Where does the time go? It's been over a year since I have posted anything.

Darn Facebook!!!

Well for anybody who is following this...which I am sure is nobody...

It is June and summer has just started for the kids. They are excited to swim and

stay up late all summer long.

Sierra finished 3rd grade, Sydney finished Kindergarten, and Billy and Sophia finished a year

of preschool.

Their aunt, who moved by us this year, just got 2 kittens and they love going over their to play.

I have forbidden anymore animals in the house. Guinea Pigs and fish are enough for now:)

I just recently finished my first Half Marathon in May...but anybody who is anybody with me knows that from my FB page. Go look at that.

Jason is working hard as usual, and is not looking forward to deploying...hopefully he won't have to. He would be much happier. We are celebrating our 10th anniversary this month!

Yeah for us...he has hit the gym in anticipation for the beach. He's lookin' good!

Cousin Marli

The kids got to spend 2 weeks with their cousin Marli. She came out with grandma for a visit.

We Say Goodbye

We knew this time would come...we said goodbye to our friends, the Aylstock's. With one last hurrah at Miyori's, our favorite sushi bar that we frequented close to Fort Rucker.

They head home to California and we still have 4 more months. The ironic part is that

we started flight school at the same time. Unfortunately Jason had to choose the manlier and more high tech aircraft to fly, so his training is longer, plus apaches have guns, which means gunnery training.

So long Aylstocks, enjoy your In'n'Out and living with your parents!

At Miyori's celebrating Chris's graduation

I (heart) Miyori's

Us with Holly & Chris in Enterprise, AL

Christmas Morning

The kids learned that Santa Claus loves Sprite, just like them!

Sprite is the new milk!

My little super heroes.

Not to brag or anything, but I made all my kids these super hero capes for Christmas.

Our nativity cast. We were excited to have a big enough family this year plus extra friends and family to perform the nativity. It was quite the spectacle.

My boy, The Klingon

Billy was supposed to be sleeping, but like every night, was messing around instead and smacked into something on his bed. We are now thinking he is part of the Star Trek cast.

If I new Klingon I would make a funny joke, but I'm not that dorky so...

It's hard to tell how swollen his head is, but it was soooo big.

Poor Billy! Go to sleep!

Trisha's Marvelous Birthday!

We ate at our favorite sushi place out here, Miyori's. Thanks to my mom's gift!

They sang Happy Birthday in Japanese and banged on the big drum and brought us a pineapple boat with a candle.

This is the awesome cake that my friend Holly made for me.

Me and my buddy Mindy, and Jaxon

Happy 5th Birthday Sydney!

I was so excited to have a party for Sydney this year. We have never had a nice party for

her and since she is in school this year and actually has her own friends, I had been planning this for the past month. She wanted a BUTTERFLY party and there was so much to buy and do.

We had a blast and has been counting down the days since the 1st of September.

Being 5 seems to be a rite of passage for her. She can do anything now because she is 5.

I came home with her gifts the other day and I made her go hide in her room. I put the gifts in my room and went to the kitchen. She had come out and  I noticed she was gone and a couple minutes later she comes running out of my room and screams that she knows what she is getting for her birthday. So I had to return what I got her and and get her something different so she would be surprised.

She has been asking me to call her birthday girl for the past 3 days. "Mom, say goodnight birthday girl." "Don't call me Sydney, call me Birthday Girl!"

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

Happy 2nd Birthday Sophie!

Yesterday was Sophie's 2nd birthday and I can't believe she's all grown up!

Happy Birthday Pilot Stud!

Jason had a good mellow birthday, which is what he wanted. He doesn't like getting old, and he doesn't take it very well. He and I went out to eat at a great sushi place we found here and then on Sunday we had cupcakes and some friends over to play games. Sierra made him a present of these little bottlecaps that she likes to decorate and she wrapped it in a pink toy bag, but didn't want him to have pink so she wrapped a baby doll's blue shirt around it. I wish I had taken a picture. It was so funny.

One thing I do notice about Jason getting older is his ability to loosen up more as you will notice in these pictures, he is actually smiling. He normally makes a funny face, but these have his natural smile! I love it!

First Day of School

Here are some tidbits of what the girls told me about their first day of school.

Sydney started Pre-K (since she missed the kindergarten cutoff by a week) and Sierra started 2nd grade.

Sydney's First Day:

*Did you sit by Layla on the bus?

No, I sat by this girl who fell asleep and then when we turned left she fell on me.

*You are only supposed to bring one snack and I’m glad you only put one snack in my backpack because I didn’t break the rule.

*You can’t have juice box because it gets sticky and all the flies come in.

*We getted to play and I was trying to do on the monkey bars.

*I wasn’t shy and I like my teacher. I was being quiet because she was writing something at my school. And we learned about no hopping in school, hop outside and scream outside.

*Layla got a bug in her hair and it dropped down and it was dead and she didn’t want me to tell the teacher. It was black and dead. It climbed up on her and stuck there and then was dead cuz it’s legs got all twist.  Only I saw it every minute so I said, “Layla there’s a bug on your hair”, the teacher was teaching about NO SCREAMING.

Sierra's First Day:

*When we went to PE I was running around the cones and I went really, really fast because my shoes were like these type of things that make your feet more stronger and it tightens your feet and makes you go fast. And when I was done I wasn’t hot, my arms felt good, my legs felt really wiggly and I felt really good.

*I made up a new friend named…Aleena. She is really nice, and she’s in my class and she sits at a different table. She sits across my table.

*When I went to school, it’s like a really big school and it has 2 big buildings that belong to itself.

*I went on a tour and saw all the rooms in the whole school and the school is really big. When we went on the playground, one part was closed cuz there was 4 huge piles of wood chips. The swings felt more good than the swings at my other school, because it had a bar for a seat. But we only had one minute for recess and all I did was start swinging and then it was over.

*At rug time we sat in a big circle and played a game to get to know everybody and we had to answer questions like what is something exciting that happened to you. I told them I like to go to Atticus’s house and play the Wii and the Xbox360.

*I like my teacher because she teaches me a lot of stuff and she’s really nice and if you raise your hand she’ll pick on you.