A Blanket for my Husband

What do you get someone who graduated OCS?  I have had no idea.  While Christopher was in OCS I belonged to a Facebook group for his class and they had great suggestion, but I'm not sure they were great suggestions for Chris: 1) A Sword (Chris didn't sound that excited about it and a Sword costs about $400-500, pretty expensive for something he would never use), 2) a Watch (Chris doesn't wear the one he already owns so no good), 3) Cuff Links (I can't think of a single shirt Chris has that requires cuff links)  and 4) a Box to hold ribbons and insignia (this I just wasn't sure about).  So after all those suggestions I was still at a loss for what to get Christopher for his graduation.  After thinking and thinking I decided I would make him something special.  And with that decision I decided to Knit Christopher something.

I love to knit, I find it very relaxing and it is one of my favorite past times.  I have knit blankets in the past, nothing exciting just combinations of knitting and pearling and maybe a few colors.  If you are one of my friends it is possible you have received one of these blankets for Christmas at some point and I am currently working on one for my Brother-in-law for Christmas per his request (He told my sister he wanted one now that he was part of the family).  But for Christopher's graduation I decided to do something a little special.  I wanted to create a blanket with the word Navy, our last name Brave and an Anchor on it.  In order to do this I grabbed my grid paper and sketched out my designs.  After many hours of knitting and untangling bags of yarns here is my blanket.

I am in Love with how it turned out!!! 

I was really excited that the anchor looks like an anchor and you are able to read the words!!

This is what I gave Christopher for his OCS graduation, hopefully he will love it as much as I loved and enjoyed making it for him.

And so it Begins...

As I mentioned earlier Christopher was accepted into the Navy Nuke Officer program (I couldn't be more nervous excited).  Well on Saturday June 1 Chris and I loaded into the car around 6:00am and headed to Orlando so Christopher could catch his flight.

Off to Orlando

When we made it to the airport all we needed to do was check his bag because he had already checked into his flight, but the only problem with this was almost every person at the airport seemed to be flying SouthWest.  (I attribute this to the fact that SouthWest is the airline that Disney uses.  There were a lot of families in line that looked like they had just spent a wonderful time either at the Disney parks or on a Disney cruise)  Needless to say the line to check his bag was insanely long.  

Waiting in the long long line to Check his bag

Poor Chris ended up having to carry on his bag, meaning I got to bring home his: shampoo, razors, shaving cream and toothpaste.  

Chris is now in Newport RI and he'll be there for 12 weeks.  He is at OCS and at the end he will be an Officer in the United States Navy!!  I am so proud of him.  I can't wait till the end of August when I get to go to Newport for his graduation.  

 I pray that Chris stays healthy and the time goes by quickly for him.  Now I am just anxiously waiting for the phone call from him to let me know he checked in, then there will be no phone calls for 4 weeks.  

I would love to hear from anyone who has had  a spouse go through this or who's spouse is there now.

Hope everyone is having a great start to the week!