Checking in

Wow.

So much has happened since my last post.

I guess I should catch you up in a way that doesn't turn this post into a massive wall of text though.

So.

March 7, 2015
Chris and I were married at the Chapel on Tinker Air Force Base
{That was a whole fiasco in its self like most weddings}

I took my two board exams that week right before the wedding and passed both.

School was starting to pick up with clinical rotations at the Dental school and everything was in general moving along quite quickly.

Now for big news #1.

Chris is being stationed in Japan for the next few years. As in the country Japan.
Totally excited and now begins the process of getting all of my personal ducks in a row so that I may go with him. I had doctor appointments and other legal responsibilities that I had to take care of in addition to continuing my school schedule which was making everything else harder to accomplish.

Big news #2.

I got really really sick.
I lost weight really quickly, looked like I had never seen the sun in my life and could barely stand straight for any given amount of time.
Yup, as the older generations used to say "I am with child".

Not going to lie, I have wanted children since I was 19 but Chris and I had already discussed that we were going to wait until after we had been a married couple for at least a year. I was scared and happy all at the same time.

So, lets count this up shall we?

1-Still in school
2-Got married
3-Husband {and I} will be moving to Japan in the near future
4-Going to have a baby

I think 2015 is turning out to be a damn good year for us and it is barely half way over at this point!

Fast forward a bit and I am currently writing this post from Japan, my baby bump is becoming more and more obvious by the day, and I have completed my Dental Assisting program and passed all the Board exams that make me a Certified Dental Assistant.

Granted I have only been in Japan for three days and am still adjusting to the time difference {14 hours ahead of Oklahoma} but I already feel extremely blessed to have met my wonderful husband and to be exploring the world with him {I never dreamed I would actually get to leave the country and look at us now! We are living in Japan!}.

I intend to pick up this blog and my photography blog very soon and am looking forward to sharing our adventures with you again!

Here is a little sneak peek of what is to come!

Finally got my toes in the sand and water! Got to work on my tan, those are some pale legs I've got there!

Stay tuned!

Flower Nursery

I love flowers, so naturally I love really pretty flower nurseries as well.
Here in Oklahoma we have a nursery called The Greenhouse and one of my favorite things about it is that they have several arrangements with fountains and benches to give you an idea of how you can pair flowers and other plants.

They have a HUGE Koi fish pond with HUGE Koi fish that I always love looking at. {Some of these fish are the size of award winning Big Mouth Bass!}

 

I am a sucker for ornate fountains, too and they have several throughout the grounds.

They also have a lot of yard art, including but not limited to statues and benches. There were four really cool statues where the main body looked like a square-ish pillar with ornate Romanesque busts of different women. They were probably made from concrete but stained to look like stone and they were a thousand dollars each. I thought they were absolutely wonderful. {If I had four thousand dollars I would have bought them on the spot!}

Anywho, I love all of this stuff and I hope I can have a beautiful yard to look at when I get my own home.
{Preferably with a husband that loves to do it or a husband that is okay with me hiring a gardener!}

I paint...

One of my many hobbies and loves. I may not be very good but I love it all the same.