Lovin Texas!

Well we made it!!! We are now oficially Texans, Tim for the first time, but for me my heart has always been in Texas! I love it here in Fort Worth! We have been having so much fun together and just exploring the area... and its beautiful! Tim and I are planning on him finishing his two years that he has left and then settling in somewhere here in texas not sure where yet, but who cares as long as it's in texas! hehe!

The next couple months are going to be INSANELY jammed packed with to-do's!!! I am ready to face them all full force and mark them off one by one! Next weekend I will be venturing to Houston for a full weekend. My sis and I have big shopping plans... lots to decide on for the baby shower! Then on sunday the 8th I will be taking Alyssa (oldest neice) to see the Jonas Brothers, wow talk about one excited 12 year old, I think it may have been her best bday gift yet! Then on March 13 my BFF is coming to Fort Worth to visit and I cant wait to see her and her husband! We are sending Eli to the hockey game with tim while Shawnna and I do baby stuff (yes everyone is pregnant lol, except me lol). Then Dan and Carin will be coming home from Iraq and Tim is so excited to see his brother. Then in April I have my moms Graduation (getting her Masters in Nursing heck yea!) we are all so proud of her... the day after that is my sis baby shower! Finally in May we will get to meet little Robbie (Robert Chapman Black) I am sooooooo excited to meet him! See told ya it was a long list lol.

Other than that there really isnt much going on in my life... so i wont continue to bore you!!! look soon and i might have something interesting to say lol!

Insomnia!

Again here I sit, wishing I was in bed but unable to go to sleep no matter how hard I try. I don't know if it's stress or my chaotic sleep/wake schedule, but something has got to give! Why is it that men can get into bed and as soon as thier head hits the pillow they're out, but women, our head hits the pillow and every thought in the world starts running through our head! It's times like this, and when I'm out without a bathroom near by, that I wish I were male... they have it so much easier than they think! I have finally stopped even trying, instead I sit up with a delicious glass of wine and watch Sex and The City or HGTV... wow what a combo lol!

On another, lighter, note Tim and I will hopefully be on our way to Texas Friday :)!! I am so excited.. so excited to see everyone... so excited for the holiday!! I can't wait to get home and spend time with my amazing sister... we have never been more close than we are now, and i am loving and cherishing every moment of it! Family has always been so important to me. I have always been pretty close with my brother who is closest in age to me but my older brother and sister have such a gap between us, relationships never seem to fit. I always looked up to my sister, she was always an inspiration to me, but we never clicked in the past. Now, that she is 33 and I'm 23 for some reason about 3 years ago it just clocked... it just happend! I am so thankful for my family, so thankful that they are my support system and i know no matter what... right or wrong... if i need them they're there! (sorry i know i went a little off track there)!

I wish everyone a happy holiday... i will try to blog again soon! <3>

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas!

Well it's that time of year again! The time of year where we all put ourselves on the back burner to think about others as well as the meaning of Christmas. It is amazing to me that 2008 is about to come to a close. In many ways it feels as if the year has just begun! As we enter the new year I can't help but recall all the pages I have added this year to my scrapbook of life! It has been an amazing year! Tim and I will be celebrating our 3rd anniversary soon and it feels like it's only the 1st! I guess that's a good thing :)!

Now for the update! Tim and I are doing great... we had the pleasure of venturing back home to Texas for what we thought would be a wonderful Thanksgiving! Unfortunately 2 days after Thanksgiving we had to take mom to the hospital! Apparently her heart had gone into AFib (in other words beating crazily) for no reason! Luckily after an ecg and stress test they discovered her heart would be ok, however, she was disgnosed with Diabetes... she took it very hard! How could the most health concious person I know have something to this degree wrong?!? We all know mom will learn to live with this and will take care of herself and will probably only have to be on a pill and never insulin... but it got me thinking! Having already been diagnosed with Hypothyroidism, this new family diagnosis just hit me with one more predisposition to contracting Diabetes... not good! So I will put it out there for the world so that I have no choice but to keep my word... My New Years resolution is to lose 40lbs! I know I can do it... but i appreciate any support!!!

After that shocking weekend... Tim and I headed to Fort Worth for a couple days to look at housing. I was ecstatic! I had never been to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and it was just one more part of my home state that I couldnt wait to explore! We stayed with some friends already stationed there and spent the two days apartment searching and eating a yummy resturants! I LOVED the area and to my amazment so did my Minnesotan husband :)! Fort Worth has this unique old small town feel to it eventhough its a big city! Tim and I found a very nice place and put our deposit down and will be moving in on January 15!!! We are right in between all the shopping and resturant and only 10 minutes from the Stockyards and Base... but the apartment is nestled in a nice shady quiet street! Oh and it has a Wood Burning Fire Place :)!! I can not wait!

I recently stopped working as a substitute teacher, i love it but it was time for me to stop so that i could get everything ready for the big move! Who knew it would be this difficult! Tim is still with 74, we detach on January 9th so we are also dealing with getting all the Navy check off lists taken care of! We are leaving December 22-29 to spend Christmas in Texas... I'm so happy! So really we only have about 2 weeks of time left here in MS!

Well I want to wish each and every one of you a VERY Merry Christmas and a Wonderful 2009!

Time Flies when your hubby is home!

so maybe i haven't blogged in a couple months... don't judge me lol!

Tim returned home safely and without any bumps or bruises, just a slight increase in the abdominal region... meanin a beer gut, however, if i was in the bahamas i would build one also lol!

Tim and I now live with Laura, her hubby is gone and we both love each others company so when our lease was up instead of me moving back to texas and tim living in the barracks until january, laura took us in! i love her for it

Things havent been going good on the baby front.... Still not pregnant. However, I have decided its ok, it will happen when God knows we are good and ready, and we probably arent at this point so we will play it out and see what happens in the future.

