Dingers do Augusta | Day #1

Six houses. We have lived in six houses in the (nearly)eight years Daniel and I have been married. And soon we will make it seven. That's the thing when you are a military family -- you move... A LOT! It feels like I am always just getting settled and falling in love with where we are living and then BAM we moved again. This last one (( georgia to california )) was hard on me. I never thought living so far away from family would be so hard. I was spoiled living in Florida & Georgia. Having family within hours and never taking advantage of being able to just drive and spend the weekend with them. Living here has made me realize how badly I need my family close to me. How much I miss the kiddos seeing their Grandparents more than once a year. Or the Grandparents watching the kids grow up via Skype (( although I am extremely grateful for modern technology and how easy it is to connect with family/friends so far away ))

But today, starts day one of the #dingersdoaugusta move! The house is getting packed up. Last night was the last night we spent as a family in this house. It has been a good little house to us. The kids and I moved into this house and lived in this house with out Daniel for seven months while he was serving over in the sandbox on his last deployment. It challenged me to take on a move alone, to move into this house alone, and to make this house into our home alone. It scared the crud outta me but I did it and I never ever want to do it alone again lol.

I wanted one last picture of #ainsleyscot and #jayceleebriat in front of this place we have called our home to remember how tiny there were when we lived here. How much they will grow and change as time goes on. I want to be able to look back at this and remember the good times we had here (( and even some of the not so good )). We will miss our home here at 4271 Tannen Way so very much but I know our number seven home is out there in Augusta waiting for us to find it, claim it, and make even more memories inside its walls.