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Our Love is BULLETPROOF!! Love & War

Our Love is BULLETPROOF!! Love & War
Took this pic last night (8/2/10) while watching tv. Mine means "LOVE" in Tibetan and his is a black ink tribute to his tour in Iraq in 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Love & WAR

Monday, August 9, 2010

Baby's Mama arrives tomorrow from Texas!

So my Baby's mama is on her way from Texas to visit us here in Washington for a week with his 17 year old sister! I am so excited...I haven't seen her since we left Texas in May...she is an awesome lady and fun!

Baby and I worked on our "menu" yesterday of the meals we are going to fix while she is here so that we could get the grocery list in order. I am washing the last of the bedding now so we can get the guest bedroom in order tonight and the beds made etc...

Yay! This is gonna be so much fun with her here, he misses her alot he said last night when we were cuddled on the sofa watching tv...family is so important to us both and he misses his father so much and having his mom here will make that a little less painful for him...

So he is on his way home to me now and we are gonna just chill out and I am gonna make some italian beef sandwhiches for dinner...should be delicious as always...then some Discovery Channel HD (Speed of Life) that we recorded last night...a quiet night for us both. He has a short week this week and will have Monday off too..so a four day weekend for him....always awesome to spend time with him...loves him so so much! My heart & soul...

xoxoxo
Kimber out...

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Proof that today was a GOOD day...

Ok so today was fabulous! My baby worked on Abby (his '68 Buick Skylark) and got the alternator replaced and it works! The battery is charging the way it is supposed to...whooohooo! LOVE my mechanics!!

Do you see the bright shiny silver part? Ya! That is the NEW alternator on a '68 Buick! LOL

BUT....it works!! Abby is BACK 2 LIFE!! Whoohoo!!


We DRANK beer, they worked on cars, they conquered the world in XBox360 and I talked to all my girls on FaceBook...can it really get any better?? :) I am grateful for 1. My life 2. Intelligent men who LOVE to work on cars and know what the HELL they are doing! 3. BEER (to help them focus on working on cars) 4. My girls to keep me occupied while they drink beer and work on cars 5. XBox360 to reward them at the end of the day so they can kill, blow up shit and win (at the loudest VOLUME available on our stereo, which is hooked up to the LCD tv)!! Love it!
{{Hugs}} Kimber

My girl Mandi had a GREAT chuckle on this pic when I posted it up on FaceBook 'cuz of the GREEN socks that my boys are both sportin...gotta LOVE those ARMY boys!! :) ha ha ha

Friday, August 6, 2010

BEST $6.00 I EVER spent!! Cup of Joe for a Joe!!

Be sure to tell your friends about Cup of Joe for a Joe...
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13,595 "LOVE MILES"!!

So my Baby and I are getting NEW tattoos TOGETHER!! The new ink will be a compilation of the LOVE MILES that it took for us to finally be together in the same place!! Whoohoo! My miles were 13,595 that I traveled to be with my baby (Portland, OR to Austin TX three separate times, Austin to Chicago, IL driving with my Baby for his 2 weeks of leave when he PCS'd to Fort Lewis from Fort Hood, my flight from Chicago back home to Portland, OR in June *he went fishing for 2 weeks in Wisconsin with is dad*, and my final journey from Portland, Oregon to Tacoma, Washington)! That was alot of miles and time in airports (gotta LOVE O'Hare security! - ummm NOT)!

The funny thing? My baby had a trailer (that we both packed up of his stuff he had to transport to Chicago) that he pulled with his truck to Chicago on that LONG drive (we made it in 18 hours - only stopped for a 1.5 hour NAP - he drove the entire trip! He was a trooper for sure)...he was taking me to the airport the next day for my early 7 a.m. flight out of O'Hare and he stopped suddenly for a red light and his brake line BROKE / blew out! OMG! We had to pull over, he had to call a cab and couldn't do anything but just drive the truck back to his father's house to work ALL day (after driving all day/night to Chicago) to fix it...I got in a cab (with a rushed hug and kiss from him stressed out) and rushed in morning Chicago traffic to the airport hoping I would make my flight through O'Hare security. I MADE it barely! I text him a pic of me as soon as I made it through security and he text me back that he made it home to his father's home without rear-ending anyone and was smiling! Whew! What a trip that one was...but I had the most amazing time and saying "goodbye" to Texas and our friends there was worth the 2 weeks I spent with my baby in Texas! Loved it..

