So the "I do"

So we rented this Beachhouse is Hoodsport, WA because it was recommended to us and CHEEAPP! When we got there we were pleasantly surprised to find it was gorgeous. All wood interior (well you will see the the pictures). Very campy and homey feel. We thought it was perfect all around. It is right on the water with a glassed in front. We ended up getting married on the equinox, March 21st, which I thought was really cool. Adam and I do balance each other out.

So we go for the pre wedding meeting, and Adam doesn't watch Wedding shows so he doesn't really understand how it generally goes. We decide to do appetizers instead of a still down meal, so I am trying to pick finger foods, and Adam wants Mac and Cheese. I say, "Adam you can't eat Mac and cheese with your hands at a Wedding." But the planner says she will try and work it in. So we are looking around and there is a fire place, and she says we can have a fire ( I ended up forgetting the skewers for smores). Adam says,"We should have the ceremony at High tide!" Both the officiant and I look at him and say,"What!?!?!" That could be at like 3 am...." So my little sister Cheyenne was there and I was saying the wedding should take place at 3 pm and Adam wanted it at 4 pm, he looked at me pleadingly and said,"Can we compromise and have it at 3:30?" So I looked at him and said,"Sure." Everyone Came -Even Scout! (picture Above)

Cheyenne was very confused, "What difference does it make 3:30 or 3?" and the planner and I looked at each other, and then looked at Adam and I said,"Now Adam has helped plan some part of the wedding by choosing the wedding time, we will at least let him have that." It was very funny. At another point we were talking about how to seat people at the wedding and I said,"Let's just push all the tables together and make one big table," and then Adam said,"Yeah think picnic, not wedding." It was very funny.
Here is the "picnic not wedding" (picture above)


Adam loves martinelli, which is that sparkling apple cider (for the kids for the toasts) and it was on sale at WalMart by the case. So we bought a case of it for the wedding and Adam proceeded to taste it a little bit everyday before the wedding. Fortunately we had bought a case.

So we get there and it is beautiful and sunny and the guys are talking about Adam's mini and the girls are hanging out. I steal away my Dad to have some Jenna- Dad time. Everyone's excited. Adam and his mini (left/above)

Us "at the alter" - Melissa has my Bouquet
Then everyone shows up and we get dressed and the whole thing begins. I had a bouquet of tulips, they were very pretty. Tulips are my favorite flower, in fact Adam brought me some before the wedding.We when and stood at the altar and immediately started to cry. Typical Jenna. The officiant said, "Don't cry, or I will cry too". We sad out vows and exchanged rings. It was a pretty long ceremony, it was sweet, but I found myself thinking,"How much longer do I have to not cry?"When it was time for Adam to put on my ring his had was shaking so badly, it was cute. Then we kissed and had a small party.

Adam and I Right After the Ceremony


Adam doesn't like to dance so instead we bought tons of board games for everyone to hang out and play (like Apples to Apples). WE brought coloring books and crayons and Rock Em Sock Em and just all kinds of fun stuff. Everyone played Apples to Apples for long time.



We ate a little bit and then we cut the cake. I was going to smoosh cake on Adam's face when we did the cake, but he ate it to quick, as soon as it was in his mouth he grabbed it! Then he proceeded to smear frosting all over my face. :( I am sad that I missed my opportunity to smoosh him in the face with cake. In the picture to the right I just found out we were going to cut the cake and I was scheming. The cake is at the top of the picture. The top layer was Vanilla with raspberry filling and the bottom was Chocolate with Peanut Butter filling. SOOO GOOOOD. I highly recommend the chocolate peanut butter. I did that because Adam doesn't like cake, but loves Reeses. So I thought that maybe he would like that. The planner had never had a request for it and had to ask the baker if she could do it, but I bet the baker uses that combo again

Then we did toasts and everyone did very kind, thoughtful, loving toasts. My Dad, My Mom, Adam's brother Eric, a family friend Tom and Adam's Stepfather Harry. It really was perfect. I couldn't have wished for a better day with better people.

Me At the End of the Day

The Furries! -- Backpost #3

So if you have ever seen that CSI, you should know it's not that kind of furry.

