Mid Tour

Everyone that goes to Korea gets a guaranteed 2 week mid tour. Matt just happened to be able to take his paternity leave along with his midtour and is being able to come home for 4 weeks.

The process to get permission to come home was long and drawn out and he had to fill out about a million different forms and send them to a million different people. It came down to this week and he still hadn't gotten everything 100% approved and he'd been working on paper work for 6 weeks! But he got the total okay on Thursday and has all the correct paperwork in hand to get to the US on Tuesday!

So, Matt leaves Korea on Monday afternoon (Our time, its Tuesday morning for him) and will arrive in the states on Tuesday around noon. He has a flight from New Jersey and he'll finally arrive in St louis at 10:50 pm. We are planning on picking him up and going to get icecream cones and going to a park for a little while before we head home. I want Emmaline to have a chance to talk to her daddy before she goes back to bed- and- our dating anniversary was April 22 and he missed being home for that by only 5 days. Every year we go to the park and reminice about our very short courtship. Cant break tradition if we can help it!

His departure date back to Korea is May 25 and until then there wont be much, if anything, to update on this blog. Check our other blog out for all things family related! Happy May!

Satisfactory is good!

Matt has finally ended his torturous work schedule. For the past month he has been working 12 hour days. He worked 13 days in a row, had a day off then worked another 12 days in a row before finally getting his full weekend! He was so exhausted he slept late both Saturday and Sunday.

The reason he was working so much was for an inspection of the base. He was informed on Friday that the base received a Satisfactory overall. This is actually really good. According to what Matt told me, each shop gets graded individually but the base gets one score overall- generally the lowest score given to any of the shops. So where his shop did really really well, the general consensus on base was a Satisfactory. Matt said its extremely difficult to receive an Excellent or Outstanding on a base wide inspection.

His Easter was less than exciting as he wasn't with family. I did send him some Easter treats in two little baskets that he enjoyed opening. And he took a walk in very plesant weather before going to church.

Here are two of the pictures he took!