Shipping off to Basic!

Hello--

So i decided to start this blog because while Tyler (my husband) is away at basic training-- and I don't want him to miss a thing. In case the letters i write to him don't get to him, he will be able to sit and read these when he gets back.

well, lets see. I am 20 years old. I have a 15 month old son. I have been an army brat my entire life-- and have sworn to myself i would NEVER marry into the military. Yet, here I am today-- as my husband ships off to basic and AIT for the army. It began about a year again when he swore into the delayed entry program. Now that he just graduated from high school, here he is today-- shipping off. This morning-- we got to MEPS in Syracuse, and they were doing all of the physicals and paperwork and breifings and whatnot. Then it was Tyler's turn to do the last bit of paperwork-- well now this became a VERY HECTIC day after this. He came back out and said that he is NOT an E-2. Apparently, his seargent had lied and said he did the advance PT test. Tyler was told he didn't need to do that. So it turned into a REALLLYYY big mess. I called my dad (who happens to be a colonel in the army) and he got mad-- and called everyone and started going off. So they stopped everything that was going on to deal with this whole thing. There were questions of if he can get promoted and if he would still ship today. It was very long and stressful. Tyler's recruiter is def. going to be in BIG trouble for this, especially because he had even signed a sworn statement saying Tyler took the advanced PT test. But anyway-- in the end after about 3 hours of everything being delayed-- he got sworn in-- which i have NEVER been so proud of him than i was at that moment. To think of everything he's accomplished in the past year, he's just an amazing person. Then he got the promotion and then we rushed to the airport to meet him there. We got there and hung out with him for about and hour and a half. Travis was very upset when we had to say goodbye to him. I wasn't as bad as I thought I was going to be, at that moment. Later on though-- it hit me. Having your best friend go away for 6 whole months is a lot. I guess I should probably get used to it though.

Travis has all of this energy. Tyler is usually the one to put him to sleep because he's the only one that can get him to sleep instantly. Blahh. He's such a daddy's boy. Tyler made some videos of himself for Travis to watch. So I will show him those everyday. Anywaay-- it's 10:32 pm and Travis is just now falling asleep. I think after this long day today-- I am going to go to bed as well. Hopefully I will hear from Tyler tonight. He said he was going to try to call but he has NO idea where he is going. I hate that. Not knowing where he's going, if he's ok, who he's with. It drives me crazy. Anyway-- I really hope that these 2 months go by really fast!!!

Gnight All!!