Making it through...

Just to catch you up on what has been going on lately, Casey still doesn't have a job he has turned in applications galore but not a single person has called him for an interview. We did however get lucky, my grandpa Brogan is getting some freight in, and we are going to help go through it and inventory it and price it. We have also been moving some stuff around and making room for the new shipment that is coming Monday. Then he has some furniture that Casey is going to put together for him and I think were gonna paint some too. So that will atleast get Casey out of the house and doing something physical, (I'm sure he gets bored being in the house all the time.)


Well I am still working at the hospital, I work one or two days a week most weeks, in March I'll be covering a shift for a gal while she has surgery so I will get 75 hours a pay period for three pay periods which will be great and then I am also covering some vacations in July, and Feb. I don't know if you all remember but I sell burp rags at a local store, (I did a posting on them a while back) Well I have sold quite a few lately, so I am making more. I am so glad I went the day after Thanksgiving to Joann's and I picked up a bunch of flannel it has saved me so much money!


So now that we know Casey is deploying in September we are talking about what I should do, should I stay here, and rent a house in Nampa and work PRN (as needed) at the hospital. (we get a housing allowance while he is gone, plus his pay. And I plan on working cause I would be bored stiff if I didn't work since I don't have kids or anything) Or we were talking about me going back to school while he is gone, I don't know what I would go for though. Or should we move before he gets deployed somewhere else in Idaho, or should we stay have him get deployed, and then I would move somewhere. I am taking suggestions if you think one of these ideas is good let me know, or if you have an idea of your own I'm open to suggestions.


Other than that we are doing pretty good, just taking things as they come. I am gonna do something kind of different with this post, I have a recipe that I would like to share it is my favorite soup and I thought I would share it so here ya go. Love to you all!

Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

½ cup chopped celery


½ cup shredded carrots


1 can of cream of chicken soup


1 can of cream of celery


16 cubes of chicken bullion


1 small carton of heavy whipping cream


3 chicken breasts


3 cups of wild rice


Garlic pepper


3 Tbs of flour


Put chopped celery and shredded carrots in sauce pan with a little butter and sautee until soft.


Cook chicken either in pan, or in crock pot and cut into little pieces.


I cook my rice in a rice cooker but whatever way you want cook your rice.


In big pot put 8 cups of water, and the 16 cubes of chicken bullion, bring to boil. Add the cream of celery, cream of chicken, heavy whipping cream let boil for a few minutes. Then add the sautéed celery and carrots and then add the cooked chicken and rice in, stir and add garlic pepper to taste. (you can really put any seasoning you want I just really like garlic pepper) then put some water in a bowl add the flour and mix together, then pour into soup this will thicken it.


When this is all done it makes a big pot of soup, I feed 5 of us and most have two bowls the night I make it and it still feeds us the next couple of days for lunch and stuff. It is a good leftover, I just put it in a bowl and warm it up.

Just an Update...

I can't remember if I have said in previous postings that Casey is going to be deployed in September. Well when he went to drill this past weekend they gave him tentative dates for his training and deployment, he will go for training on August 16th, and he will leave for a year long deployment on September 11th. If the dates change, I will let everyone know but for right now that is what we know. Love to all!

Our first accident...

Today we had our first big accident with Tage. My mom called me at work and said they were heading my way because Tage was at daycare, he was dancing in the kitchen and he has new shoes, and he caught the toe of his shoe (they have really good traction on the soles that goes up on the toe which is what happened the traction caught) and he fell, hit his head on the cupboard corner and split his head open. My mom called cause I had his spare car seat in my car, and shandi was at work and had the other carseat so she ended up calling the bishop's wife and borrowed one from her to bring Tage in. He did really good for most of it, (he did a good job on splitting his forehead open) they numbed it and then laid him back and put a cover over his face to protect the steril field and he FREAKED out, he didn't like his face to be cover where he couldn't see MaGa and Auntie J. So I took some pictures to show his mom and to post on here, again they aren't the best quality cause they were with my phone camera but you can see that the slit is pretty big. I put borders around the pictures to make them less gross, for you people with weak stomach. :) love to all.

The next one is after he got stitches, they put 6 stitches in and put butterfly stitches on top so it would be a little covered.

January fun...

So we have enjoyed the first two days of 2010, we have celebrated my birthday and have went to hang out with some friends. Today we slept in which was awesome, and then we went grocery shopping and came home and chopped and stacked some wood with my family. Tonight were going to play games and then have cheesecake for my birthday. Here are some pictures of us chopping wood, they are a little fuzzy I took them with Casey's cell phone so they aren't the best. I will also post later some pictures from our vacation in Texas.

Catching up...

    Sorry it has been so long since I have wrote anything on here. We have been pretty busy, I have been working quite a bit at the hospital, this last pay period I worked 69.5 hours, which really helps out. Casey is still looking for a job, a girl at work just told me of two places that are hiring so I will tell him about those today. We missed the deadline for the spring semester at Boise State, it was in October and we didn't know we were going to be in Idaho in October. So he may do the summer semester, he found out about his National guard stuff and he is in the 116th and is posted out of Moutain Home. It will take him about 1 1/2 to drive to drill every month, but in Arizona he was driving 3 hours so it isn't bad. They told him that he will be deployed in September, maybe earlier which is why he might do a summer semester, it depends on when he leaves and if he will need any special training before he leaves.


Thanksgiving was good for us, we had it with my family and we just ate and hung out. I worked that morning early but other than that we didn't do much. For Christmas we went to San Antonio, Texas to his aunts house. His whole dad's side of the family went, we spent six days ther, we went on Christmas day and came back on the 30th. We had a good time, we went to Seaworld, the San Antonio zoo, Six flags, and we went and saw Avatar in 3D. I got to meet a lot of his family that I hadn't met before, and we had a big Christmas dinner. The thing that sucked about our trip is that, someone busted our passanger side window in, and stole my purse the day before we left. They charged stuff to my credit cards, and they got my social security card because I had it with me cause my work needed a copy, they got my military ID my credit cards, my drivers license, and my grandma's wedding ring. (which I don't usually have but I wore it while mine was getting fixed and I put it in my purse so I wouldn't lose it when I got mine back, and I forgot to give it back to my mom the day before we left.) needless to say my family was not happy about that, and I felt so bad.  But I did make it through the airport without an ID, they asked me a ton of questions like what cars have I owned, the last 4 numbers of my parents phone number, their names, and stuff like that.


Casey and I have been married for 96 days and are doing fine, it is my birthday today and Casey took me out to dinner last night for my birthday we went to TGI Fridays (it's one of my favorite resturants) Then we came home and played games with the family and watched the ball drop, and then I opened my presents. I got some books, the New Moon sountrack, a beautiful necklace from my husband, and a movie. We went to bed at 1am and I got up at 420 am for work, so I am going home to take a nap when I'm all done here at work. Then I think my friend is taking us out tonight to dinner and a movie for my birthday. So this is turing out to be a pretty good birthday. Casey and I have had a lot of firsts these past couple of months, our first thanksgiving, christmas, my birthday, our first vacation/trip. It has all been fun and we can't wait to have some more firsts. Hope all is well with your families, and Have a Happy New Year!