Goodbye Bessie! You were a good truck.

We sold Luke's baby (affectionately known by me as "Bessie" or "Beast") on August 2nd.  I posted the ad for it on the 1st and honestly didn't think it would sell so quickly.  The ad hadn't even been on the site for 24 hours yet!  Luke was sad to see it go, but it has been a reliable "friend" to him for almost 10 years so I think it was time for us to part ways.  Plus the fact that we would have had to pay for it to be shipped since the Military is only going to pay for one POV to be shipped and that will be the car (which we are shipping in a week!!)

We still don't know where we are moving to officially since Luke hasn't accepted a job yet.  As of right now our options are Augusta, GA or he takes a year long deployment to Afghanistan while Carlos and I live close to family (I'm gonna say that that will probably be St. George or some where in southern Utah).  If he doesn't take either of those jobs then we will most likely end up in Albuquerque for Luke to go back to school.  He has a phone interview today with the GA job and I'm secretly (well not so secretly anymore) hoping that he gets that job.  But if he feels that the Afghanistan one is better then I will support him in his choice and will be glad that I can be closer to family during his absence.  Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we wait for the time to make one of the biggest decisions of our life to date.  Mostly pray for my sanity because I will be losing it by the end of the month after all the out-processing and moving is over with.  Our last day on Oahu is Sept 12th.    It will be bittersweet to leave.  I will miss all the wonderful people in my Ward and all the friends I have made out here!  But on the positive side we will be able to spend more time with family once we are back on the mainland.

Anyway, I will post more updates from July soon.  I need to go to bed now as it's midnight which is waaayy past my bedtime.  Love you all!

~Nicole

No more candy!!

I had a Dentist appointment yesterday and was informed that I have not one, not two, but three cavities....so not cool!! So now I am cutting waaaay back on sugary snacks and such. Especially since one of them might be severe enough to need to have a root canal done on it....AAAAAAHHHH! I am not looking forward to that, but I guess it showed me that I should be better about what I eat and making sure I take better care of my teeth. Luke had to have a filling done last week and blames me (of course) for that happening since I'm the one who kept buying all the candy...(but I did not force him to eat it...that was his fault). Now I'm on this fluoride program where I have to brush my teeth with this Rx toothpaste every night before bed and I'll be getting treatments done at the clinic too...joy. But on the brighter side, I think I have learned my lesson about eating so many sweets and how bad it is for me. I don't think I will be able to completely stop eating candy, but I can cut back on the amount that I eat as a whole.

Anyway, that's my little problem as of late. Nothing else too exciting to report about..wait..umm oh yeah! Luke and I are thinking about buying a home out here in Hawaii...but as of right now we don't think it will happen since the homes here are very very expensive and we could get a home of the same size and quality for half the price back on the mainland. So more than likely we will end up moving onto Schofield Barracks which is much much closer to work (like 5 min away versus over an hour depending on traffic). We are definitely going to be saving up money for a nice down payment on a new home once we work out job stuff and things like that after we are out of the military. Anyway, that's all I can think of to share with you so I shall go to bed now. Good Night!

~Nicole