Hello 4:47 am....

So since Eli left I have become a night owl. Well I think it was actually before he left. Anyhow, at first I blamed it on the time zone changes. Well i've lived here for over a month and I still am awake at 5 am.. So Im pretty sure its just me. Eli has been gone for 10 day now. This deployment has been hard already. Nothing horrible has happened and nothing that I cannot handle. Just I miss him... a lot. He had been able to call me 3 times. He has also been able to write on my facebook 2 times. I fell lucky. But the days inbetween are lonely. If he told me "Les I can't call for 3 weeks" then I would plan in my head to not expect a call. It is the uncertainty that makes it hard. I want to keep my phone on loud and vibrate just incase he happens to call or text or fb or email me. It is crazy. I sleep with my phone right by my ear because I hate to miss his calls. For some reason tonight my mission was to find songs related to military or deployments. Well there are actually quite a few. Needless to say I was bawling listening to all these songs. Then I heard about a SSGT Thomas Dudley who had been killed in Afghanistan July 7, 2011. His family is from Jacksonville so I browsed over and read her blog. Wow I dont think a person in the world could read her blog without bawling. http://thedudleyfamily.wordpress.com/ It was so touching, heart-wrenching. My heart aches for her and her family. Her husband was supposed to come home on monday, but he didnt. I cant imagine what she is going through and its always in the back of your head when your husbands away you just pray and hope and pray and try to not dwell on it our you would go insane. ok... thats depressing on to other news.
Tori is officially registered for 1st grade. We will be getting a card in the mail letting us know who her teacher is. She is getting very excited. We have been doing a little school clothes shopping here and there, well today we went through all of her clothes and took out the old or small clothes to donate and I went to the chiropractor again! haha, this is the 2nd one and a massage theraphist for my back, I hurt it somehow. I sort of think it was progressively getting worse until it was just very mad and hurtful.. I moved a overstuffed couch and it wasnt the best idea. Anyhow he said my discs are good but I have to much arch in my spine and my last vertebra is pinching some nerve and thats whats causing all the pain. So I get to know this chiro good... for the next month. Oh well as long as it quits hurting. um... oh I had a copperhead snake in my back yard, two frogs take up residence inbetween the glass and the screen of my sliding glass door.

Oh on guess what sucks news, So i went to drive Eli's truck the other day and the batteries dead (just bought a new battery 7-6-11) so i go to open the hood... what do you know I cant get it open... So i go to open my hood also cant open by myself. (you have to have one pull latch while other lifts to get it to open... so anyways I cant charge the battery anyways... ya. Stupid heavy old vehicles. 98 chevy truck and 99 nissan altima. Oh I made some awesome salsa and took it to the Military spouse wives group that it at church. So that was really nice to get out. I for some reason volunteered to do the next activity, im an idiot. I dont have any creativity in me anywhere. So luckily my mom is going to help me come up with a cool idea. Ok well its now past 5 So I better get off try to go to bed. good night. miss you Eli.

Hi I am still here.

Hey so Kim my cousin was saying Les are you going to update your blog.... Ya I am... Then I was like I guess a lot has been going on. So I moved from AZ to NC. I live in this cute little town called Richlands, NC. It is a farming community and I love it. Jacksonville (where camp Lejeune is)is about 15 minutes aways but the base is on the other side and it takes30 minutes on a great day to get there. If it is 6am or 4 to 6 pm it will be closer to ahour and a half. Well Tori and I have gone to the beach a few times once on base and to Topsail. It is about an hour away. It is gorgeous. I love the water so much. I has been awful hot here lately and it hasnt been raining so everything is not green. The corn fields are burnt and look so sad. I will have to take a picture next time I go to Richlands. I am actually right inbetween the two towns but luckily in the Richlands school district. Tori has made a new friend from the park (her mom is a really like lady too) and a friend at church. I have made a few new friends. Eli got back from Mojave Viper training june 26. He had a week of leave and he deployed July 19. He is going to be in Afghanistan until late febuary at the earliest. So here's to another deployment. While Eli was home we got to go to dinner for my birthday at my FAVorite resaraunt in Beaufort. So good. Anyhow we also went camping for a few days, went fishing, actaully got a row boat and rowed around a few lakes (my idea, ya it was a bad one). Eli was promoted to Sargent!! Deserved and we are so proud of him. (we went to Texas Roadhouse for that too) We went to Wilmington and toured a battleship we also toured an amazing old home. We walked around the old downtown. went shopping. Saw the beach and had a wonderful time hanging out together. On well almost all of these pictures are on my camera and I cannot find the cords.. so I will try to download some picuters from my phone.
Eli at Cax (mojave viper)