An update on Army life

Just wanted to do a quick post tonight because I'm sleepy and I'm not sure when I'll have time to post again in the near future because we're going out of town again.

So that leads me to my first update. Josh and I are heading up to Ft. Campbell this weekend to do our first round of house hunting together. We're leaving Thursday afternoon (with Opie!) and staying at our friend's house, and we'll come back to AL on Monday. I'm so thankful Josh was able to take leave and come with me! Really you have no idea how blessed we are to have time to do some of this together! Last week we started with over 40 houses on our list (seriously) and cut it in half together when I came home from my first recon mission. However, as we continue to talk to fellow Army families who have been to Campbell and as we continue to search online, our list is growing again (the buyers' market out there is crazy!). Thankfully, we are going to have a real estate agent help us this weekend. I'm so excited to be able to actually go inside of these houses we've only seen online or that I've only driven by! So it will be a busy, but fun weekend.

My other piece of news is that Josh finally found out what unit he's being sent to. And like with all things Army, this wasn't an easy task. Yesterday he received an email notifying him that his 'unofficial' written orders were available online. Unfortunately, he also spent all day yesterday trying to access them but of course the websites and logins and whatever else just happened to be not working ... But finally today, he was able to access and view them.

And... (drumroll)...

He's being sent to the 101st Aviation Brigade.

Now I'm sure none of you know what this means and maybe you don't even care what it means... but I'll try to explain briefly what this means for Josh and me.

First, it's still unofficial and therefore can still change. But essentially if it's correct, it means that he will most likely not be seeing  a deployment while we are stationed at Ft. Campbell. Good news for me and all of my selfish reasons for wanting him with me. Somewhat bad news for what he wants, his career, and so on.

But like I said, this is what we know now and are dealing with now, but nothing is ever set in stone with the Army and so what I'm writing today may not actually turn out to be true... This is our Army life... knowing but not knowing... just as fun as the hurry up and wait ...  So we'll just have to see where the Army takes us. But thank God that He is ultimately in control of everything!

So if I don't post again for another week, that's why... But hopefully I'll come back with some fun house hunting adventures to share about!