I love it when

forget about food that I put in the fridge or freezer. Sometimes I will make cheesecake and while I am impatiently waiting for it to cool I find something else to do and I forget what I was waiting for. When my tummy starts a rumblin' I head back to the fridge/freezer to find something to devour, and to my surprise, there is a giant cheesecake sitting right in front of me, practically begging me to eat it. Anyway, today Brittany and I went to a couple of garage sales. Someone was selling "magic bars" or 7 layer bars, which I happen to LOVE. I don't even like chocolate really, but the mixture of chocolate, and coconut, and whatever else is in it, makes it uh-maze-ing! It was a little over 100 degrees this afternoon, which meant that it was melting. So I put it in the freezer, only meaning to leave it in there for 10 minutes. Between Rea running crazy and the TV blaring and facebook stalking, I forgot about it! I made lunch, and played with Rea. Then I put her down for a nap and relaxed. Still not realizing that I have a delicious, homemade, "magic" bar hiding in the freezer. After Rea's nap, I made dinner, and I had put a Sunkist in the freezer while Rea was asleep so I could drink it during dinner. I reached into the freezer and pulled out the Sunkist, still not seeing the decadant bar, two inches from the Sunkist. After our tummies settled, I took Rea to the park, even though it was 100 degrees. We lasted about an hour, before I couldn't handle chasing Rea around anymore! I felt like I was sweating buckets! When we got home, Rea and I shared a popcicle. A popcicle from the same freezer that my magic bar was hiding in! Rea got sleepy soon after coming home from the park, but of course, she had to have her tickle time before bed. She gets cranky before bed, but as soon as we get into bed and it's time to go to sleep, she gets giggly and silly. Zach taught her how to say "tickle tickle" even though it sounds more like "ticka ticka" I LOVE IT! I don't know how I am going to sleep on our drive back to Alaska.. Maybe thats a good thing, maybe I will just drive non-stop until we get there. Yeah right, who am I kidding? I need sleep, I would sleep all the time if I could! Okay, back to my story! After Rea was sound asleep, I came back into the living room and turned on Project Runway. As I lay on the couch, basking in my fatness, wishing I could eat a peice of cake. Then it struck me! I had a chocolatey coconutty peanut buttery delicous bar in the freezer! I hopped off of the couch, probably with the most spunk I have had in the last week. I know that I have what some people call breast feeding brain, and I forget simple things and I can't spit out what I want to say the way I want to say it sometimes. But how did I forget about that for so long?! Thank goodness I did, because I found it at the perfect time. Now my tummy is happy and I am going to SLEEP!!

Dear Deployment,
Even though I didn't get to talk to Zach on the phone today, I know he is safe. We got to chat a little (= Because he is somewhere new, he accidentaly went to the place to go on the internet instead of the phone. He told me something today that gave me butterflies. "I love you more and more with each passing second" He always brightens my day, or night! Now if I feel down, I will think to myself, he loves me more now, than he did just a second ago and that will always bring my mood up. Simple things like that are what make me so much stronger. Love, Elsa...