Busy Week

Hey everyone (this is Angela)
It's been a little while since Ken posted so I thought I would this time.
So we've been in our housing now for a little over a week and are finally feeling settled. Once we get all of our things it will feel more like home though. We are anxiously awaiting the delivery of our household goods which includes all of our furniture, pictures, some kitchen things, and everything I used to decorate our house back in Clarksville. I am so anxious to decorate this place and make it ours. The bare walls are driving me crazy! haha. We went to a furniture store over the weekend and purchased carpet. Military housing doesn't have carpeted floors so that was one of the first things that I HAD to get. We did receive one of our shipments of belongings earlier in the week but it was just the things that we thought we would need as soon as we arrived here. Towels, linens, some dishes, the rest of our clothes and of course...all of the gaming systems (ken is happy he has his xbox again). But hopefully everything else will arrive soon.

We also purchased another vehicle this week so that I would have something to drive. I included some pictures, everyone say "go Angela!". We bought a Honda S-MX from our sponsor who was helping us out when we first arrived on the island. I call it the "mommy car". It's not real fancy like the Altezza, but it gets me from point A to point B. I have tried the driving thing a couple of times this week and it's not too hard. I haven't attempted to venture off base yet though so that should be interesting whenever I do. I still catch myself every once in awhile when I pass another vehicle thinking to myself "why is that child driving a car!?" But it's because the passenger's seat is on the other side of the vehicle of course.


I have met a few other military wives here and met them for lunch recently. I met them on an Okinawa message board. They are all very nice. One is actually from Clarksville, Tn! Small world huh? Ken and I have actually come across a few people here who are from Tn. The music director at the church we have been visiting is from Knoxville. And lately whenever someone finds out where we are from, they ask us if our families are okay after the tornadoes that came through. Thankfully we are able to say yes. But everyone back home has been in our thoughts and prayers and we hope that our hometown is able to recover soon. It's just surreal to see all of the pictures and think "that's our home". I'm sure seeing it up close is a lot different too.
Ken is trying to get involved and meet people as well. He recently joined a Dragon Boat Race team and has been practicing for an upcoming race on May 5th. Hope to get some good pictures then! He practices three days a week with his fellow Army co-workers. As long as they beat Navy and Air Force, that's all that matters apparently. : )

Baby update!! I'm 20 weeks and 2 days today. I had my first OB appointment here the other day. It was somewhat difficult getting an appointment because there are A LOT of pregnant military wives here. Apparently, we have nothing better to do...I don't know. Or there is something in the water. Anyway. Everything is good with Baby Freeman. I'm measuring 19 inches so baby is definitely growing! : ) I have an ultrasound scheduled for May 21 cause that's the earliest they could get me in with all of the other pregnant women here. By then we should know 100% if we are having girl. We are pretty sure that we are from the 4D ultrasound that we had done before we left, but there's always that slight chance of it being wrong. I was only 17 weeks at the time. I haven't bought any little girl things yet, but I am anxious to decorate the nursery whenever we know for sure. I've been able to feel her kicking a lot lately, which is the strangest but neatest feeling in the world! For some reason, she kicks the most during church..haha.



Well, I think that's all that we have to update for now....I type a lot more than Ken does I guess. We will blog again soon!