06 April 2011

Well......

I guess there's a bit of updating to do, huh?! Here goes... Summer of 2010 - Summer started with a two week stay at Travis AFB. Gary worked on cleaning his section up and getting it organized in preparation for what was to come in November (more on that later...) The Monday after we got home from Travis on Saturday, we drove up to Washington and spent about three weeks with Mark, Dawna & Dustin. We went camping and shopping, played some games, visited & ate lots! We also got to do some visiting with our best friends - Steven & Becca and their munchkins and got to keep their youngest, Baylie Rose a couple of days while they were working. We really enjoyed our vacation up there and are excited to go back hopefully next summer for vacation again! Then came fall... Fall of 2010, Gary & I, along with my parents, my brother & some of his family and my uncle worked for about six or eight weeks on six different pieces of property harvesting lots of different varieties of almonds. We swept, raked, picked up, got rained on, spread the lines of almonds back out to dry and started the process over again! Harvest lasted longer than normal for 2010 because of the weather... So, about two weeks after harvest on November 16th, Gary & I drove up to Sacramento. We stayed in a hotel and at 3:45 a.m. on November 17th, we got up to begin what would be a very long day with many unexpected tidbits of information. I took Gary to MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) where he went through a stack of paperwork, a physical exam and a swearing in ceremony. By the end of the day, We were technically an active duty Army family again! We had big plans before Gary was to report to his training station on the 29th of November... Alas, is common in the Army, things are always subject to change! What we had planned to be a little over a week long, cross country drive back to east Tennesse to spend Thanksgiving with all of Gary's dad's side of the family, minus Mark, Dawna & Dustin... quickly turned in to a rushed, gotta get to Fort Benning, GA in 4 days, trip! It ended up working out fine and we spent Thanksgiving with them anyways! Fast forward to the end of January when Gary was finally given orders with a date for his next training assignment... Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. That is where we are now... More on orders to our permanent duty station in the next post! This is waaayyyy too longand probably pretty boring by now!! hahaha Until next time............