It's a Lozano Life: First Blog!

Well, the whole purpose for this blog is to allow my family and friends who are not on Facebook to see what is going on in the life of the Lozano's. As you all know, we are in the mist of moving from Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, GA to Fort Lee, Virginia.

I have to admit, when we first moved to Savannah I would not allow myself to become comfortable. Fortunately, I met some AMAZING people in the past 5 years that just wouldn't let that be. Thanks to them this move is going to be HARD!!!!

Now that I had my "mushy moment" let's get back to the mission at hand... THE MOVE.

Ever since we found out we were PCSing (moving) we have had a laundry list of decisions to make: live on-post or off-post( which comes with it's own laundry list), DITY move (we pack) or military move(they pack), etc. Since we are so far from home, we decided we would let the military pack and move us. This is the first time we are going to do this type of move so i'm both happy and nervous about it cause let's face it no one is going to take care of your stuff like you will. I have been in inventory mode for a while. I cleaned and purged things from my office, my closest, and storage room. I refuse to take all the clutter with me!

Last week we found a house on AHRN (Automated Housing Refferal Network for military). This house is really cute and in our BAH (Basic Allowance for Housing) range so I called and scheduled an appointment to see it on Tuesday. When Monday morning rolled around the Ft. Lee housing called us saying they had a 2 bedroom 2.5 bath house for us to move in on Aug. 1. We had until Wednesday to accept or deny the housing. What sucked it that they would not let me tour the house before hand.

Jose and I made a priority list of stuff we wanted from a house and which places we prefer to live. That being said, the house I had an appointment for was at the top of our list. Tuesday I drove up to Virginia and met the tenant at the house and the landlord. The house is 3 bedroom 2 bath. It seemed a little small, but it's just us and the pups. Also, it's larger than 997sq ft which is what the on-post housing would be. I totally fell in love with the house and the neighborhood.... OH and the backyard!! There are some drawbacks to the house though. The cell phone reception isn't that great because of the area and it's a little secluded. Those aren't that big of a deal because we can get a house phone and maybe it'll keep us from going out to eat!

I loved it and called Jose that night to talk it over. We both agreed that we want to live there. The next day I met with the landlord and signed the lease!! This makes the whole move a bit more real! It is even more exciting knowing that we will move without so many unknowns.