I just finished catching up.

So I just finished catching up on all the blogs that I read. It really took a long time! I haven't really read anyone's blog for like 2 months. I guess I feel off the blog wagen and I am trying to get back on it. I know when I move that it might start again for awhile because I am going to be the person in charge at home (which who knows where that might be).
So for you guys that don't know Joe will be stationed at Oklahoma City, Ok. We aren't sure if we will get into onbase housing or not because Joe can't sign up for it until he leaves Florida. We do know that he will have to be there by November 13th, possibly eariler. Which is awesome to know. He will get 2 weeks to come back here to visit and help me pack up and stuff. So with the math of all that, he'll be here by the end of the month! Which is super duper exciding! I am going to be here just waiting.
So my last day of work was October 15th. Work threw me a pizza party and gave me a hundred dollars. So it was really nice. Everyone signed a card for me and it was just a nice day. So it was a bitter sweet day. It's funny because Friday came and went with no phone calls, but the last 3 days my boss has called me and one of my co-workers has called me 2 about questions. But the thing is my boss should know all this because he had me sit in his office for like an hour one day to sort through all this stuff that he needed to know. I guess it doesn't matter how much you tell someone who doesn't listen and that is one thing i will never ever miss. I will miss my co-workers, but I won't miss the work or my bosses "bad moods" where he explodes at everyone for no real reason from time to time.
So really i'm just here waiting. I am sorting, cleaning, and repacking what isn't already packed. Did I mention August 20th I moved back in with my parents? So I have been living mostly out of boxes since. It really sucks when You are trying to deal with the change of seasons and all your cold stuff is not with you, but in the garage. I have gone cold till I figured out last winter I left my really heavy coat at my parents. :)
So the big picture right now is that when we do move I am going to be a house wife until are place becomes home. Then I'll start looking for a job. We still have hopes the whole family thing will come easy because since we made the choice it's been like 7 months. But we haven't goten the real chance to do anything about it. It's so frustrating. I am happy to be moving on soon and to be doing something different with my life.

Uncle Tony

So my mom's brother was here for 2 weeks in September. I think it was the 15th thru the 29th. Tony is from Portsmith England. He is my mom's half brother and was raised by a nanny over there and has lived there always. He was in the royal navy for over 20 years and loves the fact that Joe is in the navy himself.
Mom likes it when Tony's comes because they eat out all the time and do a lot of shopping. He's an amazingly sweet man. He's like 74 years old and I always worry that this time might be the last time I get to see him. I love my Uncle Tony! Maybe I can get some money to go to England, but I doubt I'll have any of that money any time soon. I will have to add photos later because my camera just died and I didn't put my photos on the computer yet.

I am so far behind.

So I haven't been on her in serveral months. I have all these blogs to catch up on and that stuff will have to wait for another day. So just an update for everyone. Joe found out his military station yesterday, so we are going to be at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, OK. It's really funny because Joe's not in the Air Force, but in fact in the Navy, but I guess as long as he gets to do the Job he was trained for that's all that matters.
Besides that I am done with work on the 15th and then I'm going to just be working on getting organized once again and getting rid of more crap so that I can move easily and so on. I am hoping to be moving around the beginning of next month! But I will miss Fondy, I know a lot of people my age hate it around here, but I am not that way. I really have liked it here, this will probably always be home to me.

