PICTURES!!!!

Okay sooo if ya wanna see pictures from my great thanksgiving...check out my momma's blog:-D www.viewsfromcrandall.blogspot.com

Enjoy:-DDDDD

Happy THANKSGIVING:-D

Happy Thanksgiving day to all my dear friends and family out there!!! I hope ya'lls day was great!!!! We went to my grandmothers and ate with family!! It was sooo much fun!!! I hadn't seen my cousin Essie and her family in FOREVER!!!! The kids have gotten sooo big that they made me feel old:D lol!!! I'll have pics up later...but I'm too lazy to do it right now:-D Lol!!! For now I just wanna put down all that I am VERY thankful for this year!!!!!!!!! This may get alil lengthy sooo settle back, get comfy...and read on:-D Lol!!!

1. MY FIANCE, David!!! I'm soooo glad God put us together! I'll NEVER know how i got soo lucky to get him! He has changed my life in soooo many ways!!! I never dreamed that I could get someone as WONDERFUL as David! I always dreamed of what my future husband would be like...but I think God gave me alot more than I dreamed!!! *david, I love you soooo much, and Im soooo proud of you!!!!*

2. MY MARINE...okay I know that I already talked about him...BUT i'm sooo thankful that he is willing to go overseas and protect you and I's freedom. He is sacraficing his life and his holidays with me and his family to protect his country! I know it is sooooo hard on him to be away...but He knows this is what he is called to do...and he is going to see that it is done!!! *Semper Fi, my marine!!*

3. PHONE CALLS:-D Nothing beats picking up the phone and hearing his voice! There is nothing else that can cheer up my day like those calls! He always tries to make me laugh as much as he can just so he can soak it all in! Those Calls are the only thing that has gotten me through these deployments!!!!

4. MY CrAzY family!!!!! I love ya'll sooooooooooooooo much!!!!!! Ya'll are the best:-D

5. My iNsAnE future in-laws:-D I'm sooooo glad ya'll are just as crazy as me and my family:-D I'm sooo glad God gave such great in-laws!!! It would be sooo hard if ya'll hadn't accepted me right into the family like ya'll did....well after Leah "talked" to me really good:-D Hehe!!! J/k, Leah:-D I love ya'll sooo much! And I'm glad ya'll raised such an amazing Godly and Gentleman just for me:-D Lol!

6. My Marine girlies!!!! These girls have gotten me through this deployment too!!! We are all going through the same thing or have been through it!! They are the best!!!! * Love ya'll sooo much!!! I couldn't make it without ya'll!!!!!

7. GOD!! He is the best thing that has ever happened to my life! He is the reason I can hold my head up high everyday! God has blessed my life sooo much in the past few years!!!! I can't wait to see all the things he has left for my life!!!!

Welllll those are just my basic thanks! If I kept going...we would be here alllllllllll night!!!! Lol!!! Enjoy, ya'll!!! And I promise to put THanksgiving pics up VERY soon!!! Lol!!!!

My poor car:-(((((

I didn't have time to get a picture of it for you...but I had to tell you about my Monday! I promise you..if I have a REALLY good day...the next day is TERRIBLE!!!!! Soo I was on my way to school...early so I could hang out with some friends.....and I had a reck! I was coming up on a red light and saw that it was yellow...and the car in front of me was acting like it was going to go through the light...soo I started slowing down so that I could stop for the red light....and I looked down for a second and when I looked up the car in front had slammed on her brakes and I slammed on mine.....and well....we had a fender bender! It didn't hurt her car at all...but it kinda messed up my poor lil car:-(((( She did go to the ER though cuz I think she must have gotten whiplash or something! I don't know...she was an older lady..probably in her 60's! She was nice to me though because I did apologize to her...and she was like...its just an accident! But I tell it...it scared me half to death! Anyhooo luckly mom was near by visiting someone soo the poilice man had her follow me home just in case something were to happened to my car (the blinker was basically dragging the ground and the hood bent in alil:-D). Soo after we got home, we turned around and mom took me to school and back! THEN last night after my night class I was driving momma's van home when i got pulled over! I knew I was NOT speeding because I just checked my speed. Well I guess I had a tail light and blinker light out...but the lady was really nice and just told me to get it fixed! But it freaked me out when i got pulled over!!!! UGH! THEN in the lil town right before mine....I saw blue lights go on behind me and I just knew it was me...but luckly it was for someone behind me! But that still scared me half to death! Soooo I decided that I'm just going to stay inside today! Or at least not drive anywhere! I don't think my poor heart could take anymore:-D Hahahahaha!!!!! At least I had nice cops all day:-D Sooo that was the start of my week:-DDDD Hope you got a good laugh out of my day:-D

