Happy Birthday Mom!

Special birthday wishes to Mom on this her big 50!
We love you and are celebrating with you from Austin. :)
Love you forever, Naomi & Michael

JoAnna's visit

It was a short visit, but one that we enjoyed having JoAnna come home if only for a few days. Of course I jokingly say that she came home to see me prior to my Birthday, and to watch conference with us like old times, however the real reason was to see Zack, and travel back with he and his family to Rexburg. It was really nice to enjoy the time we did have as a family. Small as it is these days. While she was here she had her hair permed for a new look. Cute as ever.

end of summer

I feel like we are officially done with the summer and onto Fall. There seems to be a chill that is hard to get rid of right to the bone. Last weekend Rodney, Tony and I went to Ocean Park Washington to get our 5th wheel and bring it home and ready it for the upcoming weather. It was really nice to be able to leave it at Lonnie and Sandi's for the summer, and felt bad that they weren't at the beach when we went to pick it up. It was there off weekend. I know I was disappointed, but so was Rodney, he has a hard time just sitting still, so ended up leaving for home on Saturday. At least we had his attention for 24 hours. Enough time to visit, play games, & go to the beach. I must say I felt the chill at that time, so had a hard time really wanting to stay that last night, but knowing it would be a while before having the time to go back, we took advantage of it. I know Belle really loves the beach excursions, not necessarily the water itself since its so salty, but she really just enjoys to time away. Its good for us all.

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.