JOHN IS HOME!!!!

I am, so excited, to have JB home. I am, seriously, ecstatic!

He got home yesterday around 9:00a.m. and decided to go to sleep until about 2:00p.m. in the hopes of flipping is his sleep schedule back around. Tiffany and Joia came over, and we girls had a fabulous afternoon scrapbooking while JB slept and their husbands babysat. I haven't just sat and scrapbooked in probably a year, and it was really fun!

Later that evening, John and I decided to go out for a nice dinner. We tried to find an Indian restaurant we had heard of, but when we had no luck, opted for Kuvee Beach across from Destin Commons. This was a fantastic place and just a fantastic evening. (A strong recommendation to fellow Eglni wives!) We were so excited to just be able to sit and talk. We decided a lot about these last two weeks. We decided that it is very difficult to have a strong marriage when one partner is working three times the normal working amount. We decided that we have to always remember we are on the same team and that one of us is frustrated it is only because they are frustrated with the situtation and not each other. And we have decided that no matter what, when military life is through, we will not slide into a lifestyle that requires those kind of hours from John, no matter how much money he is making. It is just not worth it. At all.

This was also the longest we had left Scrubs on him home alone. We attempted to leave one of these "puppy pads" we had heard about in the room with him. Supposedly this is a place that smells good and entices a pup to soil on these pads if they have to go. Obviously, from the picture shown above, you can tell that Scrubs wasn't interested in soiling on this pad whatsoever. He was instead interested, despite it being taped down on all four sides, with chewing it to smitherines! I think he did a pretty good job, don't you?! John and I had a good laugh at this. We aren't even sure that Scrubs actually used the bathroom while we were gone. We couldn't find any evidence. I think he was too busy destroying the pee-pad.

John and I then balked on a movie as we were both so tired, and hit the hay around 11:00pm, as he thought he was tired enough to sleep through the night despite his five-hour-nap and up-for-two-weeks-during-the-night lifestyle. He was wrong. At 2:00am, John informed me that he was wide awake and that he would get up and take care of the dog throughout the night. Folks, I slept amazingly well!!! Having JB in the house allows me to not be so uptight at night in the house alone. I was out. And hearing him say he'd take care of the dog allowed me to fall even deeper to sleep. It was great.

Right now, John is outside mowing the lawn with our new electric lawnmower. It's pretty cool! Quite a tree-hugging thing to do I think. We are going to go back to Rocky Bayou Baptist and give that a try again this week. We'll see how it goes. It should be a wonderfully relaxing Sunday at home together.

Oh and as for the gorp some of you asked about, John and I actually made that last week so those were old pics! However, the recipe is atually quite simple. All kinds of different chocolate M&Ms and solid kisses. You can also add peanut butter chips or chocolate chips. Then tons of dried fruit of your choice and then tons of nuts of your choice. That's really all it is. Reeses are great. Peanut Butter M&Ms are good.

Here is a clip of Scrubs celebrating JB's conclusion to OB. Enjoy!