Spring Springing but not yet Sprung

We FINALLY know where our permanent station is! We will be heading to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina sometime early July, and will be spending the next 2.5 years (or more) there. I know you all are dying to go see us there, so make travel plans now. We have a twin bed you can sleep in. Any takers? ANYONE???

It's been awhile since I've updated this blog (I'm not apologizing anymore, what's the point?) so I will catch you up on the past six months. Denver made it through OCS (yay!), he did amazing and got into Signal Corps, which is the IT/Communication branch of the Army. We are now in Augusta, GA for advanced branch training. I am loving being able to live with my own husband full-time again and feeling like a real family. We have an amazing apartment here with great neighbors and a pool which we are insanely excited about swimming in this summer. Augusta is a very old Southern city with lots of awesome old Civil War era houses and a sweet Riverwalk on the Savannah river. We are two hours away from everything here - Savannah, Charleston, Atlanta. We are planning on making a lot of weekend trips.

Last weekend we had four days off and decided to make a trip to Disneyworld. The military gets a great deal on tickets - free for service members and $100 four-day passes for up to 6 other people. We stayed at the Holiday Inn for only $31/night (gotta love Priceline!) and even got the room with the bunkbeds, which was one of Libby's favorite things about the whole trip! I was worried about the age of the kids, but this trip was truly a dream come true for Libby. She absolutely loved it. She got to meet a ton of princesses and got their autographs, and told me that at Disney "dreams really do come true!"

This trip affected me in an unexpected way - I have been to the parks a million times and after three years of working there I thought I had done it all and seen it all - but then I have never gone with kids before and got to see the park through "new eyes". We went on rides I have never been on before (spent a lot of time in Fantasyland - teacups, peter pan, dumbo, etc), spent a lot of time meeting characters, and other activities I wouldn't normally do. Seeing the parks though my kids eyes made me realize that this place really is magical for them. It was a very cool experience. Libby was the perfect age I think for going, I definitely want to go back when Mikaela is 4 years old. Anyway, enough of my Disney mushiness...

So Denver finishes class June 24, and then we're off to North Carolina. I am so tired of moving I am having trouble motivating myself to think about it. I am excited because we are only an hour away from Duke University, so I will be spending the rest of this year preparing an application for the PhD program at Duke, hopefully I will get in! If not, I am applying to the University of North Carolina as a backup.

I think we will be coming home sometime this summer, I hope we get to see everyone! I am a little homesick and missing my friends and family. I hope everyone is doing well.

Because I am blogtarded I am not going to upload all my pictures on here, so just follow the links below to see pictures if you're interested.

Disneyworld 2010 photos
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=161133&id=538410939&l=b8ba46f8e2

OCS graduation/cruise photos
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=144197&id=538410939&l=149fc96f0f

Hawaii January 2010 photos
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=155061&id=538410939&l=be04cd1243