Makenzie Rae DeLong

Makenzie Rae DeLong

Born July 6, 2009

8:35 a.m.

7 lbs 1 oz  20 in

Jesse had one hell of a time during her labor! After countless hours in labor and an emergency c-section.... Makenzie arrived! Mommy and daughter are doing well. (The IV was just a precautionary thing.) They are both recovering, and I can't wait to see them!

ALOHA!

Well.... last night was pretty exciting. I was on the deck w/ my maid of honor, enjoying a cold drink, trying not to sweat to death and be eaten alive by all the bugs, when Adam called. I answered and he says "I have one thing to say to you... start packing for Hawaii!" Well I'm sure you can imagine how excited I was! That phrase means that Adam's housing allowance got approved and he's getting an apartment, and we're MOVING TO HAWAII!!!! Well by "we" I do mean "me" because Adam is already there! So on our honeymoon, we'll leave on schedule, only I won't be coming back to IL!! It's still settling in a little bit cause now I only have 2 months left in IL. I was expecting not to be moving until Jan 2010. SURPRISE! It's hard to describe how excited I am though. Not many people can say "Yea! I lived in Hawaii!" I'll only be there for a few months though becuase he'll be transfering stations at the end of the year. Hopefully we find out next week where that will be. He's thinking California, but I don't care. Well I'm hoping for anywhere in the continental U.S. so it's cheap for people to come and visit us!

95...94...93...

Yep, there are 93 days and counting until the wedding! Time is really flying by. We still have a couple big things to figure out, but I think it won't take long to get it under control. We need to get someone for flowers, limo, invitations... but we already have people in mind, it's just a matter of calling them and seeing if they are available. 

I graduated college a couple weeks ago. It's such a nice feeling finally being done with school. I now have my nights to focus on things like getting my room cleaned! I've kinda been neglecting it for the past couple years because of school. It's a little more overwhelming than I thought it was going to be. I've been more of a pack rat than I thought that I was. 

Adam tells me that orders come up again in a couple of weeks, and then he'll get to put in for some. I'm not sure how many requests he's able to put in. But we won't find out until July where we are going (if he gets orders!). Hopefully we find out sooner rather than later. It's not really fun sitting here in limbo wanting to make plans for our future, when we don't know what city we'll be living in. I guess that's part of the whole military life style that I'll have to get used to. 

And the wait continues...

Well, Adam looked at the list yesterday and found out that he didn't get picked for orders this month. It was a little disappointing, but then he told me that since he didn't get picked for the 5 orders that he put in for, he can put in for new orders! So the doors are wide open again about where we can go. I suppose I should get used to this, cause it's the military!

I took my first test on Friday. I think I did alright on it. Now I have two more tests and three assignments to go. It's really getting down to the wire, and I'm getting really excited! Saturday is the big day! I still have a lot of work left in order to get there, but it's close! Very exciting!

Jesse made it back to North Carolina on Saturday. It's hard to believe that she was home for a whole month. She had her Explorer packed full. It was so cute; Allie had a little spot in the back seat. It's so weird, she rides in the back seat whenever they drive anywhere. She's an odd dog, but fun and full of personality. I hope she gets along with little Mackenzie Rae (I think that's how they are going to spell it). 

Update

Wow how time flies by! A lot has happened since my last post. School is almost done. I can finally see the end of the tunnel, and I think I've gotten a really bad case of senioritis!! But I only have two more weeks until graduation! I'm really looking forward to not having anything to do. 

Zack and Jesse found out that they are having a girl! We went today to a 3D ultrasound, but the little pain wouldn't cooperate! She must take after her dad, cause she seems to have to make things difficult already! LOL Jesse is going back on Tuesday night to try one more time to get some good pictures before she has to go back to North Carolina. I can't believe that she's been home for a whole month already! I guess that time flies when you are having so much fun! 

