Trip to Langley

What an awesome week leading up to Mother's Day! Brian had a last minute work trip and I just mentioned how bummed I was that there wasn't more than a weeks notice so I could have gone too. With several friends in the area and all, Bryce and I could totally stay out of his hair. 4hrs later and lots of searching he found tickets for us to go too. YEAH! Thankfully the Rocks opened up their home to us for the week. Jeff was TDY until the weekend, so that left Steph and I with the 3 kids. We had a great time and I only wished we would have broke out the video camera for our daily outings with all three car seats in the back of the 4 runner, Wyatt singing, Bryce trying really hard to copy his every move, and poor Natalie just taking in all the craziness. We may have gone through a few bottles of wine, morning coffee, and afternoon iced coffees to make it through. Here are a few pictures from our adventures.....
Too bad I didn't have anyone to take a picture of me when a computer glitch wouldn't allow my ticket to print at the Memphis airport, dashing through security....(with a Miss you need to calm down) ummm then someone needs to check my kids milk so I can catch the plane....to show up and the Jetway has already moved away from the plane.....My heart dropped bc 4 hrs until the next flight out and nothing in the Memphis airport to do, had me close to an anxiety attach. As I run up to the gate with the Bob, car seat, backpack, and rolling bag to beg for help and they actually listened or felt sorry for me and took me out to the plane. Thank You!

Bryce thinks all jets/planes are cool. Wyatt does too, but knows a lot about planes. We drive through the gate on base and he already notices the tail of AF1. Hey what do you think that big plane is here for? We park and have to walk a couple of blocks to get to the plane. UMM Kristen (after I have strapped Bryce and Natalie in the double Bob) You know I may not be able to walk very far....As we approach the plane hmmm that sure is a big plane. We get closer, HEY that is AF1 is the President here? Way cute!

Wyatt & Drake enjoying dessert....Bryce saying hey what is that thing my Mom won't let me have yet?

Kisses for Natalie


Wyatt loven on his sister and Miss Addison.

WYATT this is the coolest bike ever! Now if I could just figure out how to follow you around the circle .

Bryce and Wyatt looking on at the F22 & F15 in the distance.

Hey Dude you think we can get our Dad's jobs when we grow up?

Playground Fun!

Feeding a goat and not a bit shy about it.

Thanks Rock's for a great visit....maybe we will PCS somewhere a little more exciting next time for you guys to come visit us. :) Thanks Jeff for manning all the kids so we could shop and get our toes done. All with a very upset little man at your side and a constant Momma, Momma, Momma!

Middle of May!

The middle of May was busy. We had Daddy's birthday, an Air Show at Columbus, and a visit from The Great Grandparents and Aunt & Uncle. Sorry not much for words...but at least I am getting pictures on here. :)

The Air Show

Bryce thought all the jets were super cool, kept ear plugs in, and occasionally had to cover his ears.

Engines of the Mighty Eagle

Daddy's Birthday Celebration!

Bubbles!

Uncle Randy teaching me to blow into a bottle for funny noises

Cool shoes and a growth chart! Thanks Grandma :)

Memorial Day Weekend/Week

Better late than never! We hit Pitt again for the Memorial Day weekend/Week. Here is a photo preview of all the fun we had with family.

1st Plane Ride in Papa's Plane!

The Joseph Boys!

McKenna likes to fly too!

Hey I am getting in this plane on my own!

This is what I thought....HMMM so tired

On the ground I was fired up to play with all the controls.

Wow so many buttons to push...where do I start.

Helping Papa push the plane back into the hangar.

The Girls and Bryce ; Graduation and The ZOO!

Aunt Monica and Bryce with their black and red shades!

Everyone wants to help feed Bryce.

Oh yeah Daddy was working...see him in front of the Presidents Limo.

Celebrating Papa's birthday a little early. OH How I love to open presents...so much fun.

Papa needed new walking kicks and I had to try them out.

22 Months opps forgot to post...

Wow 2 is creeping up way too fast little man! You are a man on the move. Your favorite daily activity involves water. Playing with the hose, watering the flowers, playing with buckets of water, your little pool, the base pool, and the splash park. You love it so much that weather you understand your night time prayers or not you always remember to Thank God for Wa Wa, Mamma, and Dadda. Which I think is pretty funny. You have started to put together two words and will repeat about anything you see done or hear. Favorite two word phrases : Dadda work, Momma work and he adds home, milk please, Bro (Brody) wa wa (water) they play in the afternoon together a lot, oh and you like to say Momma, Dadda, Bry over and over again.
Sleep: Well over all you are a pretty good sleeper, 11-12 hrs at night and 2-3 hrs during the day. Until this week.....You did have tubes put in your little ears....did we traumatize you? The Dr said it went great and LOTS of junk was sucked out. So basically when you got your first ear infection at 18 mths and fought them for the last 4 mths the infection would go away but couldn't drain. So when they took you from me screaming to put you to sleep, it broke my heart. No sooner did I walk back into your room and Daddy was on the phone with the nurse and you were already asleep and surgery started. Then you were wheeled back into your room with 4 other people just praising how well you did. A nurse was riding on the bed with you and you sat in her lap and held Lion with big tears in your eyes. So back to the sleep thing....You suddenly won't go down for naps or night time anymore...without a huge fight and kid you have stamina in this department. So are you scared we won't be there when you wake up again? Lets see yesterday it took 2 hrs to get you down for nap, today 1.5 hrs. Not to mention we let you scream for more than 40 min ....UGGG So bottom line we have given up on several occasions at night and in the middle of the night bc we are too tired and you sleep just fine with us. Which normally means someone has to leave the bed, bc kid you don't stay very still and prefer to be on top of one of us when you sleep. Please child just tell us what is wrong. If it is still going on come Monday the ENT told us to bring you back in. It amazes me that you need two things to sleep, your lion and froggy, also in your bed are a blanket and taggie. What is funny is that if your are upset or want to be rocked you are standing up in your crib with all of these things in your arms and heaven for bid if we drop one or don't bring it to the rocking chair with us.
Lets pray that nothing else is wrong with your ears and this a random act of a toddler trying to get his way.....

On a side note since I forgot to post this...your ears are fine...and you are enjoying putting up a good fight for sleep or really just wanting one of us with you while you sleep.

Bryce and Daddy playing at the splash park! The ball rotating in the water was way cool.

This is just proof that Froggy and Lion are very important and that you are still very happy when you are brought into Mommy Daddy's bed no matter what time of the night! Himmmm is this the laugh of I win....