Moving to Ft Polk Louisiana

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This is a map to show you exactly where Fort Polk, LA is located and whats nearby. Tyson re-enlisted for 4 more years yesterday January 25, 2011. We decided to have Tyson stay in the Army a bit longer so that we could pay off more debt and put a cushin in our savings account so that if he does leave the Army like we plan right now we wont be stressed out about how we are going to afford to live on one paycheck. I think its a really good decision for our family. We are blessed to have a job that Tyson can go to and get paid every two weeks and have medical covered for me and the boys. Mostly I think we are just happy that everything worked out the way we wanted it too. With this decision to re-enlist we wanted to be stationed at one of the two training centers for the army so that tyson could delay being sent back over to Afghanistan and spend time with us. We haven't had a lot of family time since Tyson and I got married. Originally we thought him re-enlisting might mean that he would have to deploy with his unit he is currently with winter 2011 and then we would be able to move to the place we wanted. I really did not want that since like I said we are just barely getting to the point of living in the same house together for a year and we've been married 3 years now. So we did what we could. Prayed and hoped that our Heavenly Father saw fit to make our plans to stay a united family as long as possible could come through. It did.
I'm due to have our second baby boy April 22nd and am excited that Tyson will be able to get to see the first year of this lil guys life and see the subtle and fun changes babies make. I am excited to venture to a new part of America and live there and experience the "dirty" south. I cannot wait to get out of this winter alaskan weather and be closer(sorta) to family. We are also excited to get to Utah this July and be able to take our time to move and enjoy family time. Got tons of pictures to post and hopefully I'll do that soon.