The McBride's

The McBride's

Friday, April 3, 2009

03APR09

I just had to tell my wonderful husband HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I love you baby and I'm so grateful for you in our lives. You are a fantastic husband and a wonderful, sweet father to our girls. I hope you have a great birthday even though you're in Iraq. Oh and now, you too, are old!! :)

On a side note to a birthday wish, I will brag about you... We found out about 2 weeks ago that Travis made the E-7 list. That means that sometime in the next year or so Travis will be promoted to SFC (Sergeant First Class or E-7.) I can not begin to tell you how proud I am of him. He has done so well in the Army and made rank at an incredible speed. I smile everytime I think about it. I would be proud of him no matter what but, what an accomplishment.

One more bit of info... A few people have asked me if we know where we are going and I realized I don't know that I have posted it on here yet. In November we will be reporting to Ft. Benning, GA. We will be heading to AZ sometime in September for leave and then to Georgia. Travis will be a Ranger Instructor which means 3 years of NO DEPLOYMENTS!!!! We're very excited and hope we get lots of visitors! :)

6 comments:

gilchrist said...

Congrats to Travis!!

ALLRED FAMILY said...

Wahoo!!! Way to go Travis! Happy Birthday Travis! And yay for being in the states again!!!

Cristine said...

Happy bday, congrats, and woo hoo for the move all in one! :) And I don't know why I didn't realize it (must be a blonde moment!), but we are going to be in AZ together in September. Hmmmm... should we catch the same flight? HEE HEE!

Millers! said...

AWESOME Travis!! Georgia... but why Georgia... Ft. Lewis is way less muggy... COME ON!!!!!!!!! oh well... YAH for being on this side of the Atlantic!

The Lindsey's said...

I can't wait for you guys to be back state-side!! I just map quested ft benning from dayton and it's only 10 hours away! You guys should come for Thanksgiving! Or we could meet somewhere in the middle! I can't wait to be closer! And that is AWESOME that Trav got E7! He's amazing but he always has been =)

Conforti Family said...

congrats to travis that is awesome! And we are currently at Benning right now, we dont have exact dates of departure but it should be between dec- jan so we will overlap a little, it would be sooo fun to see you guys! Mike is here doing IOBC and doing other various schools, ranger school jump airborne, whatever he can get!