2009 Recap...

I am a couple of days off on this but we were out of town for New Year's and we didn't get home until late last night. Here is a recap from the past year.

January - Robert was in Iraq and I became a Certified Personal Trainer.
February - Robert came home in time for us to celebrate our 2 years together.
March - We found out that Robert had a slot for the career course and we went on our cruise.
April - We made a trip to Texas to see my cousin get married and everything else was a blur due to work.
May - We found out we were going to Korea and Robert surprised me and took me ring shopping.
June - We went hiking one day and Robert proposed!
July - We were married at the courthouse.
August - We had family and friends in town for our reception.
September - Robert graduates and we made the cross country journey to drop him off at Ranger school.
October -He comes home from Ranger school and we found out that we had to be in Korea by the end of November and we finally got to go to an OSU vs. Texas Tech football game.
November - I resign from my job, the movers come and pack us up and we were homeless and Robert left for Korea.
December - I spent some quality time with my family and left for Korea just in time for Christmas.

Whew what a year! So much has changed in both of our lives over the course of the past year!

We had a great New Year's Eve with one of my friends Nicole and her family. She and I met at Fort Sill, we both worked for MWR and her family moved to Osan this past summer. It was a lot of fun to see her and meet her family! We ate Korean food and rang in the New Year with champagne and a toast from her youngest daughter Kaitlyn (she was not drinking the champagne). We enjoyed shopping for purses, blankets, DVDs, shoes, clothing, and exploring a new city. Robert and I also had a couple of learning experiences with the Seoul Metro Train system and we are slowly beginning to learn our way around. When we were on our way back we decided to stop in New City, which is where Robert had taken me for dinner the day after I arrived in Korea and it is also one train stop up from us. We ate at an overpriced Italian restaurant which was decent but I think I was just hungry since we had snacked through lunch and it takes about 2 hours and 40 min to get from Osan area back home. We walked around and ended up picking up some goodies from the bakery. Also, while I was in Japan one of my favorite snacks was these rice things from 711 (I have no idea what they are called). They are rice in the shape of a triangle with seaweed wrapped around them and they have various meats inside of them (i.e. tuna, salmon, and shrimp). Last time we were in New City we saw a 711 and so we picked up a few this time we went back and almost cleaned them out! When we were taking a taxi back home we saw a whole new area of shops and restaurants that we had never seen before. Last time we took that cab ride home I know that I was experiencing some major jet lag and felt like I was in a daze. We were excited to find a new area around us to go exploring. I will let you know how it turns out for us. I have also included some pictures that I forgot to put in on my last post and I also took some of our goodies from the weekend. The pictures of the food are just for you Les!

Walking to our apartment from post

Walking down the hill from our apartment to post


Snow day

Our new blanket that is SUPER soft!!

Clockwise starting at top: Sandwich from bakery, bread, powered sugar bread with cream inside, a green tea muffin, bread with sauce, and in the center are the rice triangles.

Pictures at last!

I hope these pictures give you an idea of where we are living. I will post more as our household goods arrive. Not a lot going on around here! We have been doing a lot of relaxing and walking in the snow lately. We are going to Osan to visit one of my friends Nicole and her family for New Years. Which means we are also going to get to do some shopping and I can't wait!! We were hoping that our first shipment of our household goods would arrive here this week but no such luck. It should be here for sure on Monday and I can't wait! I will finally be able to cook and we will have blankets, towels, dishes, pots and pans. The all of our big stuff will be here at the end of January if not before then. I have never been so ready to sleep on my bed!

Entryway looking at our front door

Guest bathroom

Guest bedroom

Looking from entryway to the left to the living room
Looking from entry way to the right to the kitchen

Laundry room behind the kitchen
Walk-in pantry across from the laundry room
Wall of cabinets in the kitchen - standing between the walk-in pantry and the laundry room
Office and Robert's gear room
Master bedroom and Roberts closet
My vanity and my closet is to the left and bathroom is to the right

Enclosed patio area
Living Room
The box on the wall is our camera screen for our doorbell and below are Robert's new toys!

A new camera and finally we get some snow!!

We had a great Christmas day relaxing and enjoying our free time together. We did a little exploring of the city and managed to find an HDMI cable that Robert needed in order to connect the new surround sound to the TV. The day after Christmas we relaxed and hung out at the apartment the whole day! It was exactly what we needed and even better my sleep schedule is almost back to normal. I slept until 8 AM this morning and was able to stay up till almost 10 PM the night prior!

Robert bought me a Nikon D3000 camera for Christmas! It is wonderful! I just have to learn how to use it so it is going to take a little time and a lot of experimenting so bear with me on the pictures.

Today we decided to venture out in the 19 degree weather to check out one of the chapels on post. We had heard good things about the Chaplin. It was great and very rejuvenating to hear a Korean pastor that is passionate about the bible and his preaching. The congregation is small but I think it has to do with it being the holidays and people are traveling back to the states to visit family. There were about 50 people there. I am looking forward to getting involved and connected. After church we went to the PX to do a little shopping for the apartment we were in there for about 45 min and when we came out the ground was covered in SNOW! It has been lightly snowing all day! I love it! While we were at the PX we picked up a puzzle which is what we have been working on most of the today! It has been nice to do something in the apartment besides watching movies or should I say episodes of 24 (I gave Robert three seasons for Christmas)! Tomorrow we are going to do some more in processing for me and finally I am going to work out and check out the gym!

It has been almost been a week since I left Tulsa to head to Korea. The week has flown by and I am sure the next two years will fly by too! I am so thankful for advanced technology, during the past week I have been able to video chat with my family several times. Have a great week and I hope to have pictures of the apartment posted soon!