Back in December, my Mom gave us one of her dogs named Scouter. He is a 3 year old tri color black sheltie. He is a sweetie. He grew up in a house with 2 other dogs and so we figured he was kind of lonely. So we decided to get a companion sheltie. So we started looking. Not very many dogs in our area. So finally we found one we liked in Arizona and we put a deposit down. About a day later my Mom called and she had purchase a puppy for me and told me to go pick it up. So now I have two puppies and Scouter. They couldn't be more different either. Mac is an "over the breed standard" bi Black (he looks like a order collie) and he is huge and cuddly. He weighs about 25 lbs right now maybe more. Shelby ( original name Cocoa) is an "under the breed standard" dog and she is a sable (think Lassie) and she weighs about 6 lbs.

Both puppies are about 16 weeks ( Mac being two weeks older) so are at an age where they are easier to housetrain. There were a lot of accidents in the beginning (thank you Adam's Mom for the steam cleaner), but we have been accident free for 2 days! They are pretty damn cute. Adam has been in the field so Jenna has been potty training them. This sometimes involves getting up at 2 am if a puppy wants to go out. I love them dearly though.

The FRG -- Backpost #1

OMG -- So a couple weeks back we went to a frg meeting on post. It was the Wednesday before we got married.

Adam warning me and prepping me for the meeting, "There will be someone our age (24) that has at least 5 kids. You have to be nice to the big cheese, DO NOT use the term butter bar, he will not think its funny."

I was like okay I am ready for anything. I was wrong. Adam and I were the only couple in the whole freaking room not married, I was a little embarressed. It seemed like most of the other wives knew each other. That was okay, I was still okay at that point. They talked about the training and the deployment and gave me a copy of Adam's schedule, which was good. At least he doesn't have to hear me complain about it, when the army gives me a schedule I know there is no way he can get out of it.

So apparently many of the women had requested to find our more about the educational programs available to them so they had a Army Educational Councilor Service Person Helper Teacher Dude (AECSPHTD --look my first army acronym aren't you proud?) come to speak with us. So he asks how many graduated highs school, pretty much everyone raises their hand, then who has had some college (several hands go down), who has a degree (pretty much all but two hands go down- mine and a woman about 3 seats down). So the AECSPHTDude says to her, oh what did you get your degree in and what do you do now? She said, "I have a degree in Biochem from the University of Washington and I teach junior high math and science". He wanted to know if she had a masters, turned out not, and told she could get her credentials through the Army if she wanted. She pointed out it wold be hard to do a masters program with a hubby deployed, 2 small children and working full time. He was kind of pushy.

He turns to me,"What did you get your degree in?" "I doubled majored in computer science and biology and know I run a small business." I replied.

Then he said it:"It is interesting that you both got such techincal degrees and then didn't do anything with them." If looks could kill, he would be dead. Adam looked over at me and gave me the "Jenna be good" look so I smiled, looked down at my knitting, and took a deep breath and remembered we were there for Adam.

Several Thoughts about the comment that I couldn't say at the meeting, but I sure as hell can say here:
Who the hell do you think you are? What did you get your degree in and what is it you tell people you do at the ripe age of 50? I bet your Mother in Law loves to hear about your fantastic job.
Obviously, all of us milspouses married for the money and prestige.
Finally, what the fuck sort of amazing techy job are we supposed to get where we move every year or so? I am sure our employers will just think thats a great deal.
I was so pissed, but I let go, I just realized he has no idea what is coming out of his mouth.

Oh and by the way, the couple sitting in front of us was prego with kid numbero 5. I am so glad Adam and I don't have any kids yet, it is one thing for me to be sad during a deployment, but I think being a single Mom while he was away and trying to comfort the kids would be too much for me to handle. I know lots of people do it, but wow, not for me, at least not now.

Sparkly and I do

I have been hiding. I have been wanting to write in my blog, but not wanting to acknowledge the very real fact that Adam is going and I am going to need all you guys again. I am going to sit in front of my computer at night (with my 3 dogs) and miss him like crazy. Maybe I will be in a better area and make more friends. I am hoping for that.

Anyways. Once I found out he was going and became rational again, my first thought was I am not doing this again as "the girlfriend." So I turned to Adam and said,"If you are going back I think we should get married." He said,"Okay, when?" I smiled and said,"As soon as possible." So a good friend of ours had gone to the court house and just married. No hulabaloo no nothing. So I told my Dad I was getting married in a week and he freaked out. "At least wait until I can come!" he said. So I realized at that point that I was going to have to invite other people. I knew Adam's Mom would really want to be there, and probably my Mom too. My Mom insisted that it be on a weekend because she couldn't be there on a Friday. Then Adam's family offered to throw a rehearsal dinner" and we said sure. At one point Adam and I were getting out of the car, as I was trying to figure out how to do a Saturday wedding on short notice and find a suitable restaurant for the dinner, and I turned to Adam and said,"This has turned into a thing!!!!" He laughed and said, "Yes it has."

