Well, Long time no blog?! First and foremost.....Pvt. Chandler D. Cook will be home on the 18
th of December!
YAY He has been gone for a total of 159 days (as of today) with only 12 more days to go! I am inviting everyone to the airport WITH the stipulation that I get to hug him first!
lolChandler is getting a medical discharge from the Army Reserves because of problems with his knee. A discharge can take up to 3 months to complete and Chandler's discharge started at the end of October, so he will have to go back for a couple weeks in January. It has been crazy back and forth on weather or not he would even be able to come home for the Christmas exodus. Then last week he called me on Monday and asked me if I had bought his airplane ticket yet, I hadn't so he told me not to because they were going to try to finish all his paperwork before exodus, so then he would be able to just come home for good AND the Army would pay for that airplane ticket! THEN the next day he called me in the morning and said "I need you to buy my plane ticket now, I have to have my
itinerary in like an hour or I don't get to come home for Christmas" OH man. It's
crazyness. But I got it and he will be home soon! I'm excited.
Other than counting down the days till Chandler gets home,
Aubri and I have been enjoying the short-lived fall weather. We have tons of leaves in out back yard so we finally went out and played in them. I raked up a couple piles and
Aubri thought that was just the coolest thing ever. She would stand at the edge of the pile and then just fall forward!
lol I thought you had to be shown that jumping in leaves was fun, but I guess not, she just knew!
Oh man, Halloween was fun this year. Trish the amazing woman that she is made this adorable Rainbow Bright costume for
Aubri and I LOVE IT! I went with my two friends to the mall for trick or treating but all the stores were out of candy! Lame! So instead we went to a trunk or
treat at my mom's ward. that was fun, but got cold fast.
Aubri got the hang of picking out her treat and putting it in her bag, it was so cute!
Of course we have been enjoying the football games this year as well.
Aubri loves going and she does really well! She gets freaked out when the stadium
erupts in cheering and she would run and scramble to my lap, but after a second she would join in. it was so
stinkin' cute.
Finally! Christmas is coming and Fast! I'm excited except I haven't bought many presents yet, so I have a lot of shopping to do. I need to be like Trish and start early, I just never think of it....
Oh, the cutest thing ever! While I was putting the lights on the Christmas Tree
Aubri was checking it all out and all of the sudden she points to a light and says "hot" and blows on it, then goes to another, "hot" blow, she did it for about 10 minutes
hahahaha it was so funny. I don't know what made her
decide they were hot, but she took care of it and blew on them all. She is so funny and you can totally tell she has a personality of her own.
Aubri is getting so big. She knows just about everything on the face (eyes, nose, ears, hair, cheeks, chin, and we are working on forehead) She LOVES her cousins and can say all their names (
Jayci, Kay-Ki for
KK,
Keija,
Babee for Gabe, Lexi) she says Grandpa and Mama for grandma, chandler's parents she calls Lola and Papa. She says Up and Down and knows what they mean, her please is the cutest thing I have ever heard, she scrunches up her shoulders and says (in a really high voice)
peeeeeeeaaaas! I'm going to have to get it on camera soon. She LOVES to dance! During conference she even danced to the tabernacle choir.
hahaha I did get that on my phone camera. She said her first sentence (which I missed) she was at Michael's house and was in a high chair and I guess she wanted out so she said "let me out!" she only said it like 3 times and hasn't said it since. she does say things like "
thas cute", "whats
dat". Oh, and she is the biggest teaser I have ever met. and I thought I was bad. she thinks she is
soooo funny and I agree with her. All I can think is "Chandler is going to have so much fun with her" she has changed
soo much since he left, it's amazing.
My mother's true nature came out this year in her costume...A witch, she's a natural at it. LOL just a joke. She was so funny she couldn't talk with those fake teeth in, but she kept trying. What a silly lady.
I learnt well from my brothers and became a nerd for Halloween. Those of you who attended Bunco this month know the personality that came almost too naturally with this costume. However, I wasn't nearly as lively last night as I was the night of Bunco...maybe it was the weather. woof (again).
At last! My own life size Troll Doll!! It came out perfect (except I wished for better leggings) I realized that Aubri's hair even grows like a real troll doll's, all on top and little around the sides. lol
She loved the jewels on her belly, in fact, by the end of the night she had just about rubbed them off! I even drew 'butt' lines on her bottom. LOL Chandler's idea. Big THANKS go out to Sarah for the cute bow that gave me the inspiration for the rest of the outfit.
If you can't recognize him, he is the one on the far right. I told him to take a poicture without the glasses too, he looks so different with them on, it kills me! I don't know the names of the guys with him, but I know they have become friends. When Chandler first got to the base he was the only one going to church out of his platoon, since then he has gotten several guys to go to church with him and one of them is thinking about getting baptized. I am so proud of him.