Adam has had a lot of interesting news. His first request for reenlistment got denied, but thankfully his second request got approved, and we should find out in May where we are going to live. Adam got to put in for 5 different orders, and I think that he gets one of them. One is in Washington State, and the other 4 are in south California. I don't know what Mom and Dad are going to do with Zack and I on different ends of the country! I guess they'll rack up a lot of frequent flier miles. 

Wedding plans are going fine. Nothing new has happened in a while. School has been a little to busy for my stress levels, and I couldn't handle anything else in my life! LOL We still need a florist. Somehow that keeps slipping our minds until someone asks how things are going, and then I remember that we still need to do that. Times running short cause as of today, we only have 125 days until the wedding. I'm getting more and more excited for it every day, and now that school is about done with, I can focus on the Wedding and trying to figure everything out. I've been registering a little bit here and there. It's a lot harder than I thought that it was going to be. I think I'll be a lot more excited once I know where we're going to live and I can figure out all the different places that we can see in the area. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day Everyone!!! I think my favorite part of the holiday (besides celebrating the fact that I'm Irish) is all the corned beef and cabbage that I get to eat. This year I am definitely getting my fill of it. Two sundays ago mom made a big crock pot full of it. Last Thursday dad and I went to the VFW for it. Saturday my Aunt Bev made corned venison (deer) and it was surprising excellent. It tasted just like beef, and the only difference was the texture (it wasn't as fatty). Tonight mom made corned beef and cabbage again. I just love this time of year! Although I'll be happy when it's over, cause I need to lose a couple pounds to fit better into my wedding dress and all that cabbage and potatoes aren't good for the "girlish figure"! LOL

Spring Break

So I just finished up my last spring break... for a while anyway... and boy was it an exciting one!! (Not Really!) I had jury duty, which kinda screwed the whole thing up, but what can you do?? It's not like I could have just not gone! Actually I got to learn a lot about the judicial system. I guess I didn't realize how much sitting and waiting I would be doing. I got to sit on 2 juries with a different Judge for each one. I must say that the personalities of each Judge really did shine in the court rooms. It's nothing like what you see on TV though! Those screen writers really do use their imagination to liven things up.

My week started on a rough note. Actually I was really lucky, but after I got the bill, I didn't feel so lucky. I got in my car Monday morning to come to the court house for jury duty, and I backed up maybe 4 inches and I got a flat tire. So I called Dad to come to the rescue, and he came and gave me his truck for the day while he called the Route to come and fix it. I had a long day sitting in a court room, and when I got out, I called dad to see if my car had gotten fixed. He said no. I just kinda paused (all confused), and he said that they came and got my car, but it wasn't fixed yet. I kinda said OK in an even more confused way, cause the Route is always really good about getting things done the same day. I thought that maybe Joe was really busy cause it is kinda getting to be farming season, and they all kinda come in at the same time. Well, Dad had mentioned at that point, while I'm thinking of all kinds of reasons for the delay, that "You have major problems!" I cringed and asked him what the problem was, and he just said that he'd talk to me when I got home. So I get home, and Dad tells me that... here's where I forget exactly what he told me but basically some coil had broke and poked my tired and caused it to blow up. Dad said that Keith was going to work on it the next day. So the next day I drive dad's truck again, and I got really used to it. I get home that night expecting to find my car in the drive way, and it's not there. I ask Dad what's up, and he tells me that he told Keith to basically put a whole new front end on my car. (How nice of him cause I'm the one that's paying the bill! LOL) So I didn't get my car back until Wednesday night (with a $700 bill in the front seat!).

However, my week ended on a very happy note! Friday I received an email from David's Bridal saying that my dress had come in. I was in total shock because it wasn't supposed to be here until the middle of April. I called that night on my way home and they said that it had indeed arrived. Mom and I went up on Saturday to pick it up, and it is just so pretty! We stopped at Grandma's on our way back into town to show her before we got it home, and I think she really appreciated that. She said that she really liked it, and that made me happy to hear an other's opinion that it was really pretty. I just can't wait for August to get here and I can wear it and show everyone!