THE Update... (finally)

Okay, so here's our BIG news ...

We are moving. Not quite yet, but for sure moving. Somewhere.

This year has been full of twists and turns, excitement and letdowns, and everything in between. Charles has been trying really hard for the past year to find something (job-wise) that would make him happy and that would provide for our (growing) family. And thus far, has come up shorthanded. Not for lack of trying...he has successfully passed 4 levels of jefferson county firefighter testing, but even after all of this it could be up to a year before he actually gets a job with a fire department. With Tegan in daycare, it's just become too much for us to handle so Charles enlisted in the Army. He's been in the Army reserve for over a year now, so the transition has gone pretty smoothly. He has been wanting to re-enlist since we met, but he chose to stick it out with me here and try to find something besides the military that would work for him. But things just didn't work out that way. The Army offered him a nice sized bonus that will help us out substantially in the future, and he was able to choose a job that, even if he does get deployed, it's a relatively safe job. He will be Quartermaster of Chemical Repair (yeah, I don't know what that is either) So that eases my mind a bit. He left April 9th for Baltimore for an 11 week training school for his new job and will be there until approximately late June/early July. At that point, we get to put down our top 3 options for duty stations and we will be moving. Until then, Tegan and I will be living in Birmingham. Since he is prior service, they usually give you your choice of station..provided you don't choose something outrageous like Hawaii. Clearly everyone would. At this point, we're thinking our top choice is going to be....

Drumroll please...

San Antonio!! (Get excited Wilson family!) Hopefully we will get our choice! We originally wanted Savannah to be our top choice (since I've always been in love with that city) but recently we were told by several high ranking soldiers that it's a very active deployment base and that if we went there, his chances of going back to the desert increase substantially. San Antonio is a beautiful city and I have family in Austin which isn't too far away! I'm sad to be leaving my family, friends, and my JOB (yes, I absolutely will miss you CC folks..you guys have been soooo good to me!!), as is Charles, but it's the best thing we can do for our family. I will be a stay-at-home mom, which is really important to me...only getting to spend about 2-3 hours with Tegan every day right now is really hard. I feel like other people are raising our baby and it's hard to cope with. I will continue to work until the end of May, which will give me a month to get everything prepared to move. Once he gets his orders we get 2 weeks to find a place to live.

So that's my update! I've been waiting on my boss to work out a few things before announcing, so out of respect for him I didn't want announce prematurely. Please keep us in your prayers and I will update again soon!

Much love...
The Locketts