Our Dream Come True

With our impending move back to the States, we've been thinking about everything we've seen and did in these past 6 years. We've gotten to see England, France, and Turkey, and that's not including everywhere that Steven has been to with the USAF.
When we moved to England in 2005, we were young, just married, and expecting our oldest daughter. It was a lot of change and we under appreciated where we lived. All of our children were born there and it was just hard to really experience all the history England had. We really enjoyed where we lived and loved everything it had to offer our kids. Being a military child, life is never normal but we made some sense of it there.

In February 2010 we moved to Turkey. We've seen a lot reasons why America is so great here. The country is   mostly Muslim and we live in a very run down area. While we hear that Istanbul is very European feeling, that's not the case here. This place has made us appreciate all the freedoms we have in America and the ease of being able get the things you need whenever you need it. We are grateful for the opportunities we've had overseas but we are ready for our girls to know what America is really like, not just what it's like when we are on vacation.

The girls used to think the mosques here were castles. Sadie actually thought we'd moved to Disney World, ha!

I'm also looking forward to everyone speaking English, especially in a medical setting. I have thyroiditis which the doctors here believe has become thyroid cancer. It will be unbelievably better speaking with doctors without a language barrier and translator.
Right now we are waiting on orders and in a few short weeks we will be ready and on our way out of here. We know this probably won't be the last time we move, but we're hoping to stay there for a few years. Maybe one day we'll be living overseas again, but for now we'll rejoice in the fact that soon we'll be living in Nebraska.

-K