Saturday, October 23, 2010

A twist in the plot...

I gave into the idea a long time ago that my plans will NOT go as I expect, regardless of the amount of effort or planning I put into those plans.

Now is not exeption. Up until this week, the "PLAN" was for Chris to get his Masters here at B.S.U, and commission in the US Army probably the same day and then off we were going to the great unknown to his first duty station after his training during the summer. Well.... here comes the twist to the plot.

Part one of the plan is working. So far. Chris has been chosen for active duty. Check. He has also sent in his application for approval for him to apply for graduation in May (yeah, don't ask, but that is what I mean). Check.

From there the plans have taken a turn. Not really a bad one, just one that has left me scratching my head a little and trying to rethink things.

Friday morning my husband got to take a phone call to find out what branch of the Army he is being assigned to. It was extra great because he is in Washington D.C. , preparing to run the Army 10 miler in the morning, and when the phone call came in from the colonel he was standing in Gettysburg and was taking a tour with close friends from his National Guard Unit he just left.

The verdict? He is going Armor. And here is where the curve ball comes in and changes things up~ you see every commissioned officer has to attend a school called BOLC (basic officer leadership course?). The BOLC for Armor is held twice a year.

March... which is out of the question because he will still be a student, and thus not commissioned, nor free to just leave for four months for training.

and there's November... NOVEMBER 2011!!!

Oh my goodness Oh my goodness, I am going to be living in this house, in this town for another year! That is NOT bad news my friends, just something that made me sit down and ponder the ramifications.

Braden will have his Jr. year, Savannah her Fresh., Colton sixth grade, and Olivia will go through KINDERGARDEN here! WILD!

I have a shelf I wanted put up in the dining room that I decided not to bother with because after all we will be moving soon right? WRONG! Crazy.

I think the change of thought won't kill me :) .... but I still wish I knew where our first duty station will be, it is going to drive me crazy and I certainly hope I don't have to wait til 2013 to find out!

Friday, October 1, 2010

Jr. Cat Herder...er I mean Jr. Cheer Coach


Coach Sarah has my undying gratitude.
She is willing to do what I might shoot myself in the foot if I had to do, if I knew what to do.
No, I understand that didn't make sense.
Savannah has been helping Sarah, since she is the worlds most competitive spectator of BSU football and possibly the only spectator induced injury I have ever heard of.
Love you Savannah, thanks for trying to help Coach Sarah remind really little girls that the game is THAT WAY....
She likes it.
Really, she does.
She thinks they're cute.
Cuz they are!
So is she.
mwa!








#64 ....thats MY boy!


Jamboree was awesome.
Hot.
Really hot.
And it was difficult to get a picture of the boys playing ball that made anykind of sense.
In fact, I haven't gotten a good one yet.
Hey, don't judge.
I have a game to watch.














Liv looks like she is in pain when she is cheering

She is concentrating.

Hard.

She does like to perform.

But only just a little.

(wink)
Olivia is the smallest and youngest cheerleader in Kuna this year.

In fact their whole team is really young.

It just makes it all the more just so stinkin cute I am sure you agree...
RIGHT?
thought so.

And she is learning how to be loud.

Very VERY loud.

And a lesson to any parent entering the world of cheer, watch what you say around them, it may trigger a cheer.

Honestly.

For example:

Olivia: (fidgeting and all around not getting to the point of being stuck, the two of us in a bathroom stall)

Me: Liv, we need to HUSTLE, Daddy is waiting for us and we need to go.

Olivia: HUSTLE! GET TO IT! COME ON TEAM LETS DO IT! (instert bathroom noise)

....multiple snickers from the rest of the unseen occupants in the bathroom.

...me dying, half of laughter, half of embarassment.

laughter is good.

really.

Hooah!?

Ok, so although most may know the news, Chris got his official notification of where he sits on the ROTC OML ( love the Army and acronyms ).

The verdict? Active duty.

What's next? Who the heck knows. Well in theory the next step is to find out where he will serve within the Army. It looks like Armour is #1, and Chemical Corps and some other stuff that he doesn't even worry about because as he puts it, if he doesn't get Armour then they will for sure stick him in Chem, so the rest is just formality of filling in the blanks on the wish sheet.

In theory we will know for sure where he goes by the end of the month. Chris says I am supposed to get over my "been there, ready to have things all jacked up, done that" additude so that I will be more positive. I struggle.

In my head I am waiting to be the ONE cade that got left off the list... Cadet WHO?
Oh he gets the left overs then, cuz we already filled the good stuff...

Sigh.

Sometime in February (or later....or much much MUCH later) we should know where we are moving to and when. Chris volunteered for working LDAC (see what I mean about acromyms) and hopefully that will put us on orders right after graduation ( May 15th ...cough cough save the date). He will have to attend BOLC (?)..officers training for his branch, and then off we go into the next three contract bound years. Hope it is a good one.

What scares me is Chris says there are people that don't get their duty station notification until after BOLC and that just MIGHT kill me. Or I might have to kill someone. Either way it won't be pretty.