"We were given this life because we are strong enough to live it"

It's not for the weak... no doubt about that. I never in a gazillion years thought I would be living this lifestyle. I knew I would be married to Brandon, well I hoped anyway :) I just never thought we would be in the military. I say we because even though it is not actually me who is enlisted, I feel as I am. I often see a bumper sticker that says the hardest job in the military is being a military spouse. Nobody warns you for how difficult it is going to be but at the same time rewarding. Brandon has been in the Army for 4 years and out of those 4, he has only been here for 1 Christmas- OUCH! And out of those 4 years, he has been in Iraq for nearly 2. Looking back, I can't believe it. I have lived every minute of it and at the time, it was terrible, totally do-able but not easy to say the least. Now here we are, Brandon has been home almost 3 months and it has FLOWN by. He will be out of the Army in October but actually done serving in August. Talk about stressful. We are both excited about what comes next in our lives but I have to say, it is quite scary. I mean it is like starting over, a completely new life for us. So as of now, we just take it one day at a time and in the next month or so when things settle down, he begins the job search and has to decide what he wants to do- the options are endless. So I'm sure this blog will be filled with tons of emotions- good and bad.

Lots of exciting things to come for the Bruce's.