Better than yesterday...

McKaleigh's behavior is leaps and bounds better than it was yesterday, and I'm so glad. Normally she's very independent and loves playing alone for a good portion of the day. Yesterday she was having none of that! She wanted to be with me constantly, which makes it difficult to do anything, seeing as she's not as teeny tiny as she used to be and is so hard to carry around! Right now she is very happily playing in her jumperoo:).

Michael found out that he's leaving next Saturday instead of next Friday. So at least he'll get to be there for a little bit of McKaleigh's birthday! Well, that is, if they don't leave super early in the morning. We still have to go out and get her presents. I wanted to do it without her, so there's some element of surpise. Even though I doubt she'll get too excited anyways, haha. I'm pretty sure we're going to get her a Fisher Price Little People wagon full of blocks. Maybe we'll get her one other smaller item too. You hate to spend too much on toys at this age, since they outgrow things so quickly.

Michael just sent me a text and said the official list of names of those getting promoted just came out and he is on it! So there is our 100% confirmation that his promotion is happening on the 1st! Yay for raises:)!

One year old and Sgt all in one week;)

My baby girl will be one year old in ten days!!! How crazy!

My husband will be a Sergeant in eight days!!! Finally! Haha.

And nothing significant is going on with me.

I did get a new computer:) It's HP and I love it. It's nice to finally have a built in webcam and mic. Plus, I'm tired of sharing my hubby's computer. I downloaded Google Chrome, and I love that, too! Google really know what it's doing!

So, bad news, right before McKaleigh's birthday, Michael will be leaving for training. So sad! And then sometime near the end of this year he'll be leaving for a year long deployment. I'm really just ready to get it over with, though. It will be a nice opportunity to pay off some big bills. I'm just glad it's only a year. Think of the wives during the world wars! When their husbands left for war they didn't come back until it was over! So I am grateful that it is only one year.

McKaleigh has been a little terror today! She wants my laptop so badly and will not let me be! Normally she play very well by herself, but today every time I put her down she comes straight to me, to steal the computer! I tried to leave my hair down, and she just yanks on it, so hard! I grab her hand and tell her no, but she just thinks it's funny. Oy vey.

What's a girl to do?

I'm not good with titles...

I'm blogging again! Woohoo! Hehe...

So I just got gmail, and have started using all of the google programs, and I gotta say, love it! My computer is broken, so I've been using my hubby's and he has NO spreadsheet or document programs. GoogleDocs definitely comes in handy:).

I've done really well with working out! It's exciting to actually be in a routine of sorts. For so long I was making so many trips. I don't think I was ever home for an entire month, which made it so hard to get into a good routine! I can't believe my daughter is going to be one in a month! I should probably call in to set up her one year appointment soon.

The crib thing... so didn't work. I have her back in bed with me, and I'm pretty sure we're co-sleeping for the long haul, lol. Things went well for the first two days, then she realized she could stand up and scream her head off. We live in an apartment, lol, I was scared the MPs were gonna come knockin' on my door! Haha. She sounded like she was being tortured and I just couldn't handle it:(.

Hubby is gone, TDY (temporary duty) in Missouri. He'll be back soon, but it's been crappy having him gone. Can't wait for him to get back:). Just a small preview of what next year will be like.

Oh the times, they are a changing**

McKaleigh is going to be 11 months old in a few days! She eats all of the same foods we do, and it's so cute watching her eat, hehe. Right now she 's putting her blocks inside the train they go in. It's crazy how much she's grown and changed. She scooches all over the place and gets into everything! She loves to walk around while holding onto our hands, so I think that walking solo is right around the corner. She's also pretty into harassing the dogs, too, lol.

The next few months are going to be pretty crazy. To sum it up without giving out too much info, we're looking at leave, NTC, leave, and then deployment. It's gonna be hard, but we'll just have to enjoy the time we have together.

My parents have moved to Italy, so it totally sucks not hearing from them for awhile as they settle down. I can't wait to go visit them, although it probably won't be for another year or so.

Not much else to say right now. I'll probably post again in a couple days,

PS: Congrats to Jennifer Brosi who had a baby girl today:)!

More than 5 months?

Holy moly! I'm horrible at keeping up with this! I'm no blogger at all, haha. I do love writing, it just seems that I haven't had time lately, and I never have anything that I deem worthy to blog about.

