#predeployment

[tingordiales]

Goodspeed to my junakiz⚡🍀🔫♠️ ##goodluck🍀 #bivuoac12 ##redarmy ##predeployment #newbiemission ##teamhosla ##milsim (at Clark Air Base, Clark Field, Pampanga) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqWttWuJ9IEAv-E4Uo1aN9YpFMcY7F8qwKyAhU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[copperfoximagery1]

I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. - Leo Christopher Family Hicks #predeployment #photoshoot #heartsapart.org #photography #photo #picoftheday #picture #elpasophotographer #elp #elpaso #pic #military #army #deploymentsucks #deployment #love #portrait #family (at El Paso Municipal Rose Garden)

[copperfoximagery1]

I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. - Leo Christopher Family Hicks #predeployment #photoshoot #heartsapart.org (at El Paso Municipal Rose Garden)

[globalrecon]

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[ohh-kay-photo]

[ Adkins | Family ] February | 2016

The neighbors I recruited during the snowstorm as models have become my friends, so I was happy to do this session for them. Larry is now deployed, but these images were captured so he’d have them to take with him. I loved this whole session from the location to the lighting. This family is so beautiful!

-Kayleigh

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[mevalle13-blog]

The end of Predeployment

Deployment is upon us with less than a week to countdown. The days have been passing by so fast. I hope his time away feels the same. We decided to get married before he left for multiple reasons, but mostly because we had been seriously talking about getting married right before we found out about his deployment in September. I know this week will be trying. I'm hoping to pick myself back up fairly fast. What did you do in the first few weeks of the deployment?

[i-willsettheworldonfire]

Game Plan Time

DH is leaving so very soon, and planning has always been helpful for me whenever I’m feeling this overwhelmed. So! I’m going to stay here in San Diego until late February, then move to stay with my dad and/or grandparents. I’ll have my 17 units to keep me busy, so I’m not super worried about having nothing to do (although I can always look for a temp agency if I wanted to). We’ve already planned to go house hunting when he ports in our new home before he even officially gets home which is something super awesome to look forward to. But I need something that doesn’t revolve around him, so I’m planning a little road trip for myself! I want to drive all the way up highway 1/101, stopping in his hometown in Oregon and any other beautiful spots I can find. End destination: Vancouver, Canada. I’m still trying to decide if I want to rental car it up, drive down to Seattle and fly back home or if I want to do that very very long drive twice. I have plenty of time to figure it out so I’m not worried! The hardest part is going to be convincing DH that I can do this all by myself without him having to worry. He doesn’t really want my traveling alone (long story) but maybe since its freaking Canada he won’t fight it too much. Fingers crossed! Other things to focus on are working out AT LEAST 4 times a week and working on packing, going through our things, and all of the moving stuff. In June I’ll start talking to realtors so we can make headway on buying a home! I know this deployment is going to suck, but I’m trying my best to find things to look forward to.

[mevalle13-blog]

Fading thoughts

Today wasn’t a great day. I had to fight away tears at work. All I could think about was how distant Sean is becoming. It’s like he’s just throwing in the towel until he leaves. I don’t know what to do to make things better. He’s struggling to enjoy the holiday season. To make matters worse, he had training moved up to take up the first half of December. It took me breaking down in the car for him to take the time to help me set up the Christmas tree. It doesn’t feel fair that I have to spend the next Christmas alone. Then he wants to just be here but not really here for this Christmas? I don’t know how to make him present in the moment. Or how to keep him from thinking life has stopped. This isn’t his first deployment, but it seems to be hitting pretty hard.

I do know one thing.. I’d rather be miserable for the next year and a half during this pre-deployment and deployment than to be without him.

I wish he’d just leave already. He wishes he could just get it over with. How do we deal?