Princess for a night

Wednesday was the graduation Ball. James and I had a wonderful night. If you have ever been to a military ball then you will already know how things went, if not.... let me tell you ;)

It started with me getting my hair done (James insisted). I had the hair lady do little curls all over the back. It turned out quite pretty. When school got out we took the boys to a friends for the evening. With time running out I had to hurry and get ready... thank goodness I didn't have to do anything with my hair ;) We had to be there at 5 pm for social hour, which was a new experience for me. I only knew a few people, but made it through one hour of chatting away with strangers. We also had our pictures taken and should get them back in a few weeks. I sure hope they turned out nice. So after social hour it was time to go through the receiving line. Now this is so we can meet and say hi to the guys in charge, their wives and guest speaker. I can only remember one of the wives names... Heather.

After the receiving line we waited and talked to people by our table. I guess the rule is to wait for the guy in charge to sit first. But before he sits, we paid our respects to the POW's. It was a very moving tribute. I can't help but get emotional when I hear taps. Then the soldiers did a few different toasts which ended with toasting the ladies, and finally we get to sit :) Before dinner is served though, the men presented all the wives with an honorary diploma for helping our guy get through flight school and a set of wings. James got me a beautiful necklace with wings. I remember seeing other wives with wings before and thought "oh how pretty". I am very excited to have my own now.

We finally get to eat dinner. The rolls were the favorite for everyone. James and I had the chicken cordon bleu, and cheese cake was served for dessert.

As dinner ended we watched a class video. It was nice to see some pictures of James doing his job. I was even able to pick out which chin and helmet were his.

We had a great guest speaker. I don't remember his name but he was a Colonel and he had a great sense of humor. He spoke to the graduates about how they need to be great examples, and to respect the soldiers they are in charge of. I really enjoyed his speech.

The rest of the evening was about awards for this or that. James took a few pictures with friends and when the coast was clear (the high ranking guys gone home) we decided to head home too.

1LT Booher & James

James, 1LT Wagnild & 1LT Booher

James & WO1 Avalos

Isn't James so handsome in his dress blues...

My little Punks!!

All weeks is Drug free week and today is Crazy hair day. The boys had a great time doing their hair. I think

I have my very own Punk Rock band ;)

I know... I'm behind ;)

So I am a little slow on getting things posted this month. As you can see it was Aiden's birthday on the 9th... which brings me full circle on my blog. I went ahead and uploaded all of my blogs for this last year and made it into a book which I will get next month.
Hmm so what else have I missed? James and I celebrated our 12th anniversary on the 12th ;) I'm not to far behind on this one, but Conor just got tubes put in on Friday. He was very brave. The Dr. asked if he was scared and he said No... He says he hears better but I guess we will see how things are in a couple of weeks.
I think that's about it for now. We have a big week ahead of us. James will be graduating from flight school and we will have lots of family in town to help celebrate.
Guess I'll cya on the flipside ;)

Arrow of Light!

This last Wednesday our Scout troop had an Arrow of Light ceremony for two of our WEBELO boys. Aiden being one of them ;) Anyone ever in scouts as a boy or a leader will know that this award is hard work. I have been the WEBELO's leader for about 9 moths now and am so happy to see Aiden and Ben receive their Arrow of Light, which is one award they can keep on their uniform when they cross over to Boy scouts.

After the Arrow of Light ceremony, it was time to watch Aiden cross over into the Boy Scouts. James and I got to walk him to the middle of a bridge where the boy scouts were waiting for him and they walked him to the other side and welcomed him to the Boy Scouts. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of this part lol oh well.

Here are all our Cub scout boys reciting the oath and law of the pack

Here is Ben pinning his mother and receiving his Arrow of Light

Here is Aiden pinning me and receiving his Arrow of Light.

So 1 down and 3 more to get through cub scouts... 9 more pine wood derby cars to make LOL!!

He's home

Can I say Woooo Hooo!!! The boys are just as excited. James had a long 3 weeks at SERE school but says that it's the best military training he's been to so far.
Anyway, I wanted to just let everyone know that we are almost done with our stay here in Alabama. It's been a great 2yrs and I will be excited for the time we can come back.
Right now Jame's Graduation date is October 30th. He is going in this morning to make sure he is starting his last class this week. If for some reason he isn't in this week's class I will let everyone know the new graduation date.
Oh and for those who haven't heard, we are on our way back to FT HOOD TX. It gets us a few days closer to the NW and we already have friends there. The kids are excited to see some old friends (if they are still there). We aren't sure when we will be headed that way, mostly because of our un-sold house here but thinking mid Nov. early Dec.

Oh let me know if you are coming to the Graduation so I can send out emails about times and stuff.

#8

I didn't get much done today other than organizing...

Before:

After:

I really do like those space bags. I was able to get rid of the sizes my boys don't wear any more then put the rest into the bags. I just love to see them squish down as the air is sucked out.

#6&7

Well today I cleaned out the shed... unfortunately the garbage won't be put out till next Tuesday. But hey I got all the spider webs all swept out.

As for this guy..... our resident banana spider

I am tooo afraid to get rid of him. He is hanging above the shed. I hope James gets home before the open house.

So I guess my count goes up by 2 today with:

#6 donating to goodwill. Finn prefers to walk anyway.

#7 we replaced almost all the light fixtures when we moved in, so these have been taking up space in the garage...