The big day!

As of this Sunday my husband will be back with me. For like 2 weeks anyways. But I'm just writing to let you know that I will be absent for the entire time he's home. So don't worry. But I will return with lots of blogging material :-)

Song link up!

Yay! Another week down. This is my last song link up with Goodnight Moon before my husband comes home for R&R!!

My song choice for this week is Getting You Home by Chris Young. I think this has been one of my songs before but it fits this weeks mood perfectly.

Enjoy!

I might explode

My husband is finally coming home for R&R. He should be here between sunday and tuesday. For those who know me they know how nervous that makes me. I can't stand planning around possibilities, I like definite.

I still have to try and get 2 weeks worth of homework done before he arrives so I'm not doing homework while he's home. I also need to go shopping. Mainly to take some of this stress away and also because I need some clothes that fit.

I have family up from Long Island and Georgia which I need to visit at my dad's house. There is seriously not enough time to get everything done. Unless I visit family today and skip the track with them tomorrow and take that entire day to finish homework. And actually use it for homework instead of procrastinating.

I've already cleaned and organized my room but the longer I have to look it over the more things I'm going to find wrong that I'm going to have to change. I'm a nervous wreck.

I just want my husband home so I can FINALLY be in his arms. Giving him back is going to suck but I don't want to think about that right now.

Fingers crossed I can at least accomplish finishing all of my homework. That will be a huge relief even if nothing else gets completed.

I Love You Papa Bear<3 See you shortly<3

New this and new that!

I got my hair done today. It took 5 long hours but it came out AMAZING!!!!

BEFORE:

Something like this. This was over Christmas though so I'm pregnant and grumpy.

In the last picture you will notice the new facial accessory. I now have to wear glasses. BUT, I rock those glasses. 

My husband told me not to go blonde. So I went as close to blonde as possible without going all the way. Muahahahahaha. 

Song Link up!

Another week down which means another song link up with Goodnight Moon!

What's my song of choice this week? Pause by Pitbull. It's one of my songs for Zumba and it makes me laugh every time I hear it. Mainly because songs about sex make me laugh. But I love pitbull and I love this song.

Enjoy.

I know this is my second post but I have to

I'm just completely blown away by this little thing that I have to write it out.

Why on earth would anyone continuously post pictures of their honey moon to facebook WHILE ON THEIR HONEYMOON??? Is this generation that addicted to technology that they can't just step away and enjoy the company of their new spouse?

I don't know if I'm alone in this but it's disturbing. I think part of my disturbance is the fact that my husband and I never got to go on a honeymoon. But you can bet your bums that if we did I would have soaked up every second of it and not touched anything that even resembled a computer or cell phone.

It's just really sad how immature some people are and yet they are getting married. I don't have a problem with young marriages. I was 19 when I got married. My problem is immature people getting married. Along with all of these picture updates are status updates about how drunk they are and how they haven't been sober yet blah blah blah. Now I get it, she's excited to be underage but in Mexico where she's of age. But grow the hell up. Your honeymoon isn't about getting plastered, it's about celebrating your marriage.

I can't control other people's actions but this is my blog and I sure as hell can complain about them. If we are that addicted to technology then it's time for a revolution of sorts. Step away from your computers, put down your cell phones and go enjoy some fresh air with the ones you love. Enjoy life, stop reading about other people enjoying life.

OH MY GOSH!! I WON!!

I actually won something!! Nicole over at Flip Flops and Combat Boots hosted a bunch of giveaways while on vacation. And I actually won something!!!

Kara at Ramblins of a Marine Wife hosted this particular giveaway. What did I win? The ultimate prize of all, a $10 gift card to Dunkin Donuts!! I don't what I want more, Munchkins or captain america's tricup coolata. Yea, I go to DD often.

So thank you to both of these ladies. I now have hope that I can win the lottery one day :-) I just have to actually play it first.

Thank you!

I have the best followers EVER. I just want to say how much I appreciate every one of you. Thank you for appreciating what I have to say and making me want to continuously say things. 

You are awesome and that's official!

Hello, please shut up.

If you are one of those people who feel the need to constantly tell me to take in every moment and enjoy my time with my daughter because time flies and you'll miss this, then please, shut up. 

Do you honestly think it makes any sense to tell a mother that her daughter will grow up and time will go by fast? Don't you think that's something EVERYONE already knows? It's like telling a sky diver to watch out for the ground because eventually he will touch it. No Sh*!. 

