Friday, May 25, 2012

Hiking and Graduation!



This week has been good. Trevor and Kylene are home. Finals are over at USAFA. So we went hiking and got to go to the graduation!
Trev, Kylene, Juedeman, and Sadie walking up to the trail-head.

At the trail-head!

Off of USAFA!
:D Juedeman is holding Steve 1, in case you were wondering...

Trevor decided he had to climb this tree.

Juedeman and Sadie :)

Steve!

Sadie and her flower :)

hehe. these are my people :)

Juedeman pondering the amazing properties of moss. ...or something like that...
Trevor is a beast!

Group Pic try 1

Group Pic try 2
Group pic Try 3

Group pic Try 4 (Trev started getting bored...)

Group pic try 5 (It's a little better?)
Group pic Try 6 (...we've pretty much lost it...)

Trevor offered to take a picture.
...then he kept taking pictures....

It's kinda good?

I love this view so much!
Pikes Peak!

Our tree :)
I love this kid :) He's like another "little" **cough** brother.







The Thuderbirds' first pass!

Juedeman wanted a funnel cake...


...and then the powdered sugar blew everywhere! 

Ahh! They're so awesome!

Wow. Just wow.

So now Juedeman is a 3*!


Sadie and Em swapped out his boards :)
 This is just the beginning of summer! I cannot wait for the rest of it! :D


Tuesday, May 1, 2012

16 Things (plus a couple extra) that I miss about NBB

16) Eating Jello at **almost** every meal.
15) The Highlanders attempting to talk in a Scottish accent. (I don't even remember what flight they were...)
14) Chaplain Smalley. (NOT)
13) Zinger waking me up in the morning instead of Kylene.
12) Having soaking wet gear for the first week.
11) Yelling "ALL CLEAR" every time I walked into the guys barracks.
10) Working KP.
9) Taking down the whole flag pole when one of the flags got stuck.
8) Walking around the airshow like we owned it.
7) Smelling like bug spray 24/7.
6) Saluting the military aircraft we marshaled.
5) Coming back to compound with hash-marks all over your hands and arms. 
4) Being called Jenny.
3) Chapman yelling loud crazy things at random times. (HOUSTON! I have a problem!!!)
2) Operation Thirst!
1) My Beret Family.

Other Items:
  • playing cards with Hotel
  • Waking up to loud music (...when the speakers weren't blown...) 
  • Volleyball 
  • "Goodnight Ladies!" 
  • The awful PBJ sandwiches in the D-Fac
  • Riding in the vans to the flight line and having Chapman brief us on our mission that day. 

Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Week of Awesome Insanity


Insane Item #1: This week Em and I finished the Falcon Trial. All 13 miles...(we ran 8 or 9 of them and walked the rest. But it was pouring rain and a pretty decent thunderstorm and totally dark...) 
The amazing 13 mile marker! YES!

Ahhh!

We were so excited!


Break from insanity #1:
MJ's outfit :) guess who got her the shirt?
Insane Item #2: For our "recovery" day we decided it would be a **brilliant** idea to climb Mount Herman. Ends up that hike is even harder than Eagle's Peak... It was stunning, though! (I will add a couple more pictures at the top when I can get them off Juedeman's camera...)

"I'm not a tree hugger!"

"...well, maybe I am..."

"Why are we doing this? Seriously!"
"I'm really liken' this lichen! AH!"

God's creation is so pretty!
"It's a dead tree!!!! With lichen!!!!"


It was so pretty!
Carving a "D" in the tree.

Em :) She is a major beast. she did over 30 miles this week! o_O

Singing at the top of his lungs...
Yay! We're at the top! ..of the rock...not the mountain...

"I'm going to push you off!"
Hand off of the banana phone made out of...wood?

working on that whole fear of heights thing...

"We're at the top! Let's throw a small tree off the top!"
We didn't know we were getting our pictures taken...

still didn't know...
Sadly...we posed for this one...

and this one... we're special...
Group pic at the top!
The finished "D" on our way back down.
Group pic by the dead guy memorial thing...
we legitly climbed that!

 Break from insanity #2:
Dinner. Viv and Mom made an amazing spaghetti dinner! Ah! It was so yummy! 
The kids decided they should tie Juedeman's shoes. (thanks you guys!)

It took them quite awhile...
Reg eating his fudge bar.
<3
Juedeman fixing his poor sick broken F-35
Insane Item #3: Us being us...
yea...it's scary...