a couple of signs you are moving...

Dad's painting while the lambs are sleeping...

and Pops is sleeping in a closet...

Time limts and priorities

This is our 11th move in not quite 10 years. Yes, I said eleventh. Not all of the moves were required by the Navy, for example when Boy was born we chose to move out of our 750 square foot caulking sealed wood floor military apartment to a 3 bedroom duplex with laminate floor thick black cabinets, but we have moved 11 times none-the-less. One of my biggest pet peeves about all the moving is that there are so many details at the very end that we are stuck scrubbing switch plates and light fixtures so we don't get adequate time to say good-bye. I am not very good at good-bye but I feel like so many things are left undone.

This is the place that I have disliked the most, yet had the best time. I really, really, I mean really disliked this area. We all really disliked it here. I could go on for hours with complaints but I know how much a mother has influence on her family so so we would sit around the dinner table and take turns stating something we liked about Florida just so we wouldn't feel so bad. It was hard work to go around the table twice. That was until we found the co-op, (that is the place where homeschool families meet and take classes together, you know, so we're socialized.) We have belonged to co-ops before, but there is nothing like the paths that we crossed here. I have met some truely wonderful people here and I finally understand what "Titus 2" means. I have found my Spiritual Family. These are not just people like me, we aren't all brainwashed into thinking the same things. In fact we are all very different. We come from very different walks of life, very different backgrounds, we differ in beliefs, ideas on raising children, being a wife, homeschooling, and keeping house. We go to different churches, read different versions of the Bible, cook different types of food, you get the idea. One thing we don't differ on though, is the God we serve. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I feel very blessed that we were here, even the short time it was. I will walk away from Florida on Friday morning a completely changed person. Even Boy pointed out that this was the place we have made the most friends, "even you, mama" he said with tears in his eyes. So thank you to all the wonderful people here. I can't say enough how much you have meant to us. You will forever be etched in our hearts.

Primary Flight School Complete

Here is the video that our friend put together about Primary Flight School. You get a glimpse of the school Dad just finished. Hard work and good times!

Pops goes to the beach

Pops went to the beach for the first time this past weekend. We decided to take the RV out for a spin. We landed on the beach for 4 days, it was awesome!

he absolutely loved the beach! he ate half the beach and drank his fill of sea water, he'd have crawled out to the nearest island if we didn't fight him off... What a blast. Bittersweet knowing there is no ocean for the next year at least...

the day we got Jets...

here are some pictures from the day we got jets.

Watermelon, Please!

Lil Bird's very first taste of food (this does not include the apple sicker and leaf that I found in his diaper)
Guess the watermelon and chubby fingers know where our hearts lay...
not too sure what to do with this plate of stuffnow he's getting it!DO NOT take the watermelon away!!! he's waited a long 8 months for this yummy goodness...

my website

just wanted to let my family know, you can check out my work here

Mother's Day

just wanted to share my mother's day gift from my dear hubby... I am going to find a place for it in the RV...

He carved it by hand, used ash from our fire to make the color... isn't it beautiful, and about the most special, precious gift ever?

Sooooo.... The message you've all been waiting for...

yup, I am married to a jet pilot!
My husband is going to fly JETS!!!
We leave for Meridian, Mississippi, in just 15 days. And my husband is going to fly jets.

I can't post more right now because I am still letting it all soak in and because my husband has requested Chicken Lips as his celebratory feast. Off to fry chicken!
Did I mention, jets?

Yahoooowwww!

A Note from Dad:

Well, we are finally here. The children may not see it as all that interesting, so perhaps the “we” means my wife and me, but it happens to be no small event in my life. Tomorrow we will find out what I’ve felt would become inevitable since I was a young boy. I know that Mom is pretty nervous about the whole thing, understandably, but I’m mostly very happy just to have had an opportunity to be here and get a chance to chase my dreams. I feel surprisingly comfortable with what I’ve been able to accomplish thus far, and I’m going to be excited and happy for whatever happens tomorrow. Obviously I would like it if the Navy also wants me to have what I want, but I’ll be happy either way. It’s amazing the change that I’ve undergone being on the journey toward reaching my dreams. I’ve grown up as a man, a husband, a father, and a Christian. The path has by no means ever been easy, and has required both gentle and drastic changes in perception, understanding, and disciplines. I’m just thankful for the God given opportunity to find my place and be able to pursue my purposes…