Monday, March 31, 2008

Pictures from our Hawaii trip.

The view from our balcony.

Our walk on the beach.

We ate shaved ice almost every day.

Walking around near the hotel.

Dinner at the Cheesecake Factory.

Tom went surfing.


Even though it was hard to leave Hawaii, we couldn't wait to get back to our two boys at home.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

From Afghanistan to Hawaii.

Tom made it home safety from Afghanistan. For those of you who don't know, Tom is a Prowler pilot in the Navy. He was in Afghanistan for a few months. We're proud of the work he does, and we're so happy he's back.

Tom was only home for about 5-6 days from Afghanistan before having to leave for Hawaii to accept an award as the Reserve FTS Junior Officer of the Year. It's a pretty great honor. What's even greater is that I got to go to Hawaii with him!

As I write this, we're sitting in our hotel room overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It's beautiful. We're having a great time. We wish our two boys could be here, but it has been nice to reconnect just the two of us. We've been laying on the beach, working out, and eating pinnapple and shaved ice. We went to a luau and tomorrow we're going to hike Diamondhead. My mom is watching the boys, and they are having a good time with her. We'll be home in a few days and then we're taking the boys to Hershey Park in Pennsylvania for a little family vacation. DJ is excited to ride the rollar coasters. He's just tall enough where he'll be able to ride a few of them. And they have lots of kid rides and fun things to do. We are having a great time, but we miss the boys and can't wait to see them.

Tom comes home from Afghanistan today!

*picture of us waiting in the Ready Room for Tom to arrive*

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

*video clip of Tom landing the jet at Andrews Air Force Base*

*video clip of Tom arriving home*

Friday, March 14, 2008

*picture of DJ with his first loose tooth*
DJ has a loose tooth! It's one of the bottom lower teeth.
He's been eating lots of apples, hoping it'll fall out soon.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

*video clip of DJ playing basketball today*

*video clip of Noah with the nose sucker*

Saturday, March 1, 2008

*video clip of me with DJ and Noah*

Here is a picture of us reading together.

It's just about naptime, so Noah is kind of grouchy.