Christmas

Well we finally made it to Virginia and it is COLD!!!!  We miss everyone in GA but we are happy to be near our family here.  

Christmas was great.  We spent it with the Bowman side of our family.  For a month we were with Ricky's dad and mom and our neices and nephews, Mikey, Christopher, Jackie, and Brittney.  Then their older sister and her son came for two days along with their parents, Mike and Marie.  We had such a great time and can't wait to see them all again.

We are able to spend a lot of time with long missed friends who have now relocated here to Virginia as well as Ricky's parents.  We have also finally gotten our house, which was just built.  Not two days after we moved into our house it started snowing.  Ricky says I can not call it snow because it was not visible on the ground, but I saw snow falling and thats enough for me to call it snow.

Michael has started with a homeschool program here because the school systems are not the best.  He is really liking it and doing well.  Next year we are going to try to get him into a private school system for high school.

Ricky has started back to work.  He is working for the ORSE board at Fleet Forces Command.  He really loves his job and it has allowed him a lot of free time.  He is leaving tomorrow to go to LA for three days to finish up his training and then he will be home for the duration of his tour here.  He is very excited to not be going to sea six months of the year.

Emma is doing well.  We have decided to wait until next year to put her into school.  She has been through so many changes already with the move, we just don't want to push our luck.  She is growing like a week.  She even has enough hair now for a little pony tail on top of her head.

I am posting some pics of the house for everyone to see as well as some other posts.  I will try to update again soon!!!