Way Too Long!

So I know that it has been way too long since the last time I posted. Since the beginning of November we have done a ton! For Thanksgiving we drove to Colorado to spend time with Cory's family. I got the flu on Thanksgiving day which sucked, but what can you do. We also saw family friends while we were there and it was great to catch up with all of them. On the drive home on Saturday, we slid into the ditch 90 miles from home! AHHH!! Luckily, no damage to car was done, the ditch was really a large shoulder but the snow was so deep that Cory could not open his door. Within seconds, a very nice couple picked us up and took us 1.5 miles to a gas station/restaurant thing. From there, another couple said he could pull us out with his truck! God is so awesome and how He provides. No one was hurt and the car had no damage! Then, a week after Thanksgiving, we flew to Fort Worth, TX to celebrate my stepdad's 65th birthday. It was so much fun. We thought of all our San Antonio buddies while we were there. We miss you all!! That was just a short trip and we came home on Sunday. Now, we are here preparing for Christmas and hosting my parents, brother and fiance. It will be a full house! Miss you all! Bye!

15 Days of Cory!

Can you believe it! Cory is allowed to be at home for 15 straight days. Not because he sucks at his job, but because they wanted him to take a cool class offered for officers on the base. God totally gave us this time and we really needed it. I am meeting with the club volleyball board here in Great Falls tomorrow to possibly be a coach. How awesome would that be?!

By the way, God bless the boy scout popcorn sales. You have no idea how tasty the Trails End Chocolatey Carmel Crunch is!! But we can tell you! UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Not much else is going on here. Sorry to be so boring but we miss all of you!!

Update

So, I know we aren't very good at coming to this blog, but at least I get to it every once in a while. Cory officially came home on 10/13 and he was home approximately 30 hours before he posed out to the field at 6:00 am on 10/15. Such is the life of an Air Force wife. So, Cory is working and being reunited with his flight. I am actually home right now not feeling real great. I have felt worse before, but Savannah is also somewhat under the weather. Therefore, it was pretty good day to hang out at home and try and nip any sickness before it is full blown. We plan on going to Missoula this weekend to visit our friends Matt and Rae. It should be fun because we are going to a haunted corn maze!! It also looks like we have found a small group, finally! I have only gone once, and Cory has not because he hasn't been here, but it looks promising. The only thing that is hard at our church is that don't have life groups based on stages of life. So we have to just pick one out of the air and hope we aren't the youngest by 20 plus years. Also, trying to find anyone our age that is married and does not have kids is not an easy thing. This is not to say anyhing against people with children, as most of you who read this have them, but it is nice to be around non-parent adults sometimes. :)

That's it! Talk to ya'll soon!

The Past Couple Weeks

So, I am not quite as good at blogging as I would like to be, but I am trying. I am adjusting to finding time to do things now that I work full time. I swear that people like Kelly have to add hours in the day to do everything that she does! Anyway, the last couple weeks have not been that exciting. I have been working and Cory has been bored in Alabama sitting in classes most of the time.

However, I did have a fabulous weekend the 21st through the 23rd. I flew down to Alabama for a quick visit and we did so much in those few hours we had together. I flew in the afternoon of the 21st and Cory's Aunt Wanda and Uncle Tom picked me up in Birmingham and drove me to Montgomery. Cory met us there for dinner, I shot a gun for the first time on his aunt and uncle's 210 acres of land. I shot a 9 mm, 22 Rifle, and a 12 gauge shotgun. It was cool to do it but I don't think I am a good gun person. Because I cannot close one eye, I really suck and aiming but Cory is a great shot (a good thing too, because he carries a gun with him in the field). We played cards the rest of the night and then we headed to Cory's room.

Saturday morning we woke up and went to see the sights of Montgomery. You are probably thinking that there is nothing, but it was so awesome. I saw Martin Luther King's church, toured the state capitol, and toured the Civil Rights Memorial museum. No one tells you that when King led the voting march from Selma to Montgomery and ended up at the state capitol to give his speech, he actually could see his church one block away from the capitol. That means his total political enemy, Governor Wallace, was working a mere 5 minute walk away! What a juxtaposition!! It was so cool to see such history! Also cool, Governor Wallace actually was governor in the 80s and changed his mind about racism. We also ate at Chick-Fil-A!! God bless that place because I was missing it because there is not one in the state of Montana! We ate so much there though that we weren't hungry for dinner until 10:00! But, I made dang sure not to miss a meal because my pickings here are not what we call fabulous. We went to Carrabba's for dinner and stayed up way too late because Cory's family goes to church at 8:30 am!

Sunday we went to church and Sunday school, ate lunch with his family, and went four wheeling!!! That was so much FUN!! I had the back tires off the ground twice! Then we had head back to Birmingham for a dreadful goodbye!

Here's to 3 more weeks...

9/11 and Thoughts

I was so relieved when I went the whole day today with a sense of peace. Americans often dwell on the last worst event and never grieve and move on. While 9/11 is something to remember, it was nice to go today with moments of silence and remembrance, but nothing in my day today was different. In all honesty, that is when we are most dangerous. Terrorists want to take us out of the game, and by simply living our life, we are gradually defeating them. More importantly though, that is how Satan works too. He wants us to dwell on our sins and mistakes so that we are ineffective for God. If we simply tell God we messed up and move on, Satan loses. How awesome is that we serve a God that is always forgiving, no matter what. God is awesome!