Aaron at the Marine Corps Museum
Ok everyone, I know you must be completely shocked to see that I am actually posting! To my surprise I had a number of requests to update my blog while we were in Virginia, so I will do my best to keep up! For those of you who are out of the loop, Aaron was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps last summer. We will be a military family for the next 5 years. We moved to Virginia for Aaron to attend training called The Basic School (TBS-get ready for a TON of annoying acronyms!) This is a 6 month training where Aaron will find out what his job or "MOS" is for the next 5 years. Our drive out here went as good as it could possibly go-in fact, now that I look back on it I can't believe how perfect everything was. We left Phoenix and drove to Amarillo, TX the first day. It was about a 12 hour drive and with the time change, didn't get in until about 3:30am! We checked into our slightly-scary looking hotel (that's what you get for being cheap) and about 6 hours of sleep later, we checked out and got back on the road. The second day was a long 14 hours to Nashville, TN. It was an interesting drive... or should I say, NOT so interesting through Oklahoma! Arkansas and Tennasee were beautiful! The hotel we stayed in the second night was much better and I was so excited to get some rest, which I did until about 8 am when the maintenance guy knocked on our door and wanted to check our bathroom because a pipe burst through the night. I'm not the nicest person when I get woken up suddenly, so hopefully I didn't hurt his feelings :) Sure enough, the bathroom floor was flooded. Good thing none of our luggage was in there! We just decided to get up and start the 11 hour drive to Stafford, Va. We made it that evening, and here we are! Oh and for all of you who care to know, our cat Jasper was an angel the whole trip. I got some sedatives for him but did not have to use any the whole trip. He did however have the most odd riding positions, as you can tell from the pictures! The first week and a half has been great. Our furniture has been delivered and I was busy putting things away for a few days. Aaron began training on Tues. March 30. He had some long 14 hour days filled with paperwork and orientation classes, and will continue that this coming week. The exciting stuff won't start for another few weeks. I will probably start looking for a part-time job somewhere, but until then I will be busy working out because I have signed myself up for the Marine Corps Half Marathon! I don't quite know what I've got myself into so this should be exciting. Well, that's all I can think of for updates. We love and miss you all! Happy Easter! :)
Aaron at the Marine Corps Museum
Ok everyone, I know you must be completely shocked to see that I am actually posting! To my surprise I had a number of requests to update my blog while we were in Virginia, so I will do my best to keep up! For those of you who are out of the loop, Aaron was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps last summer. We will be a military family for the next 5 years. We moved to Virginia for Aaron to attend training called The Basic School (TBS-get ready for a TON of annoying acronyms!) This is a 6 month training where Aaron will find out what his job or "MOS" is for the next 5 years. Our drive out here went as good as it could possibly go-in fact, now that I look back on it I can't believe how perfect everything was. We left Phoenix and drove to Amarillo, TX the first day. It was about a 12 hour drive and with the time change, didn't get in until about 3:30am! We checked into our slightly-scary looking hotel (that's what you get for being cheap) and about 6 hours of sleep later, we checked out and got back on the road. The second day was a long 14 hours to Nashville, TN. It was an interesting drive... or should I say, NOT so interesting through Oklahoma! Arkansas and Tennasee were beautiful! The hotel we stayed in the second night was much better and I was so excited to get some rest, which I did until about 8 am when the maintenance guy knocked on our door and wanted to check our bathroom because a pipe burst through the night. I'm not the nicest person when I get woken up suddenly, so hopefully I didn't hurt his feelings :) Sure enough, the bathroom floor was flooded. Good thing none of our luggage was in there! We just decided to get up and start the 11 hour drive to Stafford, Va. We made it that evening, and here we are! Oh and for all of you who care to know, our cat Jasper was an angel the whole trip. I got some sedatives for him but did not have to use any the whole trip. He did however have the most odd riding positions, as you can tell from the pictures! The first week and a half has been great. Our furniture has been delivered and I was busy putting things away for a few days. Aaron began training on Tues. March 30. He had some long 14 hour days filled with paperwork and orientation classes, and will continue that this coming week. The exciting stuff won't start for another few weeks. I will probably start looking for a part-time job somewhere, but until then I will be busy working out because I have signed myself up for the Marine Corps Half Marathon! I don't quite know what I've got myself into so this should be exciting. Well, that's all I can think of for updates. We love and miss you all! Happy Easter! :)
6 comments:
Thanks for the update! Glad you are doing well. Your cat is freaking halarious. Love ya. I'm jealous that you get to stay home and work out
i'm just glad you guys made it out of sr. college
yeah! love new blog posts. glad you got there safetly. we already miss you guys!! Olivia is still waiting for Owens b-day present!! just kidding.
Great to hear from you again. I'm glad the trip went well. Your cat Jasper looks just like our Lily was.
Best wishes on the MC Marathon! We are running our first full one in June and training is no joke. I'm always sore. Keep in touch. We still miss you!
Jimenez
Ok, that picture of the cat on the headrest behind you is seriously disturbing! ;-)
Yeah for blogs... keep the news coming!
And tell Aaron... Taylor's Eagle Project is May 1st!!!!!!!!!!! Finally!!!
I was so excited to see a new post. Now I can feel like I am in the loop with what's going on with you guys. I am glad you made it out there okay. That pic of Jasper on the back of the seat is hilarious! Keep the posts coming! Miss you guys!
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