My husband woke up me this morning with a phone call from Kuwait...I had the dates all wrong.
We hope he will be in the states on Monday...

Terry is somewhere on his way home for R&R and I have no idea where he is. He assured me he would have access to phones and email, but.....no word yet. I hope that means good news and he is out flying across the world to see us.

Terry is currently moving into his new office at 4-25 FA. He will be the XO (Executive Officer) for the BN (Battalion)about a week after returning from R&R. He is ready for the change and it will be keep him very busy for the remainder of the deployment.

This will be the first time we have been in a BN since around 2000. We are both excited for the change.

Here is the link to the "WOLFPACK" website so you can read about them.

Today is our third day of not seeing the sun, not that I am complaining much because the moisture and cool temps are great for my grass, but a little bit of sun never hurt anyone. The grass is growing, throw down seeds here, give it a little water and it will grow, just give it some time.

Dylan heads off to boyscout camp tomorrow morning, and is gone a week. He is dreading it a bit, but I am sure once he gets there he will have fun. The day he gets back is the day Terry leaves Afghanistan so we are all looking forward to that.

Lots of people are taveling this weekend to visit family or other exciting destinations (anything other than Drum seems exciting to me) so it makes for a quiet and lonely weekend. It is certainly different when most of your friends husbands are home and yours is deployed...how soon we forget how it feels to have a deployed husband.

The FRG folks sent out a flyer with dates for the redeployment briefings. They will be in October, that feels good to know that when Terry gets back to Afghanistan it will be just a short 5 or so months left to go. Most of which will be filled with school, football, soccer and anticipation of holidays and then redeployment activities.

On the 26th of June we made it thru the halfway mark of the deployment. If all goes as planned Terry should be home in 6 months. It feels really great to be on the countdown.
Terry will be home in about two weeks for his R&R. We are very excited to see him and will have him for about 15 days. We are going to drive down to Virginia Beach to get away from Drum for a bit. We'll stop in DC on the way down and visit a museum or two.

The boys finally finished school on Friday, seemed like the never ending year.

The Fort Drum Mountainfest/Airshow is going on this weekend, and I took a chance to go late in the day to visit it and was disappointed that most things were not in full swing. We might have to go back today to tour the airplanes. I also thought we would enjoy the fireworks that they have only to realize the fireworks were on post and we could barely see them so we left...well over an hour later we made it home. Horrible time trying to get out of the parking lot and then they sent us 10 miles in the wrong direction to get home. CRAZY!

This is a guy that Terry worked with in Afghanistan...must have made an impression on him as he was sad to see him leave.

Harvard prof leaves lab for Afghan deployment

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That is a little Toad as they told me...it is about the 4th one Jason has captured. I guess he lets them go, I haven't seen any hopping in the house.