2012 The Review

As each year comes to an end its almost natural to look back to see what happened that year. Time always seems to fly by, but this year seemed to go much faster than any other year. 

                            

          The End of January, Josh came home from

              an almost 7mth deployment. 

Ethan got his first bike

We went to Deadwood for our b-days

February we got orders to Italy 

to be there by June 

April Josh and I went to Kauai! And we celebrated

4 years of marriage! :)

We went to the beach and on a scary zip line!

June we headed out to visit family. Our first stop was in Oklahoma.

We were in Joshs mom and dads wedding renewal. 

We then went from Oklahoma to Arizona

to visit more family.

On Fathers day we got Ethan dedicated in our church in AZ

We enjoyed the summer in SD together

We enjoyed the summer with good friends

Had to say good bye :(

We really are leaving!

Packed up our house and we headed to Missouri to

drop off our car and fly to Italy. 

We flew to Italy, stayed in the hotel on base for TOO LONG, found a nice house,

got my Italian drivers license. 

Ethan turned 3!

Josh made Staff Sargent! He started ALS (airman leadership school) it was

a long weeks and he worked really hard! We are very proud of him!

We traveled from the mountains to the beach. We tried yummy foods. We had

family time.

Phew! This year has defiantly been full of life changing events! I am so grateful and blessed with the friends and family I have. Looking forward to see what 2013 brings!

Happy New Year!

Christmas 2013

Cant believe Christmas has come and gone. Im so grateful that Josh was able to be home this year. And also that he is no longer gearing up to go on a long deployment right after Christmas. Which always seems to be the case. 

Joshs Mom, Dad and sister Erin came down to Italy to visit! It was a great time. It was nice having family here. 

We played card games, my all time new favorite was trivial pursuit card game, which I picked up from the BX for less than two dollars lol. We blew through pretty much all the trivia cards LOL. 

We also ate pizza, went to a market, and the last big thing we did was go to Venice. 

Venice is a very beautiful city. Felt like a huge maze with bridges and stone floors. Josh took a lot of great pictures. Its hard to take in a lot of the beautiful sites here. Its still crazy to me that yes Im standing here in Italy. Just nuts!

Ethan enjoyed his Christmas and opening presents  All of them even if they werent for him lol. 

We took the train for the first time. Not as hard as people

make it out to be.

Venice!

(this pic is going in my Christmas book for this years pic)

Gondola Ride 

Capicino 

New news

Today was Joshs first day with his new rank! So proud and excited for him. :) Ethan and I went to his promotion ceremony thing on Friday. And I got to punch him in the arm. I was just there to take pics. But then he called me up. LOL

I'm still volunteering at the daycare on base once a week. Then Ethan goes 4-5 times a week to play. Its working out well. Its nice to go grocery shopping in peace or come home and clean without recleaning two steps behind myself. 

Our murano randomly stopped driving about 3 weeks ago. And we have been trying to get it fixed. It sat at the base mechanic place for 2 weeks with no answer. Then last week in the pouring rain I escorted the tow truck man onto  base. 

After a bleeding scratched nose (from Ethan), a million buckets of rain, bringing the tow man the wrong way through the gate (and him getting stuck), he brough our car to the Italian Nissan dealer. 

As of right now they found the problem and will be making sure that they have the part in stock here in Italy. (which will be great, please pray for this) If not we will have to figure out other options and it will take even longer to get our vehicle back. 



Also the biggest news of this week is Joshs new upcoming deployment date. We didnt get much notice at all, its very soon. Also this will be the longest deployment we have ever been through. Thats pretty much all I can say. So if you can please keep us in prayer. We will be busy enjoying the holiday. Then we have to be in deployment ready mode soon after.

This weekend we went to a couple Christmas markets. It was fun to walk around. We purchased a few things. Ethan decided to run off through a crowd and get lost. One thing I love about Italy is they love kids. And a few people were watching out for him and showed me where he was lol.

And there he was hands in his jacket pockets strolling down the Christmas market. He is getting to smart for his own good sometimes. LOL

This is one of the little towns we walked around. Isint it beautiful?