"semper gumbi"

Aunt Mary Lynn said it best when she told us that the US Department of Defense motto (no matter what the branch) should be Semper Gumbi.... always flexible, and she couldn't be more right! We've been going through a lot in this past month trying to clarify Geoff's orders and get Laura signed up and in all of the right systems, trying to pack for 3 different places and still not being 100% sure of what all is ctually going on.

Geoff is still out in Seattle working at LDAC camp, evaluating all of the rising senior ROTC cadets. He will be out there for another month but if you want to sneak in a letter or card his address is: Lt Geoff Childs; ROTC-WF-2006; FLRC Committee; Box 339543; Ft Lewis, WA 98433-9543.
We have just heard that when he moves to Ft Knox Kentucky in August that Laura will get to join him, which is huge relief. The only catch is that we are lead to believe that we will essentially be living in a hotel room until April, but "semper gumbi" right?!? Laura is eager to put all of our wonderful wedding presents to use and "play house" but we're guessing that might be a while.

So until we have an actual mailbox, or an actual roof over our head for that matter... our addresses are laurabchilds@gmail.com and geoffdchilds@gmail.com!

raw emotions

Toasting to the amazing Best Man

How many times in life do you honestly belly laugh?

Last night Hannah and I had a quick meet up at the mall to exchange pictures and quickly catch up on how things had been going for the past couple of weeks. She handed over a CD of pictures she had taken at the rehearsal dinner for the wedding and as I look through them I am struck by 2 things.

1) How blessed and I to have a time in my life where raw emotions, honest to God emotions, not caring what I should act like or how I should behave emotions are as free-flowing as they were that weekend. I look through the pictures and remember how I smiled my biggest and most honest smile and also cried the most real tear during those couple of days.
2) How talented Hannah is in that she captured these emotions so perfectly... I hope that she makes a wonderful career out of it one day because such talent should be shared. ~Laura

practice makes perfect... or something

I'm trying out new picture posting tools.... don't mind me ;o) -Laura

 

the pro proofs are in....

WWAHHOOOOOOOOO.... John Elkins rocks my world and had the pictures from the wedding back at lighting fast speed. I'm working on compiling digital pics that people took that day but I just can't wait to share some of my favorites.

I have to admit, getting these back has just sucker punched me with missing Geoff. I wish he were here to ohhh and awww with me, or even just to make fun of me while I ohhhh and awwww... he does that well. Instead I got the sneak peak and had to share my excitement with him having no idea what I am talking about. I know that this is probably tiny in the grand scale of times when I am going to be missing him and wishing he were right here with me, but still.... guess I have to get use to it for a few months~

okay, enough whining... here are some of my favorites, ENJOY!
http://laurabartholomay.shutterfly.com/action/

~Laura

back to life, back to reality

well, its offically June... a new month and it seems like the craziness that was May has finally started to die down. We set up this blog to keep friends and family posted on whats going on with us and as a general "wonder what they're doing now" question solver. We hope to keep this page updated with pictures, army news, new addresses and email and an overall running commentary on our lives. To get that started here is our first entry.... (unfortunatley its nothing too exciting)

Geoff left on the 6th to go out to Seattle. Hes working at LDAC camp for two months and its definately a little different this time around. Its weird being married for a week and already having to seperate but we're getting good at the whole long distance thing. We've had fun hearing stories from the wedding from all our friends and family. Its so exciting to know that everyone had a great time and enjoyed getting to know eachother. People from Laura's family made close friends with people from Geoff's and we have heard that trips and visits are already in the works. Bridesmaids and groomsmen from different parts of our lives are now exchanging emails and facebook messages with eachother and we are thrilled!

We are working on getting pictures together from the wedding and honeymoon, so hopefully they will be up soon. Please send us any pictures that you took that weekend, Laura has a huge scrapbook project coming up and it'll be fun to see the memories that everyone else made...

testing, testing...1 2 3

just seeing how this whole Blog thig works....