Christmas in February!

Ok, not really, but thats what you get when I don't have access to my Christmas pictures all January.



First of many Christmas related functions... Torii tree lighting, complete with bubble blowers, brass quartet, cookies, and Santa visit via firetruck.






Coryn was super obsessed with Santa this year, at every event he was the first in Santa's lap, wanting to run across the road just to be the first to say hi. He really wanted his Star Wars Legos.




This year he had the joy of sitting with a friend from school as well, Savina.




The second event was the 505th party, they had fun dancing and playing in the soap bubble snow they used for pictures. My camera died so I was only able to get pics of them in this 'be an elf' board... too cute.

Other Feb Happenings

They finally finished the park! Here is the beautiful basketball court which took about a month to make (level, pour, destroy, level, pour, dry, clean, paint, paint, paint, paint, no really there are four different levels of paint on this) and but a few hours to be covered with rocks and bits of dirt from the 'green' that is yet to be grown grass. Kids love it.


505th Red and White Social, kids danced all night.

Isn't that a stunning suit? (Jax, do you recall who this is?)

After excercising at the gym, Coryn likes to sit and read the newspaper (really its about getting a smoothie, but he thought he'd look all grown up)

The last week of Feb was mostly consumed with AFAP, here is my FRTI group, we did awesome! Best delegate group ever.

Atypical Army Day

Cor On this not so usual motorpool Monday, the FRG had a fundraiser pie-in-the-face auction. Here Mr. T is letting Coryn take his picture while we set up, in the orange in the back is our lovely president.

We were very careful on the first pie recipient. She's new to the unit so no one had a vengance yet anyway.
You can't tell its him, but thats the commander that just got creamed... we got a little crazy after the first one, as you can see from the pie on the water cooler behind him.

Mr. T even got into the action... he didn't bid on anyone, but they put him up for auction and he bought his own pie... so he went after the one who nominated him!
Coryn spent a good deal of time in this truck, often honking the horn. the rest of the time he wandered around with little dabs of whipped cream on his finger saying "I'm going to pie you!" and then getting people's noses... there are pictures I have to go get one of these days. I even joined the festivities in Jackson's name of course.

505th Change of Command

Here's Jackson standing in the S1 (adjutant) spot because well, thats what he's been doing. Its been crazy around here and I don't know if I'll be able to post again before everything happens, but for those of you that don't know, Jackson's being deployed and we're moving home. Soon.
Coryn's upset here that I'm taking a picture of him because it means he can't play with the camera. He's becoming quite the photographer.

Here's one of his shots... 'Brother Plays with Water Bottle'... Carter is growing like a weed. He's already 17 lbs and trying very hard to crawl, he scooches across the floor with ease. He's also started on solid foods, which he loves! the only thing he's ever flat out refused is green beans and I got him to eat that last night too. I don't think he knows when to stop though...

Aside from being crazy busy everything else is going fine for now. We'll have to see if I feel the same after Jackson leaves.

Old News (Army Baseball)

Jackson got involved with his unit's baseball team, and the location doesn't suck.
Beautiful skies, beautiful ocean, and I suppose his team is pitching... thats our chaplain pitching, his wife was quite pregnant when they showed up right at the beginning of the season but he managed to make it to most of the games.
Here's Jackson in the outfield, wishing he could turn around and enjoy the view.
A little more action going on here, he was one of the better batters.

Coryn didn't appreciate the games so much, we didn't go to very many of them, and by the end he was very tearful that he couldn't go on the field with daddy. Jackson's group did pretty well, they finished third I think? they made it to the semifinals anyway.

CORRECTION: For the record, we finished second and made it to the finals. To have won it all we would have had to win three in a row the last night of the season and were only able to pull off the first two... we'll get 'em next year!

Happy Easter!

We held our spring/easter party today, and Coryn got to meet a puppy, color eggs, hunt for eggs, and smash eggs together!