So today when he gets home he gets to figure out what his mileage number is (keep in mind it is all of the miles it took him to finally get to ME)! This includes his trips from Fort Hood to Iraq (including all the stops inbetween like Ireland and Kuwait) and then his R&R to Chicago (again Iraq --> Kuwait etc and then back) and then HOME and then Block Leave and so forth...should be CRAZY miles. I am incorporating our "Love Miles" into my "LOVE" tattoo on my left arm (in our Bulletproof Love pic above) and he is actually getting a large side piece (he doesnt have any back space or arm space for more ink lol) that is going to be a vintage car dashboard and the "odometer" is gonna be our "Love Miles" +1 for all the miles we will add after those miles....I can't wait to find out what our final "Love Miles" number is later today or this weekend....it's gonna be a crazy amount of miles we traveled for LOVE!

I LOVE you Baby!!

A last minute "pep" talk to his soldiers @ his "going away" luncheon that his old unit had for him @ Fort Hood..I went and took pics...

Saying goodbye is HARD!

We "signed" the ceiling @ Bob's Bar in Liberty Hill, Texas 2gether!!

GREAT Friends!

Somewhere in Wisconsin on our way to Chicago!

Fort Leonard Wood!

Almost there! But this traffic!

Crossing the Mississippi River...

Finally in Illinois!!


Sunset in Illinois - 153 miles from Chicago!

My BABY is finally HOME - Chicago! Chi Town!


He amazes me!!

TGIF!

Ok I made it through this week...my Baby's mama comes to visit us next week (she leaves from Texas on Sunday)! Whoohoo! I LOVE his mom, she is an awesome fun lady! Can't wait to see her and his sister...yay!

We are gonna spend the weekend just cuddlin and sleeping in, watching movies, kissing and being "mushy" as he calls it! LOL

I would like to go into Seattle this weekend and do a little sightseeing to determine where we want to take his mom when she is here for a week...just to ensure we know where to park and how to get to the Space Needle and the market...so ya gotta talk him into leaving his BFF the COUCH! Ha ha ha :) We also need to get a futon for the guest bedroom as well..ugh..I HATE shopping for furniture! Will probably just get it @ Ikea and then when we head into Seattle we can stop @ Ikea and pick it up (if we can find it reasonably priced).

So that is our weekend plans...nothing too crazy just alot of time together...yay! My fave...

Had an amazing nite with him last night and I missed him when he left @ 5 a.m. for PT..but he should be home early today since he is finishing up his Master Driver's course...he will now be the Master Driver for his unit! I am so so proud of you Baby! You are awesome!! I love you so so much!...

5 things I am thankful and grateful for - 1. My Baby 2. My nightie I am keeping on today 'til he gets home 3. Fridays 4. Weekends 5. Quality time

{{hugs}}
Kimber

LOVE the "Girls" on my Baby's BACK!!

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Today's Thoughts, Things I am GRATEFUL for and other ramblings...

So I woke up in a really crappy mood...well not crappy really just "BLAH"...I am sure it is PMS working it's magic...but still making me feel really icky. I don't feel like doing anything today, not motivated to move off the sofa. I got my housework done and took a warm vanilla bubble bath, talked to my baby on his lunch and then back to the sofa to be lazy and talk to my girls on Facebook.

I have come to the conclusion that I am ADDICTED to Facebook! I am on it from the time that I wake up in the morning and all day long while I sit looking for a job. Just socializing with my military girlfriends, my support network. I have been thinking alot lately of the 2 weeks coming up that my baby will be gone @ training and then soon thereafter he will be gone for 1 month...it is heavy on my mind lately...I am so NOT ready to be without him yet. It seems like we just got moved into our new home and finally are in the same place and then everything changes again...grrr...

Don't get me wrong, I understand I can do nothing about it, but that doesn't mean that I am ready for it all yet. I just got him finally! After 10 months of us being separated from each other it feels so damn good to finally have him walk through the door at the end of the day when he gets off work instead of that phone call I used to get while he drove home to his mom's house in Texas! I waited so so long to finally be together....that was the LONGEST wait EVER!

So here I sit, pouty, depressed, blah and just plain ICKY today! I wish this feeling would go away! I took midol complete and still nothing...

Maybe I need to get out of this house? I havent been out in a few days...so maybe that is the problem...not sure...ok I am off...back over to chat with my girls on Facebook...will check in later Bloggie...ciao for now...Kimber signing OUT!

