One year down...

It's finally been one year since we move to Fort Polk. It really has went by fast. It seems like everything is moving so fast these days. We have met so many great people that will be long time friends. We had a little mourning period but then realized we should be celebrating! We had made it through one year here! We try to look at all the positives! At least we were not just moving in like most everyone here! People are coming and going and believe it or not the town is actually grown just a little. I work at a real estate company so I see all the people coming in and out. (Lucky ones going out!) We just had a huge group (Army) get back from deployment and around 800 more come in from Fort Riley in Kansas. So with all the people getting here we hope that more businesses will come into the area. BUT what we REALLY hope is that we only have one more year here. Hey one can hope, can't they? With married couples they try to keep them at a base for at least two years because of the expense of moving a family as opposed to one person. I'm sure year number 2 will go by somewhat fast. Aaron is coming up on deployment, you will hear lots about that in the future I'm sure. And he will also be going on several TDY's. I have decided to stay here throughout his deployment. We have both talked about it several times and it just makes the most sense to stay here. If I were to go home we would possibly not have a house to come back to and I would lose my job that I really like. I will be going home as much as possible and going to Ohio to visit the Kimmels! We would love to go to Germany, Hawaii, Italy, somewhere great! And Korea as a last option, but that would only be for one year! Hopefully we will be seeing everyone before he leaves. But if not we will when he gets back!

The Big Move...

So I want to start this off by saying yes I'm still a little bitter we are in Louisiana. I know there are much worse places we could be. A few days after our wedding we packed up and hit the road for the long 18 hour drive ahead of us. Missouri was the half way stopping point so I got to visit the family a few days before we got here. We arrived here at Fort Polk Louisiana late one night in January. It was cold, raining and very depressing. Haha it gets better. I will say that I cried when we drove in. A week after arriving here we had already seen everything there was to see. Wal-Mart, bowling, PX, and very small cinema. And we had picked our new house in South Fort. Oh wait I can't forget. So if you don't know being in the military really gets you out of your shyness. The 2nd night we were here I got a call from the Commanders' wife, Terria. She invited me along with some other wives to a small party. At first I wasn't sure about this but I decided to go. So the night of the party comes and a convoy of cars come to my house to meet and pick me up. Everyone was so nice and helpful. I knew right away I would get along with them all. Marian even brought us real food when we were in the moving process. Terria and Marian are like my second, third, fourth mothers....something like that. They also had A Hale and Farewell for Aaron at work. I'm sure there are some pictures of that floating around out there, I will try and get them up. Then I got to meet all the guys he was going to be working with. Well most of them, 9 were deployed. I knew it was going to be an exciting group! You will hear much more about all them in future posts! Oh yeah back to moving in. So we picked our house and my wonderful family moved our stuff here. I know they had lots of fun doing it though. It was even my dads birthday the day they moved us in. Don't worry I was a good daughter, I got him a cake and did NOT cook for him. Remember I just got married, he would not want me to cook for him yet! In one day we had the place looking better. See.

Aaron & I at our new house

See I told you I got him a cake

Maybe we worked him a little too hard!

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