Headed for Life in the Left Lane!

So we got the orders for Japan! How exciting right?! When John called to tell me you could hear that he was really upset and shocked by the fact that he was awarded the very last pick on his orders list! So hearing where we would be going was bitter sweet for me. He took over an hour to research and try to wrap his head around the fact that he would be making this big move.

Now we have a busy busy time of making sure we have everything in order and our debt paid down as much as we possibly can! We should be there for around 4 years unless our ship gets stationed back in the states before our tour is done. I think the kids will do great and it will be a great place for them to start school. And if we decide to have one last baby it will be while we're over there so we'll have one that kind of has dual citizenship.

I think this is going to be really great and I wish we could leave earlier than December.

A year down only 17 more to go!!!

Today my little boy turned 1!!! How exciting. I feel so many different things with him than I did with Chelsea on her first birthday. I'm almost sad that he's already 1. He's such a character and today you could see that he isn't a baby anymore, he's a little boy! We had lunch right at noon and then immediately had cake because my mom had to leave for work. Garrett couldn't be more thrilled that he was allowed to eat this huge peice of cake and get all messy without mom going bezerk on him!!!


We have the kids joint party with their friends on the 10th so I'm still super busy trying to make sure I have everything in order for that. And then Chelsea's actual birthday is on the 13th so we'll have another episode of cake! GEEZ....I think we're going to be all caked out!

We've been really busy for the last week or so. I've been posting more to my other blog - www.wherestheabs.blogspot.com - about how I've been dealing with taking off all the weight I wanted to lose, etc. Because of what I've accomplished in such a short period of time I've been cooking a lot more and all the meals I've found to make came mostly from this magazine called Clean Eating. I have to say that everything has been so good that it makes me not even miss eating out! We've had a fried rice substitute, a sandwhich that is just like Cheese Steak but with more than half the calories cut out, Mediterranean Steak and Eggs, and so many more. Tonight I was going to make Mahi Mahi Fish Tacos but I think that John wanted to go watch Alice in Wonderland 3D so I'm not sure yet if we're going to eat those or not. I feel like I've had a hard time not binging on candy and what not for these last two days. I had cake for Garrett's birthday as planned, because my baby only turns one once! But I just feel sluggish and like I shouldn't be eating all this stuff. I've been really positive about the change I'm making for myself and my family!

John is at the office right now finding out if he got orders, what he got and if he didn't get selected, why he didn't get picked this go around! I really wnat to know but I like the suspence of waiting until he gets home! I really think he'll get to go to Washington. I know it's where he really wants to go and I'm sure he'd do wonderfully! He thinks he's going to get Japan because someone else will get picked to go on the priority billet and I'd like that but I think he'd be disappointed!

I found this really cool site called seemommyrun.com and it's where you can put in yoru city and find groups of women that walk or run. Each group sets itself up and makes it's own schedule. I think that will be really helpful once I move (if we are in the states). Not to mention most of the women have kids and it will be great to meet other moms who have kids and maybe might even find some life long friends. Well that's about all the news I have. I'm going to go finish the day out with my babies and hope to get a workout in! If not than that's ok because today is just about being with my kids. Speaking of kids, I have a little boy running around here in his "BIRTHDAY SUIT". I better go take care of that!