He's My Lobster ♥

One Month

One Month.

Since the last time I've seen, hugged or kissed my husband.

4 weeks. 30 days. 4 weekends. 20 workdays.

5 more months to go until I can jump in his arms.

Not a lifetime, I know. But long enough.

I miss him like crazy.

I can fill my days but there's always something missing.

The nights are the worst. They were our time to spend together, to catch up from the day and to just be together.

Although I'm grateful for deployments; they've brought us closer than I believe we ever would've been if we had never been through one; but boy are they hard.

I spend the days waiting for the email from him, just so I know he's safe and everything's ok.

It's tough knowing that he's in a dangerous location.

Its hard to worry about him day everyday.  It's even harder to not worry about him everyday.

Those phone calls when I'm least expecting it are the highlight of my day.

Even through our lack of communication, I can feel our love growing stronger each day.

I can feel our bond getting stronger as the days go by.

Even though I'm no fan of deployments, in the end, I'm grateful for everything they have taught Chris and I about our relationship.

Gosh, I just love my man in uniform so much ♥ 

Pinterest

Pinterest.

I was invited.

I joined.

I tried to figure it out.

But it can't.

Maybe I'm stupid.

But I just don't get the point of it.

Everyone else seems to love it and really get the hang of it.

What is wrong with me?!

Somebody please explain it to me so I can waste some more time while I should be working.

Because it seems like it has some really cute ideas on that site.

Butterfly Cake

I made this super cute cake for a coworkers little girl's birthday. 

The Cake Recipe:

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x9 inch pan or line a muffin pan with paper liners.
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pan.
3. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven.

For the Buttercream Icing

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 cups confectioner's sugar
• 2 tablespoons milk

**Will make about 3 Cups icing**

Directions

1. In a large bowl, cream together butter and shortening with an electric bowl.

2. Add vanilla.

3. Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often.

4.  When all of the sugar has been mixed in,  icing will appear dry.  Add milk and beat on medium speed until light and fluffy.

5. Keep bowl covered with damp colth until ready to use.

For The Decorations

*For the overall icing I used wilton icing color "Rose" and iced the entire cake.

* For the blue dots on the wings, i used a cut up airheard, and kind of  smushed it into little circles.  Then, I used wilton icicng color "teal" to form the little dots around the airhead dots.

* For the body of the butterfly, Iused wilton icing color "Copper" and tip number 21, made small little circles to get the shape the body.
* I used twizzlers for her antlers and spice drops to go around the body.

Big Changes

Big Changes are coming my way.

I'm terrified.

I'm excited.

Most of all, I'm sad.

I'm a bundle of emotions that can't stop crying whenever I mention it.

I'm sad to leave my BEST friends.

They know who they are, and they mean the WORLD to me.

I have no fears that nothing with our friendships will change except that we physically won't see each other so often, which is so hard.

But the bonds that we have are unbreakable. 

We have been through the dramatics of high school.

We made it through everyone leaving to go to college and making new friends.

And we're still back where we started in high school- BEST FRIENDS.

We've been throughout the challenges of "real life" with each other.

There is no doubt in my mind that our friendships will remain the best of the best.

That when they come visit me, or I come back home, we will pick up right where we left off.

Florida.

The beach.

The sunshine.

This is what we've wanted for so long, and now that it's coming true it's so surreal.

Two weeks and we close one chapter in our life and start the first chapter in our married life.

Dirt Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups oreo cookies

Directions

1. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. In a medium bowl, cream the white sugar, brown sugar, and the butter together until smooth. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Add the flour mixture, and stir until just combined. Stir the crushed cookies into the dough. Cover, and chill the dough for 1/2 hour.
2. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.

3. Drop dough by rounded spoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 10 to 11 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove to cool on wire racks.

Cute Animals

Because I could spend all my days at work looking at cute litte animals.

Sending emails to Chris about which ones are going to be our next family member.

Because lets face it, who doesn't need a smile.

http://theberry.com/2011/09/15/daily-awww-a-whole-buncha-cute-animals-30-photos/

And of course, my marsh;

Tired out from all the running around she did.