Our story

Hey Y'all (yes I said y'all) My name is Kellie and I am new at this blogging thing. I figured I would take a stab at it so I can document some of the care packages, recipe ideas, and the daily life of a Navy Wife. I hope you all enjoy the posts and if you have any tips or advice on how to personalize the blog a little bit more please feel free to comment with those tips!

This is my Husband and I. He has been in the military for the past 4.5 years and lets just say he has a love/hate relationship with the Navy. I am a stay at home mommy to our wonderful two year old son. I currently attend school full time to obtain my certification in Medical Assisting. We have been married for 5 years on January 14th, it has been an adventure to say the least. Here is a little bit of a back story to give you a little peek on what our life has been like for the last 5 years.

Backing up to 2005: I was the new kid in a new school in the middle of the school year (talk about scary) I walked into my first period class which happened to be band. My instructor was introducing me to my section when all of a sudden this nerdy kid stands up and says "Hi my name is Jonathan."
In my head I'm thinking "yeah nerd that's great, the teacher wasn't talking to you." Little did I know this kid would be in all of my classes but three.
We ended up hitting it off and becoming the best of friends, even when I had to move to another city we still managed to talk at least twice a week. He was there for me through two other relationships and never stopped being a friend. It wasn't until the summer of my Junior year that we started dating and boy was that weird at first. I was dating this guy I considered my brother for the longest time.

Now we were no fairy tale relationship, we had our ups and downs but we made it through. He proposed to me before band camp my senior year and I said yes of course! Everyone thought we were crazy but we were crazy.. for each other. He was and still is the love of my life.


We tied the knot January 14th 2009

We got married six months after graduation at the Justice of the Peace. We didn't have the money for a big wedding but we knew that he would be shipping off for boot camp very soon for the Navy.

Now to speed it up since I am sure you don't want to read every single boring detail of our life! He left for boot camp February 17th (or 18th) and graduated in April. It was a tough few months with him gone since we relied so much on communicating with each other. I flew up there with the In laws to see him graduate and got to spend the weekend with him except at night. We flew back home and he got his orders to A-School in Fla. We were so used to having a long distance relationship that it wasn't as hard as most couples had to deal with. He called and skyped as much as he could with the busy school schedule.

While he was gone I was busy planning our actual wedding with family and friends. We decided on November 14th 2009 (we couldn't go wrong with the same date in a different month, I made it easy on his so he couldn't forget). He finally graduated his A-school and was on his way home, we had maybe a week to get all the final touches together on the wedding since he only had about two weeks before he had to report to his command. Needless to say it was hectic, but well worth every second. The day came and went and while it wasn't my dream wedding it didn't matter because I married (again) my dream guy. *cheesy right*

He reported to his ship the beginning of December and deployed a month later. We were not able to spend our first anniversary together as well as many more first holidays as a married couple. He as deployed 3 times including this one and not only has he missed anniversaries, birthdays, and holidays but he has also missed the birth of our first child.

That is a small recap of our life over the past five years, we are currently dealing with our third deployment and I figured what better way to pass time and stay busy than to document special things through a blog. I hope you enjoy :)