I know it's been forever since I posted last! Our move has gone pretty well so far! We left Germany on May 20th and spent the night in Chicago. We were lucky and got to recheck most of our luggage before we even left the airport for the hotel, so we only took our main suitcase, and carry-ons. The next day we flew to Great Falls via Denver and had amazing flights all around, even though we really didn't get to sit together! When we landed in MT, all of our luggage was the 1st on the belt, turns out they sent it ahead on a previous flight and it was in MT the day before us! Mike's sponsor got us right into our hotel, which was very nice and right there on base, had washer/dryer IN the room! The kids had there own room w/ twin beds, it was great after our 2 wks in the 1 bdrm hotel room in Germany!
We were in that room for a week when we opted to take an older 4 (well really 5, someone built an extra room in the basement) bdrm house on base. It's one of the older villages (neighborhood really) on base and due for demolition and updating in the next few years. On June 30th we moved into the house with no furniture. All of our belongings left Germany in mid-May and should hopefully be to Montana mid-July or so. The kids have been having a blast running around the empty house, AND now that we actually have our own yard we bought the kids a trampoline and small pool (no more apartment living! yay!).
We decided that since Mike had so much leave saved up, and hadn't seen his family in almost 2 years, we would go ahead and make a trip to KS, no sense in hanging out in Montana with no furniture! We left MT VERY EARLY on June 12th and headed to Alexandria SD where my brother, his wife, and 2 kids live and spent the night. It was a very long day in the car. 14 hours total travel time, the kids did way better than I would have imagined! The next day we slept in a bit and had a much shorter trip down to KS. It's been so great being with family and we've stayed busy thus far! We leave KS on July 18th to head back to my brother's for a couple nights, then back to MT on the 20th, where hopefully our stuff will be waiting for us, then we get to head to WA for a wk to pick up our car we had shipped over from Germany!
While we are in KS we get to do a little celebrating, 1st Mike got to spend the 1st Father's Day with his children. We've been parents since 2004, and Mike got to spend 2005 and 2006 with Charlie, but he was deployed for 2007, and I left on Father's Day last year to fly home to have Nick. So it was pretty nice for him! He will also get to be home for Kinzie's birthday for the 1st time this year. She will be 3, she was the only birth he was able to attend, but has yet to celebrate a birthday with her, and as he missed Nick's birth, it will be nice to have him here to celebrate his 1st birthday and even better to be able to celebrate with FAMILY for one of the kid's actual 1st birthdays! Being overseas has really made us appreciate things you really don't think twice about!
And just to apologize for the lack of posts and pictures, Mike's laptop basically quit working once we got to Montana, and I bought a new netbook, but have no way to upload my pictures, eventually there will be a post of nothing but pictures!
