Rising Sun Indianna

I went to Rising Sun Indianna with my friend Casie last week. We went to visit her grandparents. We stayed at her grandparents farm. It was such a nice and relaxing place. We were both able to forget about our stress and drama for a weeek. Her grandparents were super nice and made me feel welcome in their home. :) While we were in Rising Sun Casie showed me wear she use to live. She also showed me around there. I got to see the Ohio River and on the other side was Kentucky. I thought that was cool when she told me. We had dinner with her dad, step mom and little sister at a Mexican Resturant.

July news

I am sorry I have been a bad blogger. I have been spending time with my soldier before he goes back to Iraq. :( We had a great R&R just hanging out and relaxing and going to some fun places. When he goes back I will post some pics and share some fun things that we did.

July 1- Went to Buffalo Wild Wings for Karaoke.

July 2- We went to Wrightsville Beach

July 3- Karaoke at Firehouse

July 4- Ft Bragg for all the fun festivites and the fireworks.

July 5-Todays my grandmas birthday.

July 11th-CHucks little brother Aaron. Happy birthday buddy.

July 11th-My friend Rhondas baby shower

July 13th-Happy Birthday to my friend Elizabeth.

July 15-Happy Birthday Aunt Debbie

July 20th-Happy Birthday to my friend Meghan

July 31rst- Happy Birthdday to my cousins Chris and Monica.

Ft Bragg NC Fair

The other day I went to the Ft Bragg Fair with my friends Jenn, Lacey and their kids. Laceys hubby also went to. We had a fun time walking around and going on the rides too. We also had some yummy fair snacks too. I had a lemonade and a funnel cake yummy. I didnt play any games this time.

I went on the Ferris wheel twice with my friend and their kids. Then my friend Lacey and I went on the drop ride. It brought us all the way to the top then dropped us. That was fun. I havent been on rides for awhile.

I got a lot of cool pics. I am glad that I had some fun.

May Dates-----

There isnt a lot going on this month but thats ok. June is just around the corner and Chuck will be home for R&R. I cant wait to see my sweetie.


May 1-Happy May Day

May 5-Happy Cinco DeMayo

May 9-Fort Bragg Fair I cant wait to check it out.

May 10-Happy Mothers to the greatest moms my mom and Chucks mom. Also Happy Mothers Day to Chucks grandmas.

May 25-Happy Memorial Day

May 26-Happy Birthday to my cousin Melissa.


Chuck and I are exited our little nephew Donovan is gonna be born this month. We cant wait to meet him.

DeployedSpouseretreat@Myrtle Beach

This is one of my favorite pics of the sun rising over the ocean yesterday. Isnt it cool.

I had a nice Valentines weekend with my friend Jenn and her kids. We went on the deployed spouse retreat it was for all the wives that had hubbies that are deployed. We had a nice time. There was 80 other wives from the units that are with 3rd brigade. It was nice for me we all had ocean view rooms. It was so peaceful watching the ocean from my room. The chaplins were so nice and so helpful too. They had some helpful classes. We also got free time too and that was fun for me and my friend. My friend and her kids went swimming for awhile. Then we went to Broadway By The Beach and walked around and had dinner at Unos. Then yesterday I woke up and got to see the sun rising around 7. I got some awesome pics. I am glad that my camera did a great job.

Some people asked me about it what you do is ask your rear d chaplins if they do anything for the deployed spouses while the hubbies are gone.

Snow Day in NC

North Carolina had a big snow fall this year. We got about 6 inches of snow yuck. I havent saw this much snow here before. I know if Chuck was here he would of loved it. He loves snow. We are both from NY where it snows all the time but to see it here is wierd. I got some pretty pics of it. I just wish that I didnt scratch the lens on my camera when I was doing it. I was trying to protect it from the snow. :( I took some pics after it and they all came out good so hopefully my camera will be okay. :)

January dates for 2009

Happy New Year everyone I hope that its a great year for everyone. This is the year my soldier comes homes yay. My newphew is also gonna be born to. I know that good things will be happening.

