Ft. Leonard Wood, here we come!

For those of you who have been wondering where Matt and Heather are going to end up...

Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri is the spot for now! A couple of weeks ago Matt was offered a job as a civilian employee at the post. Yep that's right. A civilian. We were excited about the opportunity to enter the civilian world in the federal employment system, and decided to take the job! We have been trying to figure out how to take all the steps of getting out of the regular army and moving to the states in a month! It is kind of overwhelming, but I think we are handling it very well!

We are excited about the move. Unfortunately we are going to be missing my parents by about two weeks. They are currently stationed there, my dad's change of command though is a little later this month and we plan to arrive early to mid June. I'm sad to be missing them. They are hard at work right now trying to find us a place to live which has been such a blessing. On a prayer note... my dad's next duty assignment is a deployment. He will basically be dropping off my mom in VA (she will be close to my sister and her kiddo's); then preparing for a year long deployment down range. So as you think of and pray for our troops down range, please include "Heather's Dad" in those thoughts and prayers.

So, yea. Ft. Leonard Wood. Thinking about this move is kind of bittersweet. We are SO EXCITED about this job and the opportunities that await us, but this is not an easy place to leave either. I'm sure that you can tell from previous posts that we have been truly blessed and have absolutely loved living in Germany. Leaving our friends and this side of the world is hard to do. But we feel like after months and months of praying God has really opened the doors for us to take this position, and we are excited to find out what His plans entail!

We will definitely keep you posted as to how the move is going and how things end up stateside, so stay tuned!

Oh and a big thanks to all of those who have just been praying, and praying for us, we appreciate you so much, and are so glad to share an answer to prayer.