I’ve learned a couple things about myself throughout the last couple of weeks: I love painting walls (the trim in particular – I’m a freak!) and I should never DIY anything without someone’s help (who knows what they’re doing) or very specific, detailed instructions. Before I attacked my first room with paint, my mom was a wreck and rightfully so. She… Keep Reading
Since Closing…
Hello hello hello! I’m back! I took an unexpected blogging hiatus for a couple weeks, but in hindsight I should have totally expected it with all that our calendar has had lined up for us this month. Let’s play catch up. I have a lot to tell you about, though I’m warning you that it’s nothing too exciting. 🙂 Like… Keep Reading
Home Ownership Round Two Commences!
Hello! I usually never blog on Saturdays, but Jamie’s sitting next to me watching football and I’m just in the mood to kick back and do a little typing. It feels so good to relax; We’ve had a busy week around here! Like I mentioned in my last post, we did our walk-through for our new home on Monday, and… Keep Reading
PCS roadtrip: Hello Kansas!
Hello from Kansas! We’re here. Our PCS to Fort Riley, Kansas Popping in for just a minute to give a quick road trip update, and then I’m shutting off my brain for the rest of the day in anticipation for closing and starting our next home ownership journey tomorrow. Speaking of the house, we finally got to see it for the first… Keep Reading
Peace Out Fort Huachuca
It’s no secret that leaving Fort Campbell back in March was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do, and one piece of advice I received numerous times was to consider myself lucky that saying goodbye was so hard – the pain of leaving it all behind meant that we really enjoyed doing life there. Now that we’re leaving Fort Huachuca,… Keep Reading
Military Intelligence Captains Career Course Graduation Day
It’s packing day! Squeal! Crossing our fingers that everything goes just as smoothly as the last two moves have gone. While Jamie mans the packing process today, Hadley and I are be-bopping up to Tucson in a few hours to pick up my sister! If you’ve talked to me at all in the last week you know how excited I am for… Keep Reading
PCS tips from Army, Navy, and Air Force Wives
Back in March, Jamie and I set aside the night before the packers came as the time to pack up our things that we planned to take in our cars to Arizona. We planned to put all of said things in our master bathroom and then tape a sign to that door saying “do not pack”. We’d basically just be packing like… Keep Reading
Military Love Story: Rebecca & Steven
I have heard few love stories that are more whimsical than those of past & present military couples. I always thought that my husband Jamie and I had an extraordinarily bizarre journey to the altar (and beyond), but throughout the last few years I’ve heard countless stories from fellow military couples about their unique (and often unbelievable) course of events that… Keep Reading