snapshots of our life.

gotta girl doctor appointment tomorrow…blah. i’m gonna wait up another hour and hope craig calls. if he calls when i’m sleeping we spend half of our conversation trying to wake me up so i am coherent enough to talk. haha.

i got home from anna and josh’s about an hour ago. we ate dinner over there. and i don’t think i’ve laughed that hard in awhile. i learned some new things and saw some things tonight that i can say i had never seen before. haha.

• reenactment of josh’s miami vice night
• matty’s high pitched giggle
• forever pointing at beth when i laugh at her
• “kristen if you don’t want to see anything, you better close your eyes now”
• farmer and the dale classes at the brown household. apparently a duck doesn’t “quack”.
• boxers or briefs?
• “i think the oven’s on”, “yeah its on preheat.” (i may not know how to cook but one thing i do know to do is turn it off!)

thank god for good friends. i totally need tonight.

i’m out. night!

12 weeks.
sounds a lot sooner than 3 months.
12 more weeks.
that’s all.
we can push through 12 weeks.
what’s 12 weeks compared to the 40 that he’s already been gone?

12 weeks.
sounds a lot sooner than 3 months.
12 more weeks.
that’s all.
we can push through 12 weeks.
what’s 12 weeks compared to the 40 that he’s already been gone?

josh brown, husband to anna cook brown asked me a few years back what my happy thought was. and when i told him i didn’t have one, he told me everyone had to have a happy thought. it stuck with me and i thought and thought and thought. one day, driving in my car, it hit me. and i called anna and josh both while they were on vacation to tell them i had found my happy thought.

it doesn’t matter where i am, what i’m going through, if i’m having the worst possible day, if i see this 99% of the time chills come over me and i am fine. it reminds me of God. i know He is always there, but when I see this its just a different kind of feeling that comes over me. just complete peace.

craig sent me these pictures this morning. my happy thought exists in iraq too. and my sweet fiance’ thought to take these pictures. i think its God’s way of telling us everything is going to be ok.

josh brown, husband to anna cook brown asked me a few years back what my happy thought was. and when i told him i didn’t have one, he told me everyone had to have a happy thought. it stuck with me and i thought and thought and thought. one day, driving in my car, it hit me. and i called anna and josh both while they were on vacation to tell them i had found my happy thought.

it doesn’t matter where i am, what i’m going through, if i’m having the worst possible day, if i see this 99% of the time chills come over me and i am fine. it reminds me of God. i know He is always there, but when I see this its just a different kind of feeling that comes over me. just complete peace.

craig sent me these pictures this morning. my happy thought exists in iraq too. and my sweet fiance’ thought to take these pictures. i think its God’s way of telling us everything is going to be ok.

“You know a dream is like a river,
Ever changing as it flows.
And the dreamers just a vessel
that must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what’s behind you,
and never knowing what’s in store,
makes each day a constant battle
just to stay between the shore.”

I had a package today waiting on my door step. He’s sending me packages from Iraq. I love him, I really do. I bet you’re curious what it was aren’t you? He sent me a beige really soft blanket. He left his tiger one behind for me to cuddle with while he’s gone. And lets face it, tigers don’t exactly go with my decor. So he bought me a beige one and sent it to me to match my room better, how sweet is that?

Anytime he does something like its always at a time when I need it most. This week has been tough. I miss him so much. I’m anxious. 3 months. My friend Annie is already getting dates. She has her FRG (family readiness group) meeting November 1st and they are talking about return dates. I can’t believe its almost here. But I am ancy and anxious all at the same time. I need something to get my mind off of it for the next 3 months. I looked into a photography class through Gwinnett County Community School, but I missed the deadline. Dang it. I gotta find something. I guess the holidays are going to help tons. But they are going to make me miss him even more.

After tomorrow I will have 62.5 more hours for my internship. Can’t believe I will be graduating in less than 2 months. Wow.

Ok, I gotta get to bed. I get an extra hour to sleep tomorrow though. Life is good.

“You know a dream is like a river,
Ever changing as it flows.
And the dreamers just a vessel
that must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what’s behind you,
and never knowing what’s in store,
makes each day a constant battle
just to stay between the shore.”

I had a package today waiting on my door step. He’s sending me packages from Iraq. I love him, I really do. I bet you’re curious what it was aren’t you? He sent me a beige really soft blanket. He left his tiger one behind for me to cuddle with while he’s gone. And lets face it, tigers don’t exactly go with my decor. So he bought me a beige one and sent it to me to match my room better, how sweet is that?

Anytime he does something like its always at a time when I need it most. This week has been tough. I miss him so much. I’m anxious. 3 months. My friend Annie is already getting dates. She has her FRG (family readiness group) meeting November 1st and they are talking about return dates. I can’t believe its almost here. But I am ancy and anxious all at the same time. I need something to get my mind off of it for the next 3 months. I looked into a photography class through Gwinnett County Community School, but I missed the deadline. Dang it. I gotta find something. I guess the holidays are going to help tons. But they are going to make me miss him even more.

After tomorrow I will have 62.5 more hours for my internship. Can’t believe I will be graduating in less than 2 months. Wow.

Ok, I gotta get to bed. I get an extra hour to sleep tomorrow though. Life is good.

it was gorgeous. and she was beautiful here are some of the pictures. i took plenty

it was gorgeous. and she was beautiful here are some of the pictures. i took plenty