You gotta start somewhere

So I decided to start blogging. Since being in Japan, I find it hard to keep in contact with everyone back home. A lot of people want to know what's going on in our lives & are interested in the many interesting things we see & do here. It's so hard to tell EVERYONE what's going on. I'm not a big fan of blogging on myspace so I decided to make our own blog site. Maybe I can convince Daniel to update this thing every now and then.. So I will just start off with things that have been going on in our life the last couple of months.

We went home in December. What a relief that was. The 15 hours that we traveled were well worth it.  We got on the plane wearing jeans, flip flops & short sleeved shirts to getting off of the plane in Detroit, Michigan freezing to death with coats on. We flew into snow, something I hadn't seen in 1.5 years.  My best friend came to pick us up with a surprise... My MIMI! I wasn't expecting to see her because I thought she had to work. I was so excited to see the both of them. We drove to VA while it snowed, such a great first night back home.  Seeing my beautiful niece staring out the door was bittersweet. I couldn't help but to tear up looking in the door, seeing my beautiful mother cooking me dinner, my dad all dressed up to see his daughter & son-in-law and of course Isabella who was hammed up to the max.  To cut it short, we had a great time back home. I loved seeing all of my family & friends. We didn't get to see everyone because I managed to stay sick the ENTIRE time. My body did not do well with VA climates anymore. Being here in Japan, it's humid and warm practically all of the time. VA was so cold & dry.  I can definitely say I don't really like cold weather anymore. I love snow during the Holiday's. It gets me in the spirit. But I'm not a sucker for it anymore like I used to be.  But we had a great time.

Coming back to Japan was like a death sentence for me. Two nights before I left VA, the crying began. I cried and cried and cried even after we got here, for about a week.  Then I realized how lucky I am to have this opportunity. Everyone keeps telling me that but I never believed them. Okinawa is beautiful and I will be sad when I can no longer call it my home. We will definitely be back, eventually.   We are taking advantage of this opportunity. This Summer we have plans to go to Thailand and Tokyo. We are hoping to just relax and sight see in Thailand but for Tokyo we want to climb Mt. Fuji. We're going to a couple of different islands that we can get to by a ferry to take advantage of the beautiful waters and go snorkeling. I am very excited about beach season. We even talked about extending here because we are going to miss it so much, but we decided not to. This Summer also hosts our wedding anniversary. I cannot believe we have been married for almost 2 years. Time flies! 

Reason why, we want to have children soon. We haven't started trying... yet. Both of us want to see a little more of what life has to offer and travel. We both want our children to be very close to our families. Plus, I know my mom would fly to Japan and kill me if she found out I was pregnant here.  It's so hard not to give in because EVERYONE around me is pregnant. I seriously feel like the odd-ball out because I'm not pregnant nor do I have children. But we will start trying in January 2010 if things go as planned.  That way I would only be 3-4 months pregnant by the time I leave Okinawa.

We are hoping to get Charleston AFB in South Carolina as our next duty station. We wanted to stay overseas and go to Germany since my husbands Oma is from Berlin. I think it would be great for him to experience his culture. We will eventually go, but both of us miss the states too much to do a back to back overseas assignment. 

So since I've wrote a book for my first blog entry, I will go now. I have to do the wifely duties of making dinner. It's Taco Night :)

Keep checking in. I will be posting a couple of times a week and I will add pictures as well!