The Boy looks good…

Nicholas was finally able to take some pictures for me. He’s just been so busy that carrying the camera around hasn’t been a priority. I understand but it sure is nice to see that face again. He looks so good. You know the last 2 deployments were pretty rough on him and he lost a lot of weight, the last time he was in    A-stan the food was absolutely terrible so he didn’t eat much unless I had sent it to him. This time the food is much better and he works a schedule that he’s able to make it to the chow hall for at least a couple of meals a day. He’s also got quite the tan going from  walking the flight line all day. I keep on him about sun screen but you know the boy is hard headed. ha

I love this one.

He looks good (this is in one of the hangars where they do work on the a/c if they have them pulled apart in a lot of pieces and don’t want them getting covered in sand while all the engine compartments ect are open.

Out on the flight line.

And just for fun, anyone that can figure this out gets a prize! This is posted on the Chow Hall door. We are guessing it’s half English/half whatever language the cooks speak? lol

He’s doing really good though. We are still able to chat everyday for at least a few minutes. Some days he has longer than others and some days the internets is in a better mood than others. It’s a little finicky over there sometimes. He prefers the days that he’s on the ground turning wrenches but he still loves to fly a couple times a week. Keeps him sharp I guess. It makes it easier for me to know that he’s doing so well. I know the same goes for him about how I’m doing. We have been talking more about getting out next year. On the 5th we hit the 1 year mark. That was wonderful because we’ve been waiting on it for so long. I admit I did a bit of a happy dance about it. Yesterday we talked and I think he’s going to extend his ETS date by a month or so because as it’s set now he would get back from over there and in just over a month he would be out, that doesn’t leave us much time to job hunt or get settled and all that. Plus by the time he gets back he’ll have over 2 months of leave that he would loose if he got out on his ETS date. We hate to loose time like that so if the extension works out that would be great. And it would be nice to still get a couple more pay checks while we are wrapping up loose ends! It’s almost strange that all of this is finally becoming a reality and we can start making more solid plans. For so long it’s just been out there and we couldn’t do anything because it was so far away. I’m excited for our future because we’ll be together. Everything else will just have to fall into place.

 

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas out there. Hope you had a great one! I was able to get a good afternoon nap even though my little black dog wasn’t on board, at one point she was laying on my pillow with her body wrapped around my head breathing in my face. I guess she hasn’t had enough attention lately since I’ve been working everyday. I think she might be spoiled. I could be wrong though….. lol