Matt's Home and Bon Voyage Party!

It has been a crazy couple of days starting with Matt arriving home a day late because he missed his connection, but he finally got home! The welcome home committee that we were going to have meeting him at the airport didn't work out due to the missed flight but it was the best feeling in the world to hug and kiss him again!

My dad and stepmom hosted a goodbye party for us and all of favorite people came out to say goodbye. We seriously have some of the best friends ever and I feel so lucky to have all of them a part of our lives. Here are some pictures from the party! :)

We have one week left till we are off to England! This next week is full of excitement but a lot of tears and goodbyes. I know living in England is going to be an amazing experience for us but that doesn't take away from the fact that I will be living in another country without my friends and family around to make me laugh, spend the holidays with or have a shoulder to lean on when I need it. I will defiantly be living outside my comfort zone, but it will be good for me and I know I cannot go another day without living with my husband. 

Living out of a suitcase

Well the movers came and all of mine and Matt's things are officially in crates being shipped across the ocean! Which means for the next month or so we will be living out of two suitcases. At first I thought this was going to be extremely difficult, I mean trying to decide what I can live without for longer than a month was going to be tough. But, in reality it has be so nice having such a simplified life. Why do I need that much stuff to live with everyday, half the stuff I never even use but I think one day I MIGHT need. Getting dressed in the morning is so much easier because I only have a couple of options and not a ton of clothes staring me in the face. I know Matt and I will not be able to fit everything we shipped in our small british house so downsizing and simplifying my life is going to take top priority when we get to England! Here are some pictures of moving day :)

The movers made a special crate just for the 6ft tall wooden bear Brutus!

Brutus all wrapped up and ready to be shipped

All of our stuff being crated

First steps towards our move to England

After months of talking about moving to England I finally got to complete some items on my "to do" list! Matt got his official orders so we were able to schedule the movers to our storage unit in Delaware and ship my car to England. Yesterday my mom and I drove to Baltimore port to send off my car, which should arrive in England before Matt and I do! :)

We had to spend the night in Delaware so we could meet the moving company for a pre-inspection of our storage unit. Unfortunately they were not able to measure all the items they wanted to because Matt packed everything in the unit too perfectly :)

Yep, that is our entire belongings packed into a 10x10 storage unit. Sigh....I miss all of our things and cannot wait to unpack it all in our new home.

It was pretty hilarious to watch the guy from the moving company measure our wooden bear Brutus. He thought Brutus was pretty unique, but also a pain in the butt to move...opps sorry military he must come to England with us!

Tomorrow is 4th of July and we have a day full of baseball, BBQs and fireworks in DC! I am making some fun desserts for the BBQ and will share next time!

34 days till Matt gets home!!! Wahoooo!

Permanent Change of Station

We have already known for awhile that our next base would be England, but until yesterday we did not have our permanent change of station orders in our hands. The military has a funny way to tell you one thing (hint: you are moving to Alaska) and then doing something completely different (changing those plans to moving to England!). So I was extremely happy to hear from Matt that we finally got the documents making it official for his new base! Now that we have that piece of paper we can pretty much schedule everything for our move (except booking our tickets). In the next couple of weeks I am going to be running around trying to pack up my entire life so I can meet the movers in Delaware to ship all of our belongings to the UK. In a few short months this will be where I will call home! 

Mildenhall Vilalge