Oh! P.S. I am thankful for 1. Midol Complete 2. Soft sofa cushions 3. Warm vanilla bubble baths 4. My baby's hugs & kisses later 2day 5. My sons!

Watch this video...so so important!

I LOVE this image...taken in Iraq by 5FDP filming their Bad Company vid

An image in the Bad Company vid during 5FDP's 2010 Tour in Iraq!!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Hell ya! Five Finger Death Punch in Iraq w/ the SOLDIERS singing Bad Company!

A music video tribute to the 14th Combat Engineer Battalion...

A music video tribute to the 14th Combat Engineer Battalion. Route Clearance Mosul, OIF(Operation Iraqi Freedom).

SGT Gene A. Hawkins Army Strong. You are not Forgotten. 2nd Video, set to "The Red" by Chevelle.

Today's Musical insight & contribution...

Ok boys and girls...here is my musical contribution for the day...

Pro-Pain - "In for the Kill"


Pro-Pain - "One Man Army"


Soilwork - "Rejection Role"


In Flames - "Trigger" (look @ this vid closely - same format as the Soilwork vid above w/ Soilwork in this vid)

I LOVE Classic Cars!!

So my Baby owns a classic 1968 Buick Skylark...I LOVE classic cars and hot rods. Each Tuesday we head out to Barkers Barn (a local drag racer here in Washington) and hang out with the racers who bring their classic cars and hot rods, drink some beer (I always bake cookies or brownies or something for the boys to take with us) and they just put up their hoods and "show off" their engines and do burnouts etc...it is a great time! I love it! Quality time with my baby. He is a Drag Racer @ heart...been drag racing since he was 14 years old (he started working on cars @ the age of 8 years old)...so below are some of the cars I love (including our Abby and Sassy)...enjoy...

Abby - the '68 Skylark (a work in progress)...she sits in our garage taunting him everyday as he walks past her to Sassy (His "mean green" supercharged 2005 GMC Sierra 4x4 truck - she is very very "sassy" and screams when the BOOST kicks in!) to head off to PT and the "office"...


This is Sassy...I LOVE this truck...she is FAST and a SCREAMER...alot of hours of work on this one. Baby bought the parts while deployed in Iraq and came home and started on her in January of this year...I helped him alot so for me this is a very special project to us both...


Don't let this calm, normal exterior fool you...she is pure Adrenaline and over 500 horsepower!! Love her!

1966 Chevy Chevelle...

1969 Chevy Camaro...

A Classic "RatRod"...



A Killer Chevy Corvette...

Enoy the speed, the race...life is about going very fast sometimes and feeling the wind in your hair...

5 things I am grateful for today...

1. My Baby - I had a terrible dream about him and I and I woke up in a really yucky mood. I emailed him to tell him that I felt "icky" and he called me immediately and told me he loved me and couldn't wait to get home and hold me and cuddle me and give me "lovies"...made my day! I love you baby...you are the BEST ever!

2. My wonderful life - I am so thankful for the blessings I have...a wonderful home, food in the fridge, $$ coming in weekly, bills paid and someone to love...my beautiful sons and I thank God every single day for blessing me with such a good life after it being so so awful for so long 2 years ago...life has changed SO much!

3. Being LAZY - I am so thankful that on days that I feel "poopy" like today (cramps etc) that I can just sit on my sofa, listen to some '70's music and be LAZY! Thank God!

4. The quiet - I LOVE the quiet today. I have the windows open in the house letting the fresh air in and I can hear the birds outside chirping and the sound of the wind in the large pines outside our living room window...thank you for the QUIET today...

5. Love - I am grateful for LOVE. Being LOVED is something that is amazing and it makes even the worst day bearable...thank you to my family, my sons and my Baby for LOVING me even on days like today when I don't feel good...

Just rambling...

So yesterday was my first day as an official "Blogger"...I tested the waters by just posting a few videos that I made for my baby to get the hang of this BLOGGING thing. I have to admit I really LIKE it alot. I can tell this is going to be very "healthy" and fun for me. I love to write and I do love to share my life because I am very very happy (after a very long time of being miserable and in the "WRONG" relationship *7 years worth* with the WRONG person)...so why not share my happiness with others right? It is only fair...