One thing I would like to say is that my daughter will be one in little more than a month! Wow! The time goes by fast. I finally have her sleeping in her crib, which is exciting and gives me a lot more time to myself. Normally I just have to cuddle with her until I'm ready to go to bed, making it difficult to do anything. Now I can do whatever I please! Woohoo!

I have fallen off the train of doing most the things that make me feel good, and I'm slowly hopping back on. I've worked out two days in a row:). That's a good start for me, and I have a feeling I'll stick to it this time. I really do enjoy working out, I don't know why I ever stop working out to be honest. Also, I've totally gotten out of my money saving, penny pinching habits, and things are as tight as ever! I love payday, because it's always a chance to start over and make better decisions. I've done pretty well with the end of this paycheck. Now if only I could get my hubby as excited about getting out of debt as I am!

Well I'm going to cut this off here, because I'm ready for bed!

I'm feeling pretty good today.**

I don't know how to explain it, nothing big has made me feel this way, but just a bunch of little things have made this day great so far.

I woke up this morning to play with my beautiful, smiling baby. Brushed my teeth & made my bed.

Took McKaleigh out to eat her breakfast, which she ate like a champ:).

I weighed myself on the wii fit for the first time in almost a month and a half. I was pleasantly surprised that, in spite of totally slacking in the area of working out these last couple of weeks, I had only gained 1.5 pounds. I was expecting a much larger number than that, lol.

I ate a bowl of cereal for breakfast and then McKaleigh and I hung out for a little bit, until she fell asleep sitting in my lap (one of the cutest things ever.)

McKaleigh was in such a good mood that I figured I'd give working out a try. I sat her in her pink chair, with some toys, and she kept herself entertained throughout my entire workout! Not a single whine or tear. That never happens!

After my workout I started cooking an actual (not microwaveable) meal for Michael and myself. Normally neither of us are full after lunch, so it was nice to have a real meal for once.

Michael came home while I was feeding McKaleigh her veggies. He finished feeding her, so I could concentrate on our meal. What a sweet and helpful husband I have.

We've also decided that we are going to start taking advantage of all the amazing history we have in the area we live in. It was a hard decision, but this weekend we'll be going to the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler. The second option was a Maritime Museum in Savannah. We figured we could go to that one at a later date. It's a much smaller museum, so we want to plan other things to do on the day we go.

I love that I have such an intelligent husband who enjoys things like history and museums. It's hard to find someone you can enjoy these things with:).

Well it's time for my munchkin's afternoon nap. I'm off to do more things around the house that will make me even happier. I hope everyone else is having a wonderful day, as well.

~Tara

Rantin' and ravin'**

...About my new phone! Hahaha... I really don't have a good blog topic. So I thought I would brag on my new phone, hehe.

So starting from the beginning... Michael had a very craptastic phone. Something was wrong with the charge port and his phone would not even hold a charge throughout ONE day! So we go to Sprint to replace his phone, and decide instead of just getting a replacement, let's upgrade his phone. And then, of course, instead of just upgrading his phone, let's upgrade mine too!

I had my phone for more than two years. It was the first phone that was actually MINE. Michael's phone was a year younger than mine, but it started out being crappier than mine, even when it was new, haha. Because we had our phones for that long, I was eligible for a $150 free upgrade and Michael was eligible for $75, so we figured why not.

We looked through all of the phones for quite some time. It's very annoying because the actual retail price is in very very very small print, and the price that is in the big numbers is for like all these rebates and yada yada yada. So it was hard to get a good idea of what the phones were going to cost. I was tempted to get the Instinct, but I'm a freak about fingerprints, and the fact that the whole phone is essentially a screen would mean that I'd constantly be cleaning off my phone. It is also more expensive, which would make me even more paranoid about something bad happening to the phone.

Neither of us wanted to get the typical flip or brick phone, so we decided we liked the side sliding ones. This brought us to the Rumor or the Rant. The price difference wasn't huge, about $20. The saleslady of course told us that the more expensive one, the Rant, was the better phone. I went back to compare the features, and indeed the Rant has EV-DO, which makes your internet better, and gives you things like the TV right on your phone.

We both got Rants, mine is Purple, his is Black. We changed our plan, almost doubling the cost , but now I have MTV and Comedy Central, plus a ton of other cool things, on my phone! We also now have unlimited texting, so if you have my number go ahead and text whenever you want .

Now you know the story of my new phone. I really only write these blogs from my own boredom. I like writing, even if it's random and unimportant. I applaud anyone who reads this whole thing, hahaha.

~Tara