~year 1~

We had been together just less than a year when we got married, and it was a nice wedding with all our family and friends. We got married outside, and our stand ups walk in to a song by the beach boys! So much fun! The food was great made with love from our family. After the wedding we had 10 days together before Matthew left for boot camp in San Diego in Cali. So for that ten days we were together all the time and had some time with our family. Than when that Sunday came and it was time for him to go I took him up to the office and some of our family made it up there to see him off. It was then when he got in to the van that it hint me that I would not see him for 3 months! After Matthew left his sister my "sister-in-love" went out to the movies and had some time together. That night I was able to talk to him because he was still at the hotel here in Michigan. After he made it to San Diego I was able to talk to him just 2 time in the 3 month. The first was to say that he made it, and that he loved me and that was it. The other phone call was to tell me when he would be done and that was 2 1/2 months later. Due to the time of him leaving and whatnot we were apart for hollween, my birthday, and Thanksgiving! It was hard, and at some times slow. But I knew if I could make it to Thanksgiving I would be just fine. Because from Thanksgiving to family thursday was ten days, and I knew what that was like because that's how long we had together after the wedding to the time he left.

After getting back from boot camp were back in Michigan we had ten days together beofre he had to go to work. And going to work was not all that bad. He was home for a month right over Christmas very nice!!! Then he was back to Cali for more training and I stayed back in Michigan. After his month he was move to school and would be there for some time so I was able to go!! Talk about being happy! It was still in Cali just north of where he was in a place called 29 palms. I made it out there in March on the 5th. It maybe the hardest thing I had to do in our first year of being married.

And with all of that in the first 6 month of being married we were together less than 2 months of that. But now we were together and had our own place it was great we were just out there for school so we did not need anything to big, but after having Matthew best friend high school and his family and little bigger place would have been nice. OOO and the whole time they were with us there was nothing in the hosue!!! LOL! It was a ton of fun! Everyone should do it at some point in thier lives. Thinking we were moving in the fall we did not look in to getting a place on base. We did fine a church that we could call home and did for the time we were there. In this time we had to say good bye to Andrew, "Matthew's twin" as he was going over sea for some time. He and his family are the ones that stayed with us for some time. They are family and we love them. So to be albe to be there for them was great. As the one year mark came up fast we found out that we were staying in 29 Palms after he was done with school, he would just go to a unit there, and at this time we found out that we were having our first baby!

Than the day came and we knew it would one year, and we did not have a ton of money but I said that I would do something nice for him. So why we was at school I clean the house and made him what I was thinking was his favorite dinner (more on that later) and I found the box that had our wedding things in it and place the things around the house. And with no table to eat at we ate on the living room floor.

I remember thinking that it was a bad year and there was nothing gret about it. But now looking back on it, it was a time of grow in us away from our family. We were able to grow in our walk. And it gave us just some time to get to know how to live together.

Year two to come next!!