Lucy Torture!

Okay this is so mean, but it's also very funny! Ryan and Cody had already picked Halloween costumes and both happened to be Star Wars. Tyler was still trying to find one when we found this dog princess Lea outfit! So we convinced Tyler to be a star wars character too! Thank goodness Lucy's was on sale and cheap becuase I am not sure she will cooperate to go trick or treating with them in it, but it was so funny to stick her in it! The pictures aren't that great, but you can imagine why!

Happy 9th Birthday Ryan!

Things are still a bit disorganized around here so instead of pictures I did a little interview with Ryan.

1.What is your favorite color? Blue

2.What is your favorite food? chicken cordon bleu

3.What do you want to be when you grow up? Scientist

4.What is your favorite thing to do at school? Math

5.What's your favorite toy? backugan

6.If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? I'd move back to Germany

7.If you had $50 what would you buy? A lego set

8.What is your favorite restaraunt? Macaroni Grill

9.What is your favorite video game? Legend of Starfy and Spiderman.

So now you know a little more about Ryan!

Just a little update

So our stuff arrived and it was mayhem! Cardboard everywhere, packing paper, just utter chaos! It seemed as though it wouldn't fit, but it is fitting rather nicely. Kind of scary considering how small the house is. Guess that means when I finally get to buy my nice big house I will have to also save to fill it up!


This is what Tyler's room looked like when the boys discovered their legos really came with us! We threatened many times that they would be given away or magically lost in the move! They weren't and I am pretty sure they multiplied in transit!

And of course we can't leave out Lucy. She loves having a front door to look out and she whines whenever someone leaves and she doesn't get to go with them. I have been good and been taking her on walks during the day. I figure it's still nice out and a walk is nice for me to get out of the house. On my run the other morning I saw several squirrels, but haven't come across any on walks with Lucy. Probably a good thing!

So life is settling down. Cody's face is looking good. He might have scar where he bit the outside of his lip and he goes to the dentist tomorrow to see about the tooth that is now brown. That was an ordeal! We waited on dental records just to find out Ramstein didn't send any of the stuff from the fall! SO now the xrays will have to be done again, but that's not completely bad since we can see better if any further damage was done now that he is not swelled up!

Zach is getting into the groove at work. He has good guys teaching him what he needs to know. He currently works Sunday through Thursday, but we hope he will be able to switch schedules in a few months so he can come to church with us. I am staying plenty busy organizing the house, but am itching to either get a job at the school or find a school to continue my education! Once I get Cody's dental and appointments at the children's hospital done then I will see about subbing. Patience....never was one of my virtues! Guess I had better work on that!

So we are alive and kicking. Ryan turns nine this week so I'll get a post on about that! So stay tuned......

Big Yellow Bus!

I had a bit of a hard time sending Cody to school for the first time knowing it was all day, five days a week! Afterall he is my baby. I had an even harder time putting him on the yellow bus! He however loved it once he got over the anxiety of it all. We talked about it the day before and got him all geared up for how fun it would be and his told him his driver's name and the aid that will buckle him. This is the photo I took of his first time coming home and you can see how excited he was!

Home Sweet Home

Nothing fancy, just base housing, but this is where we will call home for a while. It's brand new and so far from talking to neighbors I am glad we didn't try to buy a house. In Zach's OSI brieing they told him you really have to be careful with neighborhoods around here. Some appear to be nice, but they have very high crime and drug problems. One nieghbor lived off base 7 years and said it drained them of savings, the school her son went to ended up being pretty bad and it was miserable. A few others said they were about to buy homes then found out the area had high crime or the schools had gang and drug issues. Right now the boys are in a really good school district. Ryan and Cody attend buildings about 3 blocks away then Tyler has a nice new school in town. All three ride the bus. Don't ