"A New Year brings New Beginnings."

So here It is 2011, wow seems like I was just getting in the habit of writing 2010. Well my life has been a bit busy lately...Let’s start back in November. For Thanksgiving Alex and I went to Arkansas and had an amazing time at a cabin in the mountains. It was a good weekend to just sit around and be swarmed by family. I don't know about you, but family always makes me feel better.

So after Thanksgiving soon came Christmas, and we spent Christmas eve with Alex's family, and had an amazing time. Nothing big and spectacular but again it was nice to just have the family there. I did get everything I wanted for Christmas... inducing Our beautiful puppy, Misty.

PUPPY SIDE STORY: For all you who don't me. I am a cat person always have been, and something inside of me for a while now has been saying "let's get a dog." Well….here is our beautiful Catahoula puppy that we rescued when she was 6 weeks old. Probably not one of those moments I can think back and really say I was thinking about the WHOLE picture. Going on 3 weeks now, and I am pretty sure every piece of carpet in my dining room has been peed on. Don’t get me wrong we are having a great time with her, It still amazes me how smart she is at only 8 weeks. Alex taught her how to Sit, and I am working on Stay, and Shake. The potty training is coming along slowly, It has taken me a few extra breaths to work through some accidents she has had. I will say having a puppy for the 1st time is defiantly a learning process for the puppy, and for you.

So back to Christmas, my family celebrated Christmas on Christmas day with a nice dinner at my grandma’s house. My mom spent all day preparing a wonderful meal on top of being super busy these last few months caring for my 85 year old grandmother who is slowly slipping downhill. She suffers from slight Alzheimer's, and is no longer able to live on her own. After her small stroke back in November she has decided her best option is to leave her home of 65 years and move into an Assisted Living. Well how that sounds like the best option she is having a really hard time dealing with the transition So this Christmas was kind of a special one seeing how we all know our Grandmas’ days are limited.

On the other hand I am 100% ready for what 2011 will bring for me. We celebrated the last few hours of 2010 with Dustin and Tamara at a New Year’s party, it was a lot of fun. I am really looking forward to March this year, because that will be the start of a new beginning for both of us.

As some of you might know this "Army" talk of Alex's has been finding its way in, and out of our relationship for 4 years now. So instead of all this "Maybe Talk" we put a dead line on the Army. At the end of March this year we will see where our lives are going. Either we will be planning a wedding for sometime in November 2011, or March 2012, or we will be moving to an Army base somewhere in the US. I am more than ready to get the ball rolling on all this wedding stuff, but can't because I don't know if Alex will be here in 8 months or running 5 miles a day, and doing push-ups for a living in the Army.

I really want to be the supporting fiance, and say I am with you no matter what, but I will admit It's not a life I really saw myself in. If in fact he does join there will not be a wedding for several months, maybe even years. I just want to be sure that is a life style I can handle. I am nervous and scared I am not going to lie, I am just ready to know where I, or We are going. It's hard to have so much to look forward to, but not know if that’s where your life is even going, or if there is entirely new plans coming your way in 3 months.

I guess that’s the wonderful thing about life. You never know where it is going to take you.