It's Gonna Be A Good Life....

This is the corner where it all started!

Our first home!

Tyler and I had the opportunity this past weekend to visit Charleston, SC. This beautiful city is where we started our married life. While we were there we stopped by the Air Force Base which is no longer Charleston Air Force Base but is now known as Joint Base Charleston! As we drove through the gate, things didn't appear to have changed much. We enjoyed our drive around the base and decided it would be fun to check out our FIRST home! We pulled into the neighborhood and noticed immediately that things had indeed changed. The neighborhood looked run down and was pretty much empty. Our little house on Miller Ave. was still there, but looked so sad. We got out of the car and peeked into the windows. As we stood there together looking at our old house I was overcome with emotions and thoughts. So many "FIRSTS" happened in that house. In fact as Tyler said it, "I just made the first mistake of our marriage!" At least that is what he thought. He picked out this house and I think he was scared I wouldn't like it. But I LOVED it! We established our first "home", we made our first "renovation" (thanks to Uncle Donald & Big D), we bought our first car, we had our first Christmas together,Tyler made his first rank advancement while we lived in this house, I had my first ambulance ride from this house (they are highly overrated!), we had our first child while we lived in this house... it was a great house and it truly became our HOME! I think we knew that our time in Charleston was just a foreshadowing of the truly WONDERFUL, BLESSED life that we have!

There use to be a name plaque there that read A1C Franklin,
then SrA Franklin, and then finally SSGT Franklin... now look at him!