wk 7.

driving home from our family vacation in st. george. 

by myself, obviously. 

wk 6.

not the most flattering picture of me...

but i like it.

i was squeezing the cat until he mewed with his mouth shut and both jon and i were laughing.

One Lovely Blog

Cutecute, my first award! Thank you Reagan from The Mrs' Blog for passing on this award.

 

The rules of the award are as follows:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.

2. Share 7 things about yourself.

3. Pass the award to 9 fellow bloggers who inspire you.

4. Let them know about the award.

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7 Things About Me

1.  I have recently rediscovered the joys of playing Mario Kart 64 into the wee hours of the morning. 

2. My dad helped me buy a Nissan Altima for my high school graduation. I plan on driving it until it's kaput.

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3. I had a lazy eye when I was little. Thankfully, my dad got me surgery to get it fixed. I wore an eye patch for awhile. My sister Amanda told me my eyebrow was going to be ripped off when they took the patch off.  

4. My gramma got me a kitten when I was little. She told me it was a girl and so I named her Chrissy. When my other Grandma took Chrissy to get 'fixed', the doctors told her it was a boy. In fear of making me feel weird, my gran did not tell me Chrissy was a boy. Years later, one of my sisters spilled the beans. To this day, my whole family calls Chrissy "it" when referring to the cat. 

5. In 11th grade, my dad gave me a certain amount of Weight Watchers points that I had to eat a day to help me gain weight. Look at me now, worked like a charm!

6. A few weeks ago, Jon tried teaching me how to drive his truck. It ended in tears. He drove the truck home.

7. My new baking obsession has prepared Jon and I for the upcoming long, hard winter. We thought we could each use an extra layer preparing for the cold. 

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9 Lovely Bloggers

1. Addie Ohrn and future baby.

2. Kelly White being a newlywed.

3. Mrs. S air force wife. 

4. Brynne college grad/business woman.

5. Emily  newlywed in nebraska.

6. Emma baking away.

7. Stacy the musician. 

8. Jill the U of U Pi Phi President.

9. Marine Wife/Hawaiian Photographer  

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community pool.

so there is a community pool a couple blocks away from our house. 

its actually only sometimes a community pool. 

the other times, its where the marines do their water training. 

they have the tall platforms where they have to jump off in full gear and qualify?

...or something.

but they also have diving boards for regular people!

its a really nice pool, its big and its deep in some places and shallow in others. there's a lap section as well.

jon and i went on friday when he (thank goodness!) got off early. 

as much fun as we were having, its still a pool on a marine base.

"Sir, please don't run on the diving board."

"Sir, please no throwing each other in the pool."

etc...

it was so funny... 

and the pool was NOT busy. 

it was during working hours, and for some reason, there were no kids?

but i kept looking around and thinking umm are we in the 50's..??

NOTHING about that place told me it was 2010.

in the middle/rightish of this picture, you can see that tent of camo. 

the fences were draped in camo, and there were chairs in there.

don't know what that is for.

on the very right you can barely see one of the diving boards.

in between the low dive and high dive are the platforms. they were blocked off.

this is the section of the pool you can just swim around in. 

there are bleachers there with a tin roof. the entire pool was surrounded by that cinderblock wall.

a minute clock. didn't show the time, just the amount of minutes going by.

more tin roofing over picnic chairs. 

and what's a marine training center without pull up bars?

swoon.

his military haircut wasn't helping either. 

besides peoples outfits, i really felt like i had stepped back 55 years, it was so weird!

new blog title.

Okay, so i've never really had an official blog name.

december 2007. 
i was moving to nyc. 

a couple nights before i moved, my dear sister lizzie said i needed to start a blog to document.

so i did.

 it was titled "New York, Not so good to me."

rough couple months there. 

a couple months into it, i thought "hey i kind of like it here."

so i changed it to "new york, pretty good to me."

a few months later, i made a very sad but obviously life changing decision to move home.

then came the title "Home again, home again, jiggity jig."

after i'd been home for about a year, i realized that "home again home again" didn't really apply.

so, not knowing what else to do, i changed my blog title to my name.

"alexandra robinson."

that lasted for a good while.

until mr lucky proposed to miss luckier, and i knew 'robinson' wouldn't stay for long. 

knowing this, i changed it to "Alexandra Robinson-Hagerman." 
(identity crisis)

my own name for a blog title is so silly.

so i decided on a new name, that will last for at least three years.

i don't want to make my blog seem like i'm living through jon, but the military is a huge part of both our lives.

so the name will be

Letters From Base.

because-HELLO!

i live on base!

i'm so excited to actually have a real title!

and the amazing Amanda Marie fixed my blog up a bit and made my fabulous header.

comment on her blog if you're interested in her making one for your blog.
if you get her while she's hot, she MAY do yours for free,
so get on it!

and to go along with the new name, i'm going to write an entry every now and then writing about different things on base, mostly for my family.

wk 5.

meeting my boy at the vigil's, post-swimming.

love.