Army Wife Boot Camp Day #3

Doggies are therapeutic!  I'm so glad Cassie enjoyed playing with the puppies.

We only had two goals today: go to the temple and mail packages.

Welp, we made it to the temple and mailed off one package!  More to follow tomorrow!

I was a little afraid to send Cass off to Boston tomorrow, but seeing her in this t-shirt re-affirmed my suspicions that she can do it! 

This is the face of a girl that eats deployments for breakfast!  Plus this t-shirt I made for her is totally awesome.  She's got this.

She even let me try on her ball gown...what a great friend! 

This has been such a fun girl's weekend, it's going to be hard to say goodbye tomorrow!  I will miss my Cassie.  We never run out of things to talk about and there just aren't enough hours in the day to catch up on everything.  Of course most of our conversations revolve around two men half way around the world, and how wonderful we think they are!  Btw that is another top security clearance military wife secret, so keep it under your hat.

Yes we are wearing pink camouflage on our toes...and we like it!  The name of this polish is booty camp, perfect way to finish off army wife bootcamp day #3.

P.S.  The polish goes great with the dress!

Army Wife Boot Camp Day #2

After staying up until 2am sharing all kinds of top security clearance military wife secrets we finally went to bed.  We started our day early with a rigorous shopping trip armed with our cell phones we were ready to tackle some muy importante package preparations!  Cassie had a lot more motivation than me, so Ben will have to wait an extra day...oops!


Cassie is laminating wallet size pictures for her husband who is serving overseas...great idea Cass!

Notice her motivation in the background?  Gotta keep our eye on the prize!

We continued with our Army Wives season 2 marathon, went to Zumba, rewarded ourselves with icecream cones (yes again!), played my new Wii game Just Dance 2...Cassie is a game hog.  Jk!

Military wife top security clearance secret #1:  Cassie gets a little sassy when dancing to Keshia!

Wow Army wife boot camp is intense!  We are exhausted!

There just aren't enough hours in 3 days to catch up with my best friend and fellow blue star wifey!

Blue Star Wives Club

It's official Cassie is now part of my blue star wives club. Of course I wouldn't wish this on any woman, but it sure is nice to have another woman around who can relate.

My favorite part of visit so far was when her husband called her while we were trying to pick out a dessert in the icecream aisle at walmart.  The look on her face was priceless.  It was kind of like an a-ha moment for me--so that's what I look like when my husband calls me!  Seriously, you would have thought she had just won lottery, she was so excited.

I immediately exited the icecream aisle of walmart so as not to intrude on their private moment alone!  I couldn't believe the other people who stuck around to purchase whatever they were there shopping for.  The nerve! :)

Btw we had just come from Zumba, so we had earned our icecream treat!

This is a picture from when Cassie came to see me just a couple days after my husband deployed 7 months ago.  Now she is visiting me again right after her husband deployed just a few days ago.

Ben, You are the Man!

This morning's skype conversation went a little something like this:

Melissa:  Hello handsome!!

Ben:  You don't have to tell me I look good.  I don't care what I look like.  You know what you can tell me though.


Melissa:  No.  What?


Ben:  You know.


Melissa:  Oh right.  You are the man!!



Ben:  That's what I like to hear!  None of this handsome crap.


Ahhh I love this guy!  So easy to please :)