So that he proposed to me with a ring that had been a family heirloom piece and it is sooo very beautiful. ( I have a picture of it I will post it at some point). So I found an officiant and she knew place and said she could put the whole wedding together for under $1000. She knew a baker that could do a great fondant cake for a good price.

We went to get the wedding license (you have othave it for 3 days before you can get married) and went ring shopping which was really fun.

Everyone came to town (about 20 people). In fact I didn't invite anyone personally, I told people and they decided whether or not they were comming. It seemed to work well, people who could not stay away came which was kind of fun.

This is enough for one post, I will write about the wedding itself later when I can dig up some pictures. :)

--------- Just as a side note-- I probably have about 50 posts in my head that never made it to the blog.... so I might be sort of random for a while. Adam doesn't allow the computer into the bed room anymore so less made it on to paper------------

Worst News Ever

Guess I am going to be wrting a lot again. Adam's been stop lossed. He is going to redeploy to Iraq this summer. Obama's new schedule has changed the deployment dates by a year! His deployment date got moved up by a whole year. He was supposed to be able to A Cap and get out this fall, maybe Nov or Dec at the earliest, now, not until next fall.

I am just beside myself. I have no clue wha to think or how ot react or what to do next. This sucks.

The Pancake Experiment

OK so this morning while Adam was sleeping I got up because I couldn't sleep. It was 6:30 and an hour and a half LATER then when I usually get up.

So I bought blueberries on sale (and felt slightly guilty because they were obviously imported from somewhere warmer-- so much for eating locally) and when I asked Adam if he liked blueberries (because there is hardly any food that you can actually grow that he likes) and he said, "I like blueberries in pancakes." I said ok and threw two cartons in the cart. i took one to work and the other I made into pancakes this morning.

I have this thing about doing "the best" thing or being really "efficient." I wasn't sure whether the non stick would cook the pancakes better or my All Clad Copper core frying pan (it's from a set I stole from my Dad) would cook them better. When I make pancakes here is what always happens. The first batch is just a little under cooked, the second round is burned and the third is okay, but no one wants any more cuz they are full.

Well after cooking pancakes on the 2 pans side by side, I would have to say that although the non stick pan easier to clean up, the all clad pan seems to cook them more evenly and won this round.

I finally woke Adam up and force fed him lots of pancakes. :: evil::

He is pretty sore from all the army pt stuff. He layed on the floor in the living room for a while whining about how much her hurt. :P I made him do dishes anyways.... :D

We are enjoying our one day off watching television. :)

Pruis

So for those of you who don't know. I crashed Adam's prius. I totalled it. Apparently everything that is expensive on a prius is in the left corner of the car. So if you are going to wreck on, wreck the right side.

No one got hurt beyond my pride. I wasn't paying enough attention and I was looking down at the radio and I looked up and there was a truck stopped in front of me. I rear ended it and then it hit another truck. Bad News Bears. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the insurance is going to cover it. Adam and I aren't sure what we are going to do. Right now we are sharing a car. It sucks.

Since I started a new job that starts at 6 am. I am working at a company called WatchMeGrow.com and if you log in and watch the demo you can see the back of me at work all day long. So I am working 40 hours a week in addition to my yarn business which I could easily work at 50 -60 hours a week. Needless to say Adam is not pleased with me working so much. I have about 10 hours worht of work before bed. Needless to say I am not going to get to it. I could get off my lazy butt and dye the last bit of yarn, but i am not going to. Maybe I will go to bed and get a jump on tomorrow?

Politics at Adam's job aren't making me very happy and I am hoping things clear up soon. Recently there was an incident that involved Adam going to the MP station in handcuffs and when all the proper commanders were called in (off leave so you can imagine how happy they were), Adam was walking out free and clear while the accuser was stripped of rank and in cuffs himself. Anyways what was suppoed to be morning work turned into all day work. Not fun.

Things are good, Adam and I have a new addition to the family, we have a dog now his name is Scouter. He is sheltie, he is a present from my mother. He and Adam have been fast friends and he sleeps with us every nite..... He is awfully cute.

I can't even get to a point anyways. UGH, nighto nighto