Welcome from Kelly's Korner

Today I decided to link up to Kelly's Korner Blog for her military family link up. I love meeting new friends in fun new ways and I thought this would be a great way to do that.


My husband and I have been married for 5.5 years.  He has been in the military for right around 6 years now. He joined after college and was accepted into Officer training school for the air force. After his commission be began training to be an Air Force Pilot.



We were married in August 2006 and almost immediately moved from Philadelphia all the way to middle of nowhere Oklahoma. It was quite a culture shock for me! The hardest part was moving away from my best friend Erin. We had lived and worked together for almost 3 years and I did not know what to do without seeing her every day! Of course we are still best friends and see each other several times a year. 


 We moved into our first apartment, began to decorate, compromise on how to live together as a married couple. A few months later we decided to purchase our first home just a few miles away. I absolutely LOVED that little house!


We spent the next year navigating the world of pilot training, doing work on our new house, and enjoying out first year of marriage. In February 2008 we found out we would be moving to Texas unexpectedly. We quickly sold our house, packed it all up, and moved 12 hours south to HOT south Texas.

Texas was so different from  Oklahoma. We really enjoyed the outdoors life. John began training and we enjoyed a little more of a relaxed atmosphere. Around July 4th 2008 we found out we were expecting our first child. I spent the first 23 weeks of my pregnancy in Corpus and I had the most wonderful doctors.

One of the best parts about being stationed in Texas was I was able to visit with some of my closest friends on occasion.

I miss them!!!

After being in Texas for about 9 months, we moved to Little Rock Arkansas. John began the last phase of his training in order to become a C-130 pilot. I really enjoyed Little Rock for all of the great things it had to offer. Most of all I love it because it is where our first child, Owen, was born on February 26, 2009.


3 months after Owen was born we packed up once again and moved to Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. Here we purchased our second home, got used to being parents, John was finally in an operational squadron as opposed to in training. It felt like after 3 years of train we were really in the real Air Force.



We have been here in North Carolina for almost 3 years now. While we love our house and our amazing friends, we feel like it is time to move on. This is the longest we have been stationed anywhere so I am beginning to get antsy about where we may go next. We are hoping for Alaska or Colorado! :)

Since getting into the military John has been gone on 2 deployments (only 6 months total), several TDY's lasting from a couple of days to a couple of months, and several schools that have taken him away for periods of time. In fact he just returned home after being away at a school for 2 months making him gone for 7 months total in 2011. We are hoping to get to spend much more time with him in 2012.

We are also expecting our 2nd child on July 4, 2012.

The military has afforded us so many opportunities we would not have had otherwise. We love military life and are so thankful to be a part of this amazing community.

If you came over from Kelly's Korner, make sure to leave a comment so i can check out your blog as well!!!

*Amy!

Blog Makeover

My blog is going to look weird for a bit. I am in the process of doing a blog makeover that I am SUPER excited about!!! Stay tuned!

Also, after some issues, I have decided to change the way in which comments are left on this blog. Unfortunately this means I am losing all of my comments previously made on here- but it is worth it to me!

15 weeks

Here is our latest sonogram photo of little baby number 2! We were a bit early to tell the sex of this little one. I am now going to be having ultrasounds every 2 weeks so hopefully we will find out soon!

Owen was able to go to the ultrasound with us which made it super special. He got to actually see the baby in the belly moving around, jumping, dancing, etc. The look on his face was absolutely priceless. Later the night of the ultrasound he wanted to talk to my belly. He told the baby that he was its big brother, and that he was going to teach him/her all kinds of cool things after he/she is born. PRICELESS! I can't wait to see him as a big brother! :)

Poor baby number 2

If this blog is any indication of the attention baby number two is going to get, he/she is in trouble! With Owen I just loved posting photos of my growing belly, weekly updates, tons of info, etc. This poor kid has had barely a post done! I don't know if it is that I'm just busier this time around chasing after my almost 3 year old (how did that happen so fast???), if my computer crashing has turned me off, or if I just got away from the blogging for a while so I never think about it. But this in no way means I'm less excited about this baby than I was with Owen! In fact, I'm currently chopping at the bit to find out if this is a baby boy or a baby girl..... I am currently 14.5 weeks along. I'm starting to really show! I will post a picture soon! I am actually bigger now than I was at 22 weeks with Owen! Yikes. And if the amount of food I have consumed in the last week is any indication of what I will continue to eat.... My pants have not a chance in the world! There is a small chance we could fine out the sex on Monday, but I'm not counting my chickens before they hatch. Well maybe I am, just a little! In other news, after being gone for 7 of the past 12 months, John is currently on his way home! Thank goodness! I can't wait to have our family back together! Finally!