Jan 1-Happy 2009

Jan 2-I am still in NY

Jan 3-Go back to Ft Bragg

Jan. 4 Going to see the new Tom Cruise movie with my parents

Jan 5. Its been a month since Chucks been deployed. 11 more months to go.

Going back to Ft Bragg I miss my kitty.

Jan 9- My cousin Katies birthday shes gonna be 21

Jan 18th my parents 35th wedding anniversary

January 29th- My brothers birthday hes gonna be 25

Sharing a christmas picture

Well since I will be back at Ft Bragg on the weekend. I will beable to share more pics and more reviews. Heres one of my favorite pics taken in NY so far of me and my little cousins Danielle and Mitchell. It was taken at my cousin Jims wedding reception infront the Christmas tree at the VFW. Arent they adorible. They make me smile and always have funny stories to share.

My NY trip is going good

I am having a great time in NY. The weeks are going by to fast. I love being with my family and Chucks family too. I didnt to much this time being home since Chuck isnt here I mainly just hungout at my parents house. I am having fun which is good. It warmed up in NY now and all the snow is melted also.

Dec 20th arrived in NY and rested because I was tired

Dec 21rst went to my cousin Jims wedding reception at the VFW. I was happy to beable to celebrate with him and his new wife Kim. I also loved seeing my whole family. I got a lot of cool pics.

Dec 22nd just hungout at home and went to Friendlys for dinner with Liz

Dec 23rd- I helped my dad and my cousin katie decorate my parents house for the Christmas eve

Dec 24th-Christmas eve with my family and then I went to CHucks grandmas house for Christmas Eve and Midnight mass

Dec 25th-Celebrated Christmas day with my family and then went to my aunts house for more Christmas fun

Dec 26th-I just hungout at my parents house with Liz

Dec 27th-Went to my sister inlaws babyshower and then Kareaoke with my friend Liz and my brother in law Chris

Dec 28th Old Navy shopping

Dec 29th-just hungout at home

Dec 30th- going to Team Trivia with my friends and out for dinner

Dec 31rst gonna celebrate New Years Eve at my parents house because I dont want to go out with all the drinking

Merry Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve everyone. I hope that everyone has a great day with your family and friends. I miss my wonderful soldier this Christmas. The only thing I want for Christmas this year is for him to be home safe next year. I am having a Christmas Eve party with my family and then tonight I am going to Chucks grandmas house for a another Christmas eve party. Then tonight my friend Liz and I are going to Midngiht mass.

Love
Amy

Congratulations to my cousin Jim and his new wife Kim

Congratulations to my cousin Jim and his new wife Kim. They got married married in Neveda last week. They came back to NY to visit and my aunt had a wonderful wedding reception for them today at the VFW since my cousin is in the Airforce. It was a nice turn out for them. I got some great pics to. I love weddings and especially receptions. It was a Kareoke wedding it was fun watching everyone sing. When I get back home next week I will post pics for everyone to see from my trip.

3rd Brigade Christmas Party

Today my friend Casie and I went to the the Christmas party for our unit. At first I didnt want to go because it was mainly for the kids but I am glad that I did. It was fun. The 82nd Airborne Choir came and sang Christmas songs and a couple of their other ones. They did a great job. I was kind of faraway but I was able to get a pic of them. Then they they had food every unit was assigned to bring a dish. Ours was the store bought deserts so I brought christmas tree cookies. We met up with my other friend and her kids and we all ate together and the kids sat on Santas lap. It was fun. I was watching some of the kids up there and a lot of them were afraid of him. Then some guys walked around and gave everyone gifts. Some got books and some got notebooks. Casie and I got blue notebooks. At first I thought the gift was silly but lately I have been forgetful so I am glad that I have it. I have it in my purse.

Operation At Ease

Standing by the sign that the sweet lady made for Chuck and Jeff.

