Aarons Gone...sniff sniff

so sad day...aaron left for OCS last saturday. it was really hard to let him go. when we went to drop him off we didnt even really get to say goodbye. i was trying really hard not to be emotional or make a big scene because i didn't want him to be made fun of for having a crazy wife, but the whole goodbye was so quick i didn't even have time to cry. i was a little disappointed. i haven't heard from him yet, i carry my cell phone with me religiously, but am hoping to hear from him on sunday. they say they will let them go to church on sunday (we just dont know if its one of those you have to earn it things) so Gayla, Aj, and i are going to go up to the Rhode Island ward on sunday hopeing he'll be there. it would be nice if i could see him on sundays. i know i'm beeing a big wimp about it, most women dont get to see there husbands at all for the whole twelve weeks.

I've been talking to some of the ladies here who's husbands went through OCS (only those who go stright in as an Officer do the 12 weeks) and this is what i have found out...

its they're goal to work you so hard that you throw up the first day

they make you do everything the same including shaving their head the first day (in fact as we were leaving we took one more peek at aaron and they had made the whole group roll up their pants i dont know why it was kind of funny)

most loose about 20lbs by the end and come back wicked ripped (one lady say her husband looked like he was in a concentration camp because his head was shaved and his face was so thin that you could see all his bones, but with a big hunkie body)

Ironiclly aaron will have lost like 20lbs by the end and i will have probably gained it....wahoo.

I am excited for the big fancy dinner they have at the end before graduation.

Just under a year ago they broke ground for a supply school up in Rhode Island (same base) so we are hopeing it will be done by Jan so that we can stay up here by family and not have to move down to Georgia. Everyone i talked to here says there are huge bugs in Georgia which i am not looking forward to!

Updates

I'm sorry to say i will have another pictureless post. mostly when we moved we brought our camera but not the cord to put our pics on the computer...smart hun?
Well we are all settled here in Ct. if you ever thought about moving to the new england area DONT! it is so unbelievably wicked hot!! unless you have air conditioning then its ok. i dont think i have ever wished for an Idaho winter so much in my life.
What have we done so far...lets see...most of my activities has revolved around food, weird i know. we went to boston and did some of the things on the independace trail. we also went to this huge park its like central park of boston aj really liked that part. we have also gone to New Haven which is where yale is. it is a beautiful campus all the buildings look like cathedrals so pretty. we also went to Pepe's pizza which is so stinking good. i ate six slices without even taking a breath. it would be totally worth it to fly here for just the pizza alone it is that good. it is in the little italy of new haven just down the street from it is this little italian pastry shop that place was good too. in fact i got an eclair while we waited in line for the pizza and then again after we ate some pizza. i blame the pregnacy although i know i'm really just a pig!
last week we went to the Bronx zoo. it was good but we went on wendsday (which is a donation only day) so everyone and there mother was there and let me tell you it stunk soooo bad. seriously everyone there stunk like pee!

My most exciting news: first i have started to potty train aj. i'm not really trying that hard i just sit him on it after his nap. he wants to sit on it sometimes and sometimes he'll go. he almost always goes after his nap. he has been teething the last two days and has been sick from it so we took a break and will start up again today. it was soo cute the first time he sat on his potty he had to hold my hand the whole time till he was done.

well thats about it for here. aaron will be leaving for OCS at the end of the week. i'm way bummed and am going to miss him like crazy but it will be a good to just get it over with.