I'm Backkkk

I'm back. 

Chris came home on March 13, 2012 around 1030 that evening.

Life has been crazy since then.

But it was one of the best days.

I can't even begin to describe the feeling of seeing your loved one walking off the bus.

The feeling of hugging your new husband who has been fighting for our country for the past 7 months.

The sparks that fly during that first kiss.

How you don't want to leave his side for awhile after he gets home.

I literally slept glued next to him. 

I can't possibly describe the feeling of seeing my husband walk off that bus and running into his arms.

But i will say this,

All those lonely nights and the pain of missing him;

it disappeared and was forgotten the second I saw him.

It made everything worthwhile.

Just to be back in his arms again. 

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. 

Apartment :)

As most of you know, I moved to an apartment about two months ago.

I have been promising people pictures since then.

I have finally gotten around to taking some pictures.

Here they are :)

 When you first enter the apartment this is what you first see.

 My aunt made this for us as one of our wedding presents, you can't really see it because the flash went off but it's our wedding invite :)

 Right as you enter the apartment, this is on the wall.

 The dining room.

 The kitchen. 

 My mom got this for me as one of my bridal shower gifts, its a picture of where we got engaged. I love it. :) 

 More kitchen.

 The sign above our bedroom door :)

A cute little chalkboard I found at Home Goods. On it is written "2ish weeks until Chris comes home!"

 One side of our entertainment center.

 The other side.

 The Living Room.

 And again..

 Our little balcony.

 One of the walls in our living room.

One of the hallway walls.

 Guest bathrooms.

 Picture on the wall in the guest bedroom.

 Collage of pictures in the guest bedroom. 

Guest bedroom.

 Master Bathroom

Our bed set...which i LOVE.

There you have it, our little apartment.

Minus the 3rd bedroom because it's just being used for storing things right now. 

I think I got the most important things. 

I'll post some more later :)

Smokey Eyes with a Twist

I saw this picture in the new Cosmo magazine;

Smokey Eyes with a twist.

I love how she has her eye makeup done.

Smokey with a pop of color; right up my alley.

So, I decided to try it using these products.

1.) On the top far left we have Revlon Diamond Lust eye shadow in Neptune Star.

2.) On the top far right we have Revlon Diamond Lust Eye Shadow in Celestial Silver

3.) On the lower left we have Mac Eye Shadow in Deep Truth

4.) On the lower right corner we have Maybelline Color Tattoo 24 HR Cream Gel Shadow in Tenacious Teal.

*First I put a little primer on my eyelids to keep it from creasing throughout the day.

*Second I covered my whole eyelid with #4.

*Third I started in the inner corner crease with #1 and went only to the mid crease.

*Fourth, I used #3 to finish the crease and go out to the corner of my lid, to give it that smokey look.  Making sure to blend it in with the teal.

*I used #3 in the inner corner of my eyes and right below my brow bone to give my eyes a fun little sparkly since the teal has some sparkly in in. 

The final result:

Not exactly like the picture but it came out pretty well. 

I finished off the look with L'Oreal Infallible Le gloss in Pink Topaz. 

Pretty :)