Our Army Adventure: Two Months Down

Tomorrow Drew and I will celebrate two months down and ten more to go! It feels like we just celebrated our one month. Time can fly as fast as it would like to. I'm not stopping it! This past week at home was great. I was able to see tons of good family and friends. As many of you know, one of the exciting highlights from last week was that Drew was interviewed on Fox News. It was a spur of the moment thing but luckily we had a little bit of time to start a phone chain so many people were able to catch it. He did great! I don't have a link yet but I have it on VHS which I will convert to a DVD soon. My camera is not letting me download it so I ended up sending my copy to Drew. I also sent him the cute and thoughtful video that we made over the numerous Christmas parties between our families. I'm sure he will love it and I'm guessing some parts will make him laugh!
On Christmas Day, Drew earned his combat patch. A picture of the ceremony is below. Drew was able to have the day off and did some much needed relaxing. Or in Drew's words from Fox News - chilling out. :) He was also able to open presents with us on Christmas morning which was amazing!! He really just hung out while we opened presents. And of course, you know Drew, he added his funny little side comments which made everyone laugh. It was a different kind of Christmas with not being together but it was definitely still a special one. Thank you to everyone for your warm wishes and generous, thoughtful presents!
Drew's team of three has the day off tomorrow. His Sgt is a big GA football fan and wanted to watch the game this evening. The game this evening means in the middle of the night for them so Drew was going to wake up and watch part of it with him and catch up on sleep tomorrow. It's kind of fun they can do that!
It's hard to believe that a new year begins on Friday. We are looking forward to the new year and all it has to bring- especially Drew coming home!

Here are pics of the combat patch ceremony.