+Our New Home+

Well, we finally made it!!! Ft. Irwin, California is our official new home! We made it into housing relatively fast! We stayed with our sponsor and his wife for a week, then we were into our house (I might add that our sponsor is also my husband's best friend! :) ).

Our new place is incredible! And not only for on base housing, but it is awesome in general!!! We have a stand alone house, which means that we are not connected to ANYONE else! It is our very own house! It is 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bath, fenced in back yard, garage, covered patio... and lots of storage space!!!! Our living room is HUGE!!!! There is a separate dining room. I mean it is just incredible! Once I finally find our camera (it is mixed in with all of the boxes... ) I will post some pics. So needless to say, I am LOVING our new base! I have already met most of the wives from the JAG office, they seem really nice! I think that the next 3 years are going to be great!

Also, on a major side note... My little girl started Kindergarten yesterday!!! I can't believe that it is that time already! I am pretty sure that it was just yesterday when the doctor was telling me that I was pregnant with her... yikes! She LOVES her new teacher and really likes the fact that mommy makes her lunch for her to take to school.

We also promised the kids that once we got our new place to live that they could have a puppy... that's right folks... we went to the vet clinic here on base and adopted a puppy. She is an adorable one year old mutt! She is very child friendly. I mean Jacob has yanked on her tail like there is no tomorrow and she has not even shown her teeth, let alone growled at him!

So, once again life is hectic in the Oeder household, but we are getting everything taken care of one day at a time...

~Home Sweet Home~

Ahhhh.... it feels sooooooo good to be back home in Lebanon! It feels so great! It seems that every time that we make it home it is at the beginning of the month. Which is really neither here nor there, except when I go to my home ward. I ALWAYS make it home for fast and testimony Sunday. You never really realize just how much you miss home until you go to your home ward. It is such an incredible feeling to be with the people who have been there with me from the beginning. I LOVE being home!!

I never really realize just how important home is to me until I get here and realize everything that I have missed out on and wish that I could do everyday. The family dinners, the laughs, hugs, the smells and yes, even the rain/hail! I love it all. That is why Friday will be bitter sweet for me. While I love being home, it isn't MY house, with MY things. So, I am kinda excited to get down to our new place so we can get a place to live and get out household goods delivered and start getting our new life off to a start.

So, here's to new beginnings! :)