Life lately according to my iPhone

 

Happy Veteran's Day!

Obviously veterans are important to me so I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Veteran's Day!

especially the two veterans in my life:

and in addition to hubs and my daddy there is my grandpa, father-in-law, grandfather-in-law, and (we're pretty sure) great grandfather-in-law (all Navy) (I wish I had all the pics!) as well as countless friends! 

Thank you so much! Be sure to go get you're free blommin onion and krispy kreme doughnut (among other things) !!

Mil Spouse Weekly Roundup #57

Jillian passed the roundup on to me and I'm so happy to host it this week! If you've never seen the roundup before basically what you do is choose your favorite blog post from this week to link up (one you've already written!) and check out the posts others have linked up!  Keep track of the roundup over  at Riding the Roller Coaster

So for those of you who don't know me I'm Amanda

I'm 24, was born a raised (basically) in Sacramento, CA. Graduated from Sac State with a degree in photography and I am a photographer, clearly.  I am also a housewife or future SAHM cause the photography currently isn't full time ;) and after a brief stint in San Antonio am beyond happy to say I'm currently living in North San Diego County! I love peonies, jcrew, thrifting, and disneyland (if you couldn't tell from the above photo).

I'm also the mommy to a little pug, Lulu...and I'm obsessed with her!

Now on to hubs

My Husband is a Navy Corpsman.  He is currently waiting to do his field medic training so he can deploy with Marines.  As much as I'm not a huge fan of this I am very proud of him for working really hard in A school so he can get exactly the job he wanted (not to mention in the place we wanted ;) Eventually he wants to get into the nurse officer program (I'm not sure what it's really called) where he can get a nursing degree and then be an officer.  In between he plans on going to C school which means we'll be back in San Antonio for a whole year! :/ ...but that's another story

Anyway hubs loves baseball and is a huge Giant's fan.  He's actually trying to play baseball for the Navy cause he misses it so much. He also loves beer, animals, and me, obviously ;)

We're your basic High School sweethearts who have been married for a little over a year. We love our life and little family and can't wait to start adding little kiddos to it!

Welp I think that about covers the basics.  The next host will be my dear friend Michelle who if you don't know you totally should!  Thanks for linking up!

boot camp graduation

so i finally asked my father-in-law to send me the pics from brian's graduation 

so i got there 2 hours before the ceremony even started and then had to sit through an hour and a half ceremony while i was staring at the husband i hadn't seen for 2 months... needless to say i was anxious!

in fact the night before i could stand the fact that i was literally across the street from him and i could not go see him...it was agonizing! plus i was like a little kid on christmas and got like 2 hours of sleep cause i was far too excited!

anyway, as soon as they called for liberty i RAN to him

...well ran into a mass of sailors ...and then couldn't find him, but i did, don't you worry

and i leaped into his arms and didn't let go...it was the best feeling ever!

so anyway, without further ado:

finally in my sailor's arms! ♥  

and my favorite picture ever:

love ♥

family portrait

we're missing sassy but i love it still!!!

my chicago weekend via blackberry

just popping in real quick you let you know about my weekend in chicago

i'll post more about the graduation when i get the pics from my father-in-law

bags packed ready to go!

about to take off!

the super cute hangers at the navy gateway inn and suites! oh my gosh! and can i just say comfiest bed ever! seriously though it was like sleeping on a cloud

hubs in in there somewhere! you have no idea how excited i was to see him! (and how hard it was to sit there for an hour and a half and not just run up and give him a hug)

at this ice cream place in great lakes...i was NOT playing lol!

at the airport waiting to send my sailor off to TX! ...at 3 am

ma sent me this...i missed my little punkin!

so when i made my flight/hotel reservations i wasn't sure when hubs was leaving and i wasn't planning on moving to texas then so i wanted to make sure i didn't leave before him so i could give him his phone (you had to do it at the airport) so he left at like 6am saturday morning and my flight wasn't until 10pm sunday night

luckily one of my best friend's boyfriends is in the navy and is stationed at great lakes!

this is them...aren't they cute!? (yes i stole this off facebook lol!)

we'll anyway he was super nice cause i had met him only once before (for like 2 mins) and he entertained me all saturday and sunday!

we went to a white sox game, for free! (technically i wasn't supposed to be free, only active duty military, but we said military tickets and showed my ID and i think the lady felt bad for us lol!)

on sunday we ate breakfast at this totally scrummy place in this cute little town (sorry i scarfed it down before i got any pics) then went for a walk through the town and on this little nature trail waiting for the train to get there

a heart shaped planter in the town

my fav house we saw...actually there was a better one but there were people there so i didn't take a pic cause that would be awk-ward!

me in front of this decorative gun thingy on base...he told me what it was a million times but i don't remember lol!

this awesome dinosaur skeleton statue at o'hare airport

the only pizza i had in chicago...at the airport lol!

and a funny convo with my taxi driver:

driver: they have a six flags in california?

me: ya, there's two

driver: no shit!?

me: yep, one in LA and one in the bay area

driver: so that (the six flags there) wasn't exciting for you?

me: oh no, there's lots of theme parks in california

driver: damn! they open year round?

me: uh...they sure are...

lol!