Goodbye 2008, you have been good to us.

It's the last day of 2008, Erick and Beth's one year anniversary (of meeting) and a week until the move! 2008 has been very good to us. We met on New Year's Eve 2007, just by chance. I made a cursory stop by a party for "just a few minutes". But once I met Erick, I stayed for the rest of the night. The joke goes that the next day when I looked back at all the pictures taken on my camera, Erick was looking at me instead of the camera in every one. We exchanged numbers. We hung out the next weekend, and have been inseparable ever since. We truly feel like soul mates. We are so blessed to have come together in the union of marriage this year, and we are so grateful that we enjoy the love and support of so many family and friends.

We will be celebrating our anniversary with a quiet dinner, followed by some champagne on the beach. We have included a slideshow of our year in review, to view it, click on the picture. It will take you to another page, play a little intro, and then you need to click "play". We will keep you updated once we move!


Love,

Erick and Beth

Make a Smilebox slideshow

T-Minus 12 Days Until Christmas and 26 Days Until the Big Move

Erick and I decided to start the new holiday tradition of getting two trees. I usually get a Charlie Brown tree, cover it in multi-colored lights and throw on all my favorite mis-matched ornaments that I have received over the years. Erick wanted a big, fluffy tree, and to decorate it in a theme. So we decided, from now on, we will have two trees. We love them both equally and decorated them both together. It looks like a mini-forest in our living room, or like one of those displays at Target with all the different trees! But we think, the more the merrier. Charlie doesn't take up much room anyway :-)

Once Christmas is over, everything will be coming down right away. We are leaving Fort Myers on January 7 for our move to Virginia Beach. We will be in Virginia Beach for three months, and half way through we find out where our next location will be. While we are in Virginia, Erick will be training to be a Boatswain Mate, or boat driver. Once he graduates from that school in April, he will go up in rank and we'll be on our way to a new town. It's very exciting!

Enjoy the Holiday Season. We miss you all very much and we can't wait for a chance to get together again. And wish us luck! We don't want Erick to end up on a big boat where he would be out to sea for months at a time. We want a station, or at the worst, a smaller cutter that is only out for a week or two. So if you pray, please pray for us. And if you don't pray, cross your fingers! Thanks!

The Sullivans

We are the Sullivans; newlyweds, a proud Coast Guard Family and a pair that seeks adventure.

We will be moving around a lot here in the next six months, so we wanted a way to keep everyone updated on our whereabouts, our final location, and of course our adventures. It can be really hard to keep up with everyone, especially with the huge family and network of friends we are blessed with, so I hope this closes the distance a bit. We miss you and love you!

Love,

The Sullivans