Q&A With An Old Married Couple :)

 To all of my wonderfully amazing blogger friends: Thank you so much for all the love and support you showed me yesterday! I have had a good day and a half of relaxing. Yes I still managed to comment (thanks to my phone) but it was nice to just rest.

I am posting today because I wanted to link up with the awesome Sara from You.And.Me.Are.We for a cute Q&A with my hubby. 

How long have you been married? Me: 4 1/2 years Kyle: (while counting in his head lol) 5 years in June

 

Where was your first date? Me: We went to a show called The Rat Pack is Back (in Vegas) that his Dad plays in. Kyle: My Dad's Show

 

Where was your first kiss? Me: The Las Vegas airport. Kyle: Airport

 

Who first said, "I love you"? Me: He did Kyle: I did

 

What were your wedding colors? Me: We didn't have a big wedding, it Vegas themed hahaha. Kyle: Red and White....I wore a red shirt and you wore white. lol.

 

What is her most commonly used phrase? Me: Bazinga! Kyle: You call me cupcake a lot, even though that's not really a phrase.

 

Who is her celebrity crush? Me: Sean Connery (yes I'm serious) Kyle: Sean Connery.

 

If she was ordering drinks for both of you what would you each get? Me: Iced Tea for me and a Diet Coke and Water for Kyle. Kyle: Me: Beer Her: Unsweetened Iced Tea

 

What is the best meal she has ever cooked you? Me: Everything :) Kyle: It was after a long 2 weeks in the field and I came home to homemade lasagna and garlic bread. It was the best meal ever.

 

What is the worst meal she has ever cooked you? Me: Nothing haha Kyle: Nothing (aww he is earning brownie points haha)

 

What is the most-played song on her iPod? Me: Runaways by The Killers Kyle: Anything by Jason Aldean (that is a close second to The Killers)

 

What would she say is your most annoying habit? Me: Not cleaning up after himself, drives me crazy! Kyle: Leaving messes around the house

What is the last thing she does before she goes to bed? Me: Check my phone. Kyle: She checks her phone.

 

If you could throw out one item of her clothing what would it be? Me: My granny panties haha they are so comfy to sleep in. Kyle: Shoes (he said that while trying not to laugh)

 

What would you say is your favorite thing about her? Me. He will probably say my personality or that he loves everything about me. Kyle: Her laugh, because she hates her laugh and I love when I can get her laughing really hard.

 

What's her go-to drink at Starbucks? Me. Venti Shaken Black Iced Tea Unsweetened. Kyle: black iced tea shaken (he said he almost had to pull out his phone to check it haha)

 

What's her blog's name?! Me: The Adventures of our Army Life. Kyle: (at this point he is searching the internet because he doesn't follow my blog haha) The Adventures of our Army Life (yeah I ended up telling him lol)

 

This was really fun for us to do and I hope you enjoyed our answers. We aren't celebrating Valentine's Day so it will just be a typical relaxing even in our house with me cooking and a new episode of The Big Bang Theory. :)

 

Hope you all have an amazingly wonderful day! 

Taking A Break (Update)

Thanks so much for all the support this morning. Things did not go well this morning so while I pull myself together and continue to figure out next steps I will be taking a big of a break from my blog.

It's very discouraging when you have a doctor tell you that you are broken without even looking at your records and trying to come up with a plan of action. He does not do iui or ivf which is fine but he just didn't seem interested in helping in any way. I suggested going back on clomid or something and he just shrugged it off.

I ended up bawling back in my PCM's office and he was appalled at what happened. He put in a referral for me to be seen at an RE clinic off post. It may not get approved right away but I have my fingers crossed.

New Beginnings

Today, I'm finally meeting with my new RE doctor. I am of course anxious because I know with this appointment will come more tests and more uncertainties. I'm hopeful that this new doctor will come up with a good plan once we have a baseline after testing is complete.  For some reason I feel that this year will be different. I feel a sense of peace about this year and that it could be ours. 

I said to Kyle last night that I'm tired of feeling broken, I'm tired of feeling like I will never be able to accomplish what I was born as a woman to do. We have had 4 1/2 years of heartache and I don't want to feel this way anymore. I want to put all the wonderful baby stuff my sister has given us to good use.

Let Operation Baby Smith 2013 commence!!

If you have a spare second please send a little prayer our way. You have no idea how much all the love and support means to us.

Have a wonderfully amazing day!

What to do?!

