Ryley's Leave

Ryley was home for almost 2 weeks before leaving and it was great! We got him all moved into the apartment (and with all of his stuff tons of sand). He was so happy to be home! He was eating real food, driving his Jeep, and he had me and his family and friends all here for him. He wasn't too happy to be leaving. The day after he got here he just had to take the top off of his Jeep and we went driving, the top was down the majority of the time he was home.

Wyatt is totally into all of Ryley's medical stuff, which Ryley was super excited to show us all. We had his med bag out for most of the night and he did some fun demonstrations with the tourniquets. :) It was fun for me and Susan, but Wyatt was in a lot of pain when Ryley was putting all of his weight on his inner thigh and shoulder. There Wyatt is with the tourniquets and Ryley either just got done checking for a pulse, is about to, or is just poking Wyatts arm because Wyatt says it was tingly and numb. Both Wyatt and Susan were here for the twins birthday. :) I made them German Chocolate cake and much to their dismay put candles on it as well.
Wyatt was supposed to be flying out that night, but his flight was canceled (luckily for him he had applied for his leave and it had been approved or they wouldn't have worked with him on being a day late).
We went out to eat a couple of times while he was home too. His favorite so far is Texas Roadhouse. We went there once with his mom and Wyatt and the second time we went with his buddy Bullis.

Then it was time to say goodbye. It was not a fun day at all! Tried to put on a good face (which at the beginning was easy). We were on base all day getting ready for them to leave.

Ryley and his buddy Bullis.

Saying goodbye...

Not a fun day... I'm ready for him to come home already! I do have to say though that not being used to having him around normally has made it a little easier because sadly I'm used to this. The week and a half that he was home was great and I'm so happy I was able to spend so much time with him before he left! I'm also really happy that his brother and mom were able to make it as well! It all went really well!

My first half a week

I'm finally in North Carolina!! :) It has been such a crazy week since I landed and I am so happy that things are slowly getting better!

I hit kind of a rough patch after I signed the lease for the apartment and got the Jeep on Wednesday. I kept killing the Jeep, my apartment had furniture in it and was filthy, I was exhausted, and after the humiliation of having to have my neighbors push me into my parking spot and then drive around with me and show me the stuff close by I broke down... on the phone with a couple of people... and finally made a bed out of the couch and crashed.

Thursday I called the office of the apartment and complained. 5 minutes after I called a whole work team came in and cleaned out all the furniture and I started showing them what was wrong... They moved me into the apartment next door (cause they had a few hours of a work list in front of them) and cleaned the place really well! They cleaned the mess in the kitchen including the mold in the cuboards and on the closet doors, the bathroom, the windows (and replaced a blind), re-shampooed the carpets, etc. After they left I bought a bed and ventured out to Walmart for food and did not kill my Jeep (OH HAPPY DAY!!).

Friday I looked around for other furniture. I'm going to have to wait till Ryley comes home for that, the Jeep is too small to transport anything so I think I'm going to try to talk one of his friends into helping us out. This is also the day that the glass from the light fell right after I shut the door and had luckily moved out of the way.. so the apartment office got another call and they came out and fixed it. Ryley was also able to call me (they were on base for a couple of hours) so I was able to vent to him for a little bit and tell him that things were starting to go better and it was SO nice being able to talk to him!!!

Yesterday I just took it easy. I drove around a bit to find the church and in the process found out how to get to the bases main gate and a lot of other stores. Then I just came home and was lazy, it was really nice. :)

Today I had church and I really like the ward! If Ryley isn't here by Thursday I will be going to the Military Wifes Support Group (something I was strongly encouraged to do) and I'm getting really excited to meet more people here! :)
Hopefully the pallet with the rest of our stuff gets here tomorrow so that it can feel a little more like our home now than just some weird new temporary place.

1 day!!!!!!!!!!

I fly out tomorrow!! :D So crazy!! I have butterflies going crazy in my stomach, I'm so nervous and excited!! This morning Delta Airlines are having problems with their website, SUCH A PAIN!! So unless it's back up and allowing me to check-in for my flight there will probably be a lot of people getting their passes at the kiosk (when I called the woman told me I wasn't the only one who had been calling in with the website not loading when we click to check-in online ugh!!). Good thing I'm going there an hour early! We leave for the airport at 4 and my flight leaves at 6:20, I have an hour and 15 minute lay over in Atlanta, and then I land in Jacksonville at 4:25. It's going to be a LONG day....

5 Days!!

5 Days till I leave (well almost 4 this is kind of a late post)!!! :)

Today I sold my car!! OH HAPPY DAY!!! :D It feels so weird though not to have it any more.. but in a couple of days I'll have something else to drive, but until then I can't just hop into my car and go whenever I want to. So weird, but so nice not to have to stress anymore about selling it!

Ryley called today as well!! He thought he was going to need to get his wisdom teeth pulled, and I spent some time talking him into it being ok and really not that hard (if his wimpy wife can do it he definitely can!). Then he had to go for a little bit to see what really is going on and it turns out he has Tonsillitis. He was pretty relieved that he just needs to take some pills instead of facing a fun day with the dentist. :) Other than that and not liking how hot it gets in the desert he's doing really well! He can't wait to be home and hopefully see Wyatt for their birthday. :)

6 Days!!

6 days till moving day!! :) Sent off all of our stuff today!! Also because of the moving day coming up so fast I had to mark down the price of my car to $750. I'm crossing my fingers that it sells while I'm still here or very shortly after I leave!!
Ryley is still having fun out in the desert. We had a few days of being able to talk and now we're on 3 more days of no contact. He'll be able to talk to me the day before I leave, and then a couple days after I get there. The excited and nervous feelings are getting more intense the closer I get to leaving! It's coming up so fast!! :)

9 days

9 more days till I move! I'm getting really excited!! :) And hopefully Ryley will be there shortly after me!!
Ryley was able to call me last night and he has been really liking his desert training. His group has been very highly complimented for how well they have been doing. He's also really happy that he is getting to know his marines well enough to tell just a slight change in their mood. We probably won't have anymore contact again for another 8 or 9 days. They just went back to base for showers (which he was very happy about!) and prep for another week of training last night so he had a little time to call.

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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.