Long October

I love the smell of cinnamon apple candles and pumpkin spice. Fall is a particularly warm time of the year even if the weather outside has the first inclination of cool air and falling leaves. There has always been something about Fall that brings that chestnuts roasting on an open fire feeling to our hearts and homes. Baking starts, decorations begin, arts and crafts, festivals, and fairs. Yes indeed fall is in the air. It has come to the Boone house, it seems a little less cozy and warm without my husband here to enjoy it with me but all the same blue jeans for the kids knit hats and jackets have been bought in anticipation of the cooler weather ahead. Michael has been gone for over 60 days now, and just 68 days until he comes home for Christmas vacation I cannot wait to see that man of mine. I miss him dearly. This is for the birds. However, the kids and I are doing well and him being gone has only made me thinner lol! I am now down 55 lbs (depending on how much coffee I drink in one day). I am enjoying getting back to pre-hannah weight but idealisticly i would like to loose about 40 more lbs. UGH! seems like it will never end. WE just passed midterms for college, and that mans 1.5 semesters left till graudation on May 12th. May that is going to be one buy month. Hannah will be 5 in April, Isabella will be 2 in May, I graudate in May, Hannah has her first ballet/tap revue in May, and Maria will be having baby #2 so in May I will be an Auntie again...I told her I would come up for a few weeks with the kids and help out. WOW! If I make it thru May we will be doing good. I do not anticipate Michael staying in the desert past graduation which will be nice. The money is great but we need him here. I am hoping he only stays until I graduate. Thats about all thats going on. Kids flew for the first time this month to NC and back that was interesting. We are preparing for pumpkins and costumes. Feeling like Fall and I may bake some apple bread. YUM!

And its Fall

Well another season has left and a new has begun. The temperatures really don't feel like fall here in MIssissippi. So much has been going on MIchael has been at his new job in Iraq for a month and a half now. It seems like eternity I miss him SO frecking much. BUt I am almost done with school so then we can move and he can work here in the states. It has been tough I have no help here the kids are of course a blessing but a handful all at the same time. I have 5 classes this semester and I feel like my cup is too full. Thats ok it will all pay off so soon I get to apply for graduation in like 2 weeks. YEAH! Gosh Isabella is a chatter box now shes 16 months old, Hannah is excelling at ballet and tap and they are both getting ready to join Kindermusik which I am stoked about I wanted to start her on classical piano apparently maybe a little to young. We are flying to NC this weekend coming for a quick trip. I am going to be an Aunt again Maria is pregnant what a blessing the Lord is great. so we are going to go celebrate, ther is a wedding to attend, then the big Cleveland county fair. Quick trip but thats all my schedule allots. We are going to Georigia for Thanksgiving rented a cabin and gonna do Calloway Gardens, and of course Michael will be home for his first vacation for Christmas which I am so excited about haven't told the kids not going to just gonna suprise them at the airport. We are truly blessed. We have joined a new church and are really enjoying it. Anyhow I am sitting her ein my bed listening to The Civil Wars because they are AMAZING! getting ready to chat up Michael and go to bed thank the Lord for another great day. God Bless.

Love like the Movies

IT seems like the best quotes, the best songs, the best moments are often captured on film. Is there room in life to have love like in the movies? So with no one scripting our lives or playing it scene by scene on tape is there, rather can their be a comparison to the perfection found on tape.Or is the beauty in the imperfections, the improvisation of life that makes the love, makes the beauty of reality far more outreaching and powerful than that of the movies. Sure P.S. I love you always makes makes you cry but come on he dies! Life is brilliant as it is mere mortals who write the scenes or publish the books that make us weak at the knees, teary at the sight, and envious of the words and love exchanged between our favorite characters. Love doesn't have to be like the movies it has to be real and tangible. Love is and always be transcended through scripts taken out of pages and regurgitated for our viewing pleasure and hope that in the end you can have a love more envious than that of the movies.  

End of Summer

So we are coming to the end of summer, sort of bittersweet. I am looking forward to a little cooler temps its well over the 100's here and HOT! Sucks cause you can't really take the kids out to do anything but play in water. Fall is on its way. It has been busy busy here. Hannahs excelling in ballet and tap shes so cute, Isabella is quite the chatterbox now and saying lots of new words she also knows most of her body parts now. Hannah told me today that she is a genuis. Its been hard since MIchael has been gone but I am suprised at how much stuff I can do all by myself. Never the less he is missed. I just started back to the fall semester at USM almost done will be applying for graduation soon. I have 5 classes this semseter so I am sure I will stay very busy. We hvae lots planned this fall. Halloween is coming I cant wait, then for Thanksgiving (which is MIchaels bday) we are going to Calloway Gardens in GA with the whole fam damily to see their light show and spend THanksgiving there in a cabin. SO looking forward to that, but not the drive. RIght after that its going to be Christmas we are hoping MIchael will be here hes still working out all of the details the base he is at is closing so he should be able to as long as there is enough manning. IF not he will be home for New YEars. We may celebrate Christmas in Florida I don't know thats a lot of stuff for Santa to bring to FL and bring back :) I am glad the door the military is finally closed sort of. in a year they will decide if they want to keep him temporarily retired or retire him fully. I hate the military and want to affiliation with them anymore and hopefully Michael wont have to deal with them either. Well got to go get Hannah in her ballet and tap clothes. I can't wait to see my little ballerina.

