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It has been months since I have blogged. It is July 20th, 2009 and I am in El Paso Texas! I was sitting on Caleb's AKO account months ago waiting to find where we would be stationed at. When Ft. Bliss popped up I was thrilled to find out where it was! Ft Bliss! It sounded awesome! I quickly googled it and anticipating waiting for the location to pop up! When it finally showed Ft. Bliss was located in El Paso, I was instantly sick.....El Paso? Are you kidding! What happened to Germany, Hawaii, Washington, anywhere!!!!! Well, it is what it is and we have been here since May. We tried to get base housing but the waitlist was to long. We found a cute house on the outskirts close to New Mexico. I like it. It's a cute house and nicer than anything I would have on base. We found the house on militarybyowner.com. I suggest it to anyone trying to find off base housing wherever you get stationed because you would be renting from military. I have decided to homeschool Cameron this year. The school system here is kinda crappy and private school is too expensive. He is excited and I am getting involved with Ft bliss homeschoolers so we should do well. I will meet with them this weekend to find out how the co-op works. Cameron has been doing well and actually enjoys it here. We have been going to the pool on base often and have met some families through Calebs unit. A lot of them have kids and a few are Camerons age. We have gone to a couple of BBQ's and museums here. As long as Cam is happy we can make it anywhere! Caleb has been doing awesome! He was born to be a soldier. He is already a squad leader and has been sent to WLC to get his promotion to SGT. He will go in front of the board on Aug. 5th and I couldn't be prouder. At the graduation I met his first SGt. and he told me what an incredible soldier Caleb was. He said he had integrity, morals and strong leadership skills. It was awesome to hear that. Now I know what it feels like to have army wife pride. Some days are harder than others though. When he was at WLC they had him on base for three weeks! He was only 10 minutes away and couldn't come home. I thought that was ridiculous. I also don't like the fact that being a squad leader puts him in a position of having to deal with his soldiers problems. This weekend one of the privates got drunk and was arrested on base. All weekend they had to be there every couple of hours for formation because of that kid. Caleb had to go also to direct his squad and I hardly slept! I do like that Caleb is a good leader though. His men trust him and do come to him when they have a problem. I am learning so much about the life of a military wife. I do en joy the camaraderie and the military discounts are awesome! Movies, IHOP etc..... I have been told that Caleb will be deploying next year around October. That is the hardest part of all this. I can't imagine what it will be like. For now, everyday is precious for our family and we are making the best of it!!!!!!!