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At the end of august Matt and I were lucky enough to get to spend the weekend at Turtle Bay Resort for a marriage retreat. We spent alot of time in seminars learning how to communicate (they even gave us a magnet that looks like a floor, and when youre holding the magnet during a discussion you have "the floor" so youre the only one who can talk), we did the 5 love languages and heard testimony from couples who had been married for 14+ years. They taught us how to deal with deployments and explained how some things that apply in normal relationships have to be altered to fit military relationships. The overall message was good and i think matt and i both got alot out of it. We also got alot of free time to spend together on the beach and in this gorgeous hotel. The parrots were just sitting on rings in the lobby! It was the time of the month when the jellyfish come to shore so we didnt spend any time in the ocean but we did take advantage of the hotels pools and hot tubs. It was nice to get to know some of the people Matt works with and their wives. The army does this every few months so hopefully we will get the chance to do it again.

Its official! My mom, Greg, Katha, Kevin, Nick, Nicks parents and my moms best friend will all be here in March! I dont know where we are going to put them all but i am just glad they have the oppurtunity to come. Hopefully Aunt Tina and Granny will be able to come later in the year.

Starting on the 19th Matt will be working only at night. His schedule is 3 days on, 2 days off, 2 days on, 3 days off. It going to be a little confusing at first. Supposedly he will work all nights for a month and then all days for a month but we'll see.

We are slowly moving down on the housing list. When we got put on the list to move to the other base on May 1st we were number 156 on the list, 4 months later we are number 44 on the list. I just hope we get moved by christmas.