Giving this kind of "advice" hits three of my pet peeves at once! I cannot stand being told unimportant, and nonsensical information. It's a waste of everyone's time involved. I can't stand being given unsolicited "advice." And last but not least, I HATE being lumped into categories just because I'm a mom, or for any other reason. 

Personally, I love watching my daughter grow and accomplish new things. I'm excited for the future. I get to mold this little person from scratch. I'm the sole reason, other than her daddy, for her success or failure. I get to smile with her and be proud of all that she accomplishes. I don't want to have this tiny little baby who needs every bit of my attention all of the time forever. That's why people get older, because if they didn't moms and dads would go crazy. 

So for now, I love seeing her roll over and try to talk and grow. No one would be very happy as a baby forever and I wish her all the happiness in the world, so she needs to grow. 

Let's recap incase you're one of those annoying people I've previously mentioned and STILL don't get it. 

DO NOT tell me I will miss this and that time go fast. A) You don't know me. So don't assume. B) I know time goes fast. I've lived 21 for 21 fast years and I'm fully capable of understanding that concept. 

DO NOT offer me advice when I didn't ask for it. That just makes you an annoying person. But if you are going to give me random advice please think it through and make sure it's actually something I might not know and/or something that could benefit my life. If not, shut up. 

DO NOT stereotype me. Unless you want to be unfriended from facebook, or if you actually have the nads to do it to my face, get whatever's in my hand at the time (hopefully something that stains) in your face. 

Thanks for taking the time out of your day to understand that you are extremely annoying to me and hopefully you can stop your crazy antics. 

Let me finish by saying you aren't a bad person, you just suck in my eyes. I'm sure there are people out there who love people like you. They probably gossip a lot and suck at life but they are still people who will appreciate you so go find them and stay away from me. 

Sincerely, 

Just this and that and some other things.

This will probably be all over the place but here we go.

I am so anxious for these next 2 weeks to go by. I can't wait to have a couple weeks to enjoy my husband before he has to go back. I can't believe we are 1/3 of the way done already and I get to have some time with him!! It will have been 5 months since we've seen each other. Bout time I get some hugs and kisses from the man I love.

This deployment has really flown by so far. I blame it on being a new mom. I say that like it's a bad thing but I just mean Abigail is the reason it has gone so fast, which I love. That means the rest will go by fast too!

I just have to make it through the rest of this year and then I will be moving back to good ol' NC. I cannot wait to get back and have my family back together. I love house hunting so I'm really looking forward to the move.

I can't believe Abigail is already almost 5 months old. Which reminds me, I need to go shopping. My boobs have shrunk back to C cups, which I'm soooo thankful for. But it means I need new bras. I need to make these girls look perky again.

I haven't updated my weight loss in a while but I am at 128 which is 40 lbs lost since baby girl was born. It's also only 3 lbs away from 125 which was my goal weight so I can live with that. I'm still working on toning and not being so damn jiggly. Why do all of our muscles go away during pregnancy? I mean I'm carrying around and extra 40 lbs you think that would build muscle not disintegrate it.

On another note, I will be visiting my family in Long Island the 24-26th. So in like a week from Sunday. it will be a great time. We are going to head into the city on the 25th so Abigail will have her first city trip!! I'm so excited.

I've been feeling like I'm going blind lately so I had to go get my eyes checked. Sure enough my prescription has gone from sometimes needing glasses (like to read the white board in college) to needing to wear them practically all the time (for anything further than an arm distance away). Someone told me that pregnancy messes with your vision, I guess mine just kicked in a  little later.

So anyways, here is my new facial accessory.

Lots of changes lately that I haven't updated so I needed to do a mushed post. I was told I would hear back from Kohl's pertaining to my interview by the end of this week but I haven't heard anything. I've been positive but I should probably check back into reality and accept that I probably didn't get the job. 

Which really stinks because I felt really good about it and they seemed really interested in me. And the worst part is I wont know why I wasn't chosen. Isn't that annoying? 

It would have been the PERFECT job. Hopefully I can find something else that will be just as perfect. 

Song Link Up!

Once again we have reached another Thursday for a link up with Goodnight Moon. 

My song this week is Dog Days are Over by Florence and the Machine.
This song is just upbeat and gives you a juice you didn't have at 8am this morning.

Enjoy!

Brilliant.

If you haven't seen the video of the Marine asking Mila Kunis to his ball this november then you need to get out from under your rock and watch this.

