Georgia comes North!!!

Steph and Jared walking Sissy and Cyber
Aunt Tammy
Grandpa and Robbie
Jared and Jenny
Smiley Jared!! Doesn't he look EXACTLY like Aunt Tammy???!!!

Grandma n Grandpa Bickel and Aunt Tammy and Jared came North just after Christmas!! It's really been a long time since they've come "home"!!! And I am soo glad that they did it this year while I was home! I know that I saw them all in March but, I sure was glad to see them!!

Sissy and Cyber

Sleepy Puppies!! Sissy is ta the back and Cyber is knocked out upside down!!
Sissy and Cyber
Here I am drying off Sissy after she went out to potty!!
Normally the animals aren't allowed on the furniture, but, she was my little lap dog!!! Hee heee!
Who is who??


So, we got PUPPIES!!!! 2 little AKC German Shepards!! A sister and a brother, Sissy and Cyber! Steph decided on Cyber because of Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase... lol! And I chose Sissy because she is the little sister to 3 older and bigger (bullies!) brothers!!! :-) Kev and I went and picked them up this morning at 1000-ish!! They were so muddy!! They got like, 3 baths!!! Lol!! I really wish that I could take Sissy to Cali with us!!! Too bad we can't have animals in the Brks!!

I've finally made it home!

Kevin has taken up Robbie's job as home photographer!
Robbie visiting!
Me on the phone with my BABY!!! Only a week till we see each other!! Woo hoo!
There's my angel cakes!!! Isn't she just adorable!? And here is little Mattie, our family garbage disposal! This kid will eat ANYTHING!!

So, I have finally made it home after HOURS and HOURS!! Sorry that it has taken me so long to post on here!! I gte real busy!!!!
Talk to y'all sooon!!!!!!!

14 HOURS AND 45 MINUTES...!!!

Yea!! Ladies and Gents, this is my absolute last blog from Iwakuni, JAPAN!!! Wow! Only hours now before I leave to go and catch my first flight at Hiro Airport! Can you guys believe that it has already been 2 years??! WOW!! I won't lie tho, I am really gonna miss this place!! The food, the people, the DRIVING!! Lol, I LOVE to drive here!! It's CRAZY!! But, one day I'll be back! I promise! And I can't wait to explore this Island from the top to the bottom!
And not only am I gonna miss Japan, but, the people I am leaving behind as well! Like Rafe! Even tho I am gonna see ya in a few months! You take care buddy and don't let this place get ya down! And Betty and Krysten, I wish I wasn't leaving you guys behind! I wish y'all were coming with me! But, the Lord does everything for a reason, right? :-) Even if we can't always see what they are!
So, good bye, goodbye and I will see you all again! For those of you I like but just haven't named, I will miss you too! For thse of you I do not like, and you know who you are.... ya, well, fill in the blanks.
As for me, in the remaining hours, I'm just gonna chill and repack and read. Then, I'm on my way home for Christmas! I cannot WAIT!! Stephy girl, see you soon!
Josh, 16 DAYS!!!!!! YEA!! I love you with all my heart...
Konichiwa and love form Japan for the last time,
Jessie

Going Home... in 4 days!

Well, I'm going home everybody!! I officially have TMO'd all my stuff (the movers came and packed it away!) and tomorrow, I sign out of the squadron completely!! I am so excited!! Just 4 more days and I am on my way home! My first Christmas home in a long time! So, it'll be special! I know New Year's sure will! :-) Josh will be there with me! Smooches baby!*
So, I am gonna go back to my uber super lonely looking room now and finish packing off my last box to send home! Then, I am gonna call my hunny and then I am gonna plop my big butt down and dig my nose into Harry Potter #4! ( Yes, I have already read the whole series but, since the last book is coming out in July, I thought that I might refresh my memory! :-P
So, sayonara!! I'll post once again before I leave here! MUAH!

Hello Again!!!

