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.... So I have confused the twins for the fist time... I'm more than a little embarrassed!! Ryley's mom had sent me a big 8x10 of "Ryley" and some wallets of both of their military pictures. The other day I looked closely at the ones in her house, and realized that the picture I had was Wyatt... Today though I sent a picture of both to Wyatt and he had a good laugh because I just now figured out I had the wrong ones... I have a feeling he'll be teasing me a lot from now on about it. So now I need to get the right picture lol.

Carolina Dreaming

Yesterday I checked Ryley's my pay... and then called Wyatt to make sure I was reading it correct, and I was!!! :) Ryley will finally be getting payed BAH on top of his regular paycheck (and all the back pay for it). Oh happy day!!! :) So on the first when it's all in the bank I will be calling the apartment people, the dealership, and getting a flight to North Carolina, and figuring out what company we will be going through to get all our stuff there after me. I'm SO EXCITED!!!!!! :D

Jeep

So Ryley bought a Jeep (this is our actual jeep above). He LOVES this Jeep. The catch is he has no license, and I (up until last week) can not drive stick shift. He thought he would be able to get his license after graduating FMTB at Camp Johnson, but of course the Navy and Marine Corps haven't been on our side from the beginning and he wasn't able to. So this lovely Jeep is still at the dealership waiting for me to go pick it up when I get to NC.

I was panicked because I suddenly needed to learn stick shift before I moved instead of after. Luckily my brother-in-law has a manual truck that I was able to learn on. My mother-in-law and he switched cars so that she could teach me whenever I was able to during the day. This truck was pretty interesting lol. The seats don't stay up by themselves so if we had to adjust the seats, we were adjusting cinder blocks and 4x4's (they are what keeps the back of the seats up so that you aren't laying down trying to drive). It was a very interesting experience, but I was able to drive it by the end of 2 days! :)

So now I just need to keep in contact with the dealership and let them know when to expect me to pick it up, still a pain, but at least I'll be able to drive the darn thing now!

Catch up

Alright so I know this is kind of late, but I need to rejoin the blogging world, and catch everyone up on what has been going on in my life. I will start with after moving out of my parents and build up, long post here we come! (I will try to condense and still make sense)

I moved in with my grandparents in Tooele, UT in August of 2010. They helped me get a car and I started working in a grocery store there (not a fun job in any way shape or form). I started going to the singles ward on and off and made some really good friends.
I decided to enroll in a dental assisting coarse that took 11 weeks to become a CDA (certified dental assistant) and become state certified in dental radiology. So I quit my job at the grocery store and started working at a day care with the 4-5 year olds. That was a very crazy time for me. I was putting in 8 intern hours a day at the dental office I was going to school at, and then 3 hours a day at the day care with 15-17 very tired and sometimes very cranky 5 year olds. I wore myself out, but it was worth it!
I started working for Dr. Allred in Grantsville and I loved it!! :) I learned a lot and just loved going to work! Shortly after I started working for him I moved out of my grandparents with my cousin and we started renting a place from my grandpa cause well we weren't expecting to be doing anything big, or moving anywhere for a while.... but of course nothing goes as planned and I started talking to and getting reacquainted with the man I was going to marry.

Ryley sent out a text in October announcing that he was out of boot camp and could now talk on the phone with people, we talked every day after that. He was in Chicago just starting his corpsman training. So we reminisced about high school and caught each other up on what we had been doing since we last saw each other, and somehow we still found lots more to talk about. :) By November he was (well I thought he was anyways) joking about marrying me. I laughed it all off (I had told him in October I was not wanting to get married any time soon in one of our conversations about future plans)...... he proved me wrong because shortly after he asked me to marry him and I told him yes. Somewhere along the line our friendly love ya's turned to more serious I love you's and I realized while he was "joking about marriage" that I wanted it to be real... got my wish! Lol I was so not expecting the rest of the craziness to come.

We decided to get things ready to be married in Oregon when he got leave, which should have been in February. We had a marriage certificate all ready, we just needed a date which didn't seem like it was coming. The closer we got to February the antsier my boss became, and me too quite frankly, and so I put in my two weeks notice and decided to move back in with my parents so that when he was sent home everything would be easier. So my mom flew down to Utah, we packed all my stuff into my Buick, and we drove back to my parents.
Ryley was kept on hold though and never got his leave. I got a phone call from him on March 9th telling me that if we wanted everything to work out smoothly I would need to fly to Chicago the next day. He had already checked out how to get a marriage license there and we could make it work. That night was absolutely CRAZY!! I booked a flight to Chicago and back (thank you tax returns!!), went to the bank to get some cash for a cab (I had to meet Ryley at the train station right across the street from the corpsman gate), ran to Susan's (my mother-in-laws) to let her know what was happening, one of Ryley's friends came by to give me some of his moms famous cookies for him, I hurriedly packed a suitcase and the next morning left for Chicago. Then more craziness, the cab driver didn't know where the base was (that's when I really started praying like crazy!), but eventually we found it (a $160 cab drive later that is, again thank you tax returns!).
I made it to the train station an hour before Ryley got liberty and I jumped every time someone walked into the station to see if it was him. Then he finally walked in and when he saw me he got the biggest ear to ear smile on his face! :) I loved it! :) After big hugs and kisses we went outside and he got down on his knee to ask me to marry him (he had said he wanted to ask me properly in person).
From there we hurried to the court house in Waukegan to get our marriage license papers all done. There was problems at security (way more strict than an airport security fyi), but the guards I think took pity on us cause they watched all of my stuff. We made it just in time and got approved for a marriage license and got the rest of the info from them and the papers we needed to give the judge Saturday when we went to get married. After that we went to the hotel so he could check me in and I could drop my stuff off (oh and I also got a call then from my bank telling me they were blocking my account... and I couldn't get a hold of them, awesome!!). After that we went to Walmart to get my breakfast and lunch for Friday, and dinner for that night. I would have just walked over there Friday, but my card was blocked. He went back to the base shortly after for the night.
Friday was pretty boring, then Ryley came and picked me up and we went to the base to meet up with Wyatt (his identical twin, who yes is in the Navy as well) and one of his friends he wanted me to meet (Chris Bullis). We met up with them and spent the evening playing pool.
Then Saturday March 12 (also my birthday so if Ryley forgets either he's in trouble) we went back to the court house and were married.

(Me with the twins)

Wyatt and Bullis met us there and were able to be there and Wyatt took a few pictures. The judges were trying to get through all the marriages so they brought couples in in groups of 5, so we were married in the same ceremony as 4 other couples. It seriously felt like I was in a "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" wedding. Then we went to breakfast and walked all over Chicago with Wyatt and Bullis and had some awesome stuffed Chicago pizza! Best stuffed pizza!!
Then Sunday the 13th at 3pm I flew home. Saying good bye was so hard!

Since then I have been babysitting and on and off working a temp job. Ryley moved to Camp Johnson, NC and then last week was moved to Camp Lejeune, NC. He was doing tons of paperwork in Johnson, and finished up some other paperwork in Lejeune. We are crossing our fingers he gets paid on the first with me as his dependent so I can move to NC and be there when he gets home from his desert training and while he's on leave before his deployment in July.

So that is what has been going on and where we are at this point!