Is it already 2013?!

So it has been quite a while since I have been able to just take some time and blog!! 

There is so much new in my life! Where to start? Well Cody is HOME! he came home in August and has been since then! It is my first deployment with him and man was it hard.

 I thought time would fly by and I wouldn't even miss him but man was it the opposite. Since being over here in Germany he is on a 6 month rotation were you are home for 6 and then leave for 6 he would be due to leave BUT he just got an awesome job where he will not be deploying for a whole other year! He is the 596th Vehicle NCO!! At the moment he has a lot to take care of and change but hopefully soon he will be working 9-5, its nuts! 

With that being said, I am currently on a new schedule.... working from 6-6. WOOF, it is rough. Our clinic is currently under renovation and we have half the rooms we use to so we have to have shift work. There is a 6-12 , 12-6 and then mine which is 6-6 with every other friday off. Now the friday seems nice but once you have worked 12 hours almost two weeks straight you don't want to do anything but sleep anyway! So that is pretty much the main reason I have not gotten the chance to blog. 

Also what take my time up is the fact that I have been training to run the AF marathon! 

My friend Kala and I have been training for a few months now and running our butts off! 

Lets see what else? Oh we got a puppy!!! 

Well Cody got her. She is a full German Rottweiler. I am such a dog person but a rotty was always a dog that I told myself I would never get. Only because when I was little my neighbors had one and he shed so much constantly smelled the whole house up and was just mean. 

Yara on the other hand is not. I looked up ways to help her shed less and he have been giving her vitamins in her food to do so. She also takes some for her smell too. 

So she smells good she doesn't shed much and man is she a dope. I don't know what it is but all of my dogs always seem to have silly personalities. So she is growing on me. Although no dog will ever be as good as Dozer:(

As for traveling we haven't done much due to our schedule's, but what we have done has been a blast!

We went to THE REAL beerfest in Munich. Went to Edelweiss, which is outstanding. 

We have gone to Cologne which was very beautiful and relaxing.

I think that so much for our bigger trips. We still don't have our passports so its been all things we can drive to. 

My house is pretty much all finished now, except for hanging some pictures on the wall. But I am very happy with what we have made here. We miss home very very much so what ever little country twirks we can do, we jump on them! We havent been to the states in over a year and want to go very bad. We are coming home for a friends wedding in August and hopefully before then! But as of right now were stuck in Germany! 

Thats all I have for now but hopefully on these fridays that I have off I will be doing much more blogging!!!!

Reaally over this Deployment.

       So once agian I am the worst blogger ever and haven't even touched a blog in months, but for a good reason!Since my last blog a lot in my life has happened! For one we all know my husband is supposed to be here in a few days but of course the wonderful military extended him so it will be just a little longer, on a happier note I have been traveling quite a bit and expanding my skills when it comes to my job. My wonderful doctor just gave birth to an amazing little boy so she has been out of the office for a few weeks and since with out her I can't do much back in orthodontics I took a course to learn how to clean teeth and well ever since i've been doing just that! I enjoy it some days and others I DO NOT. It's very rewarding especially when a lot of the young kids in the Air Force have never even seen a dentist or received a cleaning! Knowing that I can do something so simple to brighten there day is pretty awesome but then there are the people that come in with some NASTY mouths, I clean them and then they walk outside and smoke a cigarette. Probably the most frustrating feeling in the world.

           As for life outside of work, its going great! My rugby team is doing some amazing work! We have recently went to France and Düsseldorf and next weekend Switzerland to play other girls. It really is an amazing experience. I played beach rugby for the first time in Luxembourg and man was it the hardest thing of my life! With all this traveling to play it has made me step out of my bubble of not traveling without my man which i find is helping the whole lonely thing! Also I have been quite the little nester,I've have been decorating and cleaning like crazy! My husbands man cave is almost totally complete! I still haven't gotten a bed set but I am waiting for the perfect one:) ANNNND I just bought tickets to Lady A for when my husband gets home...AHHHHHH. I am sooo excited!!!! He and I haven't ever been to a concert together so this should be LOADS of fun!! 

          I have been keeping in much better contact with my sister niece and nephew which makes me quite the happy camper. We Skype at least 4 times a week:) makes me forget I'm away from them so much! I put on SrA on in December and really need to step up my game if i want to make AOM or quarterly awards. I have been volunteering like crazy and trying to keep my life together as del which is  a struggle but it will all work out in the end! Speaking of getting my life together I am going to pack my lunch, so I'll upload some pics of what I have of the house so far and then get to bed! Thanks for following everyone:):)These pictures were taken at like 10 pm sorry everything looks so dark!

