i could say 'this is what happens when your fiance is in the military, you do weird things' but that would not be true. well partially true, but it is not entirely to blame because i have always done weird things and probably always will.
and i love the beach, so why not? plus lance's family is really great. and hilarious. especially his grandpa. who won my heart even more by agreeing with lance's aunt when she told me i look like prince william's wife, kate middleton. (um best compliment ever?! even if it was probably only because of my giant blue hat.) and pop said, "yeah, lance sure knew what he was doing." love it.
the phrase you will hear someone say to pop every time you hang out with their family is, "tell us how you really feel pop." he says whatever he wants and it's pretty much the best thing ever. his commentary while watching the olympics was priceless and i should have been recording it for lance.
they've been going to the beach as an extended family every summer since lance was born. he's the baby cousin, but of course now there are lots of cute little great-grandkids running around. case in point:
the best part of the week was that lance called on friday to tell me that he passed the darby phase of ranger school! YAY! ranger school begins with "RAP" week and is followed by the darby, mountains and florida phases. each phase is roughly three weeks and if you get recycled you must redo the entire three weeks until you pass. at the end of each phase they get a little break when they can make phone calls.
confused yet? yeah. the question lance's cousin asked: so what does this mean for your wedding plans? answer: it doesn't actually make anything clearer, because we still don't know when ranger school will end. BUT it is GREAT news because it means he is moving quickly through school. he is amazing.
it was so so good to hear his voice and i was definitely floating for the next few days! right now he is in the mountains phase and i am counting down about two weeks until our next phone call.
this picture is from memorial day in atlanta, when we were last together. i got my face painted at the renaissance faire and kept it on all night. a perfect example of the weird things i was just telling you about. ;-)
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Yay on Lance making it to the mountains! I lived really close to Lane's parents during grad school and I saw them way more than I saw my own family. I hope the next few weeks fly by and you get your phone call. If you have any more questions don't hesitate to shoot me an email =)
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