Our First Homecoming

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I am the worst blogger....

Well, wow, my last blog was before Jeff left for Basic Training!! Now he is home for Christmas Exodus and will be leaving again on Monday. Our first "homecoming" was almost 2 weeks ago! Man how the time flies. I realized though that the best part of being married to a soldier is the homecomings. I get to experience the "first kiss" every time he comes home. Our love never becomes stale, if that is the right word. We miss each other so much when he is gone, but the feeling of him coming home is unexplainable. 

With tears in his eyes....

He swept me off my feet.....

In disbelief.....Are you really here?



Welcome home Daddy!!



Waiting for him at the airport was torture. I kept watching people come up the escalators from arriving flights and there were so many soldiers. It felt like I stood there for hours and hours just waiting for him to come up the escalator! When we finally made eye contact with each other we started moving toward each other, but people kept walking in front of us. In the picture of when he first spotted me there was a little boy in the way. I swear that my beautiful, sweet husband was going to knock that kid down to get to me.

I know we only have a few more days before I will be taking him back to the same airport I picked him up at so he can go and finish what he started. I know this time I have less time until I see him again. From the day he goes back it will be a month until graduation. I hope that final month will fly by, then we get to start the journey of AIT......

Exactly 2 weeks, WOW!

I can not believe that it is exactly 2 weeks until Jeff leaves to become an United States Soldier!! Since my last post a lot has happened, Jeff got a promotion to PV2 when he was at his unit for AT. They had a little ceremony and said how great he has been doing and promoted him! He was so excited and really does love his job which makes me very happy!

We have been getting the house ready for me to live in by myself. This is going to be the first time I have ever lived by myself, well not really by myself with my guard dog, Daisy. :) The house needed alot of work to really make it a nice place to live. I am so glad that he is putting all this time into getting it fixed up for me to be comfortable. I truly do have the best husband a woman could ever ask for and I am so happy with my marriage it sometimes feels "unreal."

We had to do something to the kitchen counter tops, they were well disgusting and I was really not happy with them. Here are some before and after picks of my new little kitchen!

I love the way they turned out!!

I can't believe how prepared I feel for Jeff to leave. Maybe it is because we have been through this before or maybe it is just because it hasn't really "hit me" yet. I don't know. I am sure I am going to have my days that are harder than others but I know I can do this! I guess I am going to have to get over being afraid of the dark. Well, not really afraid of the dark but afraid of what is in the dark!

I'm gonna get better :)

Well, so much for vowing to blog regularly. This is my second post and the last month has been so, so, so busy. We got our little house. It is super duper cute and the perfect size for the three of us. It was built in 1928 and is an old farm house. It has a big classic farm style kitchen with lots of windows. It needs a bit of work but we can make it all pretty. I have two weeks to make it all pretty before Jeff gets back from AT then we can move in. I am really excited. I will take pictures of it once it is all set up.

Jeff left this morning at 5am for AT (Annual Training) and will not be back until the 26th. He was late his first morning because we did not account for Denver Monday morning traffic, but that won't happen again his hotel is less than 2 miles from where is AT is so that is a good thing. I am sure these two weeks will fly by. He loves waking up every morning and doing PT, he loves learning about the Army, and he loves being apart of the Army.

I found a picture of this old army reserve poster and I think that is how Jeff is feeling already and he hasn't even gone to BCT. He really enjoys being part of the Army and being an American Soldier. He asked me the other day if I would be mad if when he was done with BCT and AIT he decided to go Active Duty. Of course I would not be mad. I want him to do what makes him happy and if being a full time soldier is what makes him happy do it! Plus it would be fun for me to travel around with him and if he did that I would just go to school full time. So I am all for it! :) We know it won't happen right away going Active Duty can take quite a while and it all depends if his Commander will release him from his unit, but I think he wants to start the process right out of AIT.   

 We shall see, and I am gonna get better at this blogging thing!

My First Post.....

This is my first post of many, hopefully, and I am making a vow to continue to post in this blog about our Army journey.

Jeff enlisted in the United States Army Reserve in July. He worked really hard to be able to join and I have never been more proud of him. He answered a call to serve our country, to make sacrifices, and to be part of something greater than any one person.

He has already gone to two weekend drills and will be leaving in September for two weeks for Annual Training (AT). He will be leaving for Basic Training in November to Ft. Jackson, South Carolina and then it's off to Ft. Leonardwood, Missouri for AIT. The MOS he picked is a 74D which is a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Warfare Specialist, whew that was a mouth full so we just call it CBRN.

He is assigned to a brand new unit, A-CO 98th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, in Denver CO and he really likes it. Ever since he was a little boy playing with G.I. Joe it has been a dream of his to be in the Army, so when you ask him why he joined that is what he will tell you. The funny part is when you ask him why it took him so long to join, he will tell you that he is not the greatest at math and let's leave it at that.