I decided to write this after my sis inlaw started one. Maybe it will give me something to do during the day and be a way out of my head get some things off my mind. Im not and have never been a good writer but who cares im not getting graded on it haha.
Well a summary about me. I am Tiffany Springer i am married to the most amazing soldier, Ryan Springer. He is my hero i am so proud of everything he has done and is doing. He is currently in Afghanistan he has been gone since july and im counting down the days till we can hold each other again. We got married in january 2010 the best day of my life. I have one brother, one sister, 4 sister in laws, 2 brother in laws, 1 nephew, and 6 neice. I havent met one brother in law and sister in law and there two little girls but im excited when we do get to meet. I love my parents they have helped me threw the hardest times in my life and have always been there for me. Ryans parents are amazing and i can call them anytime i need anything they help us out so much and i love them both.
I graduated high school in 2008 and college in 2008. Graduating high school was a little challenge for me. I didnt want to go to school or do home work I just wanted to move out work and live on my own. I have always been independent and sometime stubburn (well stubbrun not so much anymore but in high school yes) My sophomore year i didnt do good in school at all. I ended up having to take some classes over. After relizing i couldnt just work and live on my own without a good education i started to work harder. In June before my junior year i started cosmetology i was 15 when i started I was the youngest one. I had lots and lots of work i had to do. When high school started again i went to high school for the first 4 hours then i went to cosmetology at the college till 4:45. After cosmetology Monday Wednesday and Friday i would go to work at 5. Tuesday and thursday i went to night classes to make up for my sophomore year. And i work on weekends. you would think i didnt have a life but i would always make time for friends. The same year i started cosmetology I met ryan. high school had just started i had just turned 16. Kandice and I were dragging main we decided to stop at hollys in salina and get a drink. we pulled up and there was this jeep that parked next two us. when we were getting back in the car we started to talk to these two boys. Found out there names were ryan and chaz. we talked for awhile then got there numbers. kandice and i went back to her house made sure we looked cute then called them to see if they wanted to hang out. We went and meet up with them. I would always asked everyone if i could drive there truck car jeep anything. so ryan said i could well i hadnt ever drove stick so it was kinda hard. That was one of the funnest nights. Im so glad we stopped at hollys and meet them. we stayed in touch for awhile but ryan was leaving for iraq in a couple months and they didnt really want anything to do with two 16 year olds when they were 19 and 20 haha. (found that out from ryan when we started dating.) I ended up making my grades up and Graduating from high school. I work really hard at cosmeotology went to school every summer and was able to graduate from college the same year i graduated from high school.
After i graduated i keep working at subway in richfield. I didnt have any idea where i would go work and do hair at. All of my friends were getting ready to go to college and move away. I wanted to do the same but my college was over. So i decided to move in with a girl i had gone to cosmetology with Katie. I moved in with her and loved it!! I soon relized paying bills was alot harder than i thought it was. I lived with Katie for 6months then moved back into my parents. While i was working at subway i would drive to payson and provo almost every weekend to go visit my sister and look for jobs. I got a call for a job at smart style in payson, went and interviewd, and got the job. I was so excited to move but i didnt have a place to live yet. I moved in with my brother for a couple weeks and then moved in with my sister for about a month. I wanted to live on my own pay my own rent i felt like i finally had a "grown up" job. My sister and i looked around for apartements and finally found one in my price range called them up and it was for a basement apartment so i would be living in there basement. They were on a LDS mission so they were never home. I was very excited to have my own place again. we moved all my stuff up and i started my life.
I loved working at smart style. I loved talking to all the clients and the ladys who worked there. I had thought i found my dream job the job that i would be working at for the rest of my life. I had been dating nothing seriouse. I met lots of new and fun people while i was living in payson, but one day i was driving back to my parents to visit and i thought mabye i should text ryan and see how he has been doing. It had been years since we had talked and seen each other. He had called me a couple times whiile he was in iraq but since then we hadnt talked much. So i texted him, we started talking again. It was so good to talk to him again so we decided to go hang out. we just drove around talked and had a good time. It wasnt till his birthday we actually started to date. But long story short we fell in love haha got married and we are so happy!
He moved into my appartment. we knew he was going to be going to afghanistan 6months after we got married. At the time I didnt think it was going to be so hard with him leaving. Oh i was so wrong. I knew it was going to be hard but didnt know how hard. Both of our lifes were changing going in diffrent directions but the same direction at the same time. A month before he left i decided to quit my job and move into my parents while he was gone. I didnt want to live alone in a little appartment anymore. I had to make one of the hardest and easiest decisions in my life that was quiting my job i worked there for a year and half and loved it. My job had some pros and cons i loved what i did but didnt like the days we HAD to work. I had to work every saturday so the days ryan and i could see each other before he left i had to work. Ryan worked nights so i was home when he worked and he was home when i worked. So i decied to quit a month before he left so we could spend some time together. That month was the best month ever! We got to spend every night together. we did so many things before he left it was so much fun.!
The day ryan left was the hardest day of my life. We hugged each other till the second he had to leave. As soon as he walked away i started crying. My husband was leaving going off to war. You cant help those thought that come into your mind. But i know i have to block all the negative stuff out and just think of all the positive. The day after he left i moved to my parents house. It was a huge adjustment. I was use to living and doing things my way with ryan there. Ryan still had his phone and was in wisconsin so at least for a month i knew he was safe. I got to drive to wiscons to go see him that was a very very long drive but so worth it. those 4 days we had together were amazing and i never wanted to leave or him have to go back. After i got back from wisconsin he left for afghanistan.
Thats about were we are today he has been in afghanistan for about 3 months. I live my day to day. I dont have a job right now but im kinda taking a break. its nice not to work or have school for once. I plan on getting a job pretty soon tho. But for now just enjoy the holidays and counting down the days till i can be in ryans arms again...
