it's august, should i just give up?

ugh, does anyone even read this blog any more?  not that many even did to begin with.  but i have been so neglectful about postings.  i'm on the fence.....  i feel like i should get some motivation & get back into the blogging game.  even if it's just a place to document our times & important (or sometimes, not so important) things, i feel like i shouldn't give it up.
ok, so i guess this is news for the blog, even though in the real world we've known this info for at least a good 4 months or so.  :/ but we're moving to england!  looks like we'll be living outside leeds for the next 3 years.  really excited & looking forward to it!
& the pcs process begins all over again.  although, we already have our no-fee passports so i don't have to go through that again.  but let's hope our orders arrive earlier than the day before we step on the plane for england.  unfortunately we don't have awesome in-laws over here in guam that will ship our car, & be there to pack up all our stuff - for storage, unaccompanied baggage & household goods.  true story.  we are so lucky jeff's parents are awesome!  now, if they could just make it over to guam to help out with this pcs.....  wink, wink.

ok & here are some cute photos of the bean....

the artist

 the rascal

the courageous

the dramatic

the center of attention

ORDERS

jeff just got his orders!

countdown to insanity

we are one grand jeté from a flight to guam & still no orders. i'm having issues because..... A. we have no scheduled move date for movers to come get our stuff, so we're paying rent & utilities for a vacant-ish apartment. B. we will stop receiving BAH as soon as we sign onto base housing in guam. C. we can only take 3 checked bags without paying a fee because our first flight is on a different airline taking us back to jeff's "duty station" - it is not an international flight & usairways was sucky on the phone about our "situation". welcome to the military huh. so awesome. i just hope we can get reimbursed for BAH if we have to pay rent for the rest of this month & if we have to pay to check some bags, which we will most likely have to do because i'm not sure i can live out of 1 shared suitcase until dec 30...... in case you're wondering the other 2 checked bags are jeff's uniforms. so i have to find the biggest suitcase ever (not too big because airlines will charge you for that too) in order to fit the rest of our clothes, records & papers, toiletries, shoes..... i think we can make it work, just at a place right now where i just have to vent.

i will learn to live minimally. it's ok. it'll be kinda nice to not have to worry about stuff. right now we are cluttered with stuff- stuff in storage piles, stuff in HHG piles..... so much stuff to sort through. i guess this "situation" is a blessing. in disguise.

graduation

yay! jeff graduated today! we've had an awesome weekend, went to see where the wild things are, saw built to spill in concert, went to 18th street lounge, ate tapas, bought some furniture at ikea, rode the dc metro, dodged the rain...... we had fun!
his graduation ceremony was great, they showed a slideshow of all the students photos, cool stuff! jeff is done with outprocessing, BUT, HE STILL DOESN'T HAVE ORDERS!!!! i can't believe it! how are we gonna ship our car, get tmo to schedule packing..... ugh.
well, we're gonna be heading back to florida later this week to pack, visit family, etc. we have our tickets booked to get back up here in hopes that by that time, we'll have orders & can get on a plane for guam, with or without our stuff......

here are some photos of our visit..... with our sweet nephews, who will be even bigger, cuter terrors the next time we see them! love them!!

jeff after his last formation at det 2

where the wild things are (aka nephew one)

with little baby nephew & his momma

driving back from a wine tasting out in the VA country - loved the cold, wet, foggy fall weather, very different from guam