Operation At Ease was something that these people set up for the miltary and their families. We got to stay in a really nice condo with our friends Jeanette and Jeff for the weekend. It was a free and we got to golf, swim and cayack. We got to eat breakfast for free on Saturday and Sunday at Surfers. The food was pretty good. We got to see the sights around St James plantation and then around Southport. It was right by the ocean and it was so pretty. Our condo was really nice. The lady that showed us around gave us a tour and made a sign for Chuck and Jeff. Her son use to be in the Marines so she was so apprecative of the miltiary. The weather wasnt that cooperative but we made the best of it.

Friday we got there and it was sunny so we got to take pics and we saw Twilight since it was free.

Saturday it rained but we took the car over on the ferry to Ft Fisher. We went to the NC Aquarium. It wasnt that big in there but still neat to see. Then we went around town and saw all the neat stores. We went to a really nice Christmas store. I loved it and I wished that we could of taken pics. I got a few pics on the outside but it was rainy and I didnt want to ruin my camera.

Sunday was our last day and we ate breakfast and then went to Caswell Beach and got some pics and walked up and down it. Then we headed home. We had a fun day.

It was a nice and relaxing weekend. I want to share all my pics with you guys. Does anyone know how to share a slide show on blogger.

December Dates

Well this isnt gonna be a busy month but theres a few dates that are coming up. This is also the month that Chuck is leaving we got the date and day. I cant post on here but when he leaves I will let everyone knows.

Dec 1-Hangingout with our friend Casie and getting errands and done and stuff before he deploys. We also got the Pedi Paws but Sabrina dosent like it. So hopefully we can use it on her. Chuck got excited when he saw it at walmart today.

December 2-Chucks got CQ

December 5-

December 10-My moms and Chucks Dads birthday.

December 16th-Going back to NY this week before Christmas

December 24th-Christmas Eve

December 25th- Merry Christmas everyone

December 27th-My sister in law Cassandras baby shower at her moms house in NY

December 31rst- New Years Eve

Hobbies

Everyone has hobbies and things they do to keep them busy while their soldiers are deployed or just for fun. I was thinking of somethings to do while Chuck is gone. Hes leaving real soon but I can't say because of opsec. I was thinking of getting in to photography since I love to take pictures. I have a good camera but I want a DSRL one. I saw a few on amazon that I like and arent priced badly. I am also gonna start scrapbooking again and make beaded jewerly. One of my friends do that and she said that its fun. I hope that I can stick with all of them because I know it will be fun. I also want to start crocheting again because that will be fun.

November Dates

This is gonna be a sad month because Chuck is leaving I kind of know the date but they could change it again. So I am not gonna post anything anyways because of not knowing and opsec.

1 Nov- Going to our friends party today

2 Nov- 7 year anniversary pics at Sears. This will be the last time for awhile for pics with Chuck since hes leaving soon. :(

3. Nov-Chucks got a day off so we might go to the park and walk around

4 Nov- Election Day

6 Nov- Chucks court date fingers crossed for good news

7th-10th- Chucks got a 4 day for Veterens Day weekend.

7th, 8th gonna go to Wrightsville

10th Nov- Our Happy 7 year anniversary :)

27th Nov-Happy Thanksgiving Day

Happy Birthday Jeanette

28th Nov-Black Friday shopping

Competion for Karaoke

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween I hope that everyone has a fun and safe day. Chuck had a half day today so we are just gonna go to Halloween party/Going away party for him. My friend Jeanette is gonna throw it for him. Shes a sweet friend. :) Chucks gonna look for our Halloween costumes in the garage to. If we can find them I will post a pic. Everyone will get a big laugh when they see them.

