Crazy weather

Living in tyler we have some crazy weather, one day I'm in short sleeved shirts and the next we have SNOW! Crazy. This is my jeep covered and my sister about to make a snowball to chunk at me!

I didn't want to play in the snow and get wet and sick but I did watch my family have violent snow ball fights;) and then they took an old car hood and tied it to the back of the 4wheeler and went sledding ... Redneck. LoL but they had fun. snow is rare and pretty to see but .... i hate cold and im ready for summer!!!

JwF

Days of rest...

Woohoo! I finally got this blogger to work on my iPhone! Had to go into settings on here and update something, really I had no idea what I was doing just got lucky:) ever since I got my iPhone I'm not really on my laptop as much unless I'm watching a missed tv show on it and so I don't really have a chance to get on here and ramble about my so very boring life lol so maybe I will more now that I can get on from my phone.

So after 4 long weeks Preston finally got to come home for a week and I booked us a few nights in Dallas to get away from the real world that is quite depressing now days and such a drag and I needed a little sunshine! We left Thursday around lunch and headed out on our road trip. We had some great food, went to the galleria a couple of times because it's so massive and i went to "HomeGoods" my most favorite store ever... I picked out this colorful and rather strange teapot that i just had to have, its pretty awesome to me:) and i got Lots if snuggle time and just tried to enjoy each others company because we both know it's going to be a while before we get to see each other again because when he leaves early next week he'll probably be gone another month... Boo! But after that he'll be done with training and out driving on his own hopefully and a real paycheck ... I'm pretty excited about that lol. I just keep telling myself that after a year or two he can be home more and work local and it's going to go by fast. Right?

Atleast I know what I'll be doing to pass the time while he is gone this go around ... I love, love law & order SVU and got seasons 1-10 on DVD!! I have watched disc 1 of the first season and 5 more to go. Im thinking it won't take me long to watch all of them though lol but not to worry because I also ordered the complete series on xfiles and I'm waiting on that to come in, yay!! I was so into that weird show and still love it :)

So here's to my first post from my phone and many more to come! Hug the ones you love, it's such a blessing taken for granted ....

JwF

Exercise .... blah

me? little 98 pound Jennie, exercise? ha no way! ....

well over the past few months i have gone into the triple digits! 101-102 ( i know you people are thinking omg thats nothing! but to my little body its a lot ) and with those few pounds i have gained some unflattering tummy weight that makes my dad and brothers think im hiding a growing baby .... sigh .... all that sitting at my desk eating CANDY & Mt. Dews all day and the extra Holiday food has really caught up to me. really, if i wasn't so embarrassed by it i would post a picture, i totally look 4 months pregnant, especially after i eat a big meal. when i can no longer suck in my tummy and make it flat, there is a problem. So .... i guess ill make one of those new year resolution things .... i'm going to walk/jog 1-2 miles a day ( more in the summer when its not so cold!) and hopefully that will boost my metabolism back into action! i need to do some of those dreaded sit ups but A: they hurt and B: it takes forever to see results and i want it now! I really need to cut back on my junk food intake ... maybe i can go to 1 soda a day and not quite as many sweets, i need to keep something more healthy to snack on at work, when i'm sitting around all day i just want to eat all the time ( whats something good to snack on that wont turn into pounds of fat?!?!) This ... is .... a ... problem. So anyways thats my plan .... hope i can stick to it because im tired of my pudgy non-pregnant belly!

My husband has been gone for over 4 weeks now :( boo! BUT he is getting to come home in the next day or two for a week! woohoo! i am going to take a couple of days off of work and we are going to go out of town for a few nights, probably the ft. worth/dallas area to spend some time together and do something fun, eat at some good places we dont have in tyler, im hoping to go to my favorite Breakfast spot *Cafe Brazil* that aunt Ruthye got me addicted to, and stop by the HomeGoods store! my absolute most favorite store EVER! then we'll come back home and ill share him with the rest of the world for a few days before he leaves again to finish his last few weeks of training. So i am so looking forward to this week! so just a couple more days of work then some much needed time with my hunny :)

in a few months i hope to have a better idea of our future plans. .. . so ready to be back in a house with my things! but thankful for mama & daddy :) i would hate to be alone right now while preston is away so much. I will be stronger from this experience. My goal this year, is to get A LOT of $$ saved when preston starts really working/driving and buy me a house! then i can have my little mini me in 2012 .... sounds good to me, but i often have different plans than God has for me :) maybe we can meet in the middle somewhere? hope so!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

JwF

It's a new Year ...

I am so very happy to see 2010 be done with! some things that i did love this year were ...

1 - my 1st wedding anniversary

2- my honeymoon cruise!

um but not much else lol. the last few months of this year have been very testing and im ready for a fresh start and for new better doors to open!

I had a wonderful Christmas Holiday & Birthday, if only Preston could have been here to share it with me, he has been gone for 4 weeks now and its been really hard and im so over this being away thing. But if he can just stick with it for a couple of short little years ( oh who am i kidding thats not short!) then he can come back to tyler and have something where he is home most nights. the old saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder is so true though, i cannot wait till i get to see Preston in a few days, he'll be home hopefully in the middle of the week and get to stay a week i hope. I do not plan on sharing very much, sadly i will have to work during the week so he can go see other people from 8-5 and mine after that! I think we will go away for a few days and preston will finally get to open all his christmas gifts too! poor thing was in a hotel in vegas all alone for Christmas, and new years ... um i think new mexico driving all night. He is ready to be home for a few days!

here are just a couple of pictures from the holidays ( hundreds are on FB )

this is my 4 brothers, Adam, Elliott, Benjamin & Christopher, so grown up!

my sisters and I, Emily, Christina, Me, Bo, Katie & Ally

this is what i unwrapped during our brother & sister exchange, it was quickly stolen from me!

this is me at Prestons Grandparents Christmas morning, with his 2 cousins Kaitlyn & Erica and my sister in law Margo, we all got matching socks from the grandparents! lets see if we can not lose them and wear them next year!

opening presents :) I got everything i wanted for christmas, minus my husband.

but over all it was fabulous!

