Life has been so busy recently. That’s why I have not been blogging.

Started with a vacation to Las Vegas and a stop at the Hoover Dam:

After that the process of moving to Germany became a reality. When we got back from vacation we went to Luke to see what wee needed to do in order to out process. The list never ends… I wish they made it easier. First I had to receive medical clearance (thank goodness I’m healthy). After I received my medical clearance I had to receive dental clearance… That was not easy! I had to get a tooth pulled and needed two root canals. With limited time – I had to get this done ASAP… I’m still not completely done with dental appointments. Due to my fall last November I needed to get my front two teeth redone – or in better words I needed a permanent solution because what the dentist did initially was just a temporary fix and I knew that. So I got the two root canals on the top two teeth that had been damaged the most in my fall. I go back on 09/20 to have my permanent teeth put in Veneers I guess. However, even though the process was not complete the dentist signed off on my dental clearance. YAY!!! About a week after I started my dental appointments Ryan found out that I had to have my original birth certificate in order to receive my Government issued passport. The only thing that will keep me from being deported from Germany after my 90 day tourist thing expires. I had my civilian passport , but I had to send my original birth certificate for this second passport. Just another bump they had to put in my road. So Ryan and I each took a day off from work to go get my Birth Certificate from California. We found out that the beach was about 30 minutes away so we stopped – I love the ocean!

So at this point I have medical and dental approval and I’m waiting for both my civilian and government issued passports. Between Medical, dental and passport appointments, working and trying not to explode from the stress. I’ve survived. Ryan and I had the FINAL appointment on base today and he received the hard copy of his orders. I think up to this point I always thought that we might not go, that something would happen and we would end up staying.

Now a new arena of stress is upon me. We have to schedule people to come and move our belonging and Ryan’s car to another country. We also, have to request our plane tickets. We are scheduled to depart America on Sunday October 10th and start our journey to Germany. I can’t start to explain my emotional state in the last month. Now what. We get there and will stay in temporary housing until we find a place to live…I’ve stopped stressing about that. I can’t be expected to find a place to live in another country until I’m there. I just cant put that kind of pressure on myself.

WOW – this time next year I will be living in Germany. It just blows my mind – Like I mentioned before I always thought something might happen, but here we are about a month out.

Then the stress of quiting my job… I want to work as long as possible, but we have to send Ryan’s car 3 weeks before we go. That means we will be sharing one car for that time. We’ll see how that works.

I guess I’ll cook dinner and go to bed now. I’ve posted photos below of things we’ve been doing.