Well Hello There!

I know that I have neglected this blog, so again I will try and be better.

I haven't updated this bad boy since January, so let me play a little bit of catch-up for you all...

January

Jesse got rims for Big Black. 

Jesse & I celebrated my birthday at home.

We celebrated this little girl, Sophia's birthday.

We ate these super cute cupcakes.

We celebrated my birthday with friends.

We ate this chocolate & caramel cake. YUM.

We spent time with some of the best people ever.

February

We said goodbye to some friends... 

Well, sorta.

The guys watched the Superbowl...

And we socialized of course;)

We had French toast on the weekend for Valentine's Day.

We had a good Valentine's Day dinner.

We had a good ol' time for Stryker's birthday.

Jesse & I were farewelled from his unit.

March

We celebrated Ashley's birthday at home...

And out;)

We celebrated Renee's birthday...

Ashley & I traveled to Indiana...

And to Ohio.

We BBQ'd a LOT. 

We swam....a LOT.

We celebrated St. Patrick's day...

We celebrated Levi's birthday

We put bunny ears on pugs.

And they loved us for it.

We jumped around a lot.

We let little girls take pictures of us.

We ate blackberry cobbler & ice cream.

April

We went to North Carolina for Easter : )

We also said goodbye to some wonderful friends this month, our friend the Pippy's have moved on to the next chapter, and our friend Ashley finally made her way to Germany.

Hopefully in the upcoming months we will have a trip to Savannah, get a new car {more to come on that one}, see more friends, BBQ some more, my parents will come visit, we're going to Florida, and we {or myself} will be making a trip back up to the midwest again.

So basically, lots more stories and pictures to come!

Also, if you have a Droid or iPhone, download Instagram!  I am on there now, so you can follow me @marissamcadam : )

Have a great week all & happy hump day!

♥

Birthday With the Fam

Here are my photos of the day for the 28th & 29th....And holy crap it's the last day of January today!

Time flies

Well, when your husband isn't deployed.

Anyway, my photos:

January 28th:  Flowers from my husband.  A little late, but beautiful!

January 29th:  Dinner with the Fam

I hope you all had a great weekend, today is the last day of my husband's weekend.  The battalion got their own DONSA and we've been enjoying the extra day.

We relaxed most of friday night, saturday we got ready to have my family over, went out to eat, and had cake and ice cream here.

Oh, and gifts.

Yesterday we had our friends Megan and Jacob over for dinner and a movie at our place.

We saw Red, which was pretty good.

Today we ventured out, Jesse takes over an XO (executive officer) position tomorrow so he's excited and anxious for that.

I will be taking over for the HHC FRG leader.

We bought a small freezer (for home of course) along with a small cheap microwave for Jesse's new office.

We also saw the Chiropractor and did some grocery shopping.

We are having one of Jesse's old soldiers over for dinner tonight.

On the menu:  chicken, carrots, garlic bread, and mashed potatoes.

I'm starving, but trying to keep myself from munching!

I hope you all have a great week, and I will talk more soon!

♥

My 27th Birthday

So, yesterday was my 27th birthday...

(on the 27th of January)

Here is my photo of the day:

My awesome hubby brought me to Starbucks where we got a free drink (thanks to Starbucks reward program), breakfast sandwiches, and a set of four cupcakes.

YUM.

I spent the rest of the day doing some chores and, well, nothing...

But hey it was my birthday.

We did go out for a little dinner, and my husband got off work early.

Tomorrow we'll be doing dinner with the fam

along with cake, ice cream, and gifts.

It'll be a fun night.

Hope you all have an amazing weekend!

♥

Day 18: Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Famin' it up

And Because animals are family too...

♥

Happy Birthday To My Momma

The Family at HG Bistro

Wishing my mother a

Happy Birthday!!

♥

Goodbye January!

I was happy to see this month come, and I am equally happy to see it go.  One month closer.

I am posting a link at the bottom of this blog for January.  If you're on Facebook you probably already saw most of these photos, but if not you can see the rest of them down at the bottom of the page.

Jesse is doing well, nothing new on his front.  He's just trucking along.

I've been busy working and doing stuff for my birthday this weekend.  It's been fun!  Yesterday we went to Duke's Chowder House down on the Tacoma waterfront, came home, opened gifts, and had cake with ice cream.  I rounded the night out by talking to Jesse and that was about it.

I agreed to be involved in a "Mock Dining In" taking place on post.  I think that it should be both fun and interesting, I will try and take pictures to give everyone an idea of things that take place.  I have been to a "dining out" so I'm not completely sure what goes into a dining in....Especially with my husband not being around much to be able to answer a lot of those types of questions.  He is encouraging though, wanting me to do all that I can to be involved.

Wow I miss that boy.

Have a great week everyone!

January 2010

Happy Birthday to Me

Birthday "cake" for today.

Yes today is my birthday.  I am 26 today.  If I ever think I'm getting old....I'll just remember that Jesse turns 28 this year.  Yep, that makes me feel better.

Other than that, I had a great start to today.  I got to talk to my husband for a while, and got a delivery of flowers for my birthday:  A combination of tulips and irises.  I will take a photo of that when the buds open up a little more.

I decided to do some shopping, getting a few things to make for Jesse to send for Valentine's Day.  I went to Fred Meyer, Hallmark, and a brief stop by the mall.  I came home, ate, and then headed out to a briefing on post.  We got some great information again, which always makes me feel better.  We have another one in early February which also should be great to go to.

This may sound strange -- but I'm sort of excited for Valentine's Day.  Wierd?  I am looking forward to a day of pampering in Olympia with Kristen, a friend from Georgia.  It is for spouses/girlfriends/fiances of service members.  The events include a fashion show, spa treatments, make-overs, food, and gift bags.  There is free childcare too.  It's going to be fun!

I am going to stay up just a little while longer to see if I hear from my hubby.  Then, going to bed.  Tomorrow I'm going to the park with my dad, sending off a care package to Jesse (um, with some AMAZING cookies, stay tuned for that recipe!!!), and to do some stuff with the house.

I will update more tomorrow!

A Much Needed Update

Alrighty.... I have been a smidge behind on updates, I'm sorry!

I've been a bit busy lately.... Just doing things here and there.  I've been working a bit, with Valentine's day coming up and all.  This week I'm going to focus more on getting into that house -- for good.  Yes, I know what you're thinking.  I'm still not in the house?  I know, I know....

Mainly I wanted to update on Jesse.  He has been a busy kid!  Our conversations are getting shorter and shorter it seems.... He doesn't get a lot of down time.  They did come across a car accident late last week, which happened in front of their convoy (not involving them).  It was one car and one man died, a civilian and native to the country.  That was difficult, but Jesse's platoon did very well in handling the situation.  The medic that was with their convoy did an amazing job and made sure that everyone was well taken care of.

Jesse still has had time to spend some time with a buddy of his, he has also been working out, ruck marching, and stuff like that.  They also did some training in which Jesse had a tube stuck into his nose.  Nothing was wrong, it was just training!  I will get more photos up soon.

It's still early on in my day, I'm thinking that I'm going to make some cookies and send off a package for my hubby tomorrow!  I am still very excited about leave.... I have to say this (everyone is going to think I'm a total dork):  I am going to make heart shaped pancakes that are pink for the morning after he gets home.  So excited!!

Thanks to all who have sent me birthday wishes!!  Thanks for thinking of me :)

Have a great week!