Happy new years everyone! i Pray its filled with blessings for all!!

JwF

10 days to go!

10 days till Christmas, 12 days till my birthday ....

all of this would be more exciting if Preston was going to be home, but it looks like he wont get to come home till January sometime :( boo. He is having a really, really hard time emotionally and physically with this job and I just pray he can stick it out and not quit. At first we thought he was going to be home for the week after Christmas and now we dont know when so i hate not having a certain date to look forward to. I'm totally bummed at the thought that he probably wont be here, we haven't spent a Christmas or birthday apart in 5 years, so im trying to not let it spoil the season for me:) but it still stinks. I just have hope that maybe by some chance he'll get be here. I have shopped for everyone and wrapped for everyone all by myself, blah, I need my other half!

Thank you Lorri Anne for changing my blog background! loooove it :D it made me smile ....

Tonight i went to dinner with prestons grandparents and then we drove around looking at christmas lights, it was fun:) and tomorrow is wednesday and that means its time for this busy weekend! actually thursday and friday are packed too, babysitting, work christmas party, moms family is coming down saturday for christmas. i;m going to try and enjoy it all . . . i miss my husband and cant wait for him to come home!

JwF

Oh my, 15 days!?!?!

wow, its almost the middle of December already?

how crazy is that! just the other day it was summer and life was a breeze :)

I have a Love/Hate relationship with Christmas, i love the lights, trees, food, family time and giving presents! but i hate the stress that comes with the Holidays. every year since my daddy was little they went into our woods and cut down their Christmas tree each year and he has always done that with us, such memories cutting down a tree each year:) bringing it home and tying it to the ceiling so it doesn't fall lol, below is the winner picked for 2010, she really is a beauty compared to some we have had:) AND no strings on her yet!

Wood Family Tree

My Birthday is also in Dec. which i have always really hated it being right after Christmas and my brothers is the day before mine! i always envied the kids who got to have summer birthday parties at the Lake or somewhere fun ... December is cold and wet and yucky and not a good time for a birthday lol but what do ya do! I turn the big 24 this year and i must say i am a little freaked out about that, i feel like life is going by too fast and i want to be young forever!!

some good news we have had the past few weeks is - Preston was able to take a course for truck driving and passed with flying colors after his 6 weeks and has a job! hallelujah! :) i dropped him off in Dallas sunday night and he had 2 days of orientation which turned into 4 days and he finally goes out on the road tomorrow with his trainer ( he rides/drives with a trainer for 6 weeks) the bad news is that he will be gone a lot and i miss him terribly already:( i havent spent more than 5 days away from him in 6 years! and that was years ago when he went to Paris Junior College for a year. so yes i am so not looking forward to all his time away but he is supposed to be home for christmas and my birthday as of right now but that could change and then gone for another 3 weeks with trainer till he is out on his own and he should be home most* weekends then ::sigh:: i am proud of him for taking on this and i worry about his safety constantly but i did that here too lol. This is yet another challenge in life/marriage and we will work our way through it and learn from it all. God is good, all the time!

I must get off of this computer and get to bed! with all my alone time ill be having now i see more frequent blogs again, if i have no one to talk to i can always talk to myself on here! :)

JwF

Rebuilding ....

"After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore, establish and strengthen you." 1 peter 5:10

just repeat that over and over and over and over again ..... its calming : )

the last 6 weeks have been a little rough and im just trying to make it through this life change, with lots of new things coming up ahead too but i dont want to get into any of that till things actually happen. this month i have been doing ( like a lot of others) 30 days of thankfulness and it has really made me look past the bad that has happened the last month and think about all of the good things, things that i am thankful to have, i thought it would be hard to come up with something every day for 30 days that i am thankful for but its rather easy, my life is blessed even in times of trial. My Family is my world and i dont know what i would do without them. This is not meant to be a downer post! :) I have always said that i believe everything happens for a reason ... even if we cant see that reason ourselves at first ... yes i so miss my own space, my bed :( my DISHES lol but some day sooner rather than later i hope i will have my space again, i am so thankful for my mama and daddy!

I cannot wait for church tomorrow ... and then hopefully ill get to check out my sister in laws new apt and spend some time with my husband whom i havent been able to see much lately and the next 2 weeks are going to be so busy and i know i wont see him then either! and today i actually got to sleep in and it was heavenly ...really:) then i went to my great aunts like normal and my sister and i decided to clean her 50 gal. fish tank and get new rocks and a few new fish ( my aunt loves her fish, she watches them for hours! ) so about 30 minutes into this ordeal we realized how much work it was! we are beat, but the tank looks great (even got some glow in the dark rocks!) and i got home at 8pm! so off to bed for me :) good night!

and ..... Gwenny is free from the turtlenapper!!! now she is still not in my possession but she will be soon! :D Kelly Anne won her bid on Ebay and Gwenny is recuperating at kelly's house and i will get her back this weekend! :D

JwF