Foto Friday, Friday Fill In & MilSpouse Weekly Round Up

Foto Friday, with House Hold 6 Diva, theme this week is SOOC (Straight out of the camera) which means no editing the photograph! Next week is "Edit This". Please join her and me in showcasing your pictures! Remember to leave a comment on her page and also link the post, not the homepage!

This picture is from the fall and I love it because it reminds me of happy, sunny days this past fall

at airborne school...

because this is all that I have been seeing lately...

the pups and snow.... taken with my iphone on our walk.

Friday Fill In with Wife of Sailor
1. Since most of the country has had nasty weather, what has your weather been like this week?
See picture above! It's been pretty intense. All the white out is overwhelming, but beautiful.

2. What is/are your best money saving tip(s)? 3$ a day in a shoe box. Seriously, it works. Think about it this way too; $21/week or $1,095/year. Oh and dont buy a starbucks everyday!

3. What was your favorite vehicle you’ve ever owned?
I had to drive my grandmother's 89 celebrity to school in high school and then I had three jeep libertys. They were the best! Lots of memories.

4. Fill in the blank: You might be a MilSpouse if….
you have been married longer then you have been physically together! Or your address is always changing!

Wife of a Sailor will be including some of our answers in a future post (with a link to your blog, of course) Thanks Wifey!

MilSpouse Weekly Round up this week is hosted by, No Model Lady. I love her blog and she has a lot of interesting and funny things to say.

All you have to do is pick your favorite post from this past week and link up with the linky at No Model Lady! After you have linked up, when you have a few free minutes, come back and catch up with some of your favorite ladies!

Don't forget to link up next week with the fabulous fellow milspouse Jessica at The Lowe Family News.

Foto Friday, Friday Fill In & MilSpouse Weekly Round Up

Foto Friday with HouseHold6Diva, theme is Reflection....

Be sure to head on over to House Hold 6 Diva to comment on the best picture for the week!




Friday Fill in with Wife of a Sailor

1. If you were a famous movie star, what types of movies would you star in?
Romantic Comedies, like Mama Mia so I could go to Greece and hang out with Pierce Brosnan.

2. What is a vacation you would like to take if money were no object?
I would go to Italy, hands down. I would eat all the bread, pasta, and wine. I would take a bike ride in tuscany with the sunflowers. I would go see the pope and I would buy a villa... and maybe a sailboat.

3. Did you have pets growing up?
I had a spaniel, named Skippy, but he died when I was 3 or 4. My mother told me he ran away, but they had to put him to sleep. I believed it because he would runaway all the time. He was a ladies man!


4. What do you do for exercise?
Good Question!! I love yoga. I enjoy the breathing and stretching. I grew up gymnastics. I am super flexible and double jointed. When I don't stretch my balance and my weight is off centered. Yoga helps. I started attending Zumba, and I am a big fan!! It's fun with friends and the music is super!

5. What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever received as a MilSpouse?
I think the best advice is: "take it one day at a time", otherwise it's way too long of a journey.

Riding the Roller Coaster, Weekly Round up! Make sure you check out Like Sunshine After Rain to link up with the rest of them! (PS I love her blog name! It makes me happy!)

Thanks everyone! See you next Friday TGIF!

Foto Friday, Friday Fill In & MilSpouse Weekly Round Up

Foto Friday this week with House Hold 6 Diva, the theme is L I G H T! There are so many possibilities for this... After you view mine, go on and check out her blog with her fotos and those that also contributed. They have some wonderful artists! Next week's theme is Reflections!

Happy Friday!

Friday Fill In


1. What do you usually want to know about someone when meeting them for the first time?

I suppose you ask their name, but that is probably obvious. Do they have a family? Where are they from? I guess those are good questions.


2. Would you like to know everythign about your spouse or regularly surprised?

Can it be a little bit of both? I think it would get boring if you knew every little detail about your spouse. There has to be some surprises. I like surprises. You cannot possibly know everything about a person, so I think I would rather have a lot of surprises.. even if they weren't so pleasant (like his bathroom habits in the field).

3. If you could live in one city for the rest of your life where would you live?

This is a tough question. Being away from my home state Michigan, makes me want to be back and I would have to say Plymouth, MI. It's a really friendly city with a cute main street. Since I have lived away, I am ok with it and I would want to be where there is a beach nearby and a deep history. Maybe on the east coast?

4. When you go out of town, what is the one material thing you always take?

I usually always take a book. I also bring extra underwear! HA!

5. Using no more than 10 nouns, and only NOUNS, describe yourself.

wife, army, michigan, puppies, daughter, sister, friend, home, address,  Milspouse!

Weekly Round up this week is with Singing in the Rain. Link up with her and you'll also meet some other great milspouses!

Friday Fill In & Foto Friday

Weekly Roundup # 15 Swing on over to Empty Nest, PCS and All the Rest to link up with other Milspouses blogging about their experiences in this fast paced world! It's a great way to meet others and read about similar stories. Every week there is a new host. Who knows you could be next! Next week it's Elizabeth from The Young Retiree. If you miss out this week, there will always be next! Thanks Ladies for hosting. I love Fridays in blogosphere!

FrIdAy FiLl iN!

1. What is the best gift you have ever received or given? from;Jessica Lynn Writes ?

This memory sticks out in my mind when my husband and I were driving to one of the many family members houses on Christmas together. It was the only time we had to ourselves. We both gave each other jewelry. I gave him a pocket watch engraved and he found this beautiful tiffany heart locket for me. I was trying to be spontaneous and apparently he was too. He held out his hand and I placed it in it. He did the same for me. IT was almost like out of a movie. I remember feeling very happy and special. I still have to find a picture for that locket. This was over 4 years ago. 

2. Do you celebrate holidays differently when your loved one is deployed/gone or do you keep tradition? from;The Albrecht Squad ?

This is the first holiday we will be separate from deployment. This year I will not be traveling back to our home state.  Instead I will be holding down the fort with the pups until my parents and sister visit.

3. If you celebrate Christmas, do you put an angel, star or something else on the top of your tree?

Growing up, we used an angel. Since we have only been married two years, and last year we didn't have a tree in Korea and this year there is a waterford star ornament at the top. We do not have an official tree topper! I might need to get one next year! I like stars though.

4. What are your three favorite websites

Goodness! I suppose those websites that I frequent the most are google, facebook and foxnews.

5. On your man do you prefer… boxers, briefs or boxer briefs? Or commando? (yeah, I’m starting to get desperate for questions!)

This question, is too cute! Since joining the army, I have witnessed quite a change in underwear. Before joining it was vineyard vines boxers. During basic training it was issued khaki colored "spankies." Then, boxer briefs came around and have stuck with us.  I definitely like the boxer briefs. Very sexy. Commando in pants for guys is just wrong!

Thanks again Wife of a Sailor for another GREAT week of questions! I personally love the last one best!

Foto Friday.... "Landscape"

Last week's picture "Sweet as Candy" made it up on House Hold 6 Diva's featured pictures this week. I am truly honored. Thank you Anastasia from Wild Blue Wonders, for commenting. I appreciate it. 

I took this a couple of weeks ago from outside our backyard during sunsets. There are some beautiful sunsets in North Country, even if they are at 430pm. 

After I read what this weeks theme was this morning, I took my camera on our daily walk. It was a bit of a struggle to stop the pups in the snow with my gloves...

but I found a couple great shots of the sun rising behind the snow clouds.

TGIF!