Holy Long Time Batman!

It's been ages since I blogged a single thing...there is good reason!  We have MOVED!  All the way across the country to Hampton, VA!  Bobby finished an eight and a half month deployment in August and the kiddos and I met him here in VA to start our east coast adventure.  We will be here at least 2 years and are happy to be getting settled into our lovely rental home.

We are working very hard to make our new house a home.  We have a lot of stuff and much of it has been in storage for years, so we are weeding through stuff we haven't seen in a while.  The kids are loving getting reacquainted with toys they haven't seen in a while.  I am loving getting rid of stuff we no longer need (I know we should be getting rid of more faster, but it's a step in the right direction).  Our new place has a formal dining room...I know, what the heck am I going to do with that, right?...well, what I'm going to do with it is have a CRAFT ROOM for the first time in my life!  I'm so excited and when I finally get it all put together I'll post pics.  It also means that there will probably be a lot more actual crafting going on which I can just about guarantee will mean some more blogging from me...for the five people that might still care!

My boys are growing like weeds and are more fun AND more challenge every single day.  They have had to deal with a lot of changes.  They are missing their grandparents, great grandparents, cousins, Uncle Duane and Aunt April, but I can tell you it is their Uncle Ryan they have the hardest time not having around.  Ryan was awesome and made the drive out here from Phoenix with us and the kids got pretty used to him being there.  Punk asks pretty often about going to the "yellow house" which is where we lived in Phoenix and he asks about his cousins often, he also still asks regularly about his friends from WA.  It breaks my heart that my little man is finally at the age where he misses his friends when we move, but we are working on making new friends...him and I both.

This is the first move where I've had a hard time as well.  Luckily I do have a couple of friends here (people who moved with the boat from WA), but this move has definitely been the hardest one in a long while in the friend department for me...thank goodness for the internet, Facebook, and Pinterest which keep me feeling closer to my friends that are far away.

Okay, enough for now...but expect that you will be hearing more from me in the near future.

Day Thirty - Your Favorite Song This Time of Year

This is the birth month of both of my children...it's a song for them:

Day Twenty-Nine - A Song From Your Childhood

From "Back to the Future":

Day Twenty-Eight - A Song From a Musical You Have Never Seen

I've never seen it, but I'd like to:

Day Twenty-Seven - A Song You Wish You Could Play

Since I can't play anything past a CD player...I'm gonna go with all of them...

It's a cop out, I know, but I can't narrow what I'd like to be able to play down to one song...and I don't want to.

Day Twenty-Six - A Song From Your Favorite Movie Musical

Okay, well, I have two favorite movie musicals.

Not animated:

Animated:

Side note: this live action version of After Today is the brainchild of a good friend of my brother and sister-in-law's by the name of Ted Sowards...he's a genius, I'm just sayin'.

Day Twenty-Five - A Song That Makes You Laugh

Ludacris on country stations is riotous to me...

Day Twenty-Four - A Song I Want Played At My Funeral

Ugh, really?  Okay...

How Firm A Foundation

Day Twenty-Three - Your Wedding Song

Bless the Broken Road:

Day Twenty-Two - A Song You Listen To When You Are Sad

I'm usually sad because Bobby is gone, so I often listen to songs that remind me of him, or of our relationship...lately I like this one quite a bit:

Day Twenty-One - A Song You Listen To When You Are Happy

This song always makes me smile, as does pretty much everything from Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband:

Day Twenty - A Song You Listen To When You Are Angry

Mad music?  I don't have a lot of that right now (maybe I need more), there was a time when it was all Alanis all the time though...

Day Nineteen - A Song From Your Favorite Album

I have several "favorite" albums...but here is a song from one of them...

Day Eighteen - A Song You Wish You Heard on the Radio

As a Dyhard it would have to be either Spin or Collide from the, now defunct, Living Daylytes.

No Youtube on this one, they were never that big, but you can play a few of their songs on their MySpace page.

If you ever get your hands on a copy of their CD "Spin" check out the thank you's in the liner notes, I'm in there...

Day Seventeen - A Song You Hear Often on the Radio

Lately I've been hearing this song A LOT, and I'm okay with that, because I kind of love this song (and so does Bobby, so when I hear it it makes me think of him, and that makes me happy):

Day Sixteen - A Song From Your Favorite Broadway Musical

That musical would be Wicked, if you haven't seen it you are missing out in a BIG, BIG, BIG way, and you should run out and by tickets to it immediately.

Day Fifteen - A Song The Describes You

Thought this was today appropriate...

Happy Independence Day...remember how we got that way and how we stay that way.

Day Fourteen - A Song No One Would Expect You to Love

Here it is...Eminem, you didn't know did you?  I don't listen to his music regularly and we disagree on a lot of things, but I think the guy is kind of a genius.

Advisory: This is pretty clean for Em, but well...it's still Eminem.

Day Thirteen - A Song That is a Guilty Pleasure

I have a guilty pleasure decade (the 80's) but I'd have to say that my all time fave's from that time come from the Bangles:

Day Twelve - A Song From a Band You Hate

A band I hate?  Wracked my brain on this one and really couldn't come up with anything...so how about the afore mentioned "Gold Digger" from Kanye West?  This is the clean AND Glee version...