Florida Part 2

I know it's been awhile, but someone kindly reminded me to finish this.
So on Saturday we got some lunch on base and went swimming in the Gulf of Mexico! We weren't out there to long, because it was just to hot. I think we were out there for like an hour, maybe an hour and a half. I just liked walking the beach with Joe. That was the best part of it! We then met up with my brother Justin (yes he's down there too for the navy) around we all took a taxi out to the theater and since Transformers wasn't starting for another couple of hours we made our way to the mall. We walled the mall for awhile and then made our way to the theater to go see Transformers. Will all the walking I was super tired during the movie, but I still really really liked the movie. I cannot say which one I like the most, because I would have to re watch both of them back to back. So we then went back to base after the movie and we went our separate ways. Joe and myself watched a movie in our room. We watched the movie Knowing and Push, which we both fell asleep during Push, not because it was boring, but because we were tired.
So the next day we got up and ready for church, but it's of course down poring out! So we go to sign Justin out of his barracks (if you are going to be gone for over 3 hours you need someone to sign you out of the barracks) and we all got soaked making our way over to the chow hall. We went to the chow hall because that's where you can get picked up if anyone is going to give rides ( they don't always give out rides). So we are all standing there and this white jeep comes up and rolls down the window and is waving at us (but there are quite a few of us hanging out here) and I ask them if they know who it is and they both say no. So she waves at us a couple more times and then the missionaries call Justin and tell him that the person waving at us is our ride. LOL! So Joe goes up front and I sit in back with Justin.
Church was in this other church's building. I have no idea what kind, but the chapel was big and had stain glass and all that. So after sacrament meeting we go through what they call a donut room (a room where you actually can get donuts to eat during Sunday School) so we all get some donuts and make our way to class. So the visitors had to introduce themselves. So I go first and talk about how I'm Joe's wife and how we are from Wisconsin and stuff, but I completely forgot to mention I was Justin's sister. After words I felt really bad, but I'm just used to everyone knowing that we are siblings, but that's not how it was here. So I mentioned it in Relief Society and everyone was "Oh, isn't that funny that they are both here" which it is really funny!
After church a lot of us went over to the Missionaries apartment. The missionaries are a retired couple from Utah and they made a huge meal for all of us. It was so nice to talk with everyone. I was surprised that there was a lot of married guys without wives there. So I guess it made me feel better that Justin and Joe weren't alone in that fact.
So the rest of day was just spent together and enjoying each other's company. We did some walking of the beach and base, watched the rest of Push, and just relaxed indoors. While watching the movie we ordered pizza and worked on my laundry. That night Joe had to sleep in the barracks. So I was alone in the hotel room.
Monday I woke up early to get packing. I had to be out of the room by noon. When Joe had lunch he came by for alittle bit. So I left my stuff in the hotel and walked around outside for the next 2 hours. I actually had alittle bit of a tan because of this day. I did some reading and just enjoyed the beach. So I took some pictures of the Gulf and was just pondering my whole trip. Around 3 Joe and myself had 45 minutes to just talk before I left. I really had a lot of fun this trip. I'm getting used to leaving without Joe. I didn't cry at all this time. I'm actually very happy at that fact because the last 2 times (when he left home and his graduation weekend) I bawled like crazy.
It's pretty late, but I promise to post the pictures before the end of the week.
Another thing I competely forgot about!!!
So the second day I was there (Friday) I was just waiting for Joe to get his liberty call (that's when you know you can leave the barracks) in the hotel and the tolet won't flush. It wouldn't do anything at all! So I go down to the front deck and I tell them this and they tell me they will send up the matiance guy. So this guy comes up and he starts going to work. He then can't get it to anything so he calls someone else in the building to find out that they had turned off the water because of a plumming problem somewhere else in the buidling. The problem was the women i talked at the front deck and the matiance guy both just started their shift. So he tells me once the water comes back on he'll be back to check it. So he comes back (it actually flushed on it's own while he was gone) and he does a couple things and says it's all fixed. So get this! It was leaking from that day one. So the next morning (Saturday) the floor is all wet and I see the pipes dripping. So Joe and msyelf tell the front desk on our way out. So we figured it will be fixed. It still wasn't. So the next day (Sunday) the cleaning people must have said something about it because someone else came in to check it out. I'm not sure if it was still leaking Monday or not, but that's a little rediculus. So I got a servay when I got home from the hotel and I talked about the plumming stuff. And get this! They are going to refund me the cost of my whole stay. So I'm just waiting for my check for $188. So that's pretty cool! But there could have been more stuff I could have talked about on that survey, like the fact that I was supposed to have a couch and I didn't have one!

