20 days...holy moley

That's right, I will be getting married 20 days from today. The last few days out here in TX have been absolutely fantastic. After not having seen Ashley in almost seven weeks, I am finally able to see her beautiful face in person again. Coming in Friday night, it was great to be able to spend Independence day with her, go to church, and get a bit of an idea what our lives are going to look like in a couple weeks. It's strange to think that in less than three weeks my life will be completely different...again. There has been so much transition over the past seven months, and now I'm finally getting to the transition I am actually looking forward to. Ya, there will be challenges, especially for Ashley as she goes through the challenges not only of transitioning into a new marriage, but also moving her entire life to Del Rio. Not exactly paradise, but it will be good for a little while. Over the past may months, the wedding has always felt so far away. It was 5 months...and that felt like forever. Then it was 10 weeks...still forever. Then all of a sudden it was a month, then three weeks. Now, all of a sudden, it feels just around the corner. We bought couches, and we are hopefully reserving our on-base home here today or tomorrow. It's all moving so fast, yet it's not happening fast enough. Those months before leaving for Alabama went so incredibly slow. It was January and February for a life time; March, April, May and June were but a blink in time. Weird.