Been a while...

Sorry that it's been so long since we posted. I have been working night shift and Rachel has been busy being pregnant, taking care of kids, cleaning house and all that good stuff.

Anyways, we recently decided that we wanted to finish renovating, or at least giving a face lift, to our back yard. That included pulling up all of the old yard edger and replacing it with a composite plastic type of edge mold. It was had work, and as you can see we had lots of help. It's important to us to instill good work ethic and appreciation for labor in the kids, and that they certainly have...unless that means cleaning rooms. Anyways...Ethan and Kaylee definitely got their hands dirty and were a huge help. Here are a couple of pictures of them giving us a hand.

Little Airmen

Being in the Air Force is not a single person affair. The whole family is in the Air Force. No matter where I move, or what happens to me, the whole family is affected. Not that they mind. I mean, where else would they get to where this awesome hat?!?!?!

I thought everyone might enjoy seeing our latest family photo. This was taken up at some friends' house in a place called High Rolls. We love to go up there. Generally, the temperature is at least 10 degrees cooler, there are beautiful Aspen trees, deer and elk everywhere and lots of open space. It's amazing how quickly our kids are growing!

Future Pele?

Our church has been hosting "Mega Sports Camp", a youth sports camp/vacation Bible school. Ethan got to attend this year and took soccer lessons. Man, was he good. He loved every second of it, and I have to admit, the kids got talent!

Flying in a T-38

Today I got treated to one of the most amazing experiences of my life...flying in a jet. It is every Airman's dream to fly I think...you can't really help it. The most amazing thing is that you spend every day of your career supporting these aircraft, either directly or indirectly, and having the honor of flying in one was amazing. My aircraft was a T-38B...basically a trainer jet. The Air Force uses these jets to

keep pilots proficient and as a little lower cost alternative for flying hours to the bigger jets. You may recognize it as the "aggresor" jet in the movie Top Gun that Tom Cruise fights against! It was a TRIP!!! I loved every second of it and it definitely gave me a healthy respect for our pilots and what they do every day. It is exhausting flying and pulling G's. Every time you do your entire body clenches up to try and keep from blacking out or getting "tunnel vision"...and no, I did not throw up! I am so proud to have done it and very thankful to my awesome squadron for giving me the opportunity!

The first of many...

We decided to come back to blogger and do our blog on here. The Mac website was really nice, but we decided that we didn't want to continue paying for all the services that we got through it. So, along with an e-mail change, we will be posting pictures for all to see here at this site! Here are some of the kids in our first rainstorm of the season. It is always so exciting to get our first rain because that means the grass will be growing like crazy! Yippee. That is good for everyone else, but for me it means grass cutting! YES!!!