My entire morning has been glorious. With Justin clearing, he's exempt from certain things that he'd normally be doing, like physical training. I guess the time interfered with a briefing he had, which gave me a whole 4 hours with him this morning, and for three of those hours, our daughter was sleeping. We never usually get time in the morning together (unless it's a weekend), and it has made me even more excited for forty days of leave. I was even able to do some yoga from home. I usually don't prefer to, due to all of Cooper's dog hairs covering my mat.

Today marks the start of a four day for Justin. Veteran's day is around the corner, I really can't wait to celebrate that! I think for part of the day we may explore a museum, monuments, something historic in Savannah. One thing about the South that I enjoy, is all the history. I took a trolley tour at the beginning of this year, and I learned SO much about almost every street in downtown Savannah. With Justin being such a history buff, I think it'll be a perfect way to spend our Saturday.

I think we are going to start buying boxes this weekend; We've received all this information about the dity (do it yourself) move, and now I'm overly excited to get started. I can't believe how much money there is to be made by moving ourselves. Not to mention the glorious feeling of knowing that our things won't be lost our damaged. Thanks to our trip to New York this summer, I'm not worried about driving with Ava in the car. She's such a good baby, I know this trip will be a breeze. If Fort Lewis, Washington is our next destination, I really want to take the road trip. Justin wants Ava and I to fly out, rather than road trip it with him. It makes sense, I just wanted to stick together, as a family.

Oh, I almost forgot! Day 7. I am thankful for online universities. If I weren't able to obtain my degree online, I don't think I'd be going back to school for awhile. I'm fortunate and very thankful that I get to stay home with my daughter, care for my home, and FINALLY get my BA in healthcare administration.

Looks like I'm off! Ava has been in a "don't put me down" phase, so I'm off to baby wear my bug, maybe take a walk in, enjoy this fresh air! Happy Thursday all!





♥- Leilani

I love him

I keep saying that in my mind. I love him, I love Justin. There's so much more there than that. Have you ever felt like you have all of these words, all of these thoughts jumbled inside your head, and every time you try to organize them they don't sound half as good as they should? That's how I feel today. Today was like fresh air. It felt good. Since Savannah is so close, we decided to paint the town. Before I go into that... We have this new rule in our family. With being new parents, we realize there are sacrifices that HAVE to be made (for the sake of our daughter having a norm) our "late nights" are 7 p.m. People are more than welcome to stay over at our home and hang out as late as they want, but we like to have Ava settled and ready for bath time and lullaby's at a decent hour. Okay,so back to painting Savannah. We anticipated no parking, lots of people, and chaos. We got none of that! We were pleased! Granted it was a Friday, which meant work day for most. We got front row parking, no long lines for the Tavern we ate at, and very mellow, slow paced atmosphere. We had a great time today. We laughed, we made icky faces from trying gator, and we had people stop us about our daughter several times. (this never gets old) I love when people tell me how wonderful my daughter is. She is thee most mellow baby I have ever met. As we explored the historic district, we talked. Not to say we don't usually talk, but it was different. We talked about goals, dreams, Ava's future, our life. Our connection was on fire today. We were intimate. Not in the sexual intimacy. Justin brushed my hair off my face, he touched the small of my back (this gave me immediate shivers) he gave me Eskimo kisses! It was just pleasant. We did a little shopping, got some souvenirs (we are planning on NEVER returning to Georgia) We ended our time on River Street with gelato and managed to avoid the rain shower that came soon after driving off.  We did a few other things at the mall today, and then called it a night. Even after the excitement of the day was done, we weren't. The love this man gives me, man.. I don't need too many other things in my life to make me feel complete. I hope everyone else had a Friday like this! Like fresh air ;) Goodnight!