Changes

There is so much going on in my life. I sometimes wonder how i am able to keep my sanity.
My husband and i officially PCS Sept 21 2009. And i feel like i still don't have a handle on everything, from Aug through Sept we are moving, getting married in the catholic church, honeymooning in Greece, and moving to Okinawa. Then i have to come back to the states to finish BOLC II & III
So you could pretty much say my schedule is pretty much packed from now until April of 2010. In terms of my military career i feel like i have so much to learn, which would definitely sound crazy if you consider that i have been in since 2002.
I am trying to learn not to take life so seriously but it is a challenge.
There are times when i truly believe that we are our worst enemies when it comes to second guessing one's self.

The News

It's been on the news for days Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and police officer who arrested him. I don't think i ever remember race being such a national issue in my whole lifetime.
It seems like every time i turn on the television or listen to the radio someone is dialoguing from one extreme to another and i feel that the media has some how forgotten that we are all American.
That we are all one and that the whole community cannot move forward as individual's alone.

Moo's surgery

Moo went to the Vet yesterday for her surgeries she was spayed and also had her cherry eye corrected.
She is finally home and we could not be more excited. She is 6 months old and we are in the process of getting all her paper work up to date so we can take her with us to Okinawa.
I hope they have dogie beaches there because moo is definitely a sun lover :)

It's Offcial we are moving to Okinawa Oct 1st 2009

I am extremely excited and i honestly can't wait to begin this new adventure
in my and Scot's life :)
Fort Benning has been nice but because we knew we would be PCS'ing somewhere else
I can't honestly say that we have gone out of our way to make new friends. I am looking forward to living in my new home for the next couple of years. Scot and i are not planning on having children anytime soon, we are focusing on enjoying each others company before we start having little ones.
I am really curious to see what it will like to be a member of the Army Reserve overseas. For now i am heavily involved in finishing up all the planning of my Sept 5th 2009
Catholic wedding con validation and anxiously looking forward to our honeymoon in Greece.

Okinawa Japan

My husband and i are currently waiting on his PCS orders to be approved from HRC.

Once that happens we will know if and when we will be moving to Japan.

It is definitely allot to take in with our wedding con validation ceremony right around the corner in September, and the idea of moving to a completely different country with the Army soon after.

I am in the Army Reserve and i must say it is a completely different animal when compared to the Army. So at the moment i am just going to "hurry up and wait".

I have been learning allot about Japan (to satisfy the control freak in me) in order to have a better understanding of what we will be stepping into and at the same time i am trying to figure out how we will fit in to this whole new environment even though i am sure it wont happen completely until as they say in the Reserves "we get boots on ground". It is however nice to know that the United States Army Reserve is also in Japan! So i will be able to continue my career as a citizen soldier, and to a certain degree there will be some continuity in my life.

For now i am looking forward to my Memorial Day weekend with my hubby in Tallahassee!!! We are going to spend it with family and friends!! If the weather holds up we will be going tubing down the chipola river :) "i am keeping my finger's crossed"

The Ties That Bind Us

I am currently getting ready for mine and my husbands convalidation in the Catholic church.
We are both very excited we are going to be able to celebrate our marriage with our friends and family. It has been exciting and stressful to plan a destination wedding from Fort Benning GA.
From picking out the church and the reception hall to choosing my wedding dress. Now i am in the process of losing the weight i have mysteriously gained since graduating college in December LOL!
Ok so maybe it wasn't so mysterious but you have to believe i am working out, because i don't want to look like the burrito bride walking down the isle.
I know i must sound superficial and to be perfectly clear this is not the only reason why this wedding is so important to me.
God is the main reason we are together and it will also be an opportunity to unite different families and celebrate our
new family ties together.

Possibility of Japan

So i am in shock right now because it looks like my husband and i are PCS'ing
to Japan. This is honestly going to be the biggest change i have ever gone through...
i am very much looking forward to the next coming weeks :)

Moving Forward

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”

I think we all deal with change differently, sometimes the waiting for the change to happen required more strength, then the actual change it self. I am currently waiting to find out where i am going to live next and at this point and time i have absolutely no idea when it is going to happen, where i am going, and how much time i will have to get my things together. I have faith that everything will work it self out but i still pray for patience.

Taking it all in....

My husband came home with a non-combat related injury in Nov.
We got married before he deployed so essentially we are currently living our first year as a married couple. And as many people are aware the first year is sometimes the most difficult year. Our marriage is no exception. We are currently going through the re-getting to know each other phase... And enjoying it very much :)

It's Friday!!

It's Friday!!
I've been waiting all week to say that.. I do have to come into work tomorrow
but thank god it will only be for a few hours.. I jogged the trail yesterday, I can't even describe how much my legs were burning for those 3 miles. It is really hard to get back into shape when you have let things get out of hand for 4 months. But i am doing it :)