Hugs,

Amy

Chucks birthday pics :)

Chuck and I had a great time on his birthday we went to Applebees and then we did a little bit of shopping and then came home and had cake. It was great to beable to celebrate his 34th birthday with him. For his birthday he got the Wii Fit for our Wii and we both love it. Its a lot of fun and hopefully it will help us both get in shape. He wanted the Wii sports to but we arent having any luck finding it. I know that you get the game with the new one but we got a used one while in NY and it didnt have that game. :(

Marriage Retreat @ Myrtle Beach

Chuck and I went on a Marriage Retreat this weekend. Chucks units Chaplins had it for us. It was really nice we got to learn about the 5 love languages. We learned about the 5 love languages a few years ago but it was great to talk about it with him. We learned what both of ours was and to fill each other love tanks up. There was 5 Chaplins and each one of them talked about their love language and what works for them and their wives. We got to meet other couples to and all of us getting ready for the brigade deployment coming up next mont. I enjoyed this time very much with CHuck and he enjoyed it to.

We stayed at the Ocean Dunes and our room was paid for and 3 of our meals to. We had a Ocean view from our room which was really pretty. When we werent doing the classes we got to spend time and have fun with each other.

On Friday night after the class we went to the hotel bar Mangos and Chuck sang Kareoke. He sang I cant help falling in love and I cross my heart. He was being a sweetheart to me.

On Saturday after the classes we had a whole day to be with each other was really nice. We went to Broadway By The Beach and walked around the boardwalk and th en we went to Medevil Times for a dinner and a show. We had so much fun watching it and eating the yummy food to. We definitely want to go back again. Then we got back to the hotel and Chuck sang Kareoke again.

On Sunday Morning we did a few pic from our deck again since it was sunny and then we went and did the class. After the class we were released in the morning and we went to Barefoot Landing and had lunch at Joes Crab Shack and did some shopping. Then we drove home. We had so much fun this weekend.

We took a lot of pics from there to. I dont want to bore everyone so if you want to see them you can check out myspace of facebook if you have me. Or if you want to add me you can. :)

Our NY adventure

Chuck and I had a great time when we were in NY. It was fun hangingout with our family and friends. We got to shop which we loved because it was tax free on clothes and shoes which is cool. I wish that it was like here in NC. We played Wii with my brother Joe and our friends, Liz and Scott and my brother in law Chris to. After playing Wii Chuck loved it so we actually found one while we were in NY. It was one that was traded in at Gamestop but it was still cool and worked.

We also played team trivia at Flashbacks and Anatellos with Scott, Liz and Chris. It was fun playing trivia even know we didnt know some of the questions. I actually got one question right and I got excited. It was who wrote the book My Life and I said Bill Clinton. I got lots of cool pics at Flashbacks they had some neat stuff there. Anatellos was a Italian resturant.

We also got to eat at yummy resturant called Tullys with Chucks parents and our friends. We also went to Jonathons for Kareoke. I dont sing but Chuck and his brother Chris love to sing. It was fun watching them sing. I cant carry a tune but I sing when I am home cleaning, in the car and in the shower to. LOL

My parents also took us out for dinner to Consols which was really yummy Italian food. We had a great time hanging out with them.

We got to spend time with Chucks grandmas. We went out for lunch with Grandma Fertig to a little diner by her house. The food was yummy there. Then we went to Phills Chicken house for dinner with his grandma Hranek. We had a great time being with both of them.

Then our last weekend in NY we went to Wine Country with our parents. We had a lot of fun going to the different vineyards and trying different wines. Then in the evening we went to Chucks Aunt Nancy and Uncle Garys to hangout.

We also got to spend time with my little cousin Danielle, Mitchell and Samantha. They came over to my moms house and we did crafts with them. They were so cute and said silly things.

My parents through a party for Chuck at the VFW for him deploying soon and for his 34th birthday coming up this week. It was such a nice turn out for him. My family and his family were both there. It was wonderful spending time with all of them. We miss them all.

To top off our vacation we got to hold my new baby cousin Ylaena. She was so cute and only 1 month old. I love babys.

Since I took so many pics while I was home I will just put up one for now and some other ones this week.