Florida part 1

So I don't have enough motivation to write this all out right now so it's just going to be in parts. So I left 16th from Milwaukee airport at 5:45 am. I didn't get to go to sleep the night before because I had left all my packing for when I got home from work which was like 10pm. So my friend Cassandra took me and her brother (who was leaving like 2 hours after I did from the same airport) Cory. We all went out to breakfast and it was good.
So I got into Pensacola around 10:00am and got onto the base about a half hour later. There were some people from church who came to pick me up and they were so nice! So I got like the whole day on base. So I got to the base and Joe was waiting for me because he was still on lunch and we tried to check me into the hotel, but the room wasn't ready. So he told me where to get some food and he was going to meet me there in alittle bit. So when we met up I got some lunch and then we were able to check me into the hotel. I was able to get in a nap while Joe finished up with his class or whatever he was doing.
After Joe was done we walked the beach and did a little more walking around the base. It was just so nice to just spend time with him. So I got to get some sleep that night which was so nice, because I only had like 9 hours of sleep for like 3 days and I was tired.
Friday Joe and I met up again for lunch and when he was done we decided to go out to the mall side of town. So we got a cap and went mall in Pensacola (which was pretty darn big) and we decided we wanted wanted to go see a movie. We walked from the mall to the theater (which wasn't that far from the mall) and we saw Harry Potter. We both really liked it. We went to a restaurant after called Logan's Steak House. Kind of like a Texas Roadhouse. It was really good. We then went back to the base in a cap and got to split the fair with another military couple. So we went home and got some sleep for the night.
I think that's good enough for right now.

The Holy Spirit

It's already about quarter after 4 in the morning, but I have been thinking about this the last couple of days and if I don't write it now, it's going to have to wait some more. So there are many things that have brought those amazing feelings of the spirit into my life. I guess I just want to talk about them. I guess one of the first things there really was was Joe. I was only 16 when we started dating. Even though so many wrongs were made, I always knew there was a reason that I still needed him there. I had never prayed about marring him, because I already knew that it was meant to be.
But when we got sealed in the temple I really really knew. This man had been my all already for 5 years and having him able to take me to the temple was the best thing ever. I knew and still know with all my heart that Joseph Roberts was meant for me. Through all the wrongs we must have been doing something right, because here we now sit with are temple covenants and active members of the church.
One of the first times that we ever really had a firm answer to a prayer was when we fasted and prayed about Joe joining the service. At the time we didn't know which branch of service, but we prayed about it. Holy crap no one could have shaken the positive yes that we had felt. We knew without a doubt that Joe was supposed to be doing this. At the time I really didn't know what we were getting into, but the Lord knows all and I will not doubt him.
While Joe was in boot camp I really started to get "baby fever" and wanted to know it this was meant to be. So I just prayed about it. I had this overwhelming calming sensation. It was an amazing feeling, but then when I had told Joe about it and we started really thinking about it I freaked out. I think I freaked people out with my blogs that involved me freaking out. I got scared that if I didn't try this even though I had gotten an answer that I was doing wrong. But I am past that and Joe and I are back to wanting a baby. We are excited and have are fingers crossed for next weekend! I'm so excited to see him!

4th Of July

So I was thinking about the 4th the last couple of days. This 4th of July would be mine and Joe's 5th one together and he's not here. We would always take his motorcyle down to Lake Side Park and we would weave ourselves out of the park which was awesome because we'd get home in no time. But having Joe here for the 4th has made some of the greatest memories I have of the holiday. We would sometimes buy fireworks, like last year we light fire works off with the missionaries. LOL!
But I am going to be honest one of my favorite 4th Of July memories involves Kate and myself. We were probably teenagers and we just biked to the park (not that far and then you don't have to wait in traffic), so we are looking for a place to camp when we see the Prellwitzs (a family from church) so we sit with them. They had those plastic tube popcycles and it was so good. It was nice and fun. I guess it's just cool to have something that you didn't expect and it turns out fun!
So in celebration with the 4th this year Joe sent me a beautiful thing of flowers. He's such an amazing husband. Happy 4th to everyone!