Wishing on a Star: Leave days 1-4

So Joshua has been on leave for 4 days now. We haven't done anything extremely adventurous, but we have had some good times. We started out with a get-together with our friends Bailey and Tyrone and their family. Please be sure to look at the pics, as this was probably my one and only victory at Monopoly. But oh what a victory it was! I was quite proud :) The evening was quite enjoyable, and I couldn't stop thinking about how I sometimes felt as though that day would never come, when both of our husbands were home with us and all was right with the world. Such a blissful feeling, really. I don't think I can even begin to describe it.

We headed home on Monday afternoon, and spent the majority of the rest of the day just getting stuff done around the house, and then enjoying dinner and a movie together.

Tuesday started out with Josh attempting to change the headlight in my car. I am not sure how many times I heard the phrase "stupid german engineering", but I know that it was several, lol. He ended up going to a friend's house for assistance, and then locking the keys in the car. He got a ride home to get the spare key, only to find out that it wouldn't work for some reason. We ended up calling triple A to "rescue" him. After finally getting back into the car, they finished with the headlight and then Josh came home. We decided that our dog, MaryJane needed to get out of the house, so we took a ride to the dog park. Aside from being rather cold, we had a lot of fun. We also managed to catch a beautiful sunset while we were there (pic below).

Today we spent the morning at the doctor for Josh. He has been sick, and after waiting two weeks, we decided to make an appointment. Apparently the doctor just likes to make guesses, as he gave him several different "possibilities", medicated him for 3 of them, and then said to come back in a week. Hmmmm. We then spent the rest of the day in search of a truck. This is the one thing that my hubby has wanted for as long as I can remember, and so we decided that upon his return from Iraq, he would be able to get one. We have a few possibilities, and are going to look at one in about an hour. Keep your fingers crossed!

Amongst the pics below I have included a few that I just took about 10 minutes ago. I went to look out the back window and there stood two deer, not more than 10 feet from me! It was such a beautiful sight, I had to snap a few pics. As I said, nothing overly exciting, but we are enjoying every second we have together. Also in the plans for the upcoming weeks are a hiking trip complete with a picnic lunch, and a day of tubing at dry hill, which hopefully we can arrange to have a couple of friends join us on. (hint hint Bailey and fam ;) ).

Our fearless warriors :)