Ok, so I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time.  Jessica, a friend I met at church out here in Tacoma, sent this to me (her blog is the wrong week link at the bottom).  I figured while I sat here and listened to Lara fight going to bed that I would just get this done.


1.  Being a military wife is nothing if not an adventure.  What is one of your most favorite adventures thus far?  Living at Fort Irwin, California.  We arrived at Fort Irwin 2 days after we were married. Not only was it in the middle of no where, but it was the furthest I had ever moved away from family. We arrived at night time, so it just seemed like a really long drive. It wasn’t until the next day when we had to go back into Barstow to find a place to live that I saw where my new, and wonderful, husband had brought me. All I could think about when he said he was being sent to California was the beautiful ocean, beaches, palm trees. I KNEW we were moving to the desert, but I NEVER in a million years realized just how far from civilization we would be.  We spent almost 4 years there and we loved it!  It was a close knit community, really great for just waking up and going walking/hiking with the dogs, the dogs could go off leash just steps from the back door…and it was amazingly beautiful.  The desert definitely had its own kind of beauty.  Fort Irwin taught me how to be thankful for your once a week trip to Target which was an hour and a half away, or for that once every few weeks nice dining out experience. 

2.  You are a Mom to two of the cutest kids I have ever seen.  What is something about motherhood that you never knew/thought about until you had kids of your own and really shocked you?  How hard potty training would be. I worked with 3 year-olds for about 2 years while in college at Oklahoma Christian.  I saw how some moms really struggled with why their child would not potty train. It’s not until I’ve had my own time with potty training that I realize how difficult it is.  It’s just hard to realize WHY your child can pee in the potty and not have accidents but will poop his pants every single time.  You think you know all of the tricks: bribing, toys, candy, stickers…but you really don’t.  Every child is his/her own person!  


I also thought that people that had kids really close together should just “KNOW BETTER” and be smart about it. It wasn’t until when Ethan had just turned 6 months old and I found out I was pregnant with Lara that I realized that sometimes God is the one that KNOWS BETTER and it’s HIS plan for children to be close.  Sometimes he knows what’s better for your family than  you yourself do.  I definitely learned to TRUST GOD during that experience and wouldn’t trade my kids being less than 14 months apart for ANYTHING in the world.

3.  What is your favorite type of cookie?  Do you have a recipe you would like to share??  Ohhhh…I love cookies.  I normally just make the good ol’ Toll House classic chocolate chip cookies.  Nothing fancy.

4.  Tell us a funny story from when you were in high school or college?  College…oh, how I love my friends from college!  One night, we all got it in our heads that we needed to go to Walmart. There were probably 6-7 of us.  But, instead of taking multiple cars, we decided we could all fit in Bethany’s little Dodge sports car.  So, we piled in, sat on each other’s laps and even had one laying across us and headed up to Walmart. Thank goodness it was only a short drive from OC to Walmart.  But, we did have fun. I believe we were also in our jammies already, and were going to buy hair dye so we could have fun trying new colors (this was a regular thing courtesy of our resident hair dressers KR and Em).

5.  What is your favorite verse in the Bible and why?  I know it’s so over used, but I love this verse: Philipians 4:13- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  It’s something I have turned to over and over and over.  You might often hear me repeating this verse while battling the commissary with two hungry children grabbing things off the shelf! HAHA  But seriously, I know that no matter what comes my way, whether it be having a baby during a deployment while your oldest is only 13 months old with no family close by, or surviving deployment #3 with two crazy kids, that I can do it as long as I put my trust in Him!