Household6

Photo Credit : Dan took this at the National Zoo, Washington DC

Ok I mentioned yesterday about my husband’s sunburn. The top of his head is far worse but his back looks pretty bad too. I was finally able to get a picture to share…

????????

Many people have different events/memories that kick off the beginning of summer for them. Sometimes it the first day of summer vacation, others its the first family trip to the beach. However in our house, its the first sunburn of the season

Just kidding.. its the first weekend hanging out at the pool here on post.

The pool here on post officially opened and off we headed for a weekend of fun hanging out at the pool. We always look forward to hanging out at the pool. The kids always have a blast playing with their friends… Dan and I have fun chatting and catching up with our friends.

Well after 30 minutes of being at the pool.. the weather turned bad really quick. According to my ipod touch, the weather showed sunny all day. Oh joy, drag unhappy kids out of the pool in the rain.

So today we checked the weather again (double checked too) and off we went to the pool to try again. This time was much more successful. We had a great day of playing, swimming and catching up. Apparently I was lacking in school information, because i got caught up so much I found out that school for the kids ends 4 days earlier than I thought it did~ Oops!! (I’m just glad that we found out now rather than later LOL )

It also rang in another milestone of summer… the eventual sunburn for my hubby. Yes SGT Dan is a nice shade of red. I’m a little sunburned too but its a brownish red so not too bad. (I’ll be tan in a day or so) The kids of course just got tan. As soon as I can get a picture of “fire engine red boy” , I’ll post it.

Happy Summer!

We hope that each of you have a happy Thanksgiving Day!

Sounds like an newspaper title huh? Yea well I couldn’t think of anything catchy, cute or funny…

SSG Pringle had put Dan in for an Army Commendation Award due to his great work at WRAMC and he was awarded it. Way to Go Dan! Of course at the award ceremony, 1SG Ambersley called the entire family up on stage. Thanks to SGT Thompson for taking the picture! : )

Here’s a picture of the medal and the ribbon:

Sorry for going so long without an update but its been a little crazy here… Long story short Dan’s 1SG found out about the situation and made some calls to see what was going on and what needed to be done. Apparently, the office here in DC didn’t have a problem with the family moving with him but the command in Germany did. So 1SG is going to delete the orders and we’ll be staying here for a couple of years.

Well there ya have it.. just another story in our Army adventure!

I’m very happy to announce that Dan is now Specialist-Promotable Munson!! He passed his E-5 Promotion Board today!! He scored 148 out of 150! I’m so very proud of him as he’s worked very hard the last couple of weeks!

We just have to wait for the lists to come out to see when he actually gets promoted but we are pretty sure it will be in the next month or so because he has the promotion points almost maxed out!

Well we really haven’t heard much as far as anything that is “official”. Dan’s MSG was supposed to fill out some form to keep Dan here at Walter Reed to cancel our orders and keep him there. Well MSG made some phone calls and found out that his tour to Germany includes the family and we all can go command-sponsored. While Dan was at his promotion board (more on that later) 1SG mentioned that he heard about the situation and he said that he confirmed with PERSCOM that we are all approved to go to Germany.

So basically we don’t know much more and are even more confused! : )

Well we finally got word today that Dan’s orders are ready to be cut.. so normally I would be giddy with excitement! However, there is a snag in our plans!! According to his orders, it is a unaccompanied (the girls and I were not approved for overseas travel) 2 year tour due to unadequate medical facilitites for our daughter.

Dan and his Chain of Command is attempting to fix the problem..so as of right now, I’m not sure what is going to happen!! We could go to a different area of Germany that has adequate med. care, get a different assignment in the US, Stay in the DC area or Dan goes off to Europe for 2 years by himself.

This is certainly not what I expected to hear today but I’ll keep you updated on what happens…
Tammy

As many of you know… we are moving to Germany next month. (reason for my lack of postings lately) Any suggestions for living in Germany for the first time??