On The Move!

One quick post from 'Down Under'. We just got word that we will be moving to Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ in May. Patrick will be an A-10 instructor pilot there. We're super excited. Visitors welcome...we can guarantee there WILL be a pool in the backyard!!!

One Last Post

I know I said no more posts before we leave, but I wanted to get these off my camera and only have Australia to blog about! For the record we are leaving in 6.5 hours and I have not even started to pack us up. Can we all say procrastinator???

Hudson has started standing up on his own for about 20 seconds. He also pushes anything that will move across the floor. I sure am glad he's getting a walker for his birthday! He'll be walking before we know it.

Aiden asked to put this on his door! It was a pretty funny exchange:

Aiden: Dad can I put this on my door?
Dad: Sure, but we're not following your rule.
Aiden: Okay.


There was a fini flight yesterday. That's when a guy flies for the last time at the base before they move. One of the guy's asked Dad to fly with him, so that made it really fun. Unfortunately you never know where the guys are going to park, so we didn't see Dad until he was walking towards us.

Uncle Tank making Hudson fly! What fun!

Seriously! Am I lucky or what?! What a HOTTY!!

The guy's who flew in the fini. Cheech, Vino, Clarence and Butters!

Quick family shot before we go inside!

Lastnight our squadron wives performed Thriller at Membership Night. It was really fun and really well recieved. We had a really good time.

Chanie and I all zombie'd up!

Elaina had her friend, Anna, sleep over and they decided they wanted to do zombie makeup to, so we let 'em go! Pretty scarey, huh!?

From Glamour Girls to Zombie Girls all in one week-AAAAAHHHH!

Some of the wives all dressed up.

Poor Dad, his date to the prom is dead!

Doing the "Zombie Freestyle" during Thriller.

The Glamour Girl Party

On Saturday we celebrated Elaina's 5th birthday. Crazy! We had a Glamour Girl party. I made tutu's for all the girl's and we did hair, makeup, nails and then they walked the 'catwalk' and struck a pose. It was a really fun day and all of the little girls had a good time.

Here's some pre-party pics!

When the girl's walked in they picked out their tutu.
Then they went and got their hair done.
Followed by makeup and nails.
Elaina with her beautiful cake my friend Katie made. She is amazing!
The whole room all done up for the Glamour Girl party!

The party begins!
I just think this pics is so cute...little girls being little girls!
Mommy working on our Glamour Girl's makeup!
Check out those nails...the hit of the party!
Glamour Girl Elaina and Glamour Girl Carlie.

Elaina's turn to get her hair done...are awesome very own Auntie Chanie came over and manned the hair salon-she rocks!

We have the World's Best Daddy!! Check out these photos!

Seriously...Dad of the year! He danced with each of the girl's...it was a hoot! Here he is dipping Elaina....she loves that! I think it's funny that she closes her eyes.

After the mini dance party they walked the cat walk and struck a pose!

Here's our girl's pose...they strutted their stuff!

All the Glamour Girl's.

Time for cake and ice cream!

Seriously...even the cake has a tutu. Katie rocks!
Sort of family photo...minus one of our own, but adding someone else's! Poor Huddy slept through the whole party.

Present time!

It was a great party and all the little girl's were so cute. I'm already wondering what we're going to do next year!

On Sunday we went to a costume party for some of Aiden's friends. We already decided we weren't going to do Halloween this year because we are going to be in Australia and we don't even know if they celebrate Halloween. So, none of the kid's had costumes. Fortunately Aiden still had his from last year and Elaina has tons of dress up clothes, so they were set. However, our poor third child had nothing. So, for his first Halloween he was half skeleton half peacock.
We are glad to cover the therapy bills! I will point out though he is clearly a happy, well fed and loved to bits baby!

All (sort of) dressed up. Kyle and Sarah can y'all tell she LOVES that costume?!

