Well needless to say I am very excited! Jeremy is coming home soon! He leaves Iraq in less than a week, we are finally at that point. We have been looking forward to this since way before he even left and I can't believe it is finally here! Over 14 months ago he deployed. Boxes are coming in that he told me he would be sending home at the very last minute (now what in the world do I do with them? They are huge and full of army stuff and everything I have sent him since he has been there!) For so long now, we have been planning around deployment and knowing that we had a huge hurdle to make it past before we could really breathe again and just be happy together. Of course we have another life changing event on the way but this is a fun one. Anyway, he gets on an airplane this week and I couldn't be any more excited.
My favorite part of the island, very close to our wedding site!
Originally we were finished with Hawaii but as usual plans have changed. We know Jeremy will be there until August or September, so as soon as the baby is born here in Arkansas and Jeremy's block leave is up, we are all 3 hopping on a plane and heading to Hawaii for the summer. Next week when Jeremy gets to Hawaii he is finding us a place to live and getting us a car. He will fly home to Arkansas around this time next month and he gets 30 days of vacation here. Probably around April 20th we will all be heading to Hawaii and we will already have a place to live and a car to drive because he is taking care of all that before he comes home. I think we have it figured out. I am so ready for us to be together but I hate leaving my family and friends. Hawaii has a weird rule on dogs too. They have to be quarantined for 30-90 days before they are allowed on the island and I just can't do that to my babies. So my family is going to take care of them for me over the summer....sounds familiar! Very much like 2007! Anyway April will be very bittersweet for us and our family. I wonder if anyone thinks I'm crazy for getting on an 8 hour flight with a 2-3 week old? At least Jeremy will be there to help me.
Something tells me that we won't be too alone out there on Oahu. Considering my mom made 2 trips out there to see us and so did my grandma within 5 months! Not to mention Dad, Grandpa, Brian, Ashley, Kareem, Aunt Rachel, Lynn, Mick, Justin, Sam, Becca, Kyla, and Shari! This was all before there was a new baby involved, so I'm thinking we will have visitors this time too, which is great! I tend to have my moments where I get really homesick.
I still have lots of pics to post but I just had to update really fast since we are at the less than a week mark. Between working and everything I have been so busy, but I'm trying to keep everyone informed! I'm headed to the doctor now and then work again.
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