New Camera Fun

Last weekend I bought a new camera from a Co-Working a Nikon D80 with 2 different lesons for $400. In totally for everything I got it is normally 1200. So I got it all for a steal. Which is perfect because I desperatly want to get into photography. I just never really had the right camera. Or even the funds for one...even $400 was pushing it but I couldnt pass up this amazing deal. I have all the right equipment now to practice and get good and then just go straight into doing my own business. :D Its definetly exciting. I spent the weekend just taking picture with it on auto but soon I'll be branching out. I thought I would share with you the begining pictures of my photography journey.

This is our high rise in Hannam Village. We live on the 1st floor...its 15 storys.

A diaper cake I made for a friend for her diaper shower she had Saturday.

My favorite part of the whole diaper Cake. :)

I am Just so in LOVE with how clear these pictures are. I love my new camera. :) 

FANTASTIC NEWS....

This weekend I got in contact with my new unit in Ft. Riley. I found out that I will actually not be going to the 1st aviation like I had thought and that I WONT be deploying. I am going to the Ft. Riley Garrison Chaplains Office. UGH another Garrison...but YAY no deployment. It was truelly an answered prayer for me. I have been scared to death about deploying and leaving Kason for any amount of time and now thats one less thing to worry about! Life is good at the moment...except im stressing about money right now...I hope that God helps sees us through this move and doesnt let the Government mess with my money and take 6 months to fix it like they do to a lot of soldiers PCSing from Overseas. But we will see. We have 85 more days until we are back on US soil and I can NOT wait to be back home.

Its been a while...

I fell off of the blogosphere for a while. Well I'm back with much to talk about. Its been a crazy couple of months...between work and Kason and trying to just keep up with everyday life. I had a few hiccups in this Army life of mine and I almost made the choice to leave the Army. But in the end I decided to stay in...give the Army a 3rd shot at another duty station. Korea itself is an AMAZING country with lots of history behind it and I like it here...however being a soldier in this country is a whole different story. I HATE it. I HATE my unit and almost everyone in it...its been an extremely tough (almost) 2 years. I think God's the only reason I still have my sanity. I truelly hope that my next unit doesnt oporate like they do here.

"My next duty station" "My next unit" I keep saying those 2 things are any of your minds curious to know where Chapter 3 of this Army life is?! Well...heres a hint...

Do you recognize those Ruby slippers??? If you tap them 3 times where do they bring you???

If you guessed KANSAS...your absolutly correct! Kason and I are moving to Fort Riley Kansas in July...im ecstattic, can you tell...

Im going to an aviation unit. BAD NEWS tho...they are on the deployment list and I will more than likely be going to Afghanistan in October or November...GOOD NEWS...It will only be a 9-10 month deployment. It's a bitter sweet feeling to me...when I first joined I wanted so badly to deploy and do something for this country but at the same time I have Kason now and I dont want to be apart from him for any amount of time...he is my heart and my entire world and I know that it will be an extremely hard 9-10 months without him. But I'm trying to stay positive. It will be good for me and a story to tell my grandkids one day.

Other than all that I just dont know what else to say about our lives over the last 5 months...so much has happend. The holidays where pretty good. Spent them all with my friend Kim's family. Went out for New Years for the first time in a couple years. My birthday was a blast and I got to celebrate it with some new friends and a friend that I made back in Basic Training. Kasons Birthday was a bunch of awesomeness too. We had a small celebration with his Aunski in September when she came to visit, his party in October because lots of his friends where leaving korea in November, and then a celebration with mommy on his actual birthday...the celebrating went on for 3 months. He got lots of new toys and goodies! Gosh I just dont know what else to say...so now I think Ill let the pictures do the talking...hope you enjoy. :)

Seoul Lantern Festival November 2011

Kason's Birthday Cake

It was a costume party. Kason was a dragon...and I dressed up like Lady Gaga

This was our First Christmas Tree.



Opening Mommys presents on the night of christmas eve. .



Santa's Presents Christmas Morning.

Santa Got him a Kitchen for Christmas.

First picture of 2012

My Birthday...Asant'e and Jen in the back and Tara and I in the front.

Im 23 baby!

Love these girls

Basic Training battles.

Well I hope you all enjoyed catching up some to our lives...hope there wasnt too much picture over load. :) Stay tuned my friends...I'll try and stay on top of the blog more and keep your eyes out for the next blog I'll be making for our Journey in Kansas.

Much Love  Lexi and Kason <3

Just some fun pics of Kason and his friend Miley. :)

We went the Yongsan Family Park a few week ago and had tons and tons of fun!  

Corn on the Cob on a stick. :)

Mileys all like "eww get that out my face."

I love that smile. He had just gone down the slide all by himself. :)

Kason and Miley Dancing.

AHHHHHH

Dragon Falls. So relaxing.

I know know I have been missing for almost 2 months. Its been crazy...lots of stuff going on at work and everything. But I am going on a 3 day tour next week to Hyundai Heavy Motors Industry I am super stoked about that. Kason wont be joining me tho. I will make sure to have a post all about my tour tho....eventually.

