Sydney's first day of 2nd grade!

Sydney was a little apprehensive of her 2nd grade year, but once she got there, she was fine! Mrs. Louder is her teacher, and she has several friends from last year that are in her class. We will have one more year (hopefully), of going to more than one school in a year. We are hoping to eventually get on the summer cycle so my kids can finish an entire school year in one place! The adventure of the Air Force is wonderful, but we are really ready to settle down!

Luke's first day of Kindergarten and mommy's not doing so well!!

Luke....You will never know how much I love you, and I can only hope someday that maybe you can understand how painful this day has been for me. I've watched you grow from a tiny baby to a sweet little boy. We've had our ups and downs through your toddler years, but we all survived! Now, I have to let you go off into the big world and explore and grow. I just want you to know how much I love you, and how much Jesus loves you. You are the greatest gift that God could have given us, and maybe that's why mommy is just a little sad today. I know you are going to do great things, and I KNOW you are going to LOVE Kindergarten! I will just have to get used to my "little buddy" not being with me all day, but I will be so excited when 2:30 rolls around and I can come pick you up! We love you so much Lukey! :)

Basketball Camp!!

For those of you that know me, I don't need to say a word!!! In no way do I want my daughter to follow in my footsteps, it would be nice, but not necessary! We had a B-ball camp here on base for 6 days over a 2 week period, so we thought it would be fun to have her try. After all, this is the "trying to find our thing phase", right? Sydney really ended up enjoying her time in the gym, and I have a feeling she will be trying it again in the near future. I can't tell you how many memories it brought back for me, and how much it made me appreciate my dad more than ever!! Love you Dad!

Luke turns "5"

Our poor second child finally had a "real" birthday party, with friends included! We always seem to be at home when Luke has his birthday, so we usually have a family get together. That's one disadvantage that Sydney doesn't get, since we are usually away from family during April. So, this year David and I decide to throw this boy a party, complete with a cake, friends, bowling, and lots of presents! I've never seen somebody so excited for his big day!! When we first arrived at the bowling alley, he just went in the room and sat down to wait for his guests to arrive, it was so cute!! He was thrilled to death that everyone was actually singing to HIM!!

For the next 2-3 days, he kept telling David and I, "happy birthday!" It truly was worth every penny and effort spent to make his day so special! We love you baby Luke! :)

Military children!!

Sydney and Luke love to dress up in daddy's flight suit and parade around. They even get the huge boots on and try to walk around the room in them. I treasure these memories so much, because I know time is passing so quickly. They are growing up too fast, and it's hard to bear sometimes! Sydney can go from playing with dolls, barbies, and anything girly, to putting on a flight suit, wearing weapons, and playing with all the boys. I love the top picture in her "fancy skirt", as she would call it, standing beside a 2,000 pound precision guided bomb at our last fini-flight. Daddy's very proud of this picture by the way!!

Watching daddy at work...

What a great day that we got to watch daddy so close as he took off!!!!!!

HARRUMPH!!!!!!!!!!

HARRUMPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is one of my favorites of this day. It almost looks like he's saluting!

We don't often get a chance to always see daddy at work, but this particular day we knew exact take off times, positioning, and were able to get very close to get some awesome pictures. The kids were thrilled and David's mom actually got to be there to watch all this too. I was just very thankful for security forces not telling us to move our car and get out of there! HARRUMPH!!!!!

Time in Oklahoma....

2 Happy kids after not seeing daddy for almost 4 months!!!

Didn't think it was going to be so hard to teach the slip-n slide???

Finally catching on to the action!!

Love this pic of PaPa with 4 of his grandkids....guess Syd was not having fun!

MiMi and her Lukester!!

Sydney playing Soccer for the YMCA in Enid

His coaches finally got him to stay in the goalie box!!!! :)

We got to see an OSU basketball game while we were home!!

I know I'm quite a bit behind on my blogging lately. I hope to change that and keep up on it better since we are all back home and things have returned to normal! We were in Oklahoma from Feb. 19th till the 1st part of June. It was a long time to be away from Daddy, and we are so glad to all be home together again, even though it's in Korea!!

My back surgery was a success, and we are so pleased to finally get this past us! I know I am! I still have some soreness in the mornings, but everything was a success and I feel 100% better than I did. It's been a very difficult year for us with my health, starting last August in 09'. It's been a long year, and hopefully the light is at the end of this tunnel! God has strengthened my patience, strength, and resiliency in this road block in my life. I certainly know he did not give me more than I could handle!!

The kids did remarkable in picking them up from their home here, taking them out of school, moving them across the world, putting them in a new school, and leaving their daddy. They are such resilient beautiful children, and David and I are so blessed to have such great kids! They have the added benefit of being military brats, so that helps with all these moves!

We hope you stop by and check us out and what's going on in Korea. Leave us a note, we'd love to hear from you. You can post a comment after each post (this if for my family that is computer illiterate!!) We'd love to hear from you!!

We should know where we are going for our next assignment by October, so we will keep you all posted! Until then, God bless!!