Hello again!! Well, I am down to my last days!! :-) I'm not even in the double digits anymore!! Yea!! I'm gonna go pack here in a few but, I wanted to add some pics that I FINALLY got off of my camera! Lol! It was some of the pics that I took at the Kintai Bridge the day that Krysten and I went!! :-) I have more but, I only felt like putting those on!! The one on here with me and my camera in the car mirror were from Kintai as well (we were leaving!) :-D
Lol! Here is a picture of me! Lol, don't mind my messy room! I am cleaning so, I have an excuse!! Lol! So, anyway, here's what going down for the rest of the time I'm here (I stole this idea from Josh' Blog!! quigleyjd.blogspot.com <-- Check it out!)

~ TMO all my belongings on MONDAY!! 11 Dec!
~ Krysten moves in with me my last week here!
~ I have someone (hopefully Krysten) drive me to Hiroshima Airport at the crack of freakin dawn on 15 December!!
~ I continue to fly for the next 23 +/- hours!! (Yea me.) It will be my last overseas flight for a while! :( I won't lie, I will REALLY miss Japan! I didn't say HERE, just Japan! And I can't WAIT to come back someday! Lol!
~ I arrive in Indianapolis, Indiana, at 1915 (7:15 pm) on December 15, [because I travel back in time! Lol!] and mom squeezes the crap outta me for like, 20 minutes!! Then, we drive the 2 hours home ( mom doesn't let me drive home from the airport anymore because last time I accidentally turned into on coming traffic! Lol! Oops! They drive funny darnit!).
~ Then, I plan to sleep in everyday and lounge around and relax, but, we all know that I'm full of sh*t!!! Lol! I'm going to be so busy seeing everyone!! I got go see my grandparents, Great-grandma, Anne and Lynne and Liz and Linda, Uncle Jeff, etc!! So, many people!! So little time! And more Christmas shopping, I'm sure!
~ On 30 December at like, 10 am, I am going to make the 2 hour drive to the Indy Airport again and this time I will be picking up my BABY!!! And he is gonna just squeeze and never let me go!! Yea!! Haha! And he'll getta meet mom and probably Steph and maybe Jen all at the airport! Then, after a 2 hour drive home, accross desolate ugly ol Indiana, he will be attacked, I mean, introduced, to the rest of my family!! Lol, and we will continue doing that until he meets them all! Lol! I'll never get him to myself!
~ Around the 3rd of January 07, we will start our raodtrip to sunny old Miramar, CA! Mom, Josh, Steph and me are gonna drive my new truck and my junk all the way to Cali!! We are gonna stop off in Lubbock, TX, to meet Josh's family! I'm so excited!! And a little nervous! Lol! But, still... EXCITED!!!! :-) And we'll stay there for a few days and then we're off again! We will also be stopping off at the Grand Canyon, for mom... I love you mom! And then, once we get to Cali, a surprise for Steph that I cannot even tell on here!
~ Then between 13- 15 Jan, mom and Steph will be flying home on Steph's first flight ever! :-) And, of course, I will cry! :( At least I'm in the States tho!
~ Then I have a few weeks with my baby until he's off for Iraq!! :-( Then its 6 months w/o him, waiting for my sqdrn to go to Iraq, all the while praying that he'll be able to cross det! Please every pray!!

So, that's my schedule for now!!!!! :-) It's ALWAYS subject to change! Lol! Well, I am gonna run Rafe over to IPAC orders now so that he can get his stuff ready for leaving here as well! So, I love every one adn can't WAIT to see you soon!

Love forever from far away... Jessie
p.s. Josh.... I LOVE YOU more than you could EVER know!

Photo Update!!

