PRK

On Friday Josh had a form of laser eye surgery called PRK.  He spent most of the weekend in a pain medication induced sleep, with dark sunglasses covering his eyes.  Occasionally he would ask for frozen peas, a glass of water, and me to set the alarm on my phone to make sure he woke up to put his eye drops in; for the most part he was a good patient.

He has "quarters" for the week (meaning he doesn't have to go to work), but of course he went. Thankfully, we had the long weekend and he had one extra day to recover. Tuesday was his first day out of the house, and we spent it getting me enrolled in DEERS and Tricare. He kept his eyes pretty well blocked from the sun with the dark glasses and hat.

Wednesday he got a ride to work, but today he drove himself. He has a follow up appointment this afternoon, where the doctor will take out the protective contact lenses that were covering his eye. From here out, the pain should be gone. He will still have to apply drops and now this ointment type medication until it runs out. He was also advised not to prolong his eyes to sunlight or submerge his face in water... This might be a problem, as we are leaving in 19 days for our Caribbean honeymoon.

                      

                                        

                            

 

Happily Ever After...

Well, as of February 17th, 2011 Josh and I are married. He said, "Its like we've already been married for months, I knew you weren't going anywhere," and this is so true. So, lets give a recap of the week...

Monday morning after my first class I checked my messages and had a urgent one from Josh, "Call me when you can, its important." I immediately called, assuming something bad had happened. The opening lines were, "I have good news and bad news." He proceeded to tell me about the eye surgery and the date and how it was the last opportunity, and I proceeded to get mad and say mean things and act irrationally. I think I even hung up on him. We had already decided that we were going to get married on Friday, the 18th at noon, and Lucas and Laura would be there, so when that had to change my feelings were obviously hurt. I calmed down about 5 minutes after the initial hang up, called back, and apologized. What's one day anyway right? Josh said, "We are lucky that we get to spend one more day married than we initially thought," and its true. Its not about the day, its about us...

So, we went to the courthouse in Killeen around 2:30 on Thursday, and were married by Justice of the Peace, Garland Potvin. In true Amanda style, I laughed the whole time. In true Josh style, he starred into my eyes lovingly and said every word perfectly. Was reminded how lucky I am to have found him, and now get to spend the rest of my life with him. Afterward we tried to celebrate with sushi at the restaurant we went to on our first date, but it didn't open until 5 and Josh had to go back to work (I'll get that in a minute). Instead, we had Red Lobster, where a toddler at the table beside ours flirted with me the whole meal. Then we came home, attempted to call our immediate family members, were unsuccessful, and Josh went back to work.

Josh is amazing, and I'm such a lucky woman to be his wife. Looking forward to an amazing future together.

Oh yea, Josh had some drama at work this week, so he had to spend our wedding evening taking care of that. What better way to start my life as a Company Commander's wife, right?

Puppy Dinner Time

I love how excited the dogs get when they know its dinner time. I hate the nights that I have class or something in the evening and Josh gets to feed them, makes me jealous that he got to share in their excitement and I didn't. We are very proud of them for knowing which bowl is theirs... usually. Super proud of Athena who has recently started eating all of her food when we put it out for her. Before she was a grazer, would eat a little here and a little there, but I guess she realized that Albert would sneak and eat her food if he got a chance, so she is now eating everything at once.

Anyway, the video is super cute... excuse me "egging" them on, I just love how excited they are!

Eye Surgery

Thankfully, those Army eye doctors called Josh today about finally getting his LASIK surgery. Too bad its scheduled for Friday morning, the beginning of a four day weekend. Apparently, it's the last day he can actually have it done, and still have the amount of days it requires to heal before the deployment. We are thrilled that it's finally getting taken care of, hopefully this surgery's results last more than 6 years unlike the first time he had it done. I'll be glad that he can wake up and see... And jealous all at the same time. Jokingly, I tell him that I'm only marrying him so I can have eye surgery. Maybe having to take care of my blind Josh all weekend is my payback :)
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Blogging from the iPad

We like to think that we started the iPad trend in the Range family. Josh bought ours when they first came out, then either Darrell bought Joan one or Joan bought Darrell one, then Jason got his. When we are all together, it's like iPad overload, and sometimes we have to put them away or, "our brains will turn to mush," as Jason says.

The iPad is so convenient. We take it everywhere, an hour car ride to Austin or a twelve hour car ride to Columbia... It goes everywhere. I'm blogging from it, about it! We are contemplating getting a second one for Josh to take with him to Iraq.

Enough about the iPad, I sound like an Apple commercial!




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Clarify

I usually refers to Amanda.  Josh might get excited and throw in a couple of ideas here and there, but usually it will be me. Didn't want to confuse anyone.

New Blogger

I realize its February 10th, but I'd like to share our New Year's Resolutions with the world.  We set the goals pretty high!

• Get out of debt fast! Using the Dave Ramsey idea, of course. Josh has a minor obsession with Dave. Luckily for us, there is a workshop starting at the beginning of March here at Ft. Hood. I think Josh was the first person to sign up! 

• Finish school! This one is strictly for me, Amanda. Two more semesters, that's all. I can do this, I can do this!

• Get back in shape, and stay in shape! With Josh being in Command, and myself working all day and going to school all night, we had a hard time finding time to exercise last year. As a result we were not happy with the way we looked. This year will be different. Since January 2nd, I have been working out six days a week and am loving the results. Doing a mix of cardio and weight lifting.  My serious obsession is RPM.  We love going to the gym together too, I feel like its a date sometimes.  Its nice having Josh beside me cheering me on and vice versa.

• Have a better relationship with God! We usually do pretty good at attending church every Sunday, but if we miss one week, its easy to miss the next week, and the next, and so on. I don't feel like its necessary to attend church to have a relationship with God, but it definitely helps me get in a better place. I've been trying to read a little from the Bible each day and pray more and harder.  

•  Spend more time together! Not just time, quality time.  Sitting beside each other watching Netflix does not really count as quality time, to us. The gym feels like quality time, as does cooking together, date nights, and even riding in the care together.  This one is easy, for now, but when the deployment comes finding a  minute to sit down and talk will be hard on both sides.

That's all for now. Not a bad first blog. -- Amanda