After Okinawa: The Future is Bright

All these beautiful photos taken by my friend Amanda Marshall who we seem to be following around--first Okinawa and now this beautiful place.

Now that we know what we are actually doing I can announce it, assuming nothing will change. We found out this week that in just a few months we will be heading back to the good ole' U.S.A. More specifically: Monterey California!

Victor will be getting a masters degree there from the Naval Postgraduate School and we are so excited. We are also feeling really grateful that Victor is able to get a masters degree while still being in the Marine Corps. It means that besides our own personal travel, we will not be moving abroad again anytime soon, which is kind of bittersweet. It also means that we are leaving Okinawa more than six months earlier than we planned, which is straight up heartbreaking to me. And we are leaving before I have the chance to climb Mt. Fuji, which was the last thing on my most important bucket list. We had the hotel booked and everything.

But onward and upward! We are counting our blessings. Having babies makes you so much more aware of the distance of being so far from family, so we are so grateful to be going back to the same country and see them more, and so they can see our baby (and future babies) since babies change so quickly. And we are so grateful to be able to continue our educations while staying debt free. When I read back on this paragraph it makes me realize how grateful to God I am for such an outpouring of blessings.