Oh and one last thing AUNTSKI CHRISSY IS COMING FOR A VISIT IN 10 DAYS!!!!! Its been almost a year since her last visit. :)

A Crazy Month

Yes that is what July has been...just plain old crazy! The month started off with me getting surgery...yes thats right I got surgery...wanna guess what for? Well I got a a Breast Reduction. Something I have wanted for a LONG time. By the time I was in middle school I was already wearing a C cup and by the time High School hit I was technically a D but I made them squeeze into a C. Then Kason was concieved and born and my saggy D's turned into saggy DD. Causing me LOTS of back pain, neck pain, nasty rashes and the list goes on and on. I decided that it was time to get this surgery done...it was really affecting my physical fitness and I have been struggeling for over a year to pass a PT test. So I did it...the process of getting it approved was short but aggravating as is everything in the Army. I had my initial apt about back in April. Well anyways I am now happily a 36/38 B! I dont think I have ever seen my boobs this small. But life is already a lot easier. :) The surgery went great...it was very long because I was well basically a "guinea pig" for the professor and his students! I didnt find this out till AFTER the fact (yea in america that could almost be a lawsuit...but not in korea) but im fine...the students were all residents...they are just going into the Plastic Surgery Field and they were all great with me. After the surgery tho I did struggle with a fever it kept coming and going and when it would come it was way up there. So I was in the hospital for exactly a week. It was extremely hard being away from Kason but he was with some good friends, which made the seperation a little easier.



This is just a few days after surgery


Well I came home from surgery and then had a 2 full weeks of con leave. I used that time to catch up on some stuff around the house and just enjoy life with Kason. Hung out with some friends, did some shopping, and went to a bunch of Dr's apts since they still want to see me once a week to watch the scars, it was good to be out of the uniform for even just a little while. :)

I came back to work this past Friday (the 22nd). Now I didnt mention this before but right before I left for my surgery I was actually moved to a different section. Im no longer fulfilling my chaplain assistant duties. Right now I am doing Admin type stuff and most likely will be doing this until I leave Korea. My job is simple...well not really. I am in housing I put soldiers in Barracks and make sure that there names are in the "system" which is kind of a mess right now. Our unit is currently in the process of taking over ALL of the barracks that are on Yongsan...and thats ALOT, so its kind of a headache. But im enjoying it, I for the most part stay busy so I cant complain...it makes the day go by faster.

In other news...Kason is still doing weekly Physical Therapy, well it did get put on hold during my surgery but he will start back up again tmwr actually. But he is really doing great...its amazing how fast he picks up on things. He is even learning a bit of Korean. He's a smart kid and I love him oodles. We took a trip to the Aquarium a few weeks ago and it was awesome...he LOVED the fish. We have had many aquarium trips but none like this...he was never very alert during the other trips.

Well I suppose this is all I have for now. Maybe the month hasnt been so crazy...but it still really feels like it. LOL

Oh and hey I cut my hair. You Like?! :)

I need a Favor from my Fellow Followers...

I have entered myself into a Glamour Photo Contest with Close To Home Photography the winner gets a FREE Glamour Photo Shoot including getting your makeup done. :) I really want to win this...so if you could please;

Go to Close to Home Photography Facebook page and "like" the actual page and then once you do that go to the Glamour Contest Album and "Like" my photo. It's the 3rd one in the Album and I'm wearing a black dress.

Thats all you have to do...the person with the most "Likes" wins so if you dont mind passing it around for me to that would be great.

Thanks so much my blog readers...PS I promise another Korea Blog is coming up soon.

So its been a few weeks...

Since my last post. So much has happened since then. Well actually maybe not to much. lol But I do have some AWESOME news as far as Kason's newly diagnosised muscele disease. We are FINALLY in Physical Therapy. He had his first apt last Thursday but that was more of an inital apt with the head of the PT department. She explained to me all of the evaluations and what not he would have to go through before the actual PT begins. So saturday morning we took a trip to the hospital to start some of the evaluations. I was immpressed to learn that my child understands Korean pretty well and some of the "babbles" I thought he was saying is in fact Korean. Apparently if he were a Korean Child his speech would be right were it needs to be at his age. I guess I need to learn Korean in order to communicate with him. LOL But anyways back to the Physical therapy. Tmwr morning (Tuesday) we have a few more evaluations to do and then Thursday afternoon we meet with the head Physical Therapist again to talk about how the evaluations went and to come up with a treatment plan for him. So all in all everything is really starting to fall into place.

In other news...I was able to pass my PT test this morning (Physical Fitness Test) first time in a while that I have been able to pass one and I am pretty stinking proud of myself. Also in about 17 days I will be getting my breast reduction surgery. I am beyond excited for this and cant wait to be able to fit in "normal" clothes. :)

Some even more exciting news: 2 years ago I met this boy. He was stationed at Ft. Bragg and I was at Jackson. We hung out a lot and had an instant connection. Well I had just found out I was pregnant with Kason shortly after we met. Although he was fine with it...I had so much going on in my life at that time that I just wasnt ok with anything. So I pushed him away and we didnt talk again...until recently. He found me on facebook several months back. We started talking again. Discovered that the "instant connection" we had then was still there. We decided to try and give this relationship a go again. The difference tho? He's in Iraq right now and I of course am in Korea. Im in a very different place in my life right now than I was back then, I still have my insecurities. But theres just something about Blake that makes me feel like everything will be fine and work out. I am trully starting to think we were meant to be. We met in such a odd way (thats another post for another day) and we went so long without talking...but those feelings are still there and stronger than they were I think. I feel like my heart is almost complete. The plan right now is that we are going to try and sync our leave together in October so we can see each other. Otherwise we wont until at least May next year. But I think if we can make it through this first year apart like we are we can make it through anything. He is trully an amazing person and I cant wait for my family and friends to meet him. :)

Well I think this is all I have for now. Now that the weather is nicer there will hopefully be more exploring and some more interesting updates. Lots of Love to all!