Feb 15

... the day after Valentine's day
... the day after my grandpa and friend's birthday
... the middle of February
... 46th day of the year

February 15th doesn't seem like that significant of a day until this year.  Today would have been my due date.  Today was hard and emotional.  I can't believe this day has already come.  For the last several months I've wondered how I would feel on this day and it's about like I thought.  It was tough to concentrate on work, but I didn't have another option since my list of things to do at work is growing too fast for me to keep up. 

I also took some time to look around and really see how blessed I am.  I received a card from a good friend who remembered and knows better than anyone what this week would mean for me.  Thank you. 

In a way I'm glad this day has come and passed.  It's easier to look forward now.  I know that God's plan for my future is a perfect one.  There's no promise it'll be easy, but it will be perfect.

E

Hair Cut

Well so I'm going to go a little out of order.  I still don't really have graduation pictures so I'll just skip to my hair cut.  All my friends from Alabama only know me with long hair and don't realize that's just not me.  I feel soooo much better now that I'm back to my old self.  My hair was just long enough to donate to Locks of Love and when I asked if the hair dresser could donate it I was given a "gladly".  I'm just now looking at their website and seeing that she had no idea what she was doing and that my hair would not have been accepted.  Bummer!  I probably should have done a little more research myself ahead of time, but I was so excited about getting it chopped I just went ahead and had it done.  Too late now and I'm not letting it grow again. 

Here are a few before and after pictures.

E

Family Day

Matt passed his final checkride on November 24th, yes that was a long time ago, and then he had a few weeks to "out process" from Ft. Rucker.  On December 11 I drove by myself to St. Louis.  On Monday I had to do the walk-through on the house to be ready for the Friday closing.  Tuesday morning bright and early, Matt's parents, brother, our friend Chris and I headed back to Alabama in my parent's mini van.  It might be more fun to make a 12 hour trip with 4 other people, but it's still 12 straight hours in a car.  Wednesday we got to hang out with Matt and see the Apache up close.  He flies a pretty cool aircraft.

Chris

The Pilot

Steck Family

This was going to be our Christmas card but if you were wondering if yours got lost in the mail, it didn't.  Just didn't get them out this year.

A little game of cards after a long day packing up the apartment.

The 4-time Poop-head himself

Thursday morning Matt headed out for graduation practice while the rest of us finished cleaning the apartment and packing the truck.  We then went to graduation and a luncheon (post with pictures to come as soon as I get the pics from Chris) and ate some good southern fried chicken.  Around 2:00pm Chris, Matt and I headed back to St. Louis.  We arrived around 2:30am and then Chris continued on to Columbia so that he could be at work.  That should be my last drive from Ft. Rucker to St. Louis.

E

It's Been a While

It's been 7 whole weeks since my last post.  A LOT has happened in the last 7 weeks.  Instead of trying to cram it all into one super long post I'm going to break it up into several shorter ones.  So coming up really soon... Matt's family day, graduation, moving, the house almost completely decorated and unpacked and my long awaited haircut.

E