Well, that's it for a couple of weeks...Australia here we come. We get back home on 5 November, so check back towards the end of that week!! Pray for safe travel, good weather and all the stuff that goes along with a big trip please!

Mountain Seorak

As the Koreans call it. It makes us laugh. A little FYI here...All of the towers that we live in on base are named after famous mountains in Korea. We live in Hallasan, then there's Jirisan and Seoraksan. The 'san' stands for mountain.

Last weekend we went on the ITT trip to Mt. Seorak. It is the third highest mountain in the country. We have always heard good things about it and we're so glad we went. It was beautiful. Such a nice change from what we're used to-very little green and even less fresh air.


Dried up sting ray anyone? We're still not used to the horrible smells in Korea.

Our first stop was at Naksansa Temple. It was beautiful. It was right on the Sea of Japan.


Aiden and his buddy, Collin. The big plus to this trip was that we knew everyone on the trip, so there was no saying "Come on kids. Keep up." They all stayed together and that made it very easy on the adults.


Elaina, Anna and Olivia in front of a figure that's supposed to scare the bad people away.
After a long bus ride sitting in our laps Hudson is OUT!
The kid's getting ready to go into the temple area. It's always a great lesson when we go to these temples about how one of God's commandments is "Though shall have no other gods before me." They have a little bit of trouble understanding it all, but we're always glad that they point out to us that "You're not supposed to bow to statues."



Pretty girl with pretty flowers.
Us in front of the big Buddha, who is actually a female. I wonder if that makes her a Buddess? She keeps the sea calm.
The kiddo's with the Sea of Japan in the background....our kid's have done so many cool things, haven't they? We can't get over how much they have seen in there lives and they're only 7 and 4!
Pretty girl with more pretty flowers! Dad and Hud with the Sea of Japan in the distance.

We left the temple and drove for another hour and ended up at our hotel and the mountain. Our hotel was in a great location-literally in the mountain. It took us 2 minutes to walk from our hotel to this spot, which is a trail head.

Bodey, Noah, Aiden and John getting ready for our hike to Piryong Waterfall.

Fall colors-so pretty.
One of the many little waterfalls we passed on our hike up to the big waterfall. This mountain is made up of pinkish-gray granite.

More fall colors. Can you tell the sun was starting to set?

Olivia and Elaina at a picture point.

All of us sticking our hands in the cold water that was coming from the waterfall.
The fam in front of the waterfall. Now we have to race back down the mountain while we have a little bit of sunlight left.

Trying to get the colors before the sun is totally gone. By the end of the hike the sun had completely set. It was creepy walking in the woods in the dark. I was sure an Asian black bear was going to get us.

The next morning we got up for a hike to Kumkang Cave. Sadly we did not make it to the cave. We decided it was too hard to make it all the way up with the kid's. We were glad we made the decision that we did. By all accounts from our friends who did make it, it was HARD!

Another giant Buddha on our way up to the cave.
My sweet boys getting going on the hike.
Family picture on a bridg-e. Look at how drastically different the colors are the higher we got. This is as far as we made it. We turned around here because the rest of the way literally looked like it was straight up.

Strong Man Aiden!

Our last morning on the trip we took a cable car to the top of Kwon-Kum Peak.
Were getting on that?
With all these people? Standard Korea they shove 50 people on each cable car. Not for the claustraphobic!
Just love cute kid's with fall colors!
Elaina at the top of Kwon-Kum peak. Well, almost. You could have gone a little higher, but again it was straight up. The remnants of a fort using during the Korean War are up there.

All the kid's at the best picture spot being super silly. Can you tell they had fun on this trip!

The fam in the awesome picture spot.

Looking over the edge. It was literally straight down right there. We were definitely nervous up there. It felt good to start heading down.

Doing a little relaxing on the way down. It was a really fun trip and I'm so glad we went.

Check back soon. We had Elaina's 'Glamour Girl' 5th Birthday party yesterday. I will blog that this week and then we're off to Australia next Saturday for 2 weeks-WOO HOO!