Abby Turns 4!!!

Feels like a lifetime since our last post.  It's been a whirlwind of packing up all our crap, birthday parties, and getting settled into our new hill country home.  I promise more frequent photos (especially since I'll be unemployed soon!!!!)  Enjoy these for now:

Abby chillin' before the big 4th of July parade in New Braunfels

A rare family photo after the parade

Then home to open presents!

Check out my new swimsuit from Aunt Jane!

Waiting for her friends to arrive at her birthday party at Pump It Up...birthday warehouse full of bouncy castles.  Perfect for a 100 degree day in South TX!

Having fun bouncing away!

Abby and Kennedy on top of the bouncy hill

A shot of the whole group...so many boys.  Abby is the only girl in her class this summer.  We're hoping it will toughen her up a bit.  Can't hurt.

 "Look at me...I'm 4!"

Saying goodbye to our next door neighbors.  Will she ever forgive us for all this moving?

School Pictures!

Here's some good pics of our little sunshine.  She is such a young lady these days.  I promise to be better about posting updates.  We are doing good and LOVING San Antonio.  We hope everyone is doing great!

A-10 Pictures!

We had these family pictures taken before we said good-bye to the A-10 and Tucson.  I'm just now getting them posted for ya'll to see.  Abby was a little scared when we climbed up and got in the engine...notice the double grip on daddy's collar. 

Cowgirl Abby!

Okay, so I'm terribly out of order here, but right now our entire life is a little out of order.  Posting pictures of Halloween in December seems perfectly normal relative to the chaos in our lives currently.  Bare with us...

Anytime Abby poses for a picture now, it involves a leg out and heel up.

"Freeze, bad guy!"

Ready to go get some candy!!!

Pumpkin patch break on our whirlwind road trip through TX back in September.



Thad's Fini Flight In The Hog

Sorry for the long delay in posts.  I have been putting off posting the first blog that mom won't be reading.  She used to check the blog everyday.  I miss her so much. 

As a result, this post will be one or two from each month since mom got sick.  Thank you to all who had us in your thoughts and prayers. 

Here's one of Abby waiting patiently for Thad to taxi in on his last flight in the A-10. 

Finally there he is!

Tailgating before the last U of A game and saying goodbye to friends.

Bye toys, bye bed, bye sunny Tucson!!!

Hello cold, rainy San Antonio!

We're off on a new adventure, but are so happy to be back in Texas!  I promise I'll be more diligent with the blog as we get settled into our new digs.  

It's Time For Ballet!

Ballet is foreign to Thad and I, but we signed Miss Abby up anyway!  Gymnastics and soccer don't start until she's five years old, so this was our best bet for an organized activity at this point.  I'm secretly hoping it doesn't stick.  It's a little too, no offense, girlie.  She loved her first class though.  Miss K, the teacher was nice and Skylar, her 5 year old friend from the squadron, is in the same class.  We knew five minutes into it that it would be ten times better than swim lessons, which started and ended disastrously!  All in all, she had a big day on Saturday...first ballet class, first birthday party (other than her own - Chuck E. Cheese...boo.), and first sleep over!  She stayed at Skylar's house while mom and dad went to the U of A football game and had "adult time" with friends.  Great day.

She refused to put any clothes on over her leotard.  We finally convinced her to put on her skirt before leaving the car.

Abby and Skylar waiting patiently for their first class to begin!

Miss K, in blue, teaching the little ones how to point their toes.  Takes me back to my first job as a gymnastics instructor.

Learning how to sashay.

No parents allowed in the room (I guess to eliminate distractions), but I snuck around the corner and snapped this one...sorry about the flash reflection!

Visit From Reid's Papa (A.K.A. Bobby)

I don't think she really knows his name.  She just kept saying "Reid's Papa", but she still knows that he was her "surrogate" daddy while Thad was in the ROK her first year of life.  Good to see you Bobby and hope to see Annie, Reid, and little Piper soon!!!!!