JFJ

Today is Jenny Heckel's birthday. Jenny was the wife of a guy that went to school with Justin. She was murdered in Hutch back in June. It is such a sad, sad story. I find myself thinking of Jenny often, even though I didn't even know her. I just feel awful for her husband and for their little 5 year old boy, who doesn't have a mommy anymore. It's so sad.... It really breaks my heart. I feel so incredibly blessed and honored to have been asked to sing at a benefit concert for her on Aug. 13th. They have been doing a lot of fundraiser's to raise money for a reward for any info that leads to an arrest. I think that's the worst part, they have no leads, no clue who did this at all.... I just can't imagine. But, I am really looking forward to singing for this event! I can't wait to be there! :)  I hope that they get a good turn out for it. She deserves for justice to be served. All 3 of us wore purple in her honor today.

Well, G had to get her shots on Friday. It was a sad day for her and this mama! She was a trooper though. I think the worst part was she was asleep when it happened. I'm sure that was the worst awakening ever! :( She did stop crying immediately when I was able to pick her up though. It didn't seem to bother her after that, which I was very thankful for. She weighs 11.2lbs & she is 22.5in long! She's getting to be such a big girl! :) 

Such a pretty girl! :)

Smilin' at the doc's while patiently waiting. 

Check out the bugs bunny bandaids.  Poor baby.

I can't believe she's 2 months old already!!! It still feels like just a few days ago we were checking into the hospital and she wasn't quite here yet! I can't believe how fast it really is going. It makes me sad, especially when I look at pics from when she was super little... But I'm always looking forward to all the things she will be doing! She laughs and she smiles soooo big all the time. It just melts my heart every single time. I'm so in love! :) Every single day I feel so blessed to be her mommy.

I have gotten to hang out with Tara a LOT in the last couple weeks. It's been so nice. :) I just love how I can really be myself with her. Say, do, think anything I want to. :) We just have a really great friendship. I'm so lucky to have her. They just found out this past week that her husband (when he gets back from deployment in Feb) is going to DI school in CA! It's gonna be crazy for him to be a DI! But I think he'll be really good at it. This is awesome because Justin wanted to be stationed in CA anyway, but I kept trying to talk him out of it because of the cost of living. We did some research and found out it's not as bad as I thought. So now that they will be going out there, that's where we're hoping to go as well. Justin will get his wish afterall!! lol We're still waiting to hear about that, unfortunately. We just keep talking about moving and doing all these awesome things, but then I get so excited and irritated all at once! I'm so excited to move and do all of these things, but I'm irritated that it's taking his admin section sooooo long to do their job. They did say they got his paperwork sent off 2 weeks ago, so he is going to call tomorrow to find out the status... again. We'll see! We just didn't expect it to take this long, even though they did give us the "6 month" timeframe.... we just really thought it wouldn't take that long. But, I guess we better get used to it! That's the marine corps way of life!! haha. So we'll see what happens. I guess at least we are still in that timeframe, it hasn't gone past... yet. lol You can see how much faith I have! :) Hopefully it won't be too much longer. 

My little brother got to come stay with us this past week. It was a lot of fun having him here. :) We hung out around the house quite a bit. We went swimming over in GB with my other little brother & Tara. That was a lot of fun. I always hate when I have to take him back though. Makes me sad... mostly because I don't get to see him that often. But, I certainly had fun and he said he did too, so I am thankful for the time we did get to have!

As far as the weight loss thing goes, I haven't been as diligent on the working out thing. Mostly because Justin has been gone so much and it's been so hot, I didn't wanna take G out too often. But, I'm determined to get back to being more serious than I have been about it these past couple weeks. I've still been doing some stuff, but not as much as I was before. I haven't lost any more weight, but I also haven't gained! So I guess that's at least good. I'm still trying really hard to convince myself to drink more water! I *know* that would help me significantly, but I just don't like it, therefore it's a lot harder than it should be!! lol I will do this though! I am determined! I'm hoping to be at goal #1 by the JFJ benefit (weighing less than I did on my wedding day) but if not, that's ok too. I just wanna do it the "right" way so that I don't just gain everything back after I lose it. It didn't come on over night, so it isn't gonna come off that way either! Just gotta keep reminding myself of that. :)

Let's see, what else.... Justin got me a Kindle!! I'm super pumped about it. I am excited to get more books on it, than I already have. It's exciting to look through allllllll the ones they have. And, I'm amazed at how much other stuff you can do on it too! Needless to say, I'm super psyched about it. He's even downloaded books on it too, to read himself. :)

Well I suppose, not much else to update on. Hope you all are doing well!! 

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