An Old Fashion Weekend:-D

My WONDERFUL Daddy and I....
My family and I....Jeff and Susan with Colton...Mom, Me, and Daddy!
Betcha can't tell we're sisters:-D Susan and I with our lil farmer boy, Colton!!!!

Suday was our Pastor App. day! We couldn't fit it into the schedule in October sooo we did it this month!!! We took our whole church up to a cabin/chapel in the mountains and had an old fashion day!! It was soooo much fun! Everyone dressed in old fashion clothes (except me...I just did the country look! Lol!!!)!!! Daddy preached a WONDERFUL sermon...and it was just fun to go "back" in time. We had to use lanterns for lighting, and guitars and banjos for the music!!!! It was a blast!!!!!!!!!!

A day in my life....

Mailing myself to David....it doesn't work:-(
My new glasses....I love how dark I look in this pic...

A joke David and I have...lol...
Colton and I,.....isn't he getting big:-D
Happy Fall, ya'll...
Deployment Sleep: marine hoodie, my monkey from him, and two phones....

Soooo this is a day in my life......enjoy:-D Btw, isn't Colton adorable????

Youth Challenge 2007

Justin Covert and I....my newest Cousin:-D
My buddy 'ol pals--Joy, Kandice, Gracie, and me....
Gracie and I...
The "Triplets" and I;-) (Gracie, Jennifer, Joy, and I)

Youth Challenge was lots of fun this year...but I'm soooooooooo tired from it! Lol! I got to see lots of my friends sooo that part was really cool! It was sad though to think I don't know when I'll ever get back:-( *Tear* Lol!!!! God really helped me out this weekend too! It was lots of fun!

The Life of a Marine Fiance...

I thought I would share what it is like to be a marine fiance.....
-You wait and wait and wait for a phone call only to realize that he won't be calling today
- You can become best friends with a stanger just because they are wearing a USMC shirt or have a sticker on their car.
- You cry when you hear of someones man getting hurt or worse, killed.
- You do your best to survive through the TOUGHEST times even though you don't feel like you can make it another step
- You hold your breath everytime the phone rings....hoping and praying it's him.
- Everytime you go to the store you buy him two or three new things to send him.
- You want to shoot anyone protesting against the war or our troops.
- You do your best to sound chipper on the phone and in emails when all you want to do is just cry with relief because you know he is safe and you miss so bad.
- You dream of being in his arms only to wake up and realize it's just a dream
- You scream when you realize you have a email, phone call, myspace message or ANYTHING from him!
- A simple "i love you" makes your day.
- A simple "i'm okay...I promise" makes it even better!!
- You read of other wife's, girlfriends, fiance's struggles and you cry with them because you understand.
- You never look at the news because it is too depressing and scary
- You can speak in Military time
- You could talk all the lingo with Marines and understand exactly what they are saying.
- You pray for his buddies just as much as him because you know it would kill him to lose a buddy
- You can't watch a war movie without crying
- YOu learn you are more independant than you thought
- And least but definitley NOT last........you learn to pray and rely on God more than you ever had to before. Because you can't protect your man over there...only God can! Sooo don't ever forget to pray for my man, your men and all the other men surving our country! Freedom isn't free...at least not for the Marines and their women...but we do it all over again just to see that everyone else in the world is free.

I'm sure there are many more things I could think about if I really thought about it...but these are just a few I thought of. David called me yesterday and left me a myspace comment today soooo I'm have a good day:-D Thanx for your prayers.....please keep praying for God's safe keeping on our boys!!!!!!!