So basically she said yes because of Justin Timberlake's persuasion. He told her to do it for her country and she said yes. 

SO, one brilliant female marine decided that she should give it a shot and ask Justin to her ball. How can he not say now after telling Kunis she had to do it for her country? 

Read about it and watch her video HERE.

Personally I think both marines could have been nicer in their proposals but hey, they're marines. They have to keep up a certain reputation. 

Good luck girl!! I'm rooting for you!!

Such is life.

I don't know if I've mentioned it before or not but I have an air force family moving next door. If you didn't already know it I'm back home in a dinky dirt road town, no base for at least an hour and I get an air force family across the street. What are my chances?

Well he's a recruiter and actually graduated high school a year before my husband. So it's kind of funny. It's just strange because I live on a dead end and every other house is owned by a family member, except these people's.

I move 14 hours away from Lejeune and I STILL have to live around the uniform. UGH.

Have You Seen This?

Super Awesome Marine "proposal."

Now, this isn't the type of proposal you are all thinking, the marriage kind. This is a proposal from a Marine to Mila Kunis to attend his ball with him in Greenville, NC.

First of all, she said yes, sort of. Secondly, I think the Marine is kind of a tool in his proposal. If he was more of a gentleman I think she might of sent a personal response back to him. I guess we will have to stay tuned to see if it's for real.

Oh and if you happen to be going to his ball, 3rd battalion 2nd Marines, November 18th Greenville, NC and she does end up going... Please take a picture for me. I am extremely jealous.

New Decor...Americana style!

Today I went shopping at JoAnn Fabrics. They had a HUGE selection of American Pride decor. All on sale!! So I got some beautiful things. I wish I got more but I can't just splurge all of the time you know! haha

And I got this the other day but I have to share. It's a bad picture but it says Live every Moment Love Beyond Words.

New Layout

I've been feeling really patriotic lately so I went with the red, white and blue. I won a raffle a while ago and my prize was supposed to be a blog makeover. She started working on it and then stopped and I haven't heard anything. So who knows. But I couldn't keep it the same for too much longer so here it is!

Where do you get your blogging bling from? I searched everywhere for a red, white and blue patterned set of dividers and headers (like my about, followers, family...). But no dice.

If you know of one and want to share please do!

Song Link Up!

Here's another week of song linking up with Goodnight Moon!

This week I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I haven't gotten much time to talk to my husband so I've been missing him something awful. This one's for you Papa Bear<3

Giveaway-WINNER ANNOUNCED!

Ok I had to end my giveaway early because I had to end my online party early. But we still have a winner!

I assigned everyone a number per entry they did and then randomly picked a number.

Drum Roll Please...

Allie from My Marine And Me, you are the winner!! Yay!! :-)

Thank you everyone for participating :-) Stay tuned because I'm sure there will be more.

Happy Independence Day!

Today is absolutely one of my favorite holidays. I love being American and having all the opportunities in the world. I am truly blessed.

Here are a few things you might not have known about our Independence Day. Or maybe you do!

1.) Independence Was Not Declared on July Fourth: The second Continental Congress actually voted for independence on July 2. In fact, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, predicting that future generations would celebrate July 2 as Independence Day, saying, "The second day of July, 1776, will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illumination, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore." July 4, 1776 is significant because that is the day that Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence document, but contrary to what many people believe it was not signed on the July 4. The official signing ceremony occurred on August 2, which is when most of the signers affixed their names to the document, but other representatives signed the document throughout the summer of 1776. Finally, there is no historical record of John Hancock saying that his signature is that big so that King George could read it. It has been suggested that Hancock's is by far the largest signature simply because he was the president of Congress.

2.) New York Was Late: When the Continental Congress declared independence from Britain the official vote was 12 in favor, 0 against. But wait, you may ask, weren't there 13 colonies? Where is that last one? The answer: The colony of New York abstained from the original vote on July 2. New York did not decide to join until July 19.

3.) It Was a States Thing First: Independence was not something that was confined to Congress. It started out as a state and local thing. In fact, the very first Declaration of Independence came on Oct. 4, 1774 (21 months before the Continental Congress declared independence) from the town of Worcester, Mass. During the next 21 months a total of 90 state and local declarations of independence would be made. When Virginia declared its independence in May 1776, they sent Rep. Richard Henry Lee to the Continental Congress with specific instructions to put forth a resolution of independence for Congress to vote on, thus allying all the colonies -- soon to become states -- against the British Empire in the War for Independence.

