While I was sleeping...

Summer passed me by. Yes, this is one of those, "Wow, has it really been a month??" posts.

This summer has been busy, busy, busy, and we've only been home for about half of it. In July, my parents came for the 4th and we spent a couple of days in Hatteras (the southern part of the Outer Banks). Turns out we were some of the last tourists there for the year because Irene tore up the only road providing access to the island. The week after the 4th we were in NJ while Justin took a class for work. The weekend after that, I went up to Northern VA for Leah's bridal shower, and Justin left for 5 weeks in Montgomery, AL, for another work-related class. Eddie and I joined him a few days later. Poor Lily was stuck at home for a month, with kind friends checking in on her. We came back home at the end of August, just in time for our first hurricane! Irene left us without power for 31 hours, but it certainly could have been worse. Fortunately we did not lose any trees. Several houses in the area took some good hits. And this past weekend was Leah's wedding! We had such a blast celebrating with Leah and Ty and seeing good friends and family. We haven't had a reunion like that in years, and I don't know when we will again.

So now we have a couple of weeks at home, but just a couple of weeks. Justin will be headed to Instructor school in OK the first week of October. I won't be able to join him for this one, unfortunately, because there's just no good option for the pets. I will probably go out for the last part of it. His course should finish up a week or so before Thanksgiving, which will allow us to spend the holiday with my family. Then, in the new year, we will be looking at a possible deployment and/or a move. So as you can see, things are changing pretty fast around here! It's starting to settle in that we won't be able to call Goldsboro home much longer, and we won't even be here for a good chunk of the time we have left.

What? What's that you say? We're a military family? And that requires moving??? Oh right. I thought we'd met our quota our first year of marriage. How silly of me. But in all honesty, we are so blessed to have been able to be here for as long as we have. I'm not sure we could have had a better first assignment.