Sim's Advancement

Today Sim was promoted to a Second Class Petty Officer! A very exciting event in his Coast Guard career and a great accomplishment.

This is Sim being pinned by his YN1 and his Chief.

Sim with his Commanding Officer

The decorations I put up for him to surprise him when he got home from work!

Our fabulous cheesecake dessert we'll be eating tonight!

Ready or not...it's April!

Ready or not...April is here! I've honestly been dreading this month since the Fall and here we are! It's my busiest month at work, my busiest month with school, and sometime here in the next 4 or 5 weeks Sim leaves for his deployment. We were just talking to each other and mentioning how we feel like we're just waiting for him to leave. It's awful to say that but when you know someone is going to be gone you begin to mentally prepare and then when you have go about life the same, while you wait for them to leave you almost wish they could just leave now....so that their return home will be quicker!

In the meantime...here is the rest of my Feb/March update!

The last weekend in February we snuck away to our "favorite state" Florida for a quick weekend getaway!

It was actually the five year anniversary of our first date and although it just happened to fall on that weekend, it was pretty cool that we were able to do something special together to commemorate it!

We were also fortunate enough to randomly be in the same area of the state as the same time as our old friends from Fort Lauderdale. Kim and Anthony Brick now live in Palm Springs, California. Anthony was my old boss when I used to work for Marriott in Fort Lauderdale. Kim and I grew close as we tried to plan our weddings during the same time back in 2007. We were both far away from our family and friends and dealing with all of the wedding stress so we really were there for each other during that time! Well that and a few nights out at the Elbo Room and on the Riverfront welded our friendship solid! Kim and Anthony now have a beautiful daughter Avery who we were also able to see during our visit.

It was really wonderful that they were able to drive up to Clearwater to see us while they were visiting family in Fort Myers. The following day we were able to meet up with an old friend from Woodbridge, Jenn Ruecker who now lives in Largo with her fiance. We enjoyed an amazing dinner with them and it was really nice to get to catch up with Jenn. She was the one who set me and Sim up! :)

Our time in Florida was amazing but short!

March 11th we headed back to the Houston rodeo...the best part of living near Houston! This year we took some friends with us on the bus trip.

We had such a good time last year on the all-inclusive rodeo trip (starts at Hooters with all you can eat wings and all you can drink beer, includes a charter bus trip to the rodeo with games, raffle prizes, and more drinks, and tickets to see the rodeo and the concert) that we just had to do it again! This year we saw Brad Paisley who was an awesome performer. He is no Keith Urban of course....but he held his own!

So that is what we've been up to! Well besides work and school of course! Sim is finishing up his last science requirement and I'm doing my last Economics class and my last Human Resources class! There is a light at the end of the tunnel!!