Bye Liliana and Whitney!

We had such a great time having Whitney and Liliana staying with us for a week. I love you Whit! but I really miss Liliana cute smile.. she is beautiful. I love that Monique got to play with someone almost her age! We love and miss you guys!!

Fun at the Park

We went to the park on Saturday while it was sunny for the first time in a week or so. Carter was loving the slide and all the playground equipment. Then he got to feed the ducks. All the while Dad got to use have fun with his new camera. It was a fun day.

Because you have asked..

So, some of our family and friends have asked for more pics of our family and new home. So, here they are .

Enid, OK

We arrived in Enid about 4 weeks ago. We're here to finish the last part of Air Force pilot training. I'll be flying the T-1, which is a business jet type and should finish up in July-August timeframe.

Since we've been here there has been some serious snow. Here's a picture of Carter in our backyard:




That's right, we have a house! Well it's not ours, we're still renting, but it is a house. So I think we're officially done with apartment living. It's nice to have a garage and a back yard and not have to hear your neighbors all the time. There's also a fun little park to go to here with some ducks. Carter loved it but it got cold quick.



In other good news, The Air Force gives out bonuses to people to speak particular foreign languages. Portuguese didn't used to be on the list but they recently changed that. So I took the proficiency test last week and maxed it out! Sweet! So we're going to apply the monthly bonus to our Brazil trip fund.

Monique is here!

So, she has been home for almost 2 weeks now, and we are loving every minute! We did not have time to put the pictures up until now, Grandma is here with us now, that gives us some extra time to play with the computer. Here are the pics, enjoy -)
Ps: I just realize we have no pictures of Monique with her eyes opened.. so, we are going to have some pics tomorrow =)

Halloween

So, this was Carter's first Halloween, at least the first one that he was aware of what was going on.. kinda. He had a lot a fun getting all those candies for Daddy to eat. Here are some pictures.

Formation

I had my formation solo this last week. It was my last solo flight in the T-34. I was flying off the instructor's wing for most of the flight except for a short time where he had me take lead. It was by far my best formation flight. The instructor, a former Thunderbird pilot, said he was "totally impressed." There was a flight doc student in the backseat of his airplane who was just along for the ride. She happened to bring a camera and took some pictures of me. It's pretty cool because we're not allowed to take pictures while we're up there so this was my only opportunity to get some. The position I'm flying in off his wing is called parade position. For us, the parameters are 20' of nose to tail separation, 10' of step-down (that's like vertical separation), and 4' of wingtip clearance. So here's the pictures. Remember, they are from the perspective of the backseat of the lead aircraft. The pilot you see flying the airplane is me.