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Olmsted Series | Overseas Medical Screening

February 10, 2017 · MILITARY, OLMSTED SERIES · 11 Comments

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is a pain in the ass. Well to me it is, I’m sure others may have had a much smoother process, but we’ve been getting a bit of a runaround. Before I jump into sharing some of my tips for your overseas move, I’m just going to share the hell of a week we’ve had in trying to get our medical signed off. Let me just tell you, we have yet to get anything signed off and we started on Monday.

On Monday, we both had appointments scheduled with our PCM (primary care manager) at the air force base nearby. Since A is here for language school, we’re not exactly attached anywhere. Therefore, I have a doctor in the air force. Before going into our appointment, I probably should have made a point to do some research on what paperwork I might need. We went into our appointment with nothing in hand. As soon as A was called in, he came back out like 15 minutes later and that didn’t seem right to me. [Read more…]

Olmsted Series | What’s New? And Info About the Olmsted Foundation

February 8, 2017 · MILITARY, OLMSTED SERIES · 1 Comment

Ah yes, the good times begin for our big move, overseas. I’ve been so quiet in the blogging world because I have absolutely nothing to talk about, I’m serious peoples! I’ve tried writing up a bunch of posts, but there’s never enough content, so that’s why we have complete silence. [Read more…]

Military + Giveaway | We have orders, I repeat, we have orders!

June 17, 2016 · MILITARY, MILITARY LIFE · 8 Comments

Yes, it’s all very true, we have our written orders. The lovely piece of paper that gives the ability to do ANYTHING. [Read more…]

Military Life | Deployment One + Two

May 27, 2016 · DEPLOYMENT, MILITARY, MILITARY LIFE · 3 Comments

Taken by Alyson

During our time on Oahu, we have gone through 2 deployments and, to me, they were completely different. I’ve, we, essentially learned so much from each one and have taken several things from our deployments. I’ve decided to put a little list together of what stuck with me during each deployment. [Read more…]

Military Life | A Homecoming Story

May 23, 2016 · DEPLOYMENT, LIFE, LOVE, MILITARY, MILITARY LIFE · 11 Comments

First and foremost, thank you to everyone that reached out to me about A’s return from deployment, it really meant so much to me! I had all these plans of how I wanted to document that day, as most of you saw, Snapchat was my outlet for capturing moments of that day. I didn’t exactly get the point of when we actually reunited for the first time, but I have pictures, and to be honest, who really cares about all of that stuff. My husband is home and I couldn’t be happier! [Read more…]

Life | I Should Be Stressed + Giveaway Winner!

April 18, 2016 · MILITARY, MILITARY LIFE · 5 Comments

Photography by Poppi Photography

Apparently I’m more focused on things I should be feeling instead of not feeling. Sorry, that doesn’t make sense, but with everything that’s been going on in the past month and a half, I should be stressed. However I am not, so thank goodness for that.

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Giveaway | PCS Season Is Upon Us

April 12, 2016 · MILITARY, MILITARY LIFE · 2 Comments

Yep, you heard me correctly, PCS season is upon us and that couldn’t be more true for us … come to think of it, it will happen in several weeks. Where has the time come? Are you stressed out, maybe your not and that’s awesome. I’m still twiddling my thumbs waiting for our physical orders, which is any day now. I’m anxious to get the ball rolling. [Read more…]

Military | Deployment & Making Decisions

March 30, 2016 · DEPLOYMENT, MILITARY · 3 Comments

Ever since we found out about our shore duty, everything went into warp seed. Decisions needed to be made with very little time to make them. It hasn’t exactly been fun times. [Read more…]

Military | Olmsted Foundation

March 16, 2016 · ADVENTURE, LIFE, MILITARY · 11 Comments

Keeping the excitement going for the week, I thought I’d share a little bit more about The Olmsted Foundation, if you haven’t seen our Good News post, then maybe start there and come back to this one. [Read more…]

Deployment | My Husband Helped Me Through My Run

February 22, 2016 · DEPLOYMENT, MILITARY, MILITARY LIFE · 9 Comments

I’m proud to say I’ve been running strong for the past month and it has been such an accomplishment. But last week turned out to be my crappiest week for running where I couldn’t achieve any of my goals. After one of my runs, which nearly turned out to be a fail, I had thoughts running through my mind and wanted to share in hopes it would inspire someone. [Read more…]

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