It's Updated, Really It Is!! (finally)

Hello Everyone!

Sorry it has been so long since my last update! So much has happened in our lives, I don't even know where to begin. We have been from Korea to Germany. OK, I'll just start where I left off. We are not in Korea anymore. We left Korea in May of 98, headed for Fort Rucker, Home of Army Aviation, for yet another school. Along the way we went home and visited with family and friends for a few weeks of much needed rest. You know, I think my culture shock was worse coming back to the US then it was going to Korea. I guess going to Korea I expected it. I knew things would be different and was prepared for it. Coming home, I didn't think about it, and I was so used to things in Korea that small things in the States took me by surprise. Even the cost of a pay phone call had changed from 25 cents to 35 cents. Oh, well.

I do have a new e-mail address: it is now sesajune@yahoo.com I hope I haven't lost too many of you in the change!

Well, back at Rucker life was familiar (that is where we were stationed before Korea). I found the perfect job for me. The Fort Rucker MWR Marketing Department needed a new graphic designer, and guess who got the job! ME!!! I loved it, getting paid for being creative and working on the computer, two of my favorite things all in one job. During the summer we found out that Brian was going to Germany next. We were only at Rucker for Brian to attend a school.

In mid-October Brian graduated from the Aviation Officer Advanced Course and at the end of the month was off for a second school in Kansas. He left on Halloween for CAS3. I was on my own in Rucker, again; but only for a few weeks this time. Well, not totally on my own, Jody and Jim fed me well! And Sherri and Chris took care of me too! (Thank you!)

For those of you familiar with my search for my Dad, it has reached an end. For those of you not familiar, I have been actively searching for him for the last few years. Well, one day towards the end of August I received an e-mail asking me if I knew either my father's full name or his birth date. I knew both and replied with them. Then on 25 August I received a reply back from this person (who must be an angel) with a subject of "This is HIM!" I opened up the e-mail to find my father's address inside. I sent off a letter and well, the rest is history! Since Brian was in Kansas for Thanksgiving we made arrangements to meet my Dad, who lives in Texas, in Oklahoma over the holiday weekend! It was a wonderful visit, although too short. It was so strange to see pictures of my sister, brother and I at a young age in his photo album. My mom has copies of all those same pictures in her album as well.

Actually, I have jumped ahead of myself by a few days.... The Saturday before Thanksgiving, I drove up to Kansas to surprise Brian on Sunday morning, knocking on his door at 9 am (waking him up, of course!). He had no idea I was coming. Later after he fully woke up, we went out for lunch at the Cracker Barrel (another favorite of mine - food and nick-knack shopping all in one). Well, after the waitress took our order we sat there talking. Brian knew I had had some doctor's appointments recently and he asked about them. I told him that the doctor had told me we were going to have a baby! Surprise! We decided to wait and surprise the family at Christmas with the news. I had an ultrasound scheduled for the day before we went home.

It was difficult to hold the news in for the next month, but we did it. I was just beginning to show a bit, and was afraid they would figure it out before the big day, but no one seemed to catch on. We framed copies of the ultrasound to give the "Grandmas-to-be" and wrapped them for Christmas gifts. It was an exciting time. We did the Christmas gift thing at my Mom's house on Christmas Eve. I am glad we did, because I know I was about to burst to tell some one. Then the next day was filled with telling everyone we saw, starting with the unwrapping of the gifts at my in-laws house. IT was a very exciting holiday.

After the holiday, we drove back to Alabama, arriving just before the stroke of midnight on New Year's. We toasted each other with sparkling apple juice and went night-night. The mover's came and packed our house the following week, then we drove Brian to the airport for Germany. I stayed in NC with family for two more weeks before I joined Brian.

That was January, and here it is May. We stayed in a German guesthouse for a month waiting for housing, and at the end of February moved into our apartment. We live in a small German village about 30 minutes from where Brian works. It has taken us a little longer to settle in and get the boxes out. Brian works in the S-3 shop, so he is always at work, and I am 8 months pregnant now, but all the boxes are finally emptied and we are almost settled in. I am getting involved here, as I always seem to do. I am a member of the spouses' club and was just elected to the Secretary position on the board and I am still involved with AFTB. Watch for a Germany section, simular to the Korea section soon.

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