Settling in, and shipped out

We made it! Actually, that was a few weeks ago.... *ahem.* I have got to get better at posting on here. Adam finally finished up with all his various naval schools and we made the big trek across the country to end up in Bremerton, WA. The trip was long and exhausting (babies make anything exhausting), but we had a great time and got to see so many people on the way. I'll have to do a separate post on the roadtrip.

We arrived in Seattle just in time to celebrate Elena's first Easter with the family. Adam's parents flew out and my brother Brian too (who had just gotten back from serving in Iraq), so it was really special to have the whole family all together again. We're so grateful Brian's home safe, and it looks like he won't be sent out again any time soon.

But deployments are just part of the Navy, and now they're part of Adam's job. As soon as we got here we started preparing for him to leave. The past few weeks were a whirlwind. In a way I'm glad to get his first deployment over with, but there's never a "best" time to live without your other half. We're lucky, though, it's only 10 weeks. There are a lot of people who have it much worse. I dropped Adam off on base Friday night, and they left Saturday morning. It's all still sinking in.

Here are a few pictures of our sailor, babe in arms. He's actually standing in our front yard, but more on that later too. :)