Family in motion!

Halo!

Welcome to our family blog and thank you for reading!

This blog will serve as our platform to keep family, friends and whomever follows up to date on places we visit, things we learn in our travels, adventures in homeschooling & our home based business, and anything and everything else.

First, background and introductions and then we'll catch you up. Our immediate family is comprised of 5 parts (for now anyway).

There's:
Marshal - 31
Brandy
Hailey - 13
Grace - 9
Ryley - almost 2

We are not your "conventional" family I suppose, we have only been married 3 years during which our Ryley was born, Hailey & Gracie are Marshal's "step" daughters and that will be the last time you see "step" used in that fashion. We all love each other very much and there are no barriers or boundaries in our family. Brandy is currently active duty Navy, Marshal is full time sales, Hailey and Grace will be home schooled and Ryley will take the occasional trip to daycare so Marshal will not go insane.

Our present adventure began months ago, Brandy was up for orders and the options were fairly limited. We opted for Stuttgart, Germany. Stuttgart offered a lower chance that Brandy would be away from the girls, great opportunity for travel and a chance to introduce to girls to new countries and cultures. The downside of course being the distance it creates from family and friends. We intend this blog to shorten the distance between us and you. On And leading up to June 17th there were employment options to weigh, choices of schooling to make, financial decisions to cipher through, not to mention medical screenings, pack outs, shipments, etc.

June 18th we began our travels! We roamed to Lake Lure, NC to spend time with some great business partners and create some incredible memories to take with us. From there we traveled to Roanoke, Va to spend time with Marshal's side of the family. We enjoyed time on the Lake with Marshal's Dad, went to Natural Bridge with Marshal's mom and sister Vicki, spent time with Great-Gma Mary and truly soaked in the family time. The third week we returned to Va Beach, staying at Brandy's Dad's and his wife, Cindy, visiting her mom and her husband, Ed and spending time with brother-in-law, Jason, and sister, Kristy. We also got spend time with our local business partners and friends, the East Coast Surge (www.eastcoastsurge.com).

July 12 was the big day, time to fly to Germany! After a couple delays, a few frustrations, a few laughs and finally an arrival we were there. Neither Brandy or I slept, Ryley slept very little. Fortunately Brandy has a great couple who are friends already stationed here, Jeff and Jean. Jean picked us up from the airport and took us to lunch, our hotel and had us over for dinner. It was great being welcomed by friendly faces.

Hailey and Grace will join us in a short month and a half, they remained home for the summer with their natural dad.

We are currently in the process of acclimating to a new country. We have to acquire cell service, a home, new drivers licenses, a car, furniture, bank accounts, APO box and daily routines. This will all be very exciting and a whirlwind and we will do our best to update the blog as often as we can offering tips, pictures, videos and stories of our adventures.

Again, thank you for reading and we hope you enjoy!