It's official

This morning Kolt was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. It was a brief ceremony where he took an oath and promised to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. His parents were able to be there and his dad pinned on his 2nd Lt Bar on his shoulder.

I expected to get emotional or teary eyed but I didn't. After all this time it just felt right and I was so proud of him. His poor mother struggled and cried at the end, we know she is going to miss us terribly, as we will her and all of our family. For those of you who wanted to be there but couldn't on such short notice, we missed you but completely understood.

This was the first step in a long line of many towards our lives in the USAF. I'm so happy that it's finally all come together.

Change of Plans....

So on Tuesday we got a phone call from TSgt Bursee, he said that 4 slots had been opened up for the October COT class and we could have one if we wanted them. Kolt looked at me and before he had even told me what was said, I knew. "Oh, crap!" That's what we said. We were told we had minutes to decide as the slots would fill up fast, so Kolt said we'd call back in 20 minutes. We looked at each other with stunned expressions, holy cow! We knew he was on the stand-by list but never expected that anything would come of it. We had JUST moved into an apartment in Salt Lake, did we really wanna undo everything we just did? Kolt called his mom and his dad and asked for their advice. We really wanted to do it, but didn't at the same time. We were happy that we were going to be around for the holidays and for hunting season....but when it came down to it we decided that all of the little things weren't worth putting off our plans for 3 more months. So we called TSgt Bursee 20 minutes later and said we'd take it, and it turned out we took the very last spot.

So all of a sudden we have about 30 days to get all of our plans together. We don't know what we're doing with me yet. The USAF will move our things, but we have to consolidate them first. They will even pack us up, but if we pack up our apartment here, then there's no point in me staying in an empty apartment. Until we have his official orders, we can't contact any of the departments that will handle our move. Hopefully next week we can begin to figure things out and get things under way.

Kolt will be officially commissioned in to the USAF on Monday. We wanted to use one of his 2 uncles that are or were officers in the military, but on such short notice neither were available. So we're just using whoever we can get, and his parents will be there with us as we "sign our lives away."

Things are finally starting to come together for us, albeit in a rather rushed fashion. It's kind of ironic that after all of the months of waiting, now it seems we don't have enough time to get everything together!

As we figure things out I'll update on our status. Kolt will most likely drive out to training and he will leave on October 15th. I've applied for at least 7 or 8 jobs and if I can secure one, then I will be going at the same time. If not, then I may stay up here with family in the mean time. At this point, I just don't know but i promise to keep you posted!

FINALLY!!!

I think most people who read this are also my facebook friends, and so by now the news isn't "new" but I'll share it anyway. We finally got Kolt's orders on Wednesday Sept 2nd (I haven't had Internet access at home, this is the first chance I've gotten to post) and we're moving to San Antonio, Lackland AFB in February. We are so excited to be going to Texas, myself probably more than Kolt haha. I have family there and friends there as well and I just love Texas and have missed it so much over the last 10 years. I'm already making plans to see old friends that I have seen in years and new ones I have yet to meet in person.

Kolt will go to training on January 11th for 4 weeks. Then we hope to go on a cruise with his parents, then we will move mid February, I'm guessing around Valentine's Day :)

Because it's still 4 months away, and due to my brother and niece moving into my parent's house as well, we decided to move back to Salt Lake for the remainder of our time in the Mountain West. We found a cute little place right on the University campus, so it's 2 miles to work for me and it's right on the train for Kolt to his work. He's actually been riding his bike the 10 miles home everyday, I can't believe it! He says it's faster than the train with all the stops and it's a great way to wind down at the end of the day, so I can't blame him.

Once we get our place set up and decorated, maybe I'll take a few pics and post them. The dogs seem happy there and it finally feels like everything is falling into place for us. FINALLY! woohoo!