Orders

I've been a slacker!! Now that I'm back at work and volunteering daily my blogging has stopped. I'll catch up soon.

I thought I would let all my friends and family who don't already know, Bryce received his deployment orders for Iraq on Tuesday. His orders are from October 6, 2008 thru January 4, 2010. The unit is staying in Salt Lake during the month of October and then leaving for California for some training in November. The good news is he gets to come home on the 26th of November for Thanksgiving, and then he leaves again on December 1st for the rest of the deployment.

I've tried to stay positive though this preparation period to make it easier for him to know that we are going to be OK, I don't want him getting over there and worrying constantly about us, (he will anyway), but now that the orders are here and the date is getting closer it's getting hard!! It is really hard to stay positive when you are having attorneys make out a Will "just in case." I've started making a paper chain with the kids to keep track of how long till he comes home. It's going to cover my whole house by the time we're done. I did this when he went to Kuwait also and the kids loved it!

I want to thank all our family and friends for thier love and support through all of this preparation and waiting, and let them know how much it means to both Bryce and myself. Neither one of us could do this without knowing we have good friends and family to help us out. We love you all!!