big time update!

ok so with Riley's Graduation, his 10 day leave, and him being at SOI i haven't even had a chance to update. so HERE I GO!!! by the way. my camera deleted most of the pictures i have from graduation... so i won't have too many pictures to put up!

Day Before Family Day- Feb 24th
Me and Kat show up in San Diego the day before family day to check into our hotel and get settled. we're staying in a 3 star hotel... so not like AMAZING... but no bars on the window... right.... well not exactly. the room was probably the worst hotel i had ever seen. the wallpaper was peeling off. the fixtures were all coming off the wall... not good. so kat ran to hurry and shower since we'd just been at the beach. while she was in the shower i sat on the bed and got out my laptop to check out some pictures. while sitting on the bed i look down.... there is a blonde chunk of hair sitting on the bed... me and Kat both have VERY dark hair. Kat came out of the shower and pretty much said we weren't staying there. and she didn't want to have to shower in there again. apparently the bathroom like was on a motion sensor timer. so you'd be in the shower soaping up. and 90 seconds later the lights would go completely out. so you'd have to open the shower curtain completely and close it and it would go back on. but that only worked about 3 times. then you 'd have to get out of the shower completely naked run across the bathroom and press the button again. so i took the floor lamp from our room and put it in the bathroom. right after i showered, we went down stairs... told the guy the room/hotel was unnacceptable.. and checked into the hilton.... SOOO WORTH THE MONEY!!!

Family Day- Feb 25th
we showed up on base around 6:30 so we could watch them practice. then right about the time that the festivities were going to start.. me and kat hopped out of the car. i went to open the back door to grab my back pack... but kat had just locked the doors and closed them. so i asked her if she still had the set of keys... "oh... i don't think so" yes everyone... my keys got locked in my car AGAIN! so Mark and Paula showed up (Zack's parents) and after a few minutes we had unlocked the car. and there was much rejoicing. we ran into my new amazing friend Kristy.

So we ran over to where we needed to be. watched to presentation from one of the SDI's( Senior Drill Instructor) and then lined up for the moto run (motovational Run) we all stood on the sidelines and watched as each platoon went for a run, yelling cadences the whole way! after that we headed over to the theater for a video and another presentation. me and kat left that a little early so we could get good seats for the family day formation ceremony. we sat and watched the ceremony, i saw Riley and was soooo excited! then they got the magic word "Liberty" and it was a mad dash for everyone to book it to their families. i saw Riley and watched him head towards his parents direction. but he was looking around frantically... for me. we made eye contact and i smiled... and he looked away from me. then he looked at me again and cocked his head to the side, he couldn't decide if it was me or not... you see i now wear glasses which i had not told him about, i had also lost 25 lbs since he last saw me. it was a pretty big compliment to NOT be recognized. and then the tears started. i felt like that day would NEVER get here. and i couldn't stop myself. i was BAWLING. luckily i had a feeling that would happen so i wore water proof mascara and eyeliner. we drove over to the church and had a picnic, then he wanted some time with just me so his parents drove back and we walked back and just chatted. we hit up the museum and one of the gift shops... and then it was time to drop him back off at "home" so i walked him back over to the barracks... we kissed... and he left.

Gradation Feb 26th
So i got up early because i was doing my hair curly. so we arrived on base around 7 am. and went directly to the bleachers to try and save as many seats as possible. Curt came over to help. and my dad and grandpa both wanted to be there for Riley's graduation so they drove down for it. so we saved ALMOST enough seats. the ceremony started and it was SOOO LONG! well it was only like an hour... but i was ready to have him back. i had my camera with one of my bigger lenses so i could zoom in way far and could tell which one was Rye from way far back. then they moved closer... and i couldn't help myself... i made some of my classic "Sav" faces... and then i would look through my zoom lenses and could see that he was trying not to smile. i leaned over to Riley's sister michelle and told her that Riley saw me. so i tortured him for a while... then after what seemed like forever they were released... and i had my husband back. we grabbed his bags... and took about a million pictures and then booked it the heck out of there!

So ya... the rest of the day... IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.... :)

Riley's 10-Day Leave
so the day after graduation Riley wanted to take me shopping... since none of my clothes fit me anymore. so we went to an outdoor mall. and the weather was terrible. it started raining so hard at one point we were both dripping wet when it finally stopped. i mean my hair looked like i had just gotten out of the shower! we went to california pizza kitchen for lunch, and that evening we went to see a movie "cop out" which i REALLY liked... i thought it was funny. then we headed back to st george. we hung out at his parents house most of the week. we went down to Vegas and stayed in the condo with them. did some more shopping. Rye took me out to the CheeseCake factory cause i'd never been. way yummy! we were going to go out to dinner at this super nice restaurant and Rye was going to get dressed up in his uniform... but as we were getting dressed to go... he realized he'd forgotten his belt and so we had to cancel. then on sunday we had to head up to provo cause Riley was flying out of salt lake to go to SOI (School of Infantry) the day before he left my best friend of a billion years did some pictures for us. i got a few back and they look awesome!

So He's been gone for a week now. but being the dedicated Marine Wife i am... i drove the 12 hours to go see him. me and Kat drove thursday... left at 11pm got to san diego around 10 am on friday. Riley wasn't expecting me till saturday. so when he got a few hours liberty on friday night. he just wanted to call and say hi and talk for a few minutes... but i showed up... he was SOOO SURPRISED. it was a good surprise... i was pretty pleased with myself. he LOVES being able to see me on the weekend. but said it's going to make the weeks harder. but it's worth it. i met a bunch of his buddies. and got a whole bunch of "is this the girl from the postage stamps?!" and i'd reply with "the very one!" so i sit here on tuesday morning.... knowing that the day after tomorrow... i'll be getting ready to see Rye the next day. and he has OFF base liberty this next weekend, so we're heading down to san diego getting a hotel and hitting up sea world and the beach... i am so excited. this is SOOOO much easier than bootcamp.. but hard in completely different ways.

so there you go... i promise i'll be better about blogging. cause i really don't want to have to do such a long post again. plus there are so many things i left out.. so i'll be better i swear!!

Thanks for reading :)