Small Update on life

Since our trip last week Jay's been super busy trying to find out what is going on with well everything.  We had tried to stay extended to the Nimitz, only to discover that would not be possible.  While at first I was a little disappointed we later discovered that not being extended with the ship is actually a very good thing for our family.  The ship is going up to WA later this year and while we thought it would be for 18 months or more Jay ended up finding out that its for only 10 months.  The navy will pay for the first move up to WA for the families, but due to being in the same fiscal year when they return back to San Diego the families will have to fork over the money out of pocket for the return move.  This whole chain of events over the last few days has gone to show us just how much the Lord is in control of our lives.

He has blessed us so much over the past few years of being in the navy and this just goes to show us that while right now we don't know where we'll be or which ship we'll even be on He is still the one in control.  We're also waiting on hearing when Jay will go to his C school and we hope that those answers will come next week when the right people are back from leave.  So we're doing the waiting part of the hurry and wait part of being a navy family. 

Making friends

I don't have the easiest time making friends, but the friends I do have I cherrish a great deal.  The friends I've made over the last few years I feel like I'll have for a long time.  So I'm trying something new: New Friend Friday.  Who knows what will happen.

Came home to earthquakes

So over the weekend we went to Ut for 4 days to be able to attend my cousin's wedding.  The trip was good for the most part and we are so glad to be home (I'll post pictures from that trip later on).  However not 2 hours after being home we got hit with 2 back to back strong earthquakes.  Both regestered at 5.7 and those suckers just unnerved Jay and I.  We had our back patio door open to air out the house when we heard this loud rumbing sound.  Seconds later the house started to shake and we knew we were being hit with an earthquake.  Right as we thought it was over the second 5.7 hit.  Again making us a little more unnerved.  We were far enough away from the epicenter to have any damage but that doesn't make what happened any less frightening, especially for the kids.

The moment the shaking was officially over we quickly went to check on the kids, as they had been asleep until it hit.  Kaden was shaken up and a little scared and Annabelle just seemed to need a hug.  Luckily this morning they are completely over what happened.  This morning the news called the earthquakes from last night aftershocks from the Easter 7.2 quake.  Yup that is right, we're still getting aftershocks and some of them are quite strong.  I am hoping that this will be the last of them for a while, but this is California and that likelyhood is quite high that there will be more.