Welcome to My Blog

Well, I am new to this whole "blogging" thing. I'm just a 23 year old exploring a new state, learning about home ownership, and navigating through life while my husband is away on his first deployment.

Our story began back in high school, my husband and I officially started dating our senior year on October 26, 2007. He likes to claim that I "followed" him to Texas A&M, and we both ended up graduating from there in May of 2012. At that time, my husband also commissioned into the Marine Corps. It wasn't until the following Christmas Eve (December 24, 2013) that we got engaged when my husband was home from The Basic School for Christmas. He actually proposed to me in the same spot that we took our senior prom pictures and was also our usual "date spot".

 

We planned our wedding for October 5, 2013 which was intimidating. If you have ever planned a wedding where one (or even both!) spouses are in the military, you will know how stressful it is just because of the simple fact that there is no guarantee that your bride or groom will be there! Somehow, the date that we initially picked out worked perfectly.

The following day we moved to North Carolina and three short months later my husband left for his first deployment! This blog will be about us, our adventures in North Carolina, my adventures in being a "house wife" & home ownership, and some military related posts (deployment, care packages, etc). Oh, and probably also some pictures of our sweet fur baby, Elsa: