Thanksgiving 2015

Hello my dearest friends and readers!

I hope this post finds you well!

Today is a day of family and thanks and being together.

This is my last couple of days here in Germany and I am spending this holiday with my "family" here

These people are my best friends here, which I consider as family. 

Dinner last night at the DFAC.
Other then the lobster it was all on point.
The awesome thing about big holidays like this is the higher ups in the units
have to serve everyone in their dress blues.
It's quite comical to see.
It's nice to see them taking care of their soldiers
and being good sports about it.

I am pretty impressed with myself this month,

every day this month I have written down at least one thing in my monthly insert that I am thankful for, I've managed to keep up to date on this little project, which makes me beyond happy!

I hope that you all have someone to spend Thanksgiving with

someone to celebrate with, good food, and togetherness!

Today, I am thankful for my German friends and family.

For all the fun times we've had together

all the dinners and adventures

and just times spent chilling out doing nothing.

What are you thankful for this year?

"I Love" Sundays v.7

Hello and Happy Sunday friends!

**This week was a short week for me at work and I LOVED IT! I worked Monday, was gone all of Tuesday to an appointment 4 hours away, and then it was Wednesday (which dragged on a little) and then it was time to go home and visit Mo. One of my supervisors even let me leave 2 hours early after I answered a bunch of questions right from the training program. That was pretty spiffy and totally unexpected because it's not something that supervisor ever does. I think it was just because it was Thanksgiving weekend.

* Thanksgiving this year was spent with Mo and some great friends! We didn't make anything, just brought some wine and enjoyed the night. I did help clean the dishes though, that always happens when I go to Momma C's house! I guess it's better then cleaning the floors, which is what I did before Roz's 14th birthday a couple months ago. The food was great and then when we got home Mo and I Skyped my parents for almost 2 hours and 45 minutes. 

* My December Daily stuff came in finally on Wednesday before I left! I was super excited! Mo and I even started working on it on Friday. Got the cover of the album done and the first basic page. I'll write a blog post about that later on this coming week too once we have more completed. It's fantastic that he wants to work on it with me!

* Tried some new recipes this weekend! Made Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry, Garlic Parm Knots, Baked Chicken, and Puppy Chow Chex Mix.

* This year was the first time I've ever been Black Friday Shopping (and we didn't even go until after noon since we didn't get paid until noon). Thankfully it's not super crazy here in Germany, but Mo and I got some good deals on Under Armour and craft supplies. We handmade some Christmas decorations this year, which I am pretty stoked about!

* After Black Friday shopping this weekend we decided that it was going to be a lazy weekend. It seems that we picked up some crud from our friends at the Thanksgiving dinner and we've both been feeling under the weather. Mo was super awesome on Friday night and he drove to the 24 hour shoppette to get me some medicine. Since then we haven't done a whole lot (other then go pick up some more paint and our tree yesterday) and we've hung out around the house. We crafted our Christmas decorations, cooked dinner and desert, and Mo got to play his new games (TitanFall and Shadows of Mordor ((Both of which he got on sale from Xbox on Black Friday) )). It's been nice that we can do our own thing (me blog and search for DD ideas and he play his vigi games) but still spend time together. That is the important part!

Little Loves

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Today is the last day of November! Tomorrow starts the last month of 2014, where the heck did the time go?!?!? It's like I got here in March and I blinked, and now it's almost December!!!!

What were you loving about this past week?

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends. Although I always know the things or people that I am grateful for, I wanted to take some time today to share that list and my rambles that go with it!

I'm thankful for a lot this year, mostly my family Mom, Dad, younger brother Jay, older brother Jr, sister-in-law Mi, Nephew Little M, Niece K, my newest nephew H, and younger sister Mak. I've got some of the best family, always so supportive of my choices. Although we're spread across three states and two countries, we're still pretty close. We don't talk a whole lot except for random FB messages between me and Momma, but I couldn't have asked for a better family! I won't lie, Jr is part of the reason that I joined the military (although he is a Marine) because I always looked up to him. My dad was in the Army in his younger years and he did some cool stuff! The military runs in my blood!!

My second family Momma B, Daddy B, "big sis" Lea, "sis" Linz, and "little sister" Munchkin, and the two nieces S and S! These guys might as well be my family for all the years that Linz and I have been friends. We met in Chorus in middle school and have pretty much been inseparable since. We're only a few months apart and we are wayyy too much alike. She is my bestie!

My family in Germany! Being a part of the military takes you away from your family for long amounts of time (haven't seen my family since March of this past year and won't see them until the end of December this year) and so the people you meet in the military kind of become your family. I met the C family about two years ago after my deployment and they pretty much adopted me as the sister/daughter of the family. They always take care of me and feed me and it is just by luck that we got stationed only two hours apart in Germany! And the new friends that I have met through them! Momma C asked me to come celebrate Thanksgiving with them and  I couldn't pass it up! Good friends, good family, and good food!

I am also thankful for my friends both in the military and outside of the military. I take things from everyone I meet, personality traits and life lessons and they help make me into the person I am. I'm thankful for my awesome coworkers who've turned into friends that look out for each other and help make the best of our situation at work. I am thankful for the friends from my younger years that have stuck around and keep in touch. I'm thankful for my new friends as well (even if one is 17 years old). The people we keep in our lives are what makes things better.

I'm thankful for the battle buddies who've paid the ultimate sacrifice and are no longer walking on this earth. Those guys and gals are the real heroes in my eyes. I am thankful to have served with them or after them, and hope that I can make people as proud of me as these battle buddies have made me of them. Also thankful for their families who have to live on after they're gone. We Soldier's aren't much without our families that stand behind us and support us.

Other things to be thankful for:

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What are you thankful for today?