This Monday was our 6 month anniversary mark, kind of exciting- it's half a year already and woa! We're still married! Golly we even HOLD HANDS sometimes- I know, you're all in shock. Online dating and we're still best friends and excited about our life together. (Sorry, been taking some flack for still holding hands and things from people at church. I made it clear we plan on being close and expressing that closeness through appropriate p.d.a. like hand holding until we are dead! Or handless.) Anyway, I made Danny breakfast and handed him a book... a marriage book. I had seen on the Dating Diva's website a great idea I thought he'd like being a Signals Analyst and all. See while we dated he'd send me little codes with silly messages I had to figure out and decipher to get the gooshy message. I thought it'd be fun to give him a code like that. I circled words on pages that were in my secret message and then added and subtracted from the actual page number, increasing it by one and alternating each time. Then wrote down all the page numbers. I thought i'd have to be extra sneaky so he wouldn't crack the code so fast- instead I made it ridiculous and he couldn't figure it out at all hahaha oops :{ Anyway that was fun!
Later we ran some errands and hit a movie. During the movie Danny got a call, he was told one of the five guys that was stationed here at Fort Gordon after training with him at AIT; was shot and killed in Afghanistan. My heart goes out to the wife and family of SPC Joshua Nelson. He had the same job as Danny, just happened to arrive one day later than the other 5 men and be put in a different company- one that deployed to Afghanistan. Our deepest condolences. We attended the service today, although I never met him I am grateful for the sacrifice of that dedicated fallen soldier, your family is in my prayers.
Danny got more specific information about his deployment today after the service. Which is good because we got a call Wednesday morning that he was shipping out the 30th of THIS MONTH! Well, luckily that was incorrect information.
During all the crazy that went on on our anniversary I was in contact with Jaimee trying to put together my gift for Danny. I tried doing it myself and it didn't work out AT ALL. Thank you so much Jaimee, for doing the photo on such sort notice and taking the reigns to make it better than I could have thought of. You're fantastic!!! And the bestest friend ever!
- About a week and a half later another friend of Danny's passed away. A friend from home in NM that he spent time with as a teenager. We are so sorry for your loss Applegate family You have been in our prayers.
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