5 Years Ago

5 years ago today, Bradley stood up in T-Court of the United States Naval Academy and took his Oath of Office to join the United States Navy. I was so hurt that I wasn't invited to go, so my parents decided to plan our vacation during then to take my mind off things. He called me right before the ceremony, and I tried so hard to be positive and optimistic- but I just lost it when we hung up. It wasn't the fact that he was joining the Navy, or leaving for college for 4 years and 700 miles away...but that one sentence was about to change our lives forever. It still gives me chills...

"Having been appointed a Midshipman in the United States Navy, I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God."


Babe, I am SO proud of you and the sacrifice that you make every.single.day to protect this country and me. You work so hard, and I can't imagine not being here with you now. Five years ago was scary for me, only being a sophomore in highschool, but I gave my heart to you and promised that wherever you went and whatever you had to do, I was there...right beside you. These five years have flown by, and so much has happened! I truly can't wait to see what we're doing and where we are in five more years! I've said it before and I'll say it again, I was 100% put on this earth to be a Navy Wife...YOUR Navy Wife! Love you so so much!!

One year Anniversary!

I can't believe we already celebrated our one year anniversary! This has been an amazing first year, and it has flown by! I can't imagine having anyone else by my side for the rest of my life. I've blogged about it before but I am slightly obsessed in love with my husband. Our love runs so deep, I just can't imagine that there is any way possible for me to love him any more than I already do- but somehow every day that passes, I somehow do. He is so intelligent, caring, loving, supportive and passionate person I have ever met.

Our wedding was amazing. I can't imagine changing anything or anyway it could have been better. It had 'us' written alllll over it! I'm feeling nostalgic....shall we....

June 5th is my most favorite day! We won't reminisce on the honeymoon...ahem...I'll save you those details! Although, that was my favorite part! ;-)

Anyways, so onto the actual anniversary seeing as that is what this whole thing is supposed to be about! The actual anniversary was on Sunday but we celebrated Saturday. We went to this aaaaa-mazing restaurant in P-cola beach! I can't wait to go back there! It was yummy! We just ate, came back and watched our wedding video, then on Sunday, Bradley made breakfast, had leftovers for dinner and ate our cake! Romantic?! Haha! So typical of us home bodies! We knew the cake topper wouldn't make it through 2 moves, so we just went ahead and decided to serve it at our wedding. My parents surprised us, though, and had a fresh one made and brought it to us when they visited 2 weeks ago! I love my parents! It was sooo good, too! We ate the whole thing.

I can't wait to see what this next year has in store for us! We are already staring another move right in the face...can't wait to see where we go! I hope we have 100 more years together, just like this perfect first one!

Our 'Staycation'!

Best. invention. EVER!

We were talking about what our vacation plans were going to  be this year. Yeah, so we're broke. But that's okay, because we live in the most beautiful vacation spot in the world, Perdido Key, Florida! I've heard people say it before, that once you live at the beach, you're too busy to enjoy it anymore. Yup, that's us. So in our effort to save money for more important things , we decided on a 'staycation'! There is so much here that we've been wanting to do but just haven't had the time yet! Bradley just finished up Intermediate, and before he started Advanced, he took a whole week off! Do you realize how rare this is?

We started our week off by resting and cleaning. I know, you're probably thinking, 'how boring'! But in order to relax, you have to rest first! So we did, stayed in the bed until 2:15 that day! It was niiiice!

We've been wanting to climb the Pensacola lighthouse here on base since we moved here. Yeah...been there, done that, and I definitely don't want to do that again! They say it's haunted...we didn't see any ghosts, but it was scary! We made it to the top, got the pictures to prove it, but you won't catch these two scaredy cats there again!

View from the top

View of base

Coming back down...slowly!! The steps are so tiny!!

Aaaaand we made it! Whew!

Of course we had a beach day thrown in there which I did not take pictures of! We were borrowing a camera so we were constantly paranoid of messing it up so we didn't even take it out of the bag!

My favorite place in the whole.wide.world just happens to be about 1.5 hours away from us, so we headed to Destin one night just for dinner and to shop in my favorite little shopping center!! We had a blast and of course, Bradley's favorite part was the crab legs!

Nom, nom, nommmm!!

My cousin came into town to visit her boyfriend who was just stationed here. I haven't seen her in forever so it was really nice to hang out! Aaaand she got engaged while she was here! We got to listen into the whole thing- by accident of course. We were butt dialed! It was the best a butt dial could possibly be though! We had dinner with them the next night to celebrate!

The newly engaged!

And the old married couple ;-)