Wow! Talk about neglect. This blog has so many layers of dust on it, I don't even know where to begin. Well, might as well start with the present. After 8,000 air miles and 2,200 miles in the swagger wagon, our family is TOGETHER in Phoenix, Arizona. The trip from Florida to Arizona was uneventful and the kids (and old people) did really well in the car for the 5 day drive. Turns out the uneventful drive would be making up for our very eventful first couple months in AZ. We are unfortunately STILL living out of suitcases after some crazy house hunting adventures, but thanks to the kindness and generosity of several sweet families, we will have only been in TLFs on base for about 3 1/2 out of the 10 weeks waiting to get our own home. We are taking a huge leap of faith with the hopeful purchase of a home we love in an awesome location in the town of Surprise. There are a lot of pieces that must fit to make this work, but they are all coming together in God's time (read "not mine") and it has His hands all over it. We move into our home in an awesome planned community next week as a rental and hope to be under contract for the short sale of this place within the next couple of weeks. The next biggest step is the bank's acceptance of the short sale. Like I said...HUGE leap of faith. There is a pretty big risk, but we're trying not to think about that. :) We'll keep you posted!
We are all thrilled to be back in the Valley of the Sun and reunited with many lifelong friends. Bill is looking forward to the family friendly pace of Luke AFB and instructing in the F-16. He is also loving that flying is his number one job again, though that is a little harder to remember while sitting in the cockpit, all suited up, waiting on the tarmac when it's 110+ degrees out.
Here are a few drive by pictures of the outside of our home. We'll get some better ones once it's ours. The little room on the right of the driveway is what they call a casita. In spanish it means little house. To us, it means guest house. It's our 5th bedroom and has a closet and full size bath, so we have plenty of space for guests. Hint, hint. ;) We should be here for 1-3 years and are working on our Arizona Bucket List. We ran out of time to fit everything in the last time we were here, as we were only here for about 10 months, and as for the things we already did...well, half of us were either too young or too insulated in a belly to remember, so the list will be pretty long. Let us know if you want to come out and explore this part of our beautiful country, we'd gladly host you and cross some stuff off our list.
