Dallas/The Helmeci halfway house

 Building from which JFK was shot

 This was a plaque telling the history, but it didnt come out well.

 The old court house, now the Red Museum

 YUM!

 I think she died...........

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Nope! Shes good!

So we are bout 3ish days away from the big move and I am EXAUSTED, which is why I havent blogged in the past couple of days. We have been sooo busy and there just has been no time or energy for anything extra. Thursday we made the two hour trip to Dallas to ship our car and got to have a little mini vacation while we were there. Though we didnt get much packing done that night, we did get our minds off things and were able to relax a little. My aunt picked us up from the POV and took us around Dallas to some neat spots and we had a really good time. I finally got to see where JFK was shot, which was super cool, and oddly enough see the X that marks the spot where the fatal bullet....well, did its job. I learned alot, and realized that the shooting of JFK was never really covered in my years of school, go figure. Since then we have moved in with my Texas bestie Theresa (Tessa to her friends ;] ) and have been tackeling air mattresses and going on some crazy adventures. Friday night we bought an air mattress with a batterie pump, which of course broke mid-air up, and we had to trek back to the walmart for a different one...at 12 am. Yep, we were tired! Then we ended up getting a manual pump since we no longer trust technology and took turns pumping up the bed, see pictures. It was a crazy night, but we laughed alot :). Well I am happy to say we are officially moved out of our appartment and in to the Helmeci home. Thank heavens for good friends, they dont come along very often. I will try to keep posting as we get closer but I'm afraid that the posts may be less for a while, its just alot to handle :P.

This one's for the girls

Kidnapped trip to Temple with no shower circa February 2011

This is what I mean by amazing friends. Grown women who will do this with you are solid, hope girls are this cool in Germany. DISCLAIMER: We know they are ugly, thats why we put them on.

My beautiful wonderful friends/ empty appartment

I don't think I could blog about my PCS or my time here at Ft Hood without mentioning my wonderful, amazing friends, because without them I don't know what I would do. Though we met in kind of an unconventional way, I thank God everyday for them all. Kidnapped trips to Temple and Round Rock, Starbucks trips, book club, playing dress up, even at our age, has made my time here memorable and I will miss them sooo much! The recycle material letters above were part of an Easter present from Sarah and Theresa and they are so cool I had to show them off. I'll miss you both more than you'll ever know. Its amazing to me how quickly I was accepted and included in their lives and I have been shown nothing but love and support since we met. I don't think I have ever connected with anyone so quickly and it feels like we have known each other all our lives. If this is what the Army is about, then count me in. Your both wonderful :).

        When I got home on Sunday night I was amazed to find hardly anything in my apartment. I understand that we are moving, but its one of those things that doesn't hit you until you actually see it for yourself. This is for real, we are really moving across and ocean, WOW! It is difficult being an Army wife, and I have a new respect for the women around me, especially the ones with kids! We sleep on the floor and eat frozen dinners because all we have is the oven  and fridge that belongs to the apartment complex. If you know me, then you know I grew up never having to go without things, I always had everything I needed and most of what I wanted, so this is super new and not fun at all. I went to pack one of my bags this morning, only to find that the movers had taken it last week, and again my friends came to my rescue by offering me some of theirs. It made my day. There's a lot we have to pay for and I'm glad luggage didn't have to be added to the long list. I'll take more pictures when we finally move out, but for now this is what we are working with.

The Dirty Thirty/ Happy Easter!

Saturday was my big brothers 30th birthday and so we celebrated one last time as a family, at least for a while, and it was a blast! We went to the Irish pub in Durango, Colorado and went ice skating there as well. Lemme tell ya, if there was one thing I would do everyday for the rest of my life, it would be ice skating! Dad was our photographer and cheerleader because he says he has no coordination on roller blades and doesn't see why ice skates would be any different, which I suppose is a valid argument ;). I fell three times, Brad fell twice and Mom only fell once, the old pro! I tried to do tricks and things and that's usually when I would hit the ice. All in all we had a blast and I would have blogged that night had I not just been exhausted from birthdaying and Easter egg dying. Easter was not as fun unfortunately :(. We only spend a few hours at home on Easter Sunday because my brother took me to Albuquerque to catch my flight back to Texas, and even though I was happy to be coming home, I wish we could have stayed longer. I got to eat a couple Easter eggs and got some candy though so all was not lost :).

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Happy Earth Day! I know that today I will be taking my reusable cold cup to Starbucks for my free passion tea :). The thing that I think we do need to remember today is that remembering to take action to reduce waste only on Earthday is not enough. Earthday should be a day to share ideas and start habits that continue the whole year through...think about it as the anniversary of your good habits! I use reusable bags and cups and we are trying to recycle bottles and cans on a regular basis, but it is a work in progress. I have never been one to buy into the whole environmental stuff, so if thats you I understand, but I decided that whether I believe the "science" or not, what could be the harm in reducing my wasteful habits. I am glad I did, and I think being less wasteful really will benefit everyone. It is a good feeling to feel like I am helping out in some way, and it really has improved my life since the plastic bags were taking over our appartment. So I urge everyone today to make a small change in their lives, and keep it up all year long, and improve their state of living :). It doesnt have to be big or hard, Reduce, Renew, Recycle!