I have FINALLY updated all of my pictures from Yuma, Az, and Katherine, Australia!! :-) Lol! So, if you check out my September 06 and go forward, you will see new pictures in there!! :-)
12 days left here!! I will only be at work on Mon, tues, Wed, and some of the day on Thursday, then I get my chekout from the Squadron started on Friday! :-) Yea! I TMO on the 11th and will say goodbye for good to Iwakuni in the wee hours of the morning on Friday, the 15th! then my journey will start! I will fly from Hiro airport to Narita Tokyo Airport. and from there to LAX where I will transfer to my 1-stop flight in Denver, Co, and straight on to Indianapolis, Indiana! Ii will arrive at 1915 ( 7:15 pm!!) I am sooooo EXCITED!!! Then, just 15 more days and I'll see Josh again! TALK ABOUT A GREAT MONTH!!
Well, I need to get offa here now and try to LEAVE! It's a Saturday and we have been here since 9!! And we're not s'posed to leave till 3, so... grrr... we'll see! I'm hungry!
Love, Jess

Nickelback ~ Far Away

This time, This place

Misused, Mistakes

Too long, Too late

Who was I to make you wait

Just one chance

Just one breath

Just in case there's just one left

'Cause you know, you know, you know

I love you I have loved you all along

And I miss you

Been far away for far too long

I keep dreamin you'll be with me and you'd never go

Stop breathing if I don't see you anymore

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On my knees, I'll ask

Last chance for one last dance

'Cause with you, I'd withstand

All of Hell to hold your hand

I'd give it all I'd give for us

Give anything,but I won't give up

'Cause you know, you know, you know

That I love you I have loved you all along

I miss you

Been far away for far too long

I keep dreamin you'll be with me and you'd never go

Stop breathing if I don't see you anymore

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So far away

So far away

far away for far too long

So far away

So far away

far away for far too long

But you know, you know, you know

I wanted

I wanted you to stay

'Cause I needed

I need to hear you say

I love you I have loved you all along

And I forgive you

For being away for far too long

So keep breathing

'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore

Believe it

Hold on to me,and never let me go

Keep breathing

'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore

Believe it

Hold on to me and, never let me go

Keep breathing

Hold on to me, never let me go

Keep breathing

Hold on to me, never let me go.

~ I Love You Josh! With all my heart....

Trail of Painted Ponies

Oh my goodness!! These are the Hallmark ponies!! Lol, everytime I go to Hallmark, I see these ponies! Well, today I surfed the net for them! trailofpaintedponies.com and found tons of them!! This is possibly my favorite one! I'm gonna get it before it retires!! :-D I've decided to start a collection!! Yea!
p.s. 17 more days and 6 1/2 more working days! MUAH!

Kintai with Krysten!

This was the day that Krysten and I went to see the Kintai Bridge! Which, if you didn't know, is one of the wonders to see in Japan! :-) It was so much fun! A little on the chilly side... but, maybe next time, it'll be sunny and we'll make it to the top! MUAH!

24 days...

the countdown has already begun, if you haven't been able to tell... then now you know! Well, I was just goin thru some pics that I FINALLY got put onto a cd and found some of me and my BABY!! in Yuma! this is from Oct 21st!! One of our frequent trips to Starbucks!!
Love you baby!!!

Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!!

So, those of you who have been thru a Marine Corps B-day with me already, know the routine!! We turned 231 years old in the Corps all over the world on the 10th of November!! Gettin old, ain't we?
I did not go to my ball this year. I arrived back in Iwakuni the day before we had it so, I had no ticket, my uniforms weren't ready, adn my baby wasn't here!! Too sad with no date. :-( But, he went to his!! Doesn't he look HOTT in his Dress Blues!! He's also his Color Sgt for his Color Gaurd; always in charge... ;-D CUTE baby!! I love him so much and can't WAIT to see him after Christmas!! I've already bought my tickets home!! See you all on the 15th of December!! God Bless!! ~ Jess
p.s. Josh... I LOVE YOU!!!!! And miss you more than you could know!!!!!!

Rain...

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

I like this poem because it reminds me of my favorite poem by Patrick O'leary - Nobody Knows it but Me. They are both about taking this other road, the road that is adventurous and full of wonder and mystery. The road not ususally taken by most of the people who live on this Earth. The road that, you do not need company on - it is the journey only you can decide on. People will come along the way, some staying always, others walking out as quickly and as quietly as they came. You can bring them along for the ride, but, the choosing of the path is ultimately up to you. The path less trodden; unused and forgotten about. The path of imagination and color, full of stories and adventures that have yet to be discovered! I love this path, because here, I can always be me. People riddicule me and try to bring me down for taking this path, but, this is me. This is who I am. I love me and I love what I have chosen to take. i can live in my world without Starbucks and cell phones. And even without all that, I can go to greater heights and achieve greater things that you can only dream of. Because I'm not afraid to be different. I am unique, and I love every second of it!!

p.s. Thank your veterans today... they're fighting for you...

