February was a very busy month for us.
We took a well needed and deserved family vacation down to Orlando in the beginning of February. We went to Sea World, Disney World, Medieval Times and to Gator Land. We had a fabulous, fun packed week and happily came home to a Squadron Mardi Gras party and then we moved on base.
TMO came on the 29th of February to pack us all up and on the first of March we moved from Crestview, FL to Eglin AFB in Fort Walton Beach, FL to help down size our over sized bills (thank you influx of 7th Group Special Forces for giving the economy in Crestview a ridiculously huge boost and all that that entails.) and to get closer to the beaches as we suspected this would potentially be our last year in Florida. Booooo!
If you didn't know it, you do now, we LOVE Florida and would happily stay here but as we suspected we were very right, not exactly how we thought but none the less right. It was announced to the public on March 07, 2012 that the 728th would be decommissioning by October 2013.
Good by Demons, good bye Florida for the majority of the Demon personnel and hello somewhere not nearly as awesomely cool for that same majority. (I will update you all on this in more depth when we know.)
Most of March was a pretty quiet month after we got the house all in order.
Zack is still in the process of trying to cross train (another when I know, you will know) and we are hopeful he will be approved. He's never been happy in his current job but as any good provider does, he works with what he's got.
I can't believe how quickly April has come upon us. Easter is tomorrow. The girls are super excited and are driving me crazy about dying their eggs. I've told them not until after dinner this evening after Daddy gets home.
Zack is busy today at Outdoor Rec getting his boaters permit so that we have the ability to rent boats and play out on the water this summer. We are going to try to smash in as much local Florida fun as possible this summer as it may be our last one here.
Time sure does fly. Wow! Tate will be three on the 16th and Zack will be turning 27 the next day. I am so unprepared for their birthdays. It feels like they crept up on me.
On another note, yesterday I finally got in to see the doctor about my crap, crunchy, painful knee. I apparently have Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome. It is fairly common with active individuals, though unknown what causes it, and it is treatable without surgery. (I guess all of my running was good and bad for me.)
Yay! No surgery but sucks that I will have to do some painful Physical Therapy to retrain the muscles around my Patella in order to get it back on track, yes, my patella is riding and grinding out of its groove on bone causing inflammation and pain and it was the doctor who said that the PT was going to hurt. he prescribed me some anti-inflammatory painkillers that I can take on those PT days, I was also instructed to ice my knee in the evenings and to follow a certain stretching routine along with learning to run in the barefoot method. Something I will have to do some research on.
Anyway, I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter.
