well yes

as i logged on so as to post some silliness on elizabeth's blog, i figured i might as well take advantage of this opportunity to update mine as well. and iiiiiiii do have pictures to post:

this is all the Bean-dog does. well, she's either doing this, or following me around, trying to chew on my fingers, giving me some much-needed "puppy huggies", or squeaking on something, as is the case right now. i just thought this picture was cute cause of her little ear. plus, i took it sitting from the kitchen table, so i was impressed by the zoom capabilities of my camera.

Behold: the Angel sandwich. this was taken at mom and dad's over memorial weekend. after a wonderful day of mom and i and some friends sitting in the courtyard on the chaise lounges, Angel (mom's dog, Beanie's sister), in true Camacho fashion, decided she didnt really want to get off the lounge c hair. mom and i stacked all the cushions on top of her yet she still wasnt about to get off. after carrying the pile of cushions, including the dog, to the garage, we finally just dumped her off so we could put everything away.

these are my exceptionally beautiful Anniversary Flowers that my co-workers gave me last thursday. they also bought a cake and everyone signed a card. it was very sweet of them and i appreciate the fact that they went out of their way to recognize the situation. i went out to dinner with a couple coworkers that night too and had a good time. charles has promised that we will go out and do something special when he returns. i am very much looking forward to it. but in the mean time, at least i have pretty flowers to look at on my kitchen table!

this is actually kind of old - it was taken at the Stilwell (Charles' mom's family) 'memorial picnic' that was held at the end of March when his grandpa died. this is me (moo) holding our goddaughter, Breanne. for those who know, Breanne is Matt and Nikki's daughter, matt being Charles' cousin. She's very chunky and snuggly and cute.

other than fun pictures, i dont have much to share. i've been working more than usual because of the super busy season. everyone take a moment now to thank God that you are not an incoming resident to fort leavenworth because if you were, you'd be screwed! i also spent the vast majority of sunday cleaning the house. it looks nice. you should see my filing cabinet! it has stuff in it! i should take a picture actually, i'm pretty proud of it. this computer room was one of those random silly things that was majorly stressing me out in the beginning of the deployment because it is just so full of clutter and crap that it is not at all a peaceful place to be. the basement is another such part of the house, but i am convinced that it is full of spiders who are waiting for me to go down there without laundry to defend myself so they can attack me and eat me until i die. so i'm not quite ready to clean that out, not until my daddy can be here to protect me.

otherwise, life is good. i continue to eat well and take the fat burnng pills and exercise... i also continue to not fit in my size 10 pants. but that day will come. charles told me the other day that he now might not be able to come home until october or november instead of september. so i have an extra month at least to get all hot and stuff before he comes home to visit. i continue to adjust to life without him. i have learned that it really is a "process" of many different types of discovery and examination. There are still days that it is difficult, but for the most part, this is just my life and i'm ok. i choose to make myself happy and i choose to believe that so many things are possible - even when i know it is just me accomplishing them. i see this as the best way to go about life in general right now. it's strange, i like to look at the military just as his 'job', because taht's what it is. the military is not our marriage, the military is what he works for and our marriage is the same, he just happens to be somewhere else. so everything else is just life. quite simple really, just takes some adjustments sometimes.