Thanks to my awesome sister, I now have a hair appointment for when I go to Vegas next month. I'm very picky with who I let tough my hair so I am thankful I get to go to someone I know and trust. Now that I have the appointment I need to decide what I want, that's where all your lovely opinions come into play.

I usually go lighter for the spring/summer but I'm not sure if I want to do that this year. I know I want to take some length off because my hair is ridiculously thick and feels like it weighs 1,000 pounds. Here are some photos I like, thoughts?!

I love this hairstyle and I love the color but I would go a little bit darker.

I love this hairstyle and the color as well. I would add either some blonde or maybe even red to break it up.

My hair is in desperate need of some TLC, so I can't wait! I might keep it simple or just go a little bit edgier. I will have my sister with me and she is always pretty good at talking me into doing things haha.

Enjoy your day!

Oh how I love weekends!

Besides being a little under the weather this weekend it was a wonderful one! Friday we started it out with dinner here:

I had one of the best filets, it took all I had not to lick my plate and ask for more haha. We had dessert at Orange Leaf, the amazing self serve yogurt place by our house. I could live there.

Saturday we spent most of the day relaxing and lounging around the house since we both were battling colds. That night we headed off to the UTEP basketball game, they were honoring all service members since it was military night. We had a blast!! Even though they lost we had a great and thanks to a mix up we even got free tickets to next Saturdays game as well. 

view from our seats

member of the Fort Bliss reppel team

Sunday morning I woke up with the most awful upset stomach and I really thought it was the flu but as the day went on I was feeling better. I think it may have been caused from all the coughing I was doing. I feel great now. I wanted to take advantage of feeling good so we headed off to the El Paso Zoo, finally!! We had a blast, it took us about 2 hours to walk the whole thing and they had so many amazing animals.

These 3 giraffes were hilarious they kept head butting each other.

sleepy lion

this spider monkey dropped her food in the water to soften it, she was so smart!

seriously how cute is this meerkat!?!?!

this orangutan was so funny, he would not go anywhere without this burlap sack.

After we left the zoo we had lunch at Taco Cabana and did some shopping at the Super Target (will start doing my grocery shopping there from now on!!).

We settled in for the night to watch the Grammy's and Kyle made mandarin chicken, broccoli and rice for dinner. Such a good man!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

***Oh and a disclaimer for all you wonderful people who have to wait to file your taxes because of the education credits good news is they will start accepting them on February 14th!!!! Woo Hoo!***

Sunday Social

I figured I would link up with Ashley and Neely today for the Sunday Social. I haven't done one in a while and I really need to get better about it. :)

1. What was your first car?
I got a 1993 Saturn. My parents were so excited to give it to me and I loved that car, minus the fact that it didn't have AC haha.

2. Who was your favorite childhood teacher?
Definitely my kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Rembert. She was absolutely amazing. I would go back and visit her even when I was in HS.

3. Were you involved in any sports/extracurricular activities? Share pictures if you can!
I was in key club and theatre. Oh yes I was a drama nerd here are pictures for ya:

I played Mercutio (I'm on the left in both pictures) in Romeo and Juliet at the Renaissance Fair. I got to sword fight and it was amazing!!!

4. What was your favorite birthday party?
I'm pretty sure it was for my 16th birthday. My parents had a party at the house, it wasn't all sweet 16 but it was a blast.

5. Who was your teen celebrity crush?

Taylor Hanson!! Oh my gosh I was obsessed. I had all of their cd's and any time they were on tv I always recorded it. Yup a bit of a crazy fan.

6. What show/movie did your parents not allow you to watch?

Beavis and Butthead haha! Our older brother would always let us watch it when my parents were gone.

It's always fun to look back and remember fun memories. Now I'm going to lay back on the couch because I'm pretty certain I have the flu. Ugh. 

 

Happy Sunday!!

 

Happy 1 year!

1 year ago today I went through one of the most life changing experiences. I am celebrating 1 year of being glasses free!!

Getting LASIK done was the best decision I have ever made. I now have 20/15 vision and was able to drive the day after my surgery. If any of you are contemplating having it done, just do it!! You will not regret it at all. Now I can't say that I wasn't terrified as I was laying there while the Dr. was working but I would make that choice over and over again. Yes it is pricy but comparing it to the costs of contacts and glasses for the rest of your life made the choice a no brainer. 

I have not had any issues with my vision, no blurring or anything out of the ordinary. 

I used to be this:

and now I'm this:

 100% glasses free!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!