I HAVE NINE DAYS!

I only have, well now, 8 and a half days left! I am getting really excited to go and see him. We have so much to do, but I could care less what I have to do! I will have to say that time has gone by so quick and I really didn't think it would.

We have a lot of plans. My In laws will be taking a train from Flagstaff and will be meeting us in Chicago. My mom and I fly out EARLY Thursday morning and get into Chicago where we will rent a car and the four of us will drive to Great Lakes, IL.

On Thursday night someone is throwing a meet and greet at a hotel for the families of the Sailors.

Finally on Friday we will get on a shuttle at 6:45 and head to the base and sit for about an hour and a half, then the Performance In Review begins. My mother-in-law and I just made these cute ribbons to wear to the graduation.

After graduation we get to spend a couple hours with CJ and then he has to go back to base. On Saturday we will be headed into Chicago with CJ to see some sights. We have the whole day with him. Then it is back to base for Cinderfella. On Sunday we will go to church with him and then I will fly back home.

It is a short weekend and full of time with hubby, then the real fun begins. Moving!!!

Details to follow at a later post!! Just let me say I don't like it at all!

I only have Two weeks and 3 Days!

In two weeks and 3 days I will be meeting my husband at hi Performance In Review at Great Lakes IL. This has been the longest two months in my life! I love you baby and I am so proud to be your WIFE!!
Can't wait to see you!

Projects while CJ is gone

While CJ is at Navy Boot Camp I have to keep myself busy. So to start I packed our house and moved into my parents house. Then Thanks to a good friend I made a ribbon wreath. It is very tedious work and took randomness to place the ribbons (which I can't do). It turned out really cute though and I hung it on my parents front door.

Then I decided my mom needed a new key hook, Yes my projects all help my mom, because I can't take anything else with me!
Next, this week the Young womens president wanted to make magnet boards for all the Young women. So I went to her house and she had the boards pre-made and then i took Modge podge and glued the scrape book paper to the boards. They turned out really cute and she is going to make one for me too!

Chapter Two: Moving Forward

A chapter in our lives is coming to an end and I new one is beginning.

Here is a quick refresher for those of you who missed the last chapter: In April 2009 CJ and I bought a house, four bedroom two bath with a nice fenced in yard. I taught Second Grade ELD for a year and CJ decided in October he no longer wanted to be a nursing student. Then in November he joined the Navy. In December we added an adorable puppy to our family.

Now the start of our new chapter:

Soon our three years of living in Prescott Valley as a married couple will end. CJ has been waiting for this day to come and finally it has. Since November of 2009 CJ has been waiting to leave for Naval Recruit Training. On September 1^st of 2010 CJ flew out to Great Lakes IL for two months of rigorous training and learning Navy life. For two months I have to resort to living out of a storage unit

and my parents home. As of September 15^th 2010 I officially reside in a small bedroom with a twin mattress at a home I thought I would never live in again.

My mom and my In-Laws and I will go to Chicago on October 29^th to watch CJ graduate from basic training. At that point we will find out when we move to South Carolina for two years, where CJ will do schooling for Nuclear Propulsion. There is so much to be done between now and then and I have a great friend whose husband is in the Airforce who is really helping with information.

I write to him everyday and so far only one phone call has come through. All I have received from him is a box with his clothes he wore to boot camp, so hopefully in the next few days I should be receiving his information about graduation and how to get my military ID.

I am so grateful to have a husband that is willing to serve his country and be strong enough to be away for two months. He is going to be a great Navy Sailor (and very Handsome too!). I can't wait for the next section of our chapter to start!

Going to Boot Camp

Yesterday was our big day. CJ left for BOOT CAMP!

CJ had to be transported down to a Sheraton hotel where he checked into his hotel room, and we checked in about an hour behind him. Then we met our family at Old Country Buffet where my sister-in-law brought two cakes for us. The first cake is obvious for my birthday, she did an amazing job! The cake tasted great!
This cake Meghan (sister-in-law) and her sister-in-law made for CJ. If you notice in the bottom left you might be able to see where they put CJ in a life ring surrounded by sharks. It is really cute.
The next day My mother-in-law, grandma and I went down town Phoenix to the MEPS station.

Then we met him over at the airport. I did so well with not crying until I had to leave him behind. I lost all control!
Now it has been one day and I am realizing I miss a lot of little things he does for me. Just reaching over to touch his leg when we sleep, or waking up to him and a kiss.
I love you CJ with all my heart, you are going to be the best Naval Sailor ever!

Summer time FUN!

Well one week till CJ leaves and I am in a tizzy trying to pack the house and move back in with my parents. We have found a renter and hopefully the family will take care of my house.

But besides the rush of moving we were able to get away this summer and go visit my Best Friend and her husband in Oceanside. We decided we would go camping instead of renting a room. It was fin and was in a beautiful part of California. We had a good camp site and well had a new adventure for the Warrens.
On the second day Karisa and Ivan stayed and had breakfast, the boys had a lot of fun playing with the fire. My brother came up from San Diego and spent the day with us as well. After breakfast we went to the Wild Park, it was hot but we saw some amazing creatures of Gods Earth.
Then we went to Camp Pendelton to there beach, we let the boys play in the waves and then we had a BBQ down on the beach. It was a lot of fun..
I am going to miss spending time with them and well we hope to be stationed lose by soon.

When are you an adult?

This last couple months has been less than great. So much has happened that has given me reason to question when society THINKS I am an adult.
So I pose the question; when is a person considered an adult?
Is it when you turn 18?
Is it when you go to college?
Is it when you live on your own and pay your own bills?
Is it when you have a degree?
Is it when you get married?
Is it when you live so many miles from home?
Or finally is it when you have your own children?

I am not sure which of these are correct if any...
Let me plead my case, I am 25, went to college and received two degrees and lived away from home and payed my own bills. I was married at 22 and we own our own home. So did I pass?
My brother recently told me that I am not an adult, his argument well is that since I live in the same town as my parents I am not an adult. He just got done with four years in Japan. He is 23 and well still acts immature, he is very stubborn about even trying to understand the religion that CJ and I have chosen to live our life by, he has decided that living in PV well isn't where we should be since our parents live here. So he has decided he is the adult and we are not yet. Is he an adult?

My step sister is 22 and is pregnant with a little boy. She has some college under her belt and lives with her 21 yr old boyfriend. She has never said anything to ever effect my not being an adult, but my step mother and my dad are treating her as though she is an adult. This may just be my ranting and my strong beliefs, but it hurts to see this.

I rant about being an adult and well just because I say I am an adult does it mean I am. What do I need to do to help make my parents understand that their adult children are tired of being treated like they are 12 years old? What can I do to make me feel like I have been doing what is right for me and my husband?

I am growing impatient as I stay here and get treated as a child, I hope that moving across country from our parents will then remind them that we are old enough to make the decisions that are appropriate for my family and not be second guessed by everyone!