It has been quite a week for us! Sariah flew on her first plane. She was so good~ she slept the whole time. At first, I was afraid we weren't going to be able to make it to Chad's graduation because the lady at the front desk didn't want to accept the doctors note for Sariah. Luckily though, she sent us to her supervisor, who saw that doctors note, and whisked us away to our airplane. We rented a car in St. Louis, and then we drove two hours to Ft. Leonard Wood. On Wednesday, we attended Family Day and watched a movie of all of the new MP's and the different training they have gone through in the last 20 weeks. Chad got his first glance at Sariah on Wednesday morning, and after the Family Day event was over, he was allowed to come off post and spend the day with us. He is such a proud Daddy!
We spent the rest of the day relaxing and letting Chad and Sariah get to know one another. She took to him right away, and he handled her like she was going to break, it was so cute! Mom and Dad Nunes got into town later that night, and we went out to dinner at Cracker Barrel. Chad had to return to the base for one last night of Army duties, and we watched as he mingled with the other MP's and lined up in formation.
Thursday morning was graduation. They played another movie of MP activities and then they released all the service members to their families. We picked up Chad's packet of orders and then went off to file paperwork for Sariah while Mom and Dad went to the MP museum there on base. Chad finally officially changed my name so that the insurance company would quit hating me, and added Sariah to our list of dependents. We fixed our passport papers to have the new date and duty station (It's no longer Mannheim, but not Geissen). We went out to lunch with Mom and Dad, and then we went back to the hotel for some much needed NAP Time!
Friday morning we left Ft. Leonard Wood and drove to St. Louis. We decided to do some sight seeing to kill time until our flight home that night, and ended up at the St. Louis arch. We walked through the park and then we went underground to the museum. We rode the tram (which should not be allowed to fit five people per box!) to the top, and took wonderful pictures of Illinois and St. Louis. We then went back down in the tram (down was ten times worse than up) and headed back to the airport to bring Chaddy home.
Saturday rolled around and we went to Uncle Lenny's house to celebrate. Chad's friends and family all came out to eat good food and catch up on the last five months. We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family! The food was so good I'm positive no one left hungry.
We took Sariah to church for the first time on Sunday. She looks so pretty in her dress. She's quite the people pleaser, always look so dang cute and happy (or sleepy) whenever anyone else but her mom and dad are around. But we know the truth, all that cuteness hides a little girl with a temper! But thats why we love her so much! that and she tends to giggle in her sleep!
Chad will be working for our local recruiters office for the next two weeks, and then he's got a week off to play with me and Sariah. He's off to Germany before we are to set up our housing and make sure that things are set. Once Sariah's paperwork makes it through the system, we'll head off and start our life over there. Hopefully Chad will get to stay on post long enough where when the call him away, We'll let him go (temporarily), lets just pray they wait that long!
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