5 years...

Victor Hugo wrote to his wife, “When two souls, which have sought each other for, however long in the throng, have finally found each other ...a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are... begins on earth and continues forever in heaven. This union is love, true love... a religion, which defines the loved one, whose life comes from devotion and passion, and for which the greatest sacrifices are the sweetest delights. This is the love, which you inspire in me... Your soul is made to love with the purity and passion of angels; but perhaps it can only love another angel, in which case I must tremble with apprehension.”

I have been happily married to my husband for 5 years.
WoW! Can you believe it?
Victor Hugo was on to something there, he write what onlythe heart knows. I think our souls have always been trying to find each other and all of our lives have lead up to the moment that we could join each other. There is no sould, no heart I would rather be tetherd to for life. I have the most amazing husbad and best friend, I married a man that is the best father. If there is a checklist (never had one obviously look at my ex's) he met and exceeds all of my criteria.

My life with Michael has been a series of moments that are woven together to form a life that I am proud of. Moments have defined who we are as a couple and made us as strong as we are today. The night he asked me to marry him, the moment I said 'I Do', The moment I told him we were pregnant twice, the look in his eyes when we saw those beautiful babies for the first time, all the I love you's, the tears, the laughter. These are teh moments I cherish, these are the moments that define the couple that we are today. We are strong and united we are  unstoppable. My life did not truly begin until he came into my life. He makes me a better person, mother, friend. I wake up everyday wanting to be better than the day before and better the next. He inspires me, he is my Hugo. I love him everydya more than the last and I am going to wake up tomorrow and love him for another reason. I wish others could be so lucky to have a man like mine. I am looking forward to eternity because our love will surpass the lives here on earth. I cannot wait to be old with him!
Happy 5 year Anniversary

almost time

When they say that time passes you b y they mean it. Years ago seemed like just yesterday and yet years have still gone by. I am so excited Michael is now no longer in the military medically retired. YEAH! He has been referred for two air traffic jobs that he applied for with the DoD Homestead, Fl and Eglin AFB. Unfortunatly he has decided to go with Midwest because they are paying him so much money. SO MUCH MONEY! It is not all about the money of course but its a lot. We will be financially set at the end of a year for quite a while. It is also so I can finish my criminal justice bachelors. I am so close 8 classes 2 semesters Fall is almost here and I grauduate in Spring. But a year away is going to be hard he gets 2-2 week paid vacations they provide the plane tickets and everything so we will see him every 4.5 months. The kids are going to have a really hard time with it as well as myself. He leaves this sunday the 14th for Kansas City for 2 days then he flys to Shaw AFB for 2 days then he has a flight to Kuwait but he's going to Al Asad Iraq until Christmas until that base closes then he goes on to another base. I have mixed feelings about him going but I think its the best choice for our fmaily now then hes guaranteed a job here in the states and he will be they said 70-100% disabled thru the VA and thats another paycheck to just sit in the bank and we get retirement from the military. So we are all hopful this will all work out I am bummed our 5 year anniversary he will be in Shaw AFB, but what can you do? 5 years...amazing right! I am so excited.

Summers end

Its almost the end of July which means soon summer will be over and life as we have known it will all be different. Michaels official retirement is August 23rd of next month I know we are all excited about that, and the government is going to be paying us forever, hes going the the desert for a year and at the years end we ought to be better than well off. It is a hard trade. Michael has two amazing kids. They are not going to understand why daddy is going. It will be very hard I will be a single mother of two kids, I still have to finish school so they will have a nanny at nights for a few hours. Its a trade off now thats hard, but later will be most advantageous. Its going to be a change but its for the best. We move into our new 1700 sq ft apartment next week. I am pretty exctied about that we were gong to do a house, but I have never lived alone and it makes me nervous,, so we are living in a gated apartment complex that cost me more than a house. Its all happening so fast, I have 4 classees this summer semester-almost done, should all be A's of course. On a happy note one that I am very proud of 5 years this August. Wow! I know.  5 years. There have been many laughs, a few tears, joyous moments, 2 amazing children, and a small lifetime together already. I am excited for the day August 18th we can say 5 years. god has a plan for us and ours seems to be pretty good!