We were robbed!....Oh wait, the movers came :P.

So there is officially nothing in my appartment, excpet for what we have to throw out or what we are taking with us. I would be fairly traumatized by this, but I havent actually seen it yet. My wonderful husband did it all by himself, accompanied by an 8 person team of packers and some movers, and I didnt have to stress or deal with any of it. Thanks hunny! Like I said before, its a blessing for us both. I may be in shock when I walk in to all of my wonderful possesions gone, but untill then its just words. Everyone keeps talking about us leaving in 2 weeks, 2 WEEKS!, yes about 2 weeks and it really freaks me out. I think it will become more real when we officially move out of our first home together into Army lodging...yay :P. Untill then we will be borrowing blankets from my wonderful friend and sleeping on the floor. Maybe we will by marshmellows and roast them, since the stove belongs to the building. A regular camp out, we will be roughing it after all. My next mission is to see if Ft. Hood has a lending closet so we can borrow pots and pans to cook with while we are still there. Someone remind me to do this. The week home has flown and it is amazing how tired you get trying to soak up three years of people. Hopefully we will get to come back atleast once, but you still try to make the time...quality...and quantity...if that makes any sense. I have done alot, now if I could only finish up those dang thank you cards. If you reading this, Thank you, I really appreciate you comming to the wedding and we appreciated your gift, and I'm sorry that I have a procrasticnation problem. Forgive me and I will get you your note as quickly as possible. OH! Tomorrow is Earth Day and this year I plan on celebrating it! I am taking my reusable cup to starbucks for a free caffine free passion tea (because we all know that caffine and I arent friends). I suggest everyone does the same. So Happy Earth Day everyone, what can you do to reduce waste?

Overload!

So I figured i would sit and blog while I am waiting for the floors to dry at my parents house. I have been texting Michael all day while the packers were, well...packing and it seems to have put alot of stress on the both of us, which I guess makes sense, but we havent been super nice to each other. Its amazing how people boxing up all your stuff freaks people out :S, stress city! Especially for me, if you know me at all you understand (and hopefully love me in spite of it) I am a HUGE controll freak, so not even being able to see what is going on is driving be nuts! Its just all the things we dont need them to pack that is really the issue. We are going to have to travel at all times with every document of importance, marriage certificate, birth certificates, etc. just in case of issues and about 50 zillions of our military orders. You figure since they have been moving people overseas for so many years they would have a better system, guess not :(. Oh well, we will make it through! Michael text and said they had to call in another team of packers because we have so much stuff, which makes me nervous when it comes to weight limits, but apparently they bse the packing on home size and they didnt realize what huge jigsaw puzzle people we are. We have a ton of stuff and still plenty of room to live comfortably...just dont go in the second bedroom. I wish he had the charger for his camera so I could post the sea of boxes that are taking over our appartment, but he doesnt :(. So the next house pictures I will post will be of it almost completely empty, which is a scarey thought. I've never seen it empty so I'm a little nervous about that as well. I just realized that we have been married 5 months today, which put a little smile on my face. Next month it will be half a year! Can I make him celebrate that? Pray for him for the rest of the day and tomorrow since thats when the movers come.

It has begun!

    So the movers came yesterday for the "unaccompanied" baggage and are comming either tomorrow or thursday for the rest of the stuff, so I will be comming home to an empty appartment, dun dun dunnnnn. Not going to lie, I'm not sorry that I am missing all of the chaos and Michael prolly isnt either. I tend to make things more stressful than they need to be, and I think the mess would make me an unpleasant person to be around. Thanks hunny!
     I woke up at the crack of dawn to go to the MVD so I could get a new registration card for the car that had both of our names on it, so the moving company would ship the car under our orders. I got there and was the 5th person in line! At 7:30! I was dumbfounded, I thought I was all cool and would be like the first, NOPE! I was third served though so it wasnt as painful as I thought. Unfortunately for me, I didnt know that I had to have a vin number or a license plate number and may have had to come back later if it werent for the nice lady taking pity on a poor stressed out military wife and looking up my last name. Fortunately for me, there arent many Currins in the state of New Mexico and we found it quickly! So now we can ship the car without any issues, which takes a load off of my shoulders. It was a very successful day for me, even if it does sound pretty boring. Its really the little victories that get me through everyday of this craziness that the Army calls a PCS.
     Hopefully the next time I write we will have plane tickets and an ETA for Germany, we are just waiting on the Army... go figure! Should be around the 5th of May, or so my husband says.

Oh, and I bought myself a present! I love my reusable cups!

Still in the states

So I decided to start this blog inorder to keep in touch with family and friends back home and so we could share all our experiences with everyone. I'm hoping it will make the transition a little easier for everyone and give me something to do when I get homesick :). We are about two weeks away from the big trip and the movers come this week. I am currently in Farmington seeing my family for the last time before we go and to celebrate my brothers 30th birthday, both sooo wierd! Poor Michael is in Texas out processing and dealing with the movers, poor guy. Its going to be a crazy couple of weeks, but hopefully it goes smoothly! Pray for us!!