Caresse’s graduation from boot camp

April 27- May 2nd Tanner and I flew to Oklahoma City and then drove to Fort Sill in Lawton, OK (about an hour and a half away).  Thursday was Family Day.  Her Battery put on a short program for us including skits and then they were released on pass for the day.  The first thing Caresse wanted was Starbucks!  So off we went in search of a Starbucks.  It soon became obvious that we were not in the Pacific NW!  No Starbucks to be found (later we googeled one)   My parents arrived around lunch time and we all met at Red Lobster for lunch.  Caresse’s first real meal – crab legs!  We then went to the Fort Sill museum and then back to the hotel to relax and later joined up with one her good friend’s family for dinner.  Graduation was Friday afternoon.  If you have never seen a graduation ceremony you are missing out.  It was very impressive.  The video above was part of the graduation ceremonies. After graduation we went to Olive Garden to celebrate.

Caresse is doing so well. It was hard to say goodbye but there were also tears of joy as we think back about how far she has come in the last 4 years.  She is now at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.  She will be there for her MOS schooling for the next 8 weeks or so.  Around July 4th she will be transferred to Fort Benning in Georgia for her Air Born and language school.  She has been told that within 9 months she will ship out to Afghanistan.  Her MOS is highly specialized and they try to train and ship them through the program as fast as possible so they can get the soldiers overseas.  We will take one day at a time.

Thank you for all your prayers and support.  As you can see by the pictures she is very happy and seems to have found “her spot” in life.

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