That being said, being an Army Girlfriend has it's "ups & downs" believe me. I have a 2 week training coming very soon (September) and it will be the 1st time that my sexy SGT. and I will be separated after moving in together in June of this year. We had so so much time apart while we were getting to know each other and while he was @ Fort Hood (I lived in Portland, Oregon) that we were so looking forward to our 1 year of being together before he deploys again. However, I have learned that in the "Year of Bliss" that he promised me where I get to sleep next to him and cuddle and make him dinner and weekend breakfasts there will be a 2 week training (YTC) and a 1 month training (NTC in California) where I will once again be without my soldier. *boo* on trainings! I completely understand they are a necessary part of the "job" but I also know it is gonna SUCK ASS sleeping by myself again and having to go back to cel texts, sending daily pics and whatnot while he is away...but I admit that it is better than *POOF* he is GONE to Afghanistan...ya know?

So, I am just venting...life is gonna get crazy here in a couple of weeks, he will be off to Yakima and I will once again be sleeping in a big bed cuddled with "Wolfie" (a stuffed wolf he got me for Valentines Day this year that I sleep with when he is not with me). So ya me and Wolfie will be cuddling...but 2 weeks is much better than the year he will be gone...that I am definitely NOT looking forward to. He had a bit of a "breakdown" this last weekend on Sunday when he woke up and he realized that he is less than 10 months away from headed out on deployment again. He cuddled and held me all day (he calls it his "cuddly" days) and he was like "I don't wanna go baby"...and we talked about it a lot...he is finally allowing himself to think about it and dealing with the anxiety of the upcoming deployment...his new unit is a Combat Engineer Brigade...different than his last unit! So this will be very interesting for us both. We discussed communication options and writing letters and care packages. I think I may have gotten spoiled while he was in Iraq because we had internet (sometimes spotty) but could talk every single day before he left for PT and when he got back each day after work...we are NOT guaranteed that we will be able to talk by internet (won't know 'til he gets there how we can communicate). So we worked through contingency plans (thumb drive, CD's, letters etc) to figure out what we could do to see the other (webcam vids we make and burn on thumb drive or CD)...it made him feel a little better...so alot is going through my mind today with the 2 week training looming in front of us...

Oh ya! My NEW FAVE song! Papa Roach - "Kick in the Teeth"!!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Happy 1 Year Anniversary Baby (video)

I made this video to celebrate OUR 1 year ANNIVERSARY of when we "met".  We met online through a game called "Hotties For Sale" on MySpace (yeah yeah I know corny huh? LOL) but it turned into the "real deal" in a matter of months.  We talked each and everyday and now we "Live in Sin" together in a house that is full of love everyday.  For now I get to go to bed with my Baby each night and wake up to him each morning (@ 4:45 a.m. I might add for him to prepare for PT)...but he is ALL MINE now! I love you baby!!

I Miss you Poppy...

My Poppy passed away in December of 2007.  I miss you Poppy..each and every single day there are so many times I think about you and wish I could just hear your voice 1 more time...I could see your face and hug you...you were the BEST FATHER a girl could EVER ask for! I LOVE YOU!!!

My Video for my Baby...

I met My Baby (Chris) while he was deployed in Iraq in 2009 with the U.S. Army as an enlisted soldier (Motor Sergeant).  We began talking by email, myspace and webcam.  I took pics with my laptop of him on webcam as we talked so that I would have pictures to look @ while he was away on "missions" or doing his normal "office" work (since our hours were so different). We talked daily (morning and evening) by Yahoo chat or MSN chat and webcam (when the "Webcam" Gods smiled on us lol)...and I put together a video to commemorate these times for him.  He LOVES it and it brought tears to his eyes...I LOVE YOU BABY! You are my EVERYTHING!!

Memorial Day Video Tribute

For my first few blogs I am going to post the videos I have made for my Baby so far...this one is the video I made to the song "Like a Bird" by Black Label Society to honor Memorial Day 2010.  I took pics while my Baby and I visited Fort Hood before he PCS'd to Fort Lewis.  It was an honor to visit the "Operation Iraqi Freedom" Memorial on post and I took some amazing photos that I have added to this video.  I want to thank all the Men and Women serving in the Fight for Freedom overseas and here @ home! Thank you for your dedication, loyalty and hard work each and everyday so that I can enjoy the freedoms I have today. You are appreciated. Thank you Baby for doing what you do every single day for the U.S. Army! I LOVE YOU BABY!! You make me so so proud!!