Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Fini Flight
Another assignment down, another fini flight. This morning Henry flew is final sortie as a 43rd IP here at Tyndall. The kids and I went and picked up donuts for the squadron and met him out at the flight line at 9:30. It was super loud but Carter had a great time aiming the hose at daddy and Addie even got to squeeze the trigger. It's hard to believe that it's been three years since we bought our house and moved here. Thanks 43rd for the great times and good memories.
Playdates
This year we have been blessed with wonderful preschool friends. I know I've said that a thousand times but they are truly some of our best friends here in Panama City. We had three special playdates these past two weeks, one to the movie theatre, one was a flip flop party and one was a farewell party. What's so nice about these kids is that for the most part they all play well together and have fun. They were so sweet holding hands coming out of the movie theatre. And Asher was a trooper being the only boy!
And finally, Jessica invited us to a farewell playdate for Addie. What's so neat about Jessica and Morgan is that Morgan was Addie's first friend that she made on her own. All of her friends before were her friends because I was friends with their moms. Morgan was different, she and Addie brought their mom's together. And Jessica is my first friend that I've made through Addie. We love their whole family and Jessica has become a dear friend to me who I will miss lots. The good news is that when we come for the air show in March we are going to stay with them (I promise I'm not inviting myself over, the invitation was given) so the girls and the boys (Tyler is Carter's age) can play lots. We love you all!!!
Tammy again invited the girls over for a flip flop making party. Each girl make a set of flip flops (read, each mom made flip flops) and they turned out so cute!!!
And finally, Jessica invited us to a farewell playdate for Addie. What's so neat about Jessica and Morgan is that Morgan was Addie's first friend that she made on her own. All of her friends before were her friends because I was friends with their moms. Morgan was different, she and Addie brought their mom's together. And Jessica is my first friend that I've made through Addie. We love their whole family and Jessica has become a dear friend to me who I will miss lots. The good news is that when we come for the air show in March we are going to stay with them (I promise I'm not inviting myself over, the invitation was given) so the girls and the boys (Tyler is Carter's age) can play lots. We love you all!!!
So much to say... #2
Sunday was the actual holiday and it rained and poured in Panama City so we pretty much chaulked out holiday up to a wash.
After hanging out in the house and wanting to poke our eyes out we finally drove down to Mexico Beach and low and behold, it's sunny and beautiful. Great, of course we didn't bring our swim/beach stuff with us. The kids played in the water in their clothes and to be honest, I baked in a chair. I'm all for the beach, when I can get in the water. It was far to hot to be in shorts and a t-shirt. We went to dinner at Toucans and the kids played on the playground afterwards.
Truth be told, if they had taken better naps it would have been a great place to watch fireworks. But, since Carter didn't nap and Addie took a 30 minute one I knew they wouldn't make it to 9. So we came back and watched them on TV. Exciting huh?
Monday Henry's parents left out of Panama City and since we were already on the beach side of town we decided to take in a movie... Toy Story 3 in 3D. It was all of our first 3D experience and while it's pretty cool, it certaintly didn't make or break the movie for me and actually it was hard to see if you ever took your glasses off (like Addie and Carter did) because it was blurry. It was pretty cute though.
Monday Henry's parents left out of Panama City and since we were already on the beach side of town we decided to take in a movie... Toy Story 3 in 3D. It was all of our first 3D experience and while it's pretty cool, it certaintly didn't make or break the movie for me and actually it was hard to see if you ever took your glasses off (like Addie and Carter did) because it was blurry. It was pretty cute though.
So much to say...
It's been weeks and I feel like I could update a thousand things because we've been so busy. Rather than have a million blog posts, I'm going to break the past few weeks up into a few smaller ones. That way it's not so overwhelming but we don't have 50 new posts either. Where to start... we moved out of our house on the 23rd on June and Henry's mom arrived on the same day. The packers left quite a bit to be desired and we're quite certain several things are going to show up broken and one box for sure contains a wet dishrag so that one will be nice and smelly come next week. The actual movers were good and they moved quite quickly. They had our whole house done by 4 which was a major step up over the people who moved us out of our house in VA.
