1200 Miles Away

Life is kinda funny, we (and as in we I mostly mean myself) are always begging for more or less. And if it's not that we want something or another to change, we want a newer car or to buy the house, we want someone to be nicer to you, or more friends, or less empty time. I know, and Tyler knows better than me, that I am always imagining life in a more perfect way than it is ment to be. 

And then life changes. And we get upset about it. 

Tyler and I have started at the beginning of a big big change! 

Tyler left to Airforce basic military training.  He is so strong and amazes me at what he is willing to do. He felt the need to move on in life and find something more supportive and that allowed him more of a future. He has prepared himself for months for this mental, emotional, and physical lifestyle change. He was more excited about this change than I could explain! which makes me super happy to see. 

I know he will face trials much greater than my trial of missing him. I pray that he will grow in every way. 

Tuesday November 4th, the day I dreaded for months, Tyler was sworn into the military. I, along with our family, went up to Salt Lake City to spend some last minutes and conversations with Tyler. We were able to watch him take his oath. After this, I stayed with him until they took him away from me. When his shuttle showed up and they called his name I couldn't believe that it was happening. 

He was able to call me between flights. And I was lucky that one got delayed so he had extra time to FaceTime me. I got a phone call that was way too short when he landed in San Antonio at about midnight. I was expecting it to be about 15 minutes. But all I got was a quick, "hey I just got here, what are you up to?, I love you, oh I gotta go, babe I love you, bye". I was told that he would call once on base and give me the address and let me know he got there. So I waited for that phone call all day Wednesday. And was bummed when it never came. I wrote him a letter on Wednesday night with no address to send it to. Finally Thursday afternoon I got a short one minute call from him with the address and date of his graduation. It was so sweet to hear his voice for the last time in who knows when! 

I will be counting down the days until I can see my husbands face, and be back in his arms. I knew this was going to be a hard journey, we tried to prepare myself. I couldn't imagine how my life would go without Ty right next to me. But boy, it's much worse that I thought! My days have been so long, with no motivation to do anything. I stress and cry about it all too much throughout the whole day. I try to stay busy, and have plenty to keep my mind off of the situation, but I don't actually want to take my mind off it. I want to hold on to every memory I have with Tyler. But enough of this, because my husband is in bootcamp being broken down everyday, so no excuses to complain. 

And when the day of our sweet reunion in eight weeks come, we will both be filled with so much joy! 

    

    

Don't let these moments slip away

We had a weekend full of fun with family we love! 

It has been one of my favorite Halloween activities to go to Thriller at the Tuachan. We were lucky enough to go with both my family and some of Tyler's family. We had fun staying in a homey condo with my family. We met with Ty's mom, sister, aunt, and grandma for the play on Friday night. On our way home from St George my dad took us up above Cedar City through a beautiful canyon ride to Cedar breaks. It was such a fun last little vacation before Ty is off! Im sad that this won't be a tradition that Ty and I can keep going every year. 

Cedar Breaks 

On Sunday we had a farwell:( party for Ty. He felt so spoiled to have family from all sides come! I always love/hate putting together parties- it's so much fun to plan it and have a reason to party, but it sure is stressful and shows how much our parents always put in to the many get togethers that they do. The party turned out so well. There were many hugs and "see ya later"'s. We are all going to miss him, but I surely get to say that I will miss him the most! Ha And of course I didn't get as many pictures of his party as I would have liked. 

Ally is amazing with her cakes..

But look how sweet the inside was! 

                 Love you Ty Ty! 

Before Tyler left we had plenty to do with packing up and moving, but we were able to squeeze some fun in around the "fun" of moving. On Thursday Tyler's mom had another dinner so his aunts and cousins could all say one last goodbye. And with Halloween on Friday, we were able to have some fun! We have some of the cutest neices and nephews. My grandma has always made soup on Halloween night, and Tyler is always so surprised at all the options of soup she makes for one night. So yeah, this Halloween was a good way to spend our last Friday together before Ty leaves! 

On Saturday, Tyler spoiled me with our last date at the Little America hotel. We had dinner at a steak house in the hotel, which Tyler got way too full at and said, "I'm never eating food again!" which if you know Ty, that was a big deal. And that statement didn't last long when we had a delicious breakfast at the cafe downstairs in morning. The whole date was just what we needed and was a perfect way to aeon our last weekend together! 

Okay, explanation, we found this picture when we were dating and always wanted to try it. Well this is us finally getting around to doing it! 

               I'm going to miss him!