I am a slacker!

I honestly have NO excuse for not blogging!! My last post was probably over 2 months ago! Whats been going on?

• We moved to Salt Lake for a month, it didnt work out the way we thought it was going to!
• We are back in Kanarraville, Austin is back with the DNR and working for the winter. 
• Austin is applying for a Whiskey 1 position in the Special Forces. He just put in the app yesterday.
• We are about to have our first Christmas together!! Yay :)

With the job up in Salt Lake Austin did work for a month and then he ended up not getting it for the full year, we were okay with that. It was hard living in two different places. We weren't able to have time for each other and it made me feel really distant from him. Its weird how dependent I am on him and when he isn't around i feel like I don't function properly! Which isn't a good thing. With his DNR job he is frequently gone. All summer he was fighting fire, and our luck this Winter all their projects are out of town. They leave for the work week and come back for the weekend. All summer I had to go to my mom's for sleepovers when Austin was gone because I wasn't really comfortable staying alone in Kanarraville, but this time I talked myself into trying it out! I told my mom, "don't lock the door, I might be coming back" haha. No big deal, I drank some ZzzQuil, which its amazing! Austin called right before i feel asleep and everything was okay!! So now I'm a big girl and I cant stay home alone! I was proud :)

This Whiskey 1 position Austin has applied for is Advanced Medical training with the Special Forces. If he gets it, we will be moving to North Carolina for 7 months for the training and then Austin will be in the 19th unit that is out of Camp Williams. We would have to live up there and he would have a full time Job at Camp Williams. I'm having a hard time with wanting to move away from Utah, and doing full time Army. There are so many things I'm scared of, I don't even know where to start.  Through out the whole process of applying for the position I have felt so many crazy emotions, stress, nerves, fear of the unknown! I really feel like I'm unstable and it doesn't help that I've been slacking on the spiritual side of things. I can really just testify that having the spirit on my life makes everything so much easier. All the big decisions that need to be made are much easier to make when you have the lord on your side. I know that whatever is in store for my future with my husband is exactly what I need to grow and move forward in life, I just need to hand over the reins and let my Heavenly Father guide and direct me the way my life is supposed to go!

On a HAPPY note, I am seriously looking forward to having our first Christmas together! Austin has been gone for the last two work weeks and that has given me time to get my craft on!! I have to admit its nice not having a job! I'm glad that my husbands job can support us both, it gives me all the time in the world to be a good wife and home maker! For our first Christmas I decided that I wanted to do mostly DIY stuff. So far I've made some ornaments, a tree skirt and I'm in the process of making our stockings!! As soon as I'm done with those I will post pics but here is an Ornament and the tree skirt! I love how they turned out :) 

Oh! Almost forgot, Thanksgiving, it was our first together also. We went to St. George with Austin's family. His great Aunt from Chicago came to town for the Holiday, she is soooo sweet!! Her name is Lana, that's who Austin's mom is named after. Anyways, we spent the day there on Thursday had a lovely time and made some new memories. Then on Friday morning we made the journey up to Spanish Fork to be with my family for the rest of the weekend! In the future I don't think that will happen again! Although I wouldn't be apposed to it. Haha but it did wear us out to travel so much in just a few days! I am very thankful for my willing husband, he was so awesome about taking me where I wanted to be and being so nice about it! It was great to see so much family and catch up with all of them! Everyone has changed so much since the last time I saw them all, I don't feel like I'm growing up with if everyone else in my life is changing I've got to be changing as well! Weird how that works.. anyways, here is a pic of Austin and I on Thanksgiving with his Grandma Bakica and his great Aunt Lana. We had so much fun and it was a total success! Everyone loved the pies I made :) And everything else was soo yummy! I'm so thankful for the family that I've grown up with and the family I've married into! Love them all and Happy Holidays to everyone that reads! Hopefully I will do better with keeping up on my post's!