4.) American Troops Did Not fight Under the American Flag During the Revolution: The Fourth of July is always accompanied by a lot of flag waving, but the soldiers of the American Revolution did not actually fight under the American flag. In fact, our Founders did not really consider the flag to be all that important and the design of the flag varied both in the number of stripes and in the formation of the stars. The reason a uniform flag was adopted was so that our navy ships could be easily identified when arriving in foreign ports, but the boys in the Continental Army did not fight under this flag. In fact, the United States flag was considered so irrelevant that in 1794 when someone introduced a bill in Congress to add two stars to the flag in representation of the entrance of Vermont and Kentucky into the Union many members of the House considered it to be too trivial to pay any attention to. One representative is on record saying that this matter was "a trifling business which ought not to engross the attention of the House, when it was it was their duty to discuss matters of infinitely greater importance." In the end, the bill was passed simply to be rid of it. The Continental Army did still fight under flags, but these flags were all different depending on the regiment.  

5.) Our Founding Fathers Were Not Radicals: As Americans, we like to think that what we did in the American Revolution was original and that our ideas of freedom and rights were new and progressive. But the truth is our Founding Fathers were not radical new thinkers -- all of their ideas and philosophies were rooted deeply in history. Ideas of people's rights, liberty, and social contracts can be traced all the way back through our colonial history, most famously with the Mayflower Compact, and even further through British history and English common law. These ideas can even be seen at work in the medieval era with Magna Carta first established 1215. Our Founding Fathers sought independence in order to preserve their "natural-born rights as Englishmen."  Though it is true no colony had ever succeeded from the mother country before and the British were quick to call it treason, everything our Founders did was, in fact, legal. Jefferson himself explains that the Declaration was not meant to express anything new. He said it was "not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before, but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject."

6.) We Are Not a Democracy: People often associate democracy with freedom. We hear this word used all the time by our politicians, by our neighbors, even sometimes by our educators. But the fact is we are not a democracy. We are a republic. Our Founding Fathers deemed this an important distinction to make and discussed the matter quite a bit. In the end, our Founding Fathers claimed that a democracy was both extreme and dangerous for a country as it would most assuredly result in the oppression of the minority by the majority. Take this one example from Founding Father, Elbridge Gerry: "The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy." And Thomas Jefferson said that democracy should never be practiced outside the limits of a town. Our Founders were very wary of power no matter who had it and thus limited it as much as possible -- this is why we have such a unique system of checks and balances.

7.) Jefferson-Hemings Scandal--Not So Scandalous After All? With Independence Day comes a lot of talk about the Declaration of Independence and with that talk comes references to Thomas Jefferson, which these days will inevitably end with the Sally Hemings scandal. The claim that Jefferson fathered children with Hemings started by Jefferson's political rival Alexander Hamilton as an attempt to smear and discredit him. In the past several years these claims got a lot of media attention when a DNA test was done on the descendants of Sally Hemings, which led people to claim that Thomas Jefferson was definitively the father of her children. However, the matter is far from settled and there are still historians on both sides of the aisle in this debate. The DNA test actually proves that a male from the Jefferson family fathered Sally Hemings' children --that's a number of possibilities. At this point, science cannot actually provide us with a definitive answer on the subject.

8.) Our Founding Fathers Would Not Have Recited the Pledge: Another patriotic tradition that gets a lot of attention, particularly around this time of the year, is the Pledge of Allegiance. The Pledge did not exist during our Founders' lifetimes -- something that is very clear when looking at its text. The Pledge was written over a century after America's founding in 1892. It was also written by a socialist -- Francis Bellamy, whose original text was: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." According to our Founders, the states are not indivisible, but very much the opposite. In fact, when ratifying the U.S. Constitution, some states, such as Virginia among others, specifically declared the right to secede from the Union should they feel it necessary just as an extra precaution to make sure that that state right was understood. Our Founders took their states rights very seriously and considered the U.S. Constitution to be a compact amongst the sovereign states so that any state could secede if it felt the federal government had become oppressive. So, if not with a pledge, how would our Founding Fathers begin meetings and celebrations? The answer: most likely with a prayer. In fact, the very first resolution brought before the First Continental Congress, and immediately passed, was the declaration that they would open every meeting with a prayer.