Perseverence

me and josh a year ago. me and josh less than a week ago. wow. and let me be the first to tell you - that was one rough year! but, we did it, didn't we baby? we held on and made it this far. :-) thank you so much for putting up with me and my ups and downs. if you hadn't i'd be lost right now without you. you are my hero, my love. with you by my side i know that i can accomplish anything. you are my strength when i'm weak, my warmth when i am cold, my eyes that show me things i can't see on my own, my heartbeat that keeps me going everyday. i love you for every little thing that you do- like chew on your finger when you talk on the phone (cute!). and for every big thing that you do- like tell me you love me. ME baby. you love me. wow. it still blows my mind sometimes. how did someone like you pick someone like me to love?
how did i ever get so lucky, God? and i look forward to everyday that You give me with this man that i love so much. i promise to cherish him in everyway, be there thru all the times, good and bad. to be his strength, his rock. to be his shoulder and listen to everyword. to be his hand to hold, for times when words just won't do. and i promise to love him more every minute of everyday. please watch over him while we are apart and keep him safe. help him to be happy even tho i'm not there. we'll be together very soon, meeting each others families! give us strength! we're gonna need it! lol! and watch over us lord. we would not be here today if you had not whispered in our ears to persevere. thru all the trials that we went thru, they were so we could be standing here together today. and i will thank you every minute of my life for that.
josh~ only 35 days until i am outta here and on my way home! and only a few after that until i see you again! until then, know that i love you and miss you and am praying for you everyday. i will thinkof you every moment i am awake and dream about every second that i am asleep. you are my love. my life. adn i cannot wait to see where our adventure takes us.
forever yours,
jess

Last Day in Yuma :-(

LAST DAY IN YUMA, AZ! [FOR EVERYONE ELSE, I LEAVE ON THE 7TH!!!] :-( THIS WAS TEH SADDEST DAY EVER. :-( COOP TOOK THESE ON HER CAMERA! I MISS HER TONS!! AND JOSH DIDN'T LEAVE TILL LATER ON IN THE NIGHT. WE WENT TO HIS BUDDY ROB'S HOUSE AND ATE DINNER WITH HIS FAMILY. IT WAS A GOOD TIME AND I REALLY HOPE TO SEE THEM AGAIN ONE DAY!
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH JOSH! AND I REALLY MISS YOU! COUNT THE DAYS TILL WE'RE TOGETHER AGAIN, I AM...

Me & My Baby

me and josh!! Coop got super picture happy while she was here!! And boy! Am I glad that she did!! Well, this is me and my baby!! Isn't he the greatest thing ever?! I love you so much josh!! :-)
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Coop come to visit!

Hi again everyone!! well, coop came down from Miramar to visit us!! I really missed her!! :-) She went with me and krysten and josh and a few other ppl to go eat at Denny's and just hang out!! It was really great to getta good dose of her happy! She loves her new squadron (vmfa-232). and... she may even wanna stay in the Marine Corps!!! Go for it girl!! If it makes you happy, you go for it!! I stand behind ya whatever you do!! MUAH!!

Yuma, Arizona

ok, so, I have been at WTI for about 6 weeks now! I go back to Iwakuni around the 7th, so, when I get back there I PROMISE to go back and update pics and such from Australia! Ok?!
Right now, I am just doin nothing really at work everyday and hanging out with Josh as much as I can! Then, I go back to Iwakuni until around the 15-16 December and then I am going to take 30 days of leave and then drive my truck out to Miramar, California!! I am going to VMFA-225. The Vikings! Wish me luck! Well, I am gonna go! A few of us are about to go bowling!! Muah!!
p.s. this time around it's States time! Muah!