Wild Blue Yonder

Veterans Day

These videos always make me sob uncontrollably.

Happy Veterans Day!

Seven Months

 It's been two hundred and fifteen days 

since we crossed the plains to Enid, Oklahoma.

It has not been easy, in fact, it's been rather difficult.

We came to OK with a massive hematoma and no where to stay, 

but things worked out in our favor.

We've made some great friends and learned a lot 

about ourselves. 

I wanted to make a small video of our road trip here, 

the intention was to share it right after the fact, but I became

intimidated by iMovie and put it off until now.
The filming is pretty bad, which is my fault, because I didn't think of

 turning the iPhone in the right direction. Lame.

So try your best to ignore that and instead enjoy my frizzy hair,

 Jake's beard, and oodles of freeway shots :)

Sexy Sax Man

Student pilots have a tradition called the ‘dollar ride. 

After a student’s first flight he or she gives the pilot a dollar.
 The name goes back to the county fairs of the early 1900s
 when barnstormer pilots charged ‘a buck a ride’ to customers who sat up
in the front of the airplane and acted like they were doing the flying.

It's become a little more fancy.

These days you have to give the IP your dollar in the most creative way possible.  

Jake took this challenge very seriously.

His instructor pilot is pretty much obsessed with the following Youtube video,

so Jake decided to be extra creative and get his fellow classmate to 

perform this in the middle of their morning briefing.

 His happy IP with the Dollar Ride Gift

I am beginning to wonder if this is a military program or a sorority... :)

Veteran

Yesterday was Veteran's Day.

It's a holiday I never paid attention to growing up.

Then I joined a wonderful family who constantly serve their country 

and pass it on from generation to generation. 

I'm grateful for brave men who leave their families to fight for freedom.

I hope that being in the military will teach our children to never take their liberty for granted.

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." -Elmer Davis

Love Lockdown

1. My attempt at Gourmet... yummy grilled pear.

2. Jake's nerdy replacement glasses = Napoleon Dynamite.

3. Maizey loves to have her belly scratched. 

Went and saw The Three Musketeers... AWFUL. 

Soo cheesy. Orlando Bloom has hit rock bottom everyone.

Hollywood's got nothing on UST.

Sometimes military bases have "exercises" to simulate emergency situations.

Today's exercise happened to be a four hour radiation simulation.

No one is allowed to leave once it starts.

Poor Jake was stuck in the supply building with no lunch and no phone! 

Meanwhile I caught up on my Pioneer Woman and Revenge episodes.

Don't worry I got some cleaning done too...

One day until Disneyland.

This gave me chills.

I LOVE THE SING OFF.

5 AM

Today I woke up at five...

you could say I'm preetty anxious.

Just too excited for today's events.

We finally have a place we can call home

and I can't wait to grab those keys and give lodging the bird.

I think it's safe to say that our first month here was a little more than challenging,

but I know all of the obstacles made us more resilient and wise.

So here I am, wide awake, finally up to hear the sound of reveille

the music seems to signal the start of our permanence in Enid.

Military living... it looks like we're finally here to stay

It's definitely too late to turn back now.

Aww hell what have I done..??

Butter Bars and Leaping Lizards

 

Our last military parade has come and gone... can't believe how much little Jakey has grown up! He's graduating ROTC and becoming a legit officer! 

 They're the three best friends that anyone could have...

 They're lovely aren't they..?

don't know why I'm looking so awkward and chubby, but we'll ignore it. The end of college is here everyone, and these two suckers are headed off into the real world. Well, soon enough... Last day of college, here I come.

Veterans Day

Ohh how I'm grateful for the military. Growing up I didn't really understand the commitment and courage it takes to serve in the armed forces, then I met the Kearns family. I am blown away at the strength and bravery these men have. I am very lucky to have one of them in my life. I am so proud of him. I know life in the military will be one of the hardest and most rewarding experiences we'll have, but I am looking forward to it. It will make our family closer than I could have ever imagined.