 My Husbands man Cave Sneak Peak!

 Counter/Bar

 Sink( those dishes are clean!!)

 Oven(german size)

 Living room

 Bathroom

Laundry room(really hard to catch how cute it is due to the

angles of the walls and how big my computer is!)

     

Its already March?!

Time has seriously flew by these past four months! I think it's because I have been doing a great job at keeping my self busy and my husband being gone off my mind. I get to work super early so that I can set up both of my rooms and have time to email my husband. Then I work non-stop all day. After work Mon,Wed, and Fri I work out with a girl who has become my good friend here, April and only Tues and Thurs her and I go to rugby. For those of you who don't know me I am a huge fan of rugby and have been since i started playing almost three years ago. I was introduced to the sport in Tucson and have loved it ever since. Unfortunately towards the end of my last season I broke a few ribs in a tournament and was out for quite a while. Then I PCS'ed here and didn't think I was going to play again until i saw my friend Caitlin. She is a Capt. who I played with back in tucson, she also PCS'ed here and started the women's team, so I'm back to playing! It takes a lot of my time up and makes things so much easier on me! Since being ill the past year if my life with my stomach problems i have put on ALOT of weight and need to get rid of it and doing all of this is definitely helping! I'm eating healthy and just getting my hunger for the gym back so I'm on a great road there!
          Even though I have been here for almost 6 months I have not done any traveling, I am still very hesitant to go anywhere with out Cody, which I think is understandable! But i did run across a marathon called tough mudder and it is being held in Scottland in July and I just signed up for it so that will be my first trip! I am pretty excited. As for everything else in life at the moment, its pretty good. I miss my roommate Trish (and Lily) SO much its so weird waking up and not seeing them :( but the bright side is that I did my dream sheet the other day and put DM back on there, it would be great to go back and meet up with them again!Trish has been an amazing friend since the day i met her and i really don't think i will be able to say that about any one else in my life, as bad as it sounds. Anyways work is great, my house is slowly getting there and theres only 105 days until my man's home so all together, GREAT.
     I didn't write much today but it's late and i have work in the morning so ill write again soon!

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a good holiday! Mine was great, nothing more i could have possibly asked for! I was with my Beautiful baby niece and nephew, my family and my amazing husband:) Since Cody hasn't been back to my home town any time prior to that my Dad thought it was necessary  to bring him to every family member in the Tri-state area haha. I was so nervous when he told me how many people he was going to have to meet, but it turned out very well! Everyone in my family seriously loved him, and they are the type of people that don't get impressed very easy. Im talking Italian very self spoken people so it was sup rising but so happy at the same time. Among all the family i drug him out to meet my extended family my amazing group of friends. I only brought him to people i actually care about and I know that do the same to myself. There were only a few but again he got along with with everyone, he fit in so well. One of my best friends Kayla's husband and him were inseparable it was so funny. Now he wants to go back just to see his"hun" hahahaha. They went out shooting and being men while me and Kayy and Alyssa hung out with her beautiful baby boy Caeden,who by the way crawled for the first time ever while I was visiting!! He met all my Babies Delsa and Alyssa and then realized I wasn't lying when I was the tallest of my friends, told ya! It was really the time of my life, I was just so thankful. My husband and myself have never had so much time together to just enjoy each other because we are both always working and It made me realize that we seriously need to do it more. Being with him everyday for two weeks not worrying about work or anything that goes along with it was so nice. I couldn't have been any happier. If anyone knows me they know that i look up to my dad so much even though me and him butt heads like crazy he is really my hero, he has been my concrete stability for so long and I couldn't ask for a better dad so when Cody met him It was really important considering they were two men in my life that mean the world to me. It was nothing like I thought it would be my dad seriously took right to him as soon as meeting him they kicked it off so well talking man stuff and sharing knives and everything else you could imagine, my dad has never really done well with boyfriends but Cody was just different. My dad came up to me as and told me how he was so glad he didn't have to worry about me any more and was so proud that i found a good guy, talk about waterfalls! I was just so happy, after that he told me that the two of them made plans to travel and just do things together which i loved! 

With Cody being from Arizona were it is hot all year I was real looking forward to showing him fun in the snow, unfortunately it wasn't snowing:( but i managed to bring him snow tubing!! He was kinda miserable for the first hour but then he warmed up to it, who couldn't its so fun!! I took him to get my favorite breakfast sandwiches and franks pizza! He went to Lys's family party with me and that was fun, Alyssas Grandpa is like obsessed with telling stories and cody wasn't aware of the grab and go procedure so he got sucked into telling war stories and all of that good stuff,silly boy! He didn't get to meet Ashtan which I was upset about but there will be a next time. 