9.) The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere . . . and 40 others? The mythology of Paul Revere's midnight ride can be traced back to the year 1860 with the writing of that famous poem, "Paul Revere's Ride." Here's what really happened: On April 18, 1775, British troops were ordered to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams, both of whom were in Lexington at the time and to seize arms and provisions at Concord. Upon hearing this, Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback -- taking two different routes to Lexington in order to warn Hancock and Adams. Along the way, they warned the towns they passed through of the British invasion. By the morning of April 19 roughly 40 men were out on horseback spreading the news. Revere arrived at Lexington first, followed by Dawes. The two men then headed toward Concord, but were intercepted by British troops. Dawes, though injured, managed to escape, but Revere was captured. He was rescued by American militiamen a short while later. It was during this confrontation between British troops and American militiamen at Concord that the famous shot heard 'round the world was fired.

10.) The British Soldiers of the Boston Massacre Were Defended by John Adams in Court: The Boston Massacre, on March 5, 1770, began with a riot and ended with British troops killing five men. The incident help spark the greater rebellion, which led to the Revolutionary War, but tensions had been rising in Boston since British troops had occupied the city in 1768. But you may be surprised to know that one of the Founding Fathers actually defended the British soldiers that were charged of killing the civilians. John Adams, like many of our Founding Fathers, was a lawyer, and though he was a Patriot, he firmly believed in the right to a fair trial and agreed to represent the British troops in court. Adams succeeded in getting Capt. Thomas Preston acquitted as most others. And the two soldiers who were convicted were spared the death penalty. 

So this July Fourth, research what you're celebrating and talk about it with your family. Benjamin Franklin said that we have Republic, if we can keep it. Former Congressman and author of the book "In Tune with America: our History in Song," George Nethercutt Jr. put it this way: "The foundation of the freedoms we enjoy as Americans is the U.S. Constitution, the longest surviving constitution of any nation in history. To be civically unaware is to diminish our freedom, but knowing our history makes us all better Americans. Read our nation's Founding documents and they will inspire you."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/04/10-things-might-not-know-about-our-independence/#ixzz1R9We4tsK

Giveaway!

Ok so this is my first giveaway ever. I want it to be something big so here's the scoop.

This giveaway will from here on out be called The Scentsy Showdown!

Details:

What will you be entering to win? Well let's see. One lucky winner will get a free warmer of their choice plus 2 free scent bars of their choice! If you would prefer one of our sprays or tins we can work something out.

This winner will be randomly chosen with a random picking generator. The more entries you have the better chance you have of winning.
So here is how you get entries...

1 entry for commenting on this post and letting me know your favorite scentsy warmer and scent. (Mandatory)
1 entry for blogging about my giveaway. (Must leave link to post in a comment on this post.)
1 entry for becoming a newsletter recipient for my scentsy monthly newsletter. (I just need your name and email which you can leave here or email me at sykes.breanna (@) gmail.com)
3 entries for buying any item from my online party located HERE. (no price max or min, it can be anything.)

If you take part in purchasing from my online party you will ALSO be entered into a Mystery Hostess giveaway! If you win you will win the hostess rewards from my party! Hostess rewards are fantastic. The more that is spent at the party the more you get towards merchandise as well as the more 1/2 priced items you will receive! Since I'm hosting my party and I'm a consultant I don't have a technical host so it could be you!

That's a total of 6 possible entries!! And you can enter for both prizes!

The online party ends July 12th so you need to jump on this pronto!! The winners will be chosen and announced July 18.

Want to Celebrate?

Do you want to help me celebrate my new adventure as a Scentsy Consultant? I have the perfect way!
Go HERE and you can browse and order from my Launch party online. It's just that simple :-)

If you go HERE you can see this warmer. What better way to celebrate Independence Day, everyday, than with this prideful warmer?

Except maybe with THIS warmer. 

Or even better yet! For those military families near and dear to my heart, show off your pride with a warmer for any branch of our military from our Patriot Collection.

If you're really in the celebrating mood check out the July Warmer of the month HERE (It's a cupcake) and the scent of the month HERE. Scentsy is celebrating their 7th birthday so join in on the fun :-) Oh and did I mention that if you buy the warmer or scent of the month you get 10% off either or both of them? How awesome is that?

If I make my first month sales goal of $2,500 I will be hosting a Scentsy Giveaway. I think it will be something like any warmer the winner wants with whatever scent they want. Sound good to you? So shop till you drop and stay tuned for a post about my possible giveaway! :-)