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What's Matthew Up To?

Today I wanted to take some time to tell you all what my wonderful husband has been up to!  I am so super proud of everything that he has been doing lately.  He has had a leadership role thrust upon him and has stood up to the challenge so well!  There are quite a few things that have had him pretty busy lately (not to mention having a pregnant wife with crazy hormones to contend with too.)

Besides the leadership role within his job, Matthew has also been volunteering his time with an organization on base and in the Navy called 'C-SADD' the Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions.   He has been helping them out with the meetings and gatherings that they have had.

Something that I know Matthew is both excited and nervous about is his upcoming half marathon that he will be running in this weekend!  He has been running for a long time (since before he joined the Navy) and now he wanted to push himself by signing up for this half-marathon.  It is an international marathon that is held on Guam every year where the runners are basically running around the whole island!  (Well maybe that is a little bit of an exaggeration!)  But they do run a good portion of the island!  Matthew has been working on getting his mileage up in his runs to prepare for the half marathon and I have been very proud of him for push himself into doing this just to get his body pushed to that limit and see what it can do.

The BIGGEST thing that has been happening with Matthew recently and the one that I am MOST PROUD of him for is the fact that he is in the running for Sailor of the Quarter for this quarter!  Yepp, my man, who has done so much for the Navy in the short amount of time that he has been in is getting some much deserved recognition!  He has not won yet; he still has to go through an interview process and such but he is one of two (as far as we know).  Even if he doesn't get the honor placed on him it is still a huge honor to be recognized for such an award because it means that other people can see how hard he has been working, not just me!

So to my hubby:

I love you so much sweetie and I am so proud of everything that you do for our growing family, for the Navy, and for yourself!  You are such a great man of God and deserve everything that you have worked so hard to attain.  I know that you are going to be a wonderful father to our beautiful daughter and still have the ability to keep up all your hard work with everything else!

Tonight, I am treating my Mister-Right to the newly reinstated Mongolian Grill at the Top of the Mar restaurant because back home we used to love going to Crazy Fire Mongolian Grill.  Hopefully this one is just as good!  :)  (Hopefully, he won't be too upset or embarrassed that I put all this up here!  So modest!!)

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