Thanksgiving!

We had a really wonderful Thanksgiving this year.  The visit with The Maddison Family made it an extra special holiday for us. 

Evan is so fun and adorable.

I think Nathan and Evan will grow up to be good friends. 

waiting for..... Dave, Autumn, new TV shows

I sure have been busy.  Keeping up with Nate all day everyday is a task i tell you!  I've always appreciated the help Dave gives me everyday.  And I can hardly wait until he is back and we can be a team again.  I know Dave is really missing Nathan.  The little squirt is changing everyday.  He is fun and happy and sneaky and still wont speak to me in English!  I know he understands me.

Dave and I are really excited about the new fall season of TV shows.  I know this sounds silly. But we were so out of touch for all those years, it is nice to be starting with everyone else. 

I made Chicken noodle soup today for dinner, and I made extra to freeze.  It makes me happy, like fall is going to be here soon, and I am ready!  Hahah

Summer Fun

 

We have been having a really wonderful summer!

 Its been full of swimming...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bonfires, fair festivities...

 

...sandbox digging, and all that other stuff that makes summer great. 

 

Our new pop up has made this trip even more exciting.  We have already found tacky lights for the front porch!

We went to Bronner's today, since I had never been.  Holy Cow it was so fun!  I found a pop up ornament and had it personalized with our name and the year 2009. 

I found lots of other exciting stuff too, but finding this years ornament was the highlight of the day.

More Family!

We have three new family members!  Ben and Sarita's wedding was really wonderful.  It's exciting to have new additions to the family.

 

This is Nathan's new cousin Veronica....

 

 

... And this is Amber!

They are both sweet girls

Another Year Older

We celebrated my 26th birthday yesterday.  David made me an awesome cake, and he gave me a nice sewing box for our trip.  Its smaller than my current box so it will be easier to travel with.  It was a nice day and I got lots of really great presents.  AND I don't really feel any older. 

We have finally been working on hammering out some of our trip plans.  We still need to figure out how to buy Dave's plane tickets, but we have a little bit of time for that.  I think we have both been enjoying the fact that traveling home this summer is so much more relaxed than last year doing the long flights with an infant.  I am happy that we can drive now.  Even though most don't consider a 24 hour drive a blessing, we sure do.  Especially since its 10% of the cost of our previous trips home from Misawa.  We definitely enjoy that!!  

 

Lots of projects for me right now.  I counted the other night.  I have 10 quilts in various stages.  Some are waiting for the binding to be closed during our roadtrip(like my Dazed and Confused Quilt, seen here <--), some are just tops, some are partly cut out, some are just piles of washed fabric waiting patiently.  I am about to jump into another quilt along, not because I need another project, but because they are so darn fun.

Happy Independence Day

We were complaining about the heat this past week, so of course today it was rainy and gloomy.  Go figure.   But it ended up being a nice day for us.  

We grilled burgers and I made beans and potato salad.  Then we took our cranky Nathan to the fireworks in downtown Clovis.  It was supposed to start at 8:45 which is our tot's bedtime.  But I don't think it started until well after nine.  We had just got up and started packing our chairs up thinking they would never start, when BAM BAM.  It was funny.  The town's show was really impressive.  I was surprised.  Nate didn't mind the noise really, but he was so cranky by the time it was over we were packing up to go.  Once we got the chairs folded up the finale was shooting off. 

Scary stuff when fireworks are legal for any joe idiot shmoe to buy.  Really frightening!

Nathan kept lifting up his shirt to show us his belly button today.  Its a new thing.  He makes me laugh. 

Nearly July already?

 

 

Boy its shocking July begins tomorrow!  June went so fast. 

We had a nice visit with Chuck and Ruthann.  Although we didn't do touristy things since Clovis is lacking in that department.  But it was nice for them to get to know Nathan better.  Dave and Chuck got to go golfing.  We went to the little zoo here in Clovis.  And Ruthann cleaned the stove top after dinner one night, and it maybe one of the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. 

Dave had to leave early Sunday morning for a quick TDY.  He should be back tomorrow night.  He is kind of in the middle of nowhere.  I spoke to him really late last night.  These TDYs are so different from the TDYs he went on as a crew chief. 

Just about two weeks until we head out on our summer trip.  Geez, I guess I could start thinking about packing lists.