Oops :)

So let's just pretend that it hasn't been 11 months since I last posted. I have some pretty good excuses though: I got two jobs (something that I did not have when I started blogging), I spent a lot of time doing OTHER things to keep my mind off the fact that my hubby was on his deployment, I made a bunch of new friends, I visited my family at least once a month, we went on vacation, etc...but none of those really matter. I've thought of blogging all the time. I just didn't sit down and do it. Oh! I also spent the last 11 months reading LOTS of other blogs...tons of them! Annnnnnd I got addicted to Pinterest. So I've neglected this site. Let's see if I can remedy that :)

Mr. L left for his first deployment a few days after I wrote my last entry. It was no fun, but I started working and made new friends in the area. When he returned home 3 months later, I wasn't the only one who was happy to see him:

Below you can see our Christmas/Welcome Home gifts: my ipad and awesome seats for a Steelers game. We had an amazing time and it was a great way to spend Mr. L's first weekend home in a long time!

We spent the next few months just enjoying time in our new home and visiting friends and family. In April, we decided to go on a vacation. The last time we had been anywhere (that wasn't the beach by our house) was our honeymoon two and a half years before. We did some quick research and went with a Sandals Resort in Antigua. It was AMAZING. The resort, the food, the drinks, the people, everything was perfect. The water was so clear that I actually went in (I don't normally do open water).

This was our view during breakfast. I didn't edit this at all, it really looked like this every day.

Since then we've been working on a few projects in our home, spending time with friends and preparing for another deployment. I'm really going to try to stay on top of blogging. No promises, seeing as my last "drought" was a serious one, but I"m going to try!