we had to PCS within the next 6 months. So we were given 72 hours to make the tough decision between 3 bad options. We mad the hard choice to do the 2-year unaccompanied tour in Japan, so the kids and I will stay here in CA and my husband will go to Japan for 2 years. We made that choice 7 weeks ago and have yet to receive our orders to confirm this is what is actually going to happen. So now we wait to see what the future holds for our little family only time will tell how this one pans out. I hope you enjoy our journey.
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