Friday, February 4, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
A Return Home...
After 15 months in Naples, Italy, Sara and I have returned home to Alaska for the winter. Though we truly enjoyed our time in Italy, we're thrilled to be home once again; not only back in Alaska, but also back in the United States! God Bless America!
It's obviously been a very long time since we've updated our blog, so hopefully this brief, yet detailed posting gets everyone caught up enough to feel "reconnected" with the Bryans :)
The most important event of our lives is 'due' to arrive any day now! Sara and I are expecting our first baby in the very near future! In fact, Sara's due date was yesterday! With that being said, if you don't see any postings over the next year or so following this blog, we've likely chosen to prioritize in a way that precludes blogging. Hopefully we will manage to keep up while also parenting, though I'm not too optimistic. Either way, we will at least post picture of our little son as soon as he gets here.
On 15 December we left Naples. I was on the road a lot during that tour, but thankfully Sara traveled with me at every opportunity. After multiple deployments in Yokosuka, Japan and Everett, Washington, being in Europe with Sara was a wonderful experience. We enjoyed getting to know our temporary home, wonderful neighbors and got to see so much of that part of the world. We got to spend our first week back in the States with the Bryans in Wyoming for Christmas, then departed for 10 weeks of temporary assignment as an Officer Recruiter in Anchorage.
Now we start the next phase in our life... We depart in mid-March for 2 years of graduate school at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. We look forward to meeting some new friends and being together as a family (all three of us!) without the interruptions of deployments and business travel. Following grad school we will head to Newport, Rhode Island for 6 months of training before being assigned to our new duty station onboard one of 286 US Navy warships stationed around the world.
Our time in Alaska has been truly wonderful. We've enjoyed reconnecting with old friends, frequenting the Wilson's cabin north of Anchorage, and going on long walks around the city... and with Anchorage's 120 miles of groomed trails, it's been a treat! Needless to say, we've also reconnected with the local coffee shops around town (especially Kaladi's & George's cafe downtown) and I recently had the pleasure of enjoying a breakfast of french toast, reindeer sausage and eggs at Gwennie's Old Alaska Restaurant with my good friend Ryan (who flew in for 48 hours prior to his upcoming deployment)! It's been great to have family and friends come up to visit us over the past couple weeks (all with the hopes of meeting baby Bryan), but it's been especially great to know that both of our mom's will be in town to meet their new grandson next week!
Please check in with us from time to time and we'll try to keep this blog updated with pictures of our new little guy and our new home in Monterey.
God bless,
Grant & Sara
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