Life has been exciting, stressful, busy and demanding. Lots of changes have occurred at work and lots more are about to take place! It's crazy to think of what life is going to be like this time next year, I'm sure it will be interesting to look back and see how everything turns out. For those of you that don't know, I was supposed to be deploying this past month with my unit, however, by the Grace of God and my superiors, they allowed me to stay behind to get married and only go for the second half of the deployment.
I have learned so much about myself and other people in this job, and while it can get frustrating and exhausting I am learning a lot of valuable lessons that I know I can carry with me to my next stage in life. One of the biggest lessons that I can tell thus far is my confidence. My confidence has definitely grown over the past few months (make that 16 months). Time really does fly!
I am blessed to have great bosses and coworkers. I can definitely say that I wouldn't want to be in any other job (especially after experiencing working with those other agencies... no one quite does it like aircraft maintenance and we are definitely the tip of the spear). While we may work anywhere from 10-14 hour days 5-6 days a week, we make the mission happen and without us "Pilots are just guys with aviators." ;)
On to other news, as a result of my upcoming deployment, Micah and I will be having our "official" wedding ceremony in May (May 13 to be exact) in order to get the ball rolling, spend some time together and get the legal paperwork done in time for me to change my name and update our life as a married couple! We will still be having our ceremony in June as originally planned but we are going to focus on it being a celebration of renewing our vows in front of family and friends since only our immediate family and Pastor Arch will be at our May ceremony.
Anywho, we are incredibly excited even though we won't have that much time together before I have to leave to another country for 3-4 months but we will hopefully have the holidays together (the first time since we've started dating...) and we will finally be in the same place for more than 3 days at a time since 2011 :) Words cannot express how excited we are for the challenge of marriage and learning and growing together as a couple. We are looking forward to the future and what God has in store!
Not to mention, we also look forward to seeing friends and family that we haven't seen in a very long time! It will be over a year for me!
Can't wait!