I cut my hair off... it looks pretty awesome! and its about ten times easier to deal with!

Friday was my 23rd birthday, it was the best one yet i believe! Ok maybe the chuck e cheese bday when i was younger has it beat but you get the idea. I gave timothy a 75 dollar spending limit on my bday (we still have bills and i wanted some to put in savings) needless to say he added a hundred to that because apparently whatever i write on my list he has to buy... everything! Him and Laura went out last week for 3 hours and got me all kinds of awesome gifts (my fav being my new saweeeet purse) and while they were out they thought it would be fun to plan an embarrassing moment involving a bday cake with trick sparking candles at my favorite resturant! So friday night as i tried blowing them out (after being embarrassed infront of all the other people trying to eat at longhorn) sparks flew everywhere, i believe cook (a friend of ours) almost lost his balls! it was quite an extravaganza! Then we headed to guitars and cadillacs the new country bar in town,,, and after getting a little toasty there we ventured to our usual hole in the wall... BOONES TAVERN, if that doesnt sound country i dont know what does... i had a blast we LOVE boones! The usual crowd was there including nate, the one who always teases me for loving the horns cause he is an aggie fan... guess what it was HIS bday also quite amusing! [o we fight about horns/aggies every weekend but its a love hate relationship. (pic above). I dont remember who drove us home, i assume Hardy he was the only sober one... it was nice to drink for once i am ALWAYS the DD i have drank since MARCH! it was a great bday!

well i am signing off now... going to TEXAS to see the family for thanksgiving and then up to fort worth to hopefully find housing for when we move next month! yay!

sleep is for the weak!

i have been awake since about 8 this morning and its now almost midnight... i went to bed at 10 with my hubby with the honest intentions of getting some sleep... obviously that didnt happen! I layed there and stared into space as my mind raced about a million miles a minute, finally, i gave up and decided to blog out my agression! This no sleep thing is becoming a habit... i cant seem to sleep at night, its almost as if my body thinks its absolutly halarious! So i have decided to make myself feel better by telling myself... "sleep is for the weak"! Maybe that will work? maybe not? guess we will see lol!

Yesterday I finally got tired of just staying home all day and cleaning or watching tv... i got to the point where i felt as if i merely existed in the world and like i was serving no purpose! My original plan was to take this fall off, off work and off school, since we are moving in 3 months, well... i couldnt take it anymore. So yesterday I went to Kelly Services to try and get on with the school district as a sub and i have an interview next wednesday :) i am super excited so keep your fingers crossed and me in your prayers! It would be an awesome job, monday through friday 8-4 and you dont have to work if you dont want to... however, this could be bad for me to get used to lol!

In the midst of all of this crazyness, i started to think, which really is never good with me. I felt as if i was merely existing so getting a job was the solution... but then what purpose would i be serving?? It doesnt seem like it would change my outlook much except that maybe i wouldnt be bored... So now i just cant wait to go back to school get my degree and start doing something that might make a difference in a childs life!

Well, i am going to try yet again to get some sleep... if anyone has any suggestions on help sleeping without pills let me know! lol! love you all!

happiness & misery

well having my husband home has been amazing... we haven't done much, spent time with family and just been hanging out together at home... but none the less its been absolutely amazing! However, it never seems that you can been overwhelming happy without having something come along that brings you down. Last week my mouth start hurting, i knew it had something to do with these darn wisdom teeth, and it just intensified monday and tuesday until finally on wednesday morning i had tim come home from work and take me to the ER (my dental insurance doesnt kick in for 15 more days)... all i was expecting was some pain meds to get me by until the pain lessened or i could get in to the dentist... well they decided to send me to dental on base. Did i mention i am not a fan of military doctors?? So tim and i sat there for 3 1/2 hours waiting to get in as i was in excritiating pain. Finally i saw the doc and got an xray... turns out he says it was my top wisdom tooth had come in and was irritating my bottom gums so he pulled it... yep RIGHT THERE... it was crazy but the numbness felt amazing lol... however the doc is crazy and i am still in pain bc it is my BOTTOM one coming in... i am like a toothing baby... and hoping that it comes in soon so the pain will stop since i dont go to the dentist until october to get my other three cut out... this has all been so annoying because i have NEVER had teeth problems... i had one small cavity when i was younger thats it!

Well i have vented and im sure no one cared about my mouth lol... well i hope all is well with everyone!!

Its been a while!

hey everyone! I know it has been absolutely FOREVER since i posted so i figured i should give an update on all things shauna! As most of you know TIM IS HOME!! yep he got home on the 6th! I am so happy to have him back! The little ones left to head back to texas on friday :( i sure do miss those little boogers! Since Tim got back i have been busy searching online for a house in fort worth area for when we move in december... We are hoping to rent a house or duplex with a fenced in backyard for the dogs... it will make things so much easier! Also, we have been busy trying to make babies lol! PRAY that it happens... i have been praying about it everyday and i hope it happens soon!

In other news, tim has decided to start a construction management program when we get to fort worth and i will start at utdallas for child deveolpment and behavior in hopes of graduating with a bachelors and a teaching certificate within 3 years, hopefully if i get preggo i will deliver in the summer so it wont interrupt my schooling, but we will cross that bridge when we get there, however, i do vow to finish my degree as quickly as possible and tim should graduate in about 3 years... eventhough we can afford a baby, we also want to be able to give our children an awesome life!

well guys thats basically whats happening in my world... everything is going well! i hope all is well with everyone!!! ill post again soon... promise!