I haven't been a very good blogger lately...

Howdy Howdy!

I haven't been on top of my game lately with the whole blogging thing, but I do have a good excuse! Ever since Rush has gotten home, he seems to get all of my attention! Which he rightfully deserves. :) Anyways, here is what has been going on on our side of the nation...

Rush has started to have to go on field ops where he is gone for a few days at a time camping out somewhere on Camp Lejeune! He is actually gone right now (hence me getting a chance to blog!) And the sad thing is that it seems like every time he has to go out, it rains! Poor guys. Well the main reason they are going out, is to actually fire the artillery guns (Rush like to call them God's Guns!) As for word of another deployment, we haven't heard anything. I personally am crossing my fingers that he won't have to go back over to "Hell on Earth" anytime soon.

As for me, I've been training for the Marine Corp Marathon 10K since January and I am slowly coming around. I am glad I gave myself 10 months to prepare for this! But it gives me something to work towards and I'm excited about running it with Robin and Jessica. And anyone else that wants to sign up and run with us is very welcome! Registration is not until May...something to think about. I've also started working. After not having any success in finding a job here, I went to a temp agency that one of the other wives went through and had success with. They started me working at Jackson-Hewitt as one of two receptionist. It was okay but the hours weren't that great, and I had to work some weekends. But that is over now and I had an interview last week with a temp to hire position! Yay! Those are where I work for them under the temp agency for 400 hours and then the company can fully hire me on to their payroll. Then I can get raises and employee discounts. :) Tomorrow I go in for a few hours to shadow his current admin. assistant to make sure this is a good fit for me and to see if he wants to hire me or the girl that went in today to shadow. Say a prayer for me! :)

As for us still being newly weds we try to spend as much time as we can together. We love taking the dogs out to the dog beach on base. :) I haven't remembered to take the camera when we go, but one of these days I will remember. Anyways they LOVE being able to run along the beach chasing birds and running in the surf! We are working on Ruff coming back to us when we call him...he pretends he's deaf. I'm hoping that treats will fix his hearing. ;) We've also decided to apply for base housing. Don't get me wrong, I love the house I am in now, but we think we could SAVE so much more money living on base. So we are excited about that because I'll be near my friends and our commute will be much, much shorter.

So far that's all for now. We are just getting into a rhythm of living together and being the kind of spouse God would want us to be! We are loving it and each other!