Marine Animals and Ovulation

I got good news today,

 after about twenty follow-up phone calls.

 Apparently, according to my progesterone levels they took on Monday,

 I ovulated!! 

 Which sounds really dumb to be this excited about,

 but it means that all these weird things I've been feeling lately

 could very well be pregnancy

 (not that I'm getting my hopes up or anything lol)

 I am terrified of taking another stick test

 and I think I'm going to wait until Wednesday and just let them test my blood

 since that will be much more definitive anyway

 and I don't want to go through seeing another 

 NOT PREGNANT

 screaming at me on a pee stick.

 But at least there is hope now!

 It makes it better because I'm a lot more at peace about things this week.

 Had a good cry or two,

 and got it out of my system. 

 I think I'm ok with God's plan now.

 Or at least I'm trying to be.

 If it's this month, I'll be thrilled,

 and if it's not, then at least BE and I have more time to work and save and plan

 which would be a good thing to.

 Ah the art of "not really hardcore trying but not preventing it from happening" lol

 On another note,
 my husband says the darndest things.
 I wish there was a TV show for that.
I'd win some serious cash.
 Some as of late are:

 Me: "I had the craziest dream last night. We were in a war zone hiding from the enemy in this little room, and you pulled out your phone and had an app that showed where all the soldiers were and that they were coming toward us, and I started crying. And that's when I woke up."
 BE: "Well, you should'a just kept dreaming! Because obviously if I had an app that could track the war, I would have used my other awesome app to call in an airstrike."

After BE beat our neighbor twice in Words With Friends: "You see, when I see her when I'm 50, I can be like, 'Hey, remember that time I beat you in Words? I only won twice, but nobody knows that. So I'm the Champion for all time.' And that's why you quit when you're ahead, baby."

 After seeing a sign by a roadside fruit stand: "Tomatoes that taste like Tomatoes? What else are they supposed to taste like? Feet??"

BE: "Baby, I'm so fat. I look like a whale. Are you ok with the fact that you're in love with a marine animal?"

 BE: "Remember that t-shirt I told you about that says 'White People Are Crazy'? I gotta have it. It's gonna be fantastic."

 BE: "I just really like the way the word polyp sounds. Why is that so weird?"

 BE: "Work is stupid. Naked is better."

 So now that you've gotten a good laugh at the expense of my ridiculous husband,
 I'm going to go study some more
 and laugh as I remember other funny things he says,
 because there are lots of them.
 I'm so glad I married a man with humor :)

Thoughts From The Hubs

Sometimes the things my husband says give me the best chuckle, and tonight was one of them. He sent me this picture of him with his plane out at IFS:

to which a friend of his commented (referring to Top Gun) "Do you have the need??" (If you've seen the movie, you would know that after that, Goose replies, "The need for speed!!"). Well, my husband replies, "There's not much speed in this one. She's only got 125 HP, and our max airspeed is 164 knots, or about 190 mph. It's hard to buzz the tower at Mach 0.15." LOL. 

and here are the rest of the guys in his flight!! I teased him that they have the sorority pose down perfectly.

On another happy note, here is a picture from our romantic dinner celebrating our 6 month wedding anniversary (which we celebrated early before BE left) at a great little spot here in Pensacola called the Fish House. I can't say enough good things about the food!

I was so happy he wore his yellow shirt! We met online, and when I was flipping through his pictures I wasn't really stopping to look very long until I saw a picture of him in this yellow shirt. That was the moment that I stopped and decided that I thought he was super cute and I just couldn't resist, and I finally responded to the message he had sent me a few days earlier. So in all technicalities, that yellow shirt started all this! Here is the original picture, so you can see how we've changed lol

Such a stud! We are very excited that we are going to be heading out on our cruise here in the next few weeks!! We actually won it on our honeymoon cruise that my parents sent us on since we had such a tiny wedding. We took a 5 dollar bill into the casino to gamble with (high rollers, I know), I turned it into $20, and we walked out. Well, that night we got invited to the past guest reception since I had cruised with Carnival before. (we really only went because there were free drinks lol) but while we were there they ran a deal just for past cruisers on the raffle that they had been running all week to win another free Carnival cruise. Well, usually you only get 10 tickets for $20, but that night you got double tickets, so I went up and just for kicks and giggles put our $20 into the pot and got 20 tickets. The last day of the cruise they had this little boy come up on stage and pull out a ticket, and it was one of ours!!!!!!!!!! I thought BE was going to pass out. So anyway, we decided to take it when he came home from IFS, so now I'm gearing up! We picked our excursions today, and we will be....

riding horses on the beach (which BE picked out all himself and surprised me with, because I have ridden horses my whole life but never gotten the chance to ride on the beach!) and...

swimming with dolphins!!!! I am so excited about this trip! The fact that 5 of our first 6 months of marriage have been spent apart has really put some stress on our relationship, so I'm very excited to have a week of relaxation and fun and JUST US! Hope everyone has had a fabulous Wednesday :)

Flight Suits and the "Man Grill"

So BE was issued his flightsuit, helmet bag, and flight bag yesterday. Not trying to be a Debbie Downer, but I am really torn as to how to feel about it. He is so so excited, and I want to be that excited for him, but a part of me has hit a new level of terror now that it feels "real". I had tried to get him to not go to OTS and stay with me and get a "normal job" way back in the day when we were first together. My biggest fear of all time is airplanes, in general. I have to be heavily medicated to even go near an airport, even to pick someone up. Being that close to a plane makes me super nervous (I think God is probably STILL laughing at the irony of making the man I was destined to marry a flyer). After he explained to me that he wouldn't feel fulfilled in his life unless he served his country, and this was really in his heart how he felt called to serve, I realized that I had to put my personal preferences aside and support him regardless. I have no place keeping him from his dreams, and when friends of mine ask me how I live with the fear of someone showing up at the door to tell me he had been killed, the response I give them is that I would rather him die at 25 knowing he was happy with what he was doing and felt like he was answering God's calling for his life and had no regrets than to have him die at 100 years old an unhappy businessman who hated his job and felt like he had never really made a difference in the world because he had sacrificed a dream because I was a scaredy-cat. Not going to lie, that doesn't make the fear totally go away, but it helps. I like seeing him happy, and I like seeing him happy with his job. Not many people can say they love their job. But seeing that flight suit hit me like a lead brick. It was that moment of "oh my gosh, this is really happening," and I froze up. I wanted to celebrate with him and ooh and aah over it, but my fear really gripped me. Has anyone else ever had a moment like that?

Anyway, the "man-grill" (as it has been officially dubbed) is now taking up half of our garage lol. BE refuses to put it outside until we find a cover for it, so he's parking his car outside instead LOL. Boys. So I've been promised a steak dinner tomorrow, and I'm pretty excited about it! I also just got a coffee grinder, and I love it! It really does make the coffee taste fresher, and I thought all that stuff was just a way to get you to spend money on their product. But it was sooooo good! I'm a believer. I'm also debating whether I should combine my two blogs (I have another one for family recipes) or just leave the food one a separate thing... thoughts? Well, love ya'll, I'm gonna go help the hubs do dishes :)