Military Spouse Appreciation Day Blog Hop

Happy Military Spouse Appreciation Day and welcome to my blog!
I am Monica, and I have been married to my husband, Mark, for 6 years.  We have two kiddos:  Abbie, who is 3 years old, and Ben, who is 5 months old.  We also have two weinas (Dachshunds), Oliver and Sadie.   I have a bachelor’s degree in Business Management but I am a stay at home mom for now. Mark is a fighter pilot for the Air Force; he flies F-16’s.  We have moved five times in 6 years and we are currently stationed in Italy.
We love to travel, and living in Italy provides us the opportunity to travel more than most.  We are very thankful for the chance to live overseas, even though it isn’t always the easiest.  I love to take pictures and I post my favorites on the blog.  I’m teaching myself to quilt.  I love to read and cook and watch mindless TV.  I’m probably one of the few people that regularly writes letters to my friends and family.
I use this blog as a journal of sorts, so I basically blog about anything going on in our life.  (At the end of every year, I have it printed out into a book.)  I keep track of the kids developments (honestly, it’s the only way I’d remember half the stuff they do and when they do it), all of our travels, my hobbies, living overseas, the military lifestyle – anything that interests me.  It is a way for me to keep everyone near and far up-to-date on what we’re up to and to meet other people in the blogging community.  I occasionally do giveaways when I find neat things during our travels to give away.
Thanks for stopping by my blog!  I hope you’ll come back regularly!

Blizzard Bloghop

I thought this might be fun so here’s my intro for the bloghop.

I’m Monica.  I’ve been married to Mark for almost 5 years and we have a 20 month old daughter, Abbie and two weinas (Dachshunds), Oliver and Sadie.  I’m 30 years old. (sidenote: I read 4-5 people intro’s on the bloghop and every single one of them put that they’re 20-something.  I find that highly amusing.)  So maybe I should say I’m 30-something so I can fit in with the cool kids.  But I’m not really 30-something.  I’m 30.  =)

Anyway, after 5 moves in 5 years, we’ve landed in Italy.  This blog is pretty much my online diary (and has been for almost 3 years now) of my life.   I write about everything from marriage, parenting, traveling, quilting, photography, the military lifestyle, living overseas to my random babbling and everything in between.  I use this blog to keep family and friends back home (and around the world) in the loop with what we’ve been up to and I use it as cheap therapy to get my feelings out and receive people’s feedback.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you stick around.