I'm official!

Well, a lot has happened since I last posted.

I made another trip to Georgia.  I drove up Wednesday last week.  I rented a car again.  This time I hated it.  It was very unfomfortable.  Oh well.  Now I know that I do not want to ever own or even drive a Kia Rondo again.

It was so great to see my Army girls again!!  We all went out to dinner on Wednesday night.  There were 11 of us!  It felt like I was home because I already knew my way around town.  :)

Thursday was the Turning Blue ceremony where our soldiers stood at attention while we pinned on their blue infantry cords.  They were in their class A's and they looked awesome!!  They were all also sweating like pigs because it was really hot and humid!  LOL.  After the ceremony, we high-tailed it out of there and went back and hung out at the hotel.  Of course, we hit Starbucks before the hotel though.  Finally, around 3:30 I managed to convince him to go back out. . . where did we go???

We went to the courthouse!!  WE GOT MARRIED!!!!!  :)  You have no idea how excited I am about this!!  I've been talking about it nonstop.  I'm sure people are getting tired of hearing about it.  But I just can't help it!!  I have a husband!  My name has changed!!  Wow.  It feels like a dream.

That night, I had to return him to post.  Nope, I wasn't even allowed to spend my wedding night with him.  But the next morning was graduation.  After graduation we waited for him to find out his orders and next thing I know, we are packing two other soldiers and all of their gear into the car.

My husband had a two day pass, so we drove his two buddies to the airport and from there, kept right on driving straight through to Virginia.  It was a crazy crazy drive.  We took turns, but I did most of the driving because he was so tired.

We arrived at his sister's house at 6am.  I managed to say hi to her before I crashed on someone's bed.  I was exhausted!!  I slept for about 5 hours, then my husband woke me and told me it was time to eat.  I followed him upstairs and was still half asleep.

The entire dining room table was set.  There was food everywhere and it was set up beautifully.  Because I was still so tired, I was overly nervous.  I didn't know what to do or what was considered proper because not only was I dealing with another culture, but a new religion too.  I was actually shaking!  His mom lives there too and she doesn't speak English, so that was hard.  I'm learning a bit of her language and my husband made me try to say things to her.  They all laughed at me.  Oh well, I'll keep working on it.

I ate slowly, again, because I was so tired.  The food was great!  But because I was eating so slowly, his sister was worried that I didn't like it.  I assured her that I did.  I calmed down a little after awhile and was able to have a normal conversation with his sister, which was nice.  We moved to the living room after eating.  His sister's youngest daughter was all over me.  She is 6 and she is awesome!  I fell in love with her.  She was sitting on my lap and talking to me and drawing me pictures.  She kept getting worried that we were leaving right away.

We drove around a little and hit the road back to Georgia around 3:30pm, this time in two cars.  My husband decided to bring a car back with him so he would have transportation.  We stopped in North Carolina for the night, thank goodness!!  We were both so exhausted and neither of us had had a whole nights sleep in days, so it was much needed.  We got back on the road around 8:30am.

We made it back to GA mid afternoon.  We went shopping at a Commando store and then we went out for dinner.  After dinner, I got back on the road and continued my trip down to FL.  I got in around 2:30am.

Since I've been home, I've been running around like crazy trying to get all of my loose ends tied.  I've been changing my name on everything and calling all kinds of government agencies to make sure they are aware that I'm now married and that my name has changed.  I've also been having watches fixed and collecting documents to mail out to my hubby so that he can get me into the military system.

The training he is in this time around is so much better though!  He has his phone all the time and can call me whenever and he gets weekends off!  And since he now has a car on post, he'll be able to drive down to visit me. . . hopefully.

Anyway, I'm still exhausted from my trip.  I need to just sleep for days, but we all know that isn't going to happen, so I guess the next best thing is trying to get to bed early.  Goodnight all.