Why are the Mundys blogging?

In the words of my Pepere, well hello! Rick and I have decided to start a blog of our life so that we can easily keep our friends and family in the know on what's going on with the Mundys! Well, mostly I (Laura) decided to start this blog and Rick agreed that it could be a good idea. We both agreed that we don't want to bother every one on facebook all the time, and we also don't feel like we need everyone to know everything about us. For this reason, if you're interested, please follow our blog and we will keep the facebook posts to a minimum! Now, please don't think that we are going to become crazy bloggers who blog about every single thing that happens every single day. We will blog here and there if something interesting or funny happens that we would like to share with you all. It could be once a day, once a week, once a month, who knows! For this reason, we recommend that you insert your email address in the text box underneath the words "Follow by Email" on the right hand side of this blog. If you follow the prompts, this will allow you to receive an email whenever we write a new post, this way you don't have to constantly check the blog for updates. You'll know the second we create one! Now let's get started!

Background:

First off, I thought it might be helpful to give you all a little background info. as to what we have been up to since our wedding on June first! Rick and I were lucky enough to go backpacking through Europe for about 6 weeks where we explored parts of Spain, Gibraltar, France, England, Germany, and Italy! After that we had about a week until we had to start the 37 hour drive from Swansea, MA down to Del Rio, TX. Needless to say, we did not drive straight down to Del Rio. We ended up stopping for a bit in Nashville and Graceland which were a lot of fun, and we visited with our family in Austin for a few days as well. Then, on July 27th we finished the drive down to Del Rio. Just two days later, we found the sweetest little abandoned puppy near the border of Mexico. We adopted her, even though we were staying at the Ramada hotel until we were able to move into our house on August 6th. I know what you're all thinking, this was not the ideal time for us to adopt a puppy, but it was love at first sight for us and we have had no regrets since! Her name is Dulce and we have now had her for almost 7 weeks. She is just a huge bundle of love! Except when she's in terror mode (i.e. the middle picture below).

As planned, we moved into our first house on August 6th and we received all our stuff on August 10th. We are finally comfortably moved into our house, although we still have about a million little projects. Rick has been working on his office a lot lately, unpacking and organizing, etc. This will be the place that he does all of his studying during pilot training, and the place where he can escape from me and Dulce. Although, he does like having us visit!

So, what's going on with Rick?

Rick is currently in APT (awaiting pilot training), so Laughlin Air Force Base (AFB) has basically given him a job just to keep him busy until he starts his Initial Flight Screening (IFS). He is currently working at the T-6 maintenance shop, where he helps make checklists, marshal planes in and out, and whatever else is needed. He has been enjoying his "casual" job for the most part, except that he has to wake up so early (my husband is NOT a morning person).

In November, Rick will be in CO for a few weeks for IFS. This is basically when pilot students begin to get weeded out if they can't handle flying planes. It lasts anywhere between 3-6 weeks, depending on how quickly the student learns and passes his flights, as well as the weather in CO. We have already had a bunch of our friends leave for IFS and even return, and they didn't seem to think it was too difficult.

Then, in January Rick will begin his Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT). This is a 52 week training course during which time he will learn how to fly for the Air Force, and it will conclude with learning the plane that he will fly for his military career, as well as our next base assignment. Until then, he plans on relaxing and enjoying not having to study all the time. However, pretty much once UPT starts, he will be pulling 12+ hour days. I guess we'll take it as it comes.

And what is going on with Laura?

Not much, unfortunately. I am having a lot more trouble finding jobs than I had anticipated. To be fair, I haven't been looking all that long, but it has still been pretty frustrating. Besides unpacking and working away at writing thank you cards for the wedding, I have been applying for jobs. Ideally, I would get a job that isn't too far away, although I have applied for jobs that are 1 hour and 20 minutes away. I have a couple positions I am waiting to hear back from, and I have a job that I need to apply for today, so all hope is not lost by any means. It's just taking me longer than I expected. Other than that, I have been adjusting to married life very well and I have been training Dulce. Oh, and I've been doing my fair share of baking for the guys at the T-6 maintenance shop.

Other updates:

You may be interested to hear the story about the hutch that is behind me in the above picture. Rick and I were able to afford this hutch because we won $260 at bingo a few weeks ago! We were the big winners! We figured we would spoil ourselves a little bit, and we went to the Crossroads Mini Mall to purchase our hutch that we absolutely love. And no, the horns above our hutch are not ours, they are our friend Bryan's. If you went to our wedding then I'm sure you remember Bryan, he was the groomsman that was a dancing fool!

Well, that is all I have for you today! I'm sure our future posts will not be this long, I just wanted to spend a bit of time introducing this whole blog concept and catching you all up on what has been going on with the Mundys! I hope you enjoyed our first post!

With love,

The Mundys