As for myself Orthodontics is going so well I really love it. I do so much on my own its so much more rewarding  then general dentistry. My house is slowly coming together and I warming up to Germany. I just can't wait for Cody to get home, it killing me. I miss him more then I did before. I feel so bad for him because he is stuck living in terrible quarters and so cold all the time. He is such a trooper. We Skype almost everyday, with out that I'd surely die. He is my everything!! I take my Final CDC test at the end of this month and I am really nervous!! hopefully I do well, wish me luck!! 

Thats all for now, I left my camera at my dads so i don't have many pictures but ill post a few of what i do have! Happy New Years!

Things are getting a Little better.

So I've been here about three weeks now and I have to admit things are getting a lot better. I owe it all to my good friends Luke and Kara though. They have made things so much easier on me, wether it be letting me stay at there house or forcing me out of the house they put my mind at ease! I use to hang out with them in tech school and as soon as I got here it was like we never parted everything was the same. Kara was in my basic flight and also My roommate in Tech school. Lets just say Im very thankful to have them. On another note, I got the keys to my Apartment on base today! I was so excited I can't wait to decorate and finally have a place I can call my own!! Tomorrow I move out of my house and I am extremely excited to get out of there that place does nothing but scare the bajeebus out of me! I am getting so close to going back to the states to visit my family and be with my husband and I CANNOT WAIT. This past weekend I went to the "K-Club" with Luke and Kara and there friend Scott and man was it terrible, not the club its self but the fact that everyone and everything reminded me of Cody. I kept double taking and it just made me miserable! I just know not to do that!! When i get into my apartment Ill make sure to post pictures but at the moment I don't really have anything so I'm staying with Luke and Kara, I just wanted to keep you posted. Ill most likely post again after I get back Happy Holidays!!!

I miss you.

Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. A good marriage must be created. In the Art of Marriage, the little things are the big things. It is never being too old to hold hands. It is remembering to say ‘I love you’ at least once a day. It is never going to sleep angry. It is at no time taking the other for granted; the courtship should not end with the honeymoon; it should continue through all the years. It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives. It is standing together facing the world. It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family. It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy. It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways. It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have the wings of an angel. It is not looking for perfection in each other. It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor. It is having the capacity to forgive and forget. It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow. It is finding rooms for things of the spirit. It is a common search for the good and the beautiful. It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and obligation is reciprocal. It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner your my partner for life no matter how many deployments or separations. I love and miss you Cody Lee Crunelle.

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"Guten Tag"

Well greetings from Germany! I know I've been here for a week now but for that week I have been doing nothing but improcessing, shopping and enjoying my husbands last few days.  Speaking of, I dropped my baby off today at his squadron and gave him is last see you later's before he leaves. I felt kinda silly because i was the only one crying but man i couldn't hold it in. We hugged and kissed and he was walking off and then turned around and ran back for one more, I am going to miss him so so much. On a better note because i really don't want that on my mind at the moment I took some people out of my life that have caused the only problems that I've had recently and doing that has lifted a blanket off my husband and my shoulders for sure. As for Germany.. well as of right now I have to say I am not a fan. Yes its beautiful but it is going to be extremely hard to get use to this culture. Every road sign (including on base) is German, theres round a bouts instead of stop signs, everyone in my town is german, i can't understand anything on menu's. I might just need time but I am definitely not a happy camper. I also am getting rid of my house because with my husband being gone for the next 9 months I am going to be in that huge thing alone..no thanks! Also since it took so long to ship my car I am stuck driving my husbands BMW and let me tell you I SUCK AT DRIVING STICK!!! I stall out everywhere and I'm really just uneasy about driving, its not safe, but i have no choice. I have a walk threw in an apartment thats perfect size on base tomorrow which is awesome because the wait is a month and i got it the next day, I must have some luck! I hope everything with that tomorrow goes well. My husband and I went to the BX this weekend to fight the crowds because we need some necessities for the house but ran into some amazing deals and we wound up getting a 40 inch TV for $299 and apple TV came free! I also got him a pretty sweet new knife and a macbook because he really needed a good laptop for his deployment. Anyways  I have been trying to take pictures of everywhere Ive been going but I'm really terrible at it haha. I do have a few pictures and I will leave you with them! I'll try to keep up on here more that hubby is gone but I can't promise!

These are all the K-town Christmas Shoppes downtown. 

OH! I forgot to mention instead of hot coco they have hot wine, with shots of whiskey...man these people can drink!