LEAVING!!!

We are finally out of here! We leave this morning, once I get some sleep and we get up...Too excited about finally moving on. Good bye White Sands Missile Range, hello McConnell AFB in Witchita, KS. Will post more when we get in!!! Wish us well!!!

Roving Homeless

Well, we are temporarily homeless. Today we said goodbye to 11316 La Crosse Street. But we are still in New Mexico waiting on the go ahead from all of the paperwork going thru, so we are waiting...waiting...waiting...well, you get the point. We are currently staying in the TLF (temporary lodging facility) here on base. Once we get the okay, we will head to KS and see about getting ourselves a new home...Until then, we are what you could call the roving homeless. Have Tahoe, will travel, if the military will let us...Here are a few pics of our home until today for you all to enjoy. It was a good house, and we loved it while we were here, but as they say "Home is where the Air Force sends you"...So, hopefully soon, on we go.... The front of 11316 La Crosse Street...

And the incredible view from the back yard...And finally, Aiden enjoying the vast space of the living room...Goodbye, 11316 La Crosse Street...

Echoes

Well, the move is under way. I am not saying we are on the way out...no, we are still here, but, our stuff isn't. We are currently living in an empty house with just the necessities. Thankfully we kept the tv, cable box, and 2 boxes of Aidens toys, or I would be going nuts right now. We have several things that still need to be done before Jeremy can get the final parts of the outprocessing done. One of those things is dental appointments for both Aiden and I. Now, for me this is routine, but for Aiden this is a first, and I will do my best to get a few pics if they will let me. I am not sure of this though, as it will be a military dentist. Jeremy is also taking his test for Staff Srgt. tomorrow morning. It is looking to be around the 15th when we will finally be out of here and on the road to Kansas. Until then, we sleep on air mattresses, eat off of paper plates, and cook in aluminum pans/tupperware. And we live out of suitcases. I suppose it is the modern day version of roughing it. The poor dogs don't even have "their" patio furniture to sit on outside. Things are really quite crazy, the house echoes at the smallest sound. Even breathing in the living room sounds loud right now. Sunday morning when I woke up, and went to let the dogs out, I was a little panicked to see that there was nothing in the house before I remembered that the movers had come and taken it all away on Saturday to put into storage until we arrive in Wichita. Aiden had a bit of a hard time dealing with things while the movers were actually taking all of the boxes and furniture. He kept going into his room and coming back out very upset saying "boxes"...and he started crying a few times when they took his changing table and his bed. Thankfully he was asleep when they took the couches, because I think that would have really disturbed him. All I can say for now is, I am a little bit disoriented, and ready to have my stuff back, no matter where I will be when I get it....

TumbleBugs

Today was Aiden's last day at TumbleBugs, the gymnastics class he takes at GymMagic through the Apprendamos team as part of his physical therapy. We got some really good pictures of him, and of us with our team of therapists. Rather than posting a long story here, I am going to put up some of the pictures.











From left to right: Jeremy, me, Aiden, Miss Lacey, Miss Kara, and Miss Esmerelda

We want to thank each of you guys for all that you have done. Lacey, you have done so much to get Aiden where he is speech-wise, I don't know what we would have done this past year especially without you. Kara, Aiden loved playing with you so much, and the fact that he can now run and climb like other boys his age, I will credit to you helping us. Esmerelda, I am so glad that we had you as our team coordinator, it was so much fun working with you. Aiden always enjoyed every time he got to see all of you. And so did Jeremy and I. Once again, a big thank you to all of you for all that you did, please keep in touch, I know that we will.

New Car

Yay! We just got a new car. Well, new for us...We traded in both the Volvo and the Honda and got a 2005 Chevy Tahoe. It is a very pretty white, and it is in pristine condition, there are one or two minor cosmetic issues, but the are inside. The car itself runs GREAT, hasn't had any problems that pop up on CarFax, and it gives us a LOT more room to travel with. Which will be great with the move to Wichita coming up. This means we can actually all go in one car with no worries. It is also a V8 and has a tow hitch, which gives us the option of renting a trailer to take some extra stuff it we want. I know, this only leaves us with one car, you say...we have a plan. When we get to Kansas we plan to look into buying a cheap sports motorcycle for Jeremy to drive back and forth to work on base. He just recently got his motorcycle license from a class here on base, so he is set for that. Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of the new truck, well, SUV...one inside and one from the front. Soon, I will have one from the side, we were just dead tired and too broke to do anything, so I didn't get around to taking a good side picture. Love you all!!

Purely Laziness

Ok, so the reason it has been about 2 weeks since we have been home and I posted is just plain ole laziness. I admit, I have been truly, horribly lazy. It is inexcusable, and yet, I beg you forgive me. I did just do a cross country jaunt on my own with a two year old and 2 dogs in tow. Added to that, I just wanted to spend some time with Jeremy before we have to pick up and move again. Our estimated time of departure is August 7th for now. It may change and it may not. There are several factors that go into it, and I really don't want to go into all that jazz right now. ;) I will leave you with a couple of pictures though. Jeremy graduating from tech school...

And Aiden blowing bubbles...

We're Home!!

Just to let everyone know, we are home, as in back at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. And that means ALL of us. Finally all back together...the trip was long and arduous, but the story will have to wait, because I am off to sleep in my OWN bed for the first time in nearly 4 months. Ah, the small joys of life...