Seeing it for ourselves....

Holloman AFB, New Mexico. We went to a briefing last Tuesday where they hyped it up, showed us some pictures, and gave us the facts. Regardless, we kept hearing all these horrible things from people who had been there but also people who had just heard themselves. We knew we needed to see it for ourselves. Mom watched the kids and Jason and I headed to New Mexico. We made it there in 6 and a half hours and I even had to stop twice to pee. Not bad. Here are the facts...it could be worse. Am I excited? No. But am I confident we will be fine? Yes. The base was nice and there was some good and not-so-good houses. We hope we can luck out and get in some of the good housing. There is a school on base so Aiden will automatically go there and I just need to get Caylee in on base day care and then I know my kids will be safe in our AFB box. That's what I want. The surrounding area (town of Alamogordo) is very small and not-so-great so I figure we are going to dig in deep to military life and really accept base life.

On base

The nice housing....cross your fingers...

Older...not so nice housing....let's hope not....

The white sand dunes....probably the coolest nearby attraction

It is still hard to believe this is my reality. But it is. Luckily Aiden is at the perfect age where he is not only not affected by it but even finds excitement in the idea we are going. If only I could see it through those beautiful, young, innocent eyes. I'm going to try, that's for sure.