We are trying to slow down. Much easier said than done around here!!!
Travis has been home for almost three weeks now and we have been happily and unbearably busy! We are like kids in a candy store trying to have all the fun we can have. Add a never ending To Do list of either stuff that was put off until after homecoming or stuff that recently popped up. I will say it is much easier to handle it all with someone in my corner, always there and willing to help out. I am so wonderfully overjoyed to have my husband home to be busy with... but we need to start slowing down!
In the past three weeks we have...

Relaxed at the Pier

Celebrated three wonderful years of marriage

Made a trip to the San Diego Fair 

Celebrated my birthday!

And much much more! We haven't fallen into any sort of schedule yet nor has work or life really resumed any form of normal. We are enjoying our homecoming cocoon, but all good things must come to an end! Soon work will start back and I registered for classes today which will begin late fall. The funny thing about being busy is it seems there will be no time for work and school! Ready or not though, it is coming and coming up quickly. It has been a wonderful start to our summer but I'm ready to have our "normal" life back. Those content days you just run through your schedule.

I am so thankful for these past few weeks and very excited to see what the rest of 2012 holds. We have trips planned, school to accomplish, plans to be made, big decisions about our future to me made, holidays to be celebrated all over the country. It is going to be a busy second half of the year.

Ah! I am so nervous for school!! My summer classes posted tonight and they start in just five days! I don't know why I'm so nervous. It seems like a life time since I've written a paper or studied! Two years has gone by so quickly. I think I'm just working myself into a mess. I tend to do that! Hopefully I rock these classes! Hopefully I can manage to rock them before we leave for Hawaii! Our trip and anniversary is coming up so soon!! Last night I convinced Travis we should open our anniversary gifts early. I half couldn't wait, half out of necessity so he could put leave in. I got him tickets to the Pebble Beach car show! So we are going to the car show of all car shows and then going up to San Francisco for a couple of days!! So if anyone has San Francisco recommendations, I'm all ears. I can't wait!! He can't wait!! lol It's been a long time since we've been car show-ing together. This will probably be our once in a lifetime chance. Next year he'll be deployed for Pebble Beach and the year after we should be getting ready to PCS. And I got a pasta machine! I have always wanted to try and make home made pasta! When we come back from Hawaii I will try it out and post my wonderful pasta!

I have to share! Travis got me the cutest mugs as part of my anniversary gift!

Love my Marine!

His and Her Mugs <3

I have officially finished wrapping Travis' anniversary gift! Since I can't tell you all what is inside, I figured I'd show the outside. I may or may not have avoided a lot of cleaning, but it had to get wrapped at some point.. right? Some of it goes onto the side where you can't see. The following line is the lyrics to "All My Tomorrows" by Frank Sinatra, which is our song.

Happy June everyone!! I am very excited to see June hit! It is going to be a wonderful month and summer!!

This month Travis and I will be heading to Hawaii for our second wedding anniversary and our make-up honeymoon! I am beyond excited!! I should also go on record saying I have thought of the best anniversary gift, maybe best ever! :) This will be the best anniversary yet. Unfortunately our wonderful wedding ended with Travis leaving for training. Married on Saturday and he was out on Monday. Our first anniversary, I am very happy to say we were able to spend together. But we also had to attend a pre-deployment brief, so a little bit of a buzz kill you could say. Third time is a charm! I can't believe we've been married for almost two years! It seems like it's gone by in a blink of an eye but in the same time it feels like five years has been shoved into the two year time span. It's been a busy two years!
As if having our wedding anniversary isn't enough, that same week I will be starting school! I'm a bit hesitant about overloading that week but somehow I'll make it work. I hate the idea of waiting until August to start school. After dealing with all the crazy VA paperwork, I am so close to having it done I just want to start school! If everything goes as planned I should be graduating in about two years! (and as Travis says, "be his sugar mama" Hahaha!)