Our initial plan was to "camp" in our house until we had to vacate on the 1st but that got to be a bit much for everyone, espcially the kids. Addie was quite confused and didn't understand where her stuff was. One morning we found her looking out of her window crying and at that point we decided to move to the TLF early. The first TLF was fine and since it was a night week and I had a babysitter, Grandma, I went over to Magan's TLF to enjoy some trash TV, the Bachelorette. I got home, Henry got home, and he said he smelled gas. We called the operator, the fire department came out and sure enough, there was a leak in the stove. So at midnight, they moved us as well as the family next door to another unit. We decided since they had shut off the gas that we would leave the kids and Margery and move them after we moved our stuff. We get to the second TLF and sure enough, gas again. The fire department comes out, shuts down the until and we move for the third time. It's not almost 1 and we are so tired. This one is good and we get moved in and everyone gets back to bed sometime around 2. YUCK! But, coming to the TLF early did prove to be the right decission and it gave us a few more days to hang out with the Echols' who happened to be living in a TLF a block over. Carter finally started playing boy stuff with Jackson and he has been asking for him everyday since they left.
Of course the goodbye was brutal but we know that we will see them again very soon. We sure do miss all five of them though.
The same day we said goodbye to them we drove over to Destin to pick Henry's dad up from the airport. We stopped at Pier Park and had dinner and then let the kids run around and play. Since it was Henry's birthday we also picked up some yummy frozen yogurt at his new favorite place, YoGurty. You can make your own TCBY like yogurt concoctions that are super yummy.
The next few days we worked on the house getting it into tip top shape and celebrated the 4th. Lynn Haven did their parade on the 3rd and again, the firetrucks were a hit.
Our initial plan was to "camp" in our house until we had to vacate on the 1st but that got to be a bit much for everyone, espcially the kids. Addie was quite confused and didn't understand where her stuff was. One morning we found her looking out of her window crying and at that point we decided to move to the TLF early. The first TLF was fine and since it was a night week and I had a babysitter, Grandma, I went over to Magan's TLF to enjoy some trash TV, the Bachelorette. I got home, Henry got home, and he said he smelled gas. We called the operator, the fire department came out and sure enough, there was a leak in the stove. So at midnight, they moved us as well as the family next door to another unit. We decided since they had shut off the gas that we would leave the kids and Margery and move them after we moved our stuff. We get to the second TLF and sure enough, gas again. The fire department comes out, shuts down the until and we move for the third time. It's not almost 1 and we are so tired. This one is good and we get moved in and everyone gets back to bed sometime around 2. YUCK! But, coming to the TLF early did prove to be the right decission and it gave us a few more days to hang out with the Echols' who happened to be living in a TLF a block over. Carter finally started playing boy stuff with Jackson and he has been asking for him everyday since they left.
The same day we said goodbye to them we drove over to Destin to pick Henry's dad up from the airport. We stopped at Pier Park and had dinner and then let the kids run around and play. Since it was Henry's birthday we also picked up some yummy frozen yogurt at his new favorite place, YoGurty. You can make your own TCBY like yogurt concoctions that are super yummy.
The next few days we worked on the house getting it into tip top shape and celebrated the 4th. Lynn Haven did their parade on the 3rd and again, the firetrucks were a hit.
That evening our friends from the squadron and church, Jeff and Christy Ward, invited us over for a BBQ and fireworks. Jeff had some fabulous Alabama sized ones and we (me) had fun shooting them off in the front yard. I grew up with a street full of burnt fireworks and sparklers and Henry grew up going to the local display so we see things a little different when it comes to the 4th. I love front yard fun and I'm pretty sure his mom and dad thought we were a bit crazy for giving our three year old a sparkler. But she loved it as did Carter.
To be continued...
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