News From New Mexico

Hey there everyone here's the latest and greatest from New Mexico I just got done with air ops, of which consisting of some Helo work, which you can view above. Ethan is getting bigger and bigger everyday, and what a blessing he is to our family. I'll soon be leaving for Florida for some water operations including more jumping and diving so all the prayers in our behalf would be appreciated! :) We love you all and hope you enjoyed the update.

Home Sweet Home

Though it is slowing down here at home, we are making some progress with finding order. The missionaries are loving our old furniture, and after 3 weeks of having an empty living room we received our new, which turned out to look massive and made the living room look pretty small. We ended up moving the love seat into the family room, and having the couch and chair in the living room. It works. The computer desk is still on watch for. Due to a lack of much space we need a small one, but want it to fit the printer and scanner as well.
No big rush at this point, I want the right one at the right price.

Ethan's tricks

As you can see our little man is getting bigger, and learning new tricks. He is following in his fathers footsteps on balance, but no need to start him with bad habits of drinking pop. Good going Dad. Rot his teeth out before they even come in.
I am still waiting for pictures of Chelsea also. She is the one always taking the pictures, so we miss her beauty.
I am looking forward to December when we get to see them again in person.
This has been another busy week with Anthony jumping each day, both high and low altitude with his gear on most of the time, so he said the first of the week would be the most challenging on his body in the landing process. Thats allot of weight to come to a sudden halt with.

My Marine

Rodney just got home from a four day weekend duty with the Marines feeling pretty grimy. I think he was in hopes that his room would be back to normal when he got home, but Tony did something to himself that enabled his help with anything this weekend, so is on light duty. Actually it was me in hopes of getting the bed done. Rodney would never say a thing about it.
Maybe next weekend while I am gone to the beach with the youth the two of them can work together to complete the job. That would be a treat.
I haven't had a chance to find out what he was doing, other than shooting his rifle I heard him tell Anthony. I don't think they started any fires this month, or blew up anything. You never know however.

Remodel in progress

We've had many requests for more pictures of the changes being made here at home. Everything is so much slower than I remember from years ago, but we are moving forward, which makes us very happy. Its the details that takes so much longer, yet makes everything so complete and beautiful. I'm just so happy for the fresh new look.
As you can see we finally have a floor in the pantry. It might seem strange to have a wood floor, yet it matches the family room, as well as the entry floor without adding another flooring to the variety we already have. All of them really look nice.
Tony and I had quite a challenge putting in the thermo window in the family room. We made changes years ago to the other windows in the house, so it was time to replace it. Not only was the opening 1" off square, but for Tony to lift it from the outside, and have me hold it from the inside while he screwed it in while on the ladder. I kept envisioning him falling, and I couldn't do anything about it. I was very glad to have him back on the ground. There again it is probably an age thing, knowing he doesn't bounce like he used to.
Tonight we fed the missionaries, and also found a new home for our couches. I would have never thought to give them to the elders, yet they were so excited to have them, and get rid of the mismatched, broken down furniture that they have. Now we have a truck load of there furniture to dump. Such a trade. Look at the blessings. The living room is completely empty which makes it a challenge to really relax at this point to watch the news. If it really bothered Tony he would bring his chair back into the living room, but he just sat on the floor without any problem. We should be getting our couch and love seat on Friday, or Saturday.

JoAnna visits Utah

A few weeks ago Peter
and Jessica went to Salt Lake to visit family, so JoAnna decided to tag along and visit with family there. She enjoyed the time away with her cousin Mariah on a hike in the mountains and around Cecret Lake. I'm not so sure Mariah had as much fun, but there is so much beauty to see on this earth.
She also went to Thanksgiving point that has a variety of gardens that Aunt Linda took pictures of she and Aunt Sandi in the Secret Gardens, but part of the fun was driving the golf cart from one garden to the next. There again I wonder how comfortable Aunt Sandi was with this experience. JoAnna had a wonderful time.

There is Progress

As you can see we have been very busy and making progress on the changes, or fix its,and believe me we have plenty of those. This blog is mainly pictures showing what been going on this past week, or I should say these past two weekends.