Mom. Wife. Military Life.

Life has been busy… Little tedious things seem to be filling up our weeks and time is flying by as we creep up to our 6 month mark here on the island. It is crazy to believe we have been here that long but at the same time it feels like we have been here forever.

We have had the 2 younger kiddos in rigorous swim lessons that have been every single day for 4 weeks, this week we are rounding out our 5th and last week of that and they are doing AMAZING. I don’t know what I expected them to get from these classes but the progress they have shown has been more then I ever imagined. Everly is doing awesome in school. She had a program in school the other day and her class sang 3 songs. I have to say, she was the shining star (Bias mom here). They are all growing like weeds. I swear Ev and Cruz are a foot taller and Jaxsyn will talk your ear off. They are just awesome kids, we are incredibly blessed.

Jason went to Guam for a month and has been back for a few weeks now and he’s just about to head back to the states again for a few more weeks. If your reading this, there is a great chance you are near and dear to us, so most of you know Jason was accepted into Weapons School. It is an extremely difficult course that will take him to the states for 6 months starting this summer. It has been a long road leading up to this and now the toughest part is just on the horizon. We are SO incredibly proud of him and look forward to watching him get his ass handed to him… I mean…. do amazing! Jason has said over and over again how grateful he is that we have the support we do here, he’s able to make this adventure happen because he knows we are taken care of even on the other side of the world. The kids and I have no plans to slow down once he heads out. Everly and Cruz will be in school next year and Jaxsyn and I have a things-to-see list a mile long. With all that being said, I rarely ask for prayers unless I feel they are truly needed, but I ask you to pray for Jason as he dives into this new journey and I ask you pray for our little pod here in Japan that we keep rocking through those few months flying solo.

With THAT being said, we plan on coming home for the holidays this year. The kids are BEYOND the moon excited to see their family. I’ll (good Lord willing) being heading out to Vegas to see Jason graduate during that time and then bringing him back to Texas to reunite our pod and visit with family before making the trek back to OKI. Im pretty certain this will be our only trip home durning our time living over here so start saving and planning your trips to OKI because by the time we get back we will only have a couple years left!

As amazing as this life is I find myself getting frustrated a lot faster over here. I am not one to let things stop me from exploring and adventuring out but it does get much more frustrating when you move somewhere that you can’t even pronounce/read the street sign or ask for help because you can’t speak the language. I find going off base to a new area to be a bit more stressful then I usually would. Having 3 kids in tow that are old enough to ask “Are we there yet?”, along with google maps screaming at me that I took the wrong turn and “Re-routing” me just adds insult to injury at times. Its easy to say just keep rocking, which 95% of the time we do, but we also have those 10% days where we just can’t… It all gets to be just to much for everyone and we end up just out front of base at our usual noodle place, and for some reason that just feels right sometimes. I know there are solutions to all my “problems” and as time goes on we will slowly start finding out what those are as a family. Today, thankfully, is a 95% as we went to explore a new beach, and the sun has been shining with just a few occasional cotton candy clouds.

Spring break is next week and we have several little things planned along with a possible trip to an outlying island! We also have a big FRAMILY trip planned in May, a second birthday to celebrate, I am going on a girls trip in June, and my sister arrives to the island a few days after I get back and then we see Jason off. So much FUN and WONDERFUL things in the near future for the Bonds!  Thank you for reading our update and I look forward to sharing our wonderful adventures to come here in the near future!

Inspire.Believe.Succeed.

-Kinzy