Pictures on the Wall

Saturday, my step dad came over and helped me hang my wedding pictures.

Correction: he hung the pictures while I watched and ate some skittles and pretended to look while in reality I just sat there and just looked pretty. 

 Here they are :

Anxious

Anxious.

That doesn't even begin to describe how I'm feeling right now.

Excited.

That's a little more like it.

Jumping off the walls with excitement.

Can't stop myself from smiling when I think that in just DAYS my husband will be home with me.

I feel like the days are moving so slow that they are going backwards. 

Trying to keep busy just doesn't work. 

I can't keep my mind from constantly thinking about finally being back together.

Finally being able be a newlywed couple. 

Eeeek I'm just so excited.

I can't stop smiling.

I can't stop myself from being in a wonderful mood. 

And I deserve to be. 

I just can't wait to see him step off that bus so I can wrap my arms around him.

I'm just so excited.

And anxious for it to get here already.

I wish time would just speed up just a little bit.

I just want to see my husband. 

I hate this part of the deployments.

When the end is so close you can almost reach out and touch it, but yet it seems so far away.

So Father Time,  please do me a favor and speed up this week a little bit so it doesn't feel like it's moving backwards.

A Few Updates from Florida :)

I haven't been very good about blogging lately.  I've had so much going on and I've honestly though about blogging a million times but just get caught up doing other things and lose track of time.  So I'll catch you up real quick. 


1.) I finally order some wedding pictures to be hung on our walls.  And then I finally got some frames for the wedding pictures.  Now I just need my step dad to come help me hang them.  I got 6 big pictures for around the house.  I think I'm going to do two sets of three collages.  

I can't wait to get these up on the walls :) I'm so glad to finally have some bigger wedding pictures in the house! And I hope to have the hung as a little surprise to Chris once he gets home!


2.) On Friday night,  I went and got a new tattoo.  My fifth and final one.  Well I say final now but will it really be my final? Time can only tell I suppose.   When we got married, one of the gifts I gave to Chris, was engraving his wedding band with the phrase " Love is Eternal."  Which was a surprise to him, he didn't know until the wedding day.  So, I got that exact phrase tattooed on my ribs.  It starts on my back and wraps around my ribs.  I absolutely love it.  I sent chris and email with a picture of it, and he loves it as well.  The tattoo artist was easily the best one I've ever been too and it is probably my favorite tattoo.  The picture makes it looks a little bigger than it actually is.  

3.) Finally, the most important and most exciting news...CHRIS IS COMING HOME!!!! While I can't share an exact date, to say that I am thrilled would be an understatement.  I literally can not wait until the moment he walks off the bus and I can jump into his arms.  We had a little fiasco and he didn't come home on time.  In fact he is coming home about two weeks later than expected.  And he left two weeks early. ugh.  And that news of him coming home later than expected was very last minute, so I had to scramble to change my flight home, our Disney reservations, his welcome home party...pretty much everything.  But it all worked out; with a couple little surprises thrown in there for Chris.  That I can NOT wait for.  I can only hope that this week flies by quicker than the speed of light and I'm on that place back to Virginia before I know it.  I can not believe that the end of this deployment is finally coming to a close.  He made it through his fourth deployment safely.  I am incredibly grateful that my husband will be back in my arms in a matter of days. 


That is pretty much all that I have to catch you up on :)

Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies

Ingredients:
*6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
*4 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
*2/3 cup granulated sugar
*2 large eggs, room temperature
*1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon flour
*1 tablespoon unsweetened natural cocoa powder
*1/8 teaspoon salt
*1 tablespoon LorAnn Red Velvet Emulsion

*8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
*1 large egg yolk
*1/3 cup granulated sugar
*1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract


Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Using foil, line an 8 inch square pan, make sure liner overhangs all four sides.  Spray liner with cooking spray.
3. Place butter and chocolate chips in a small microwave safe bowl and heat in 30 second intervals, stirring after each interval, until chocolate is completely melted and smooth (do not overheat).
4. Transfer mixture to a medium bowl.  Using an electric mixer beat in 2/3 cup granulated sugar, then the eggs.
5. Mix in the flour, cocoa powder and salt just until combined.  Mix in the Red Velvet Emulsion. Spread evenly into prepared pan. 
6. In a sperate bowl, beat together the cream cheese, egg yolk, 1/3 cup sugar and vanilla until smooth.
7. Place dollops of the cream cheese mixture on top of the brownie batter, than use a butter knife or spatula to swirl the mixture together. 

8. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the batter in the center of the pan is just set.  Allow to cool.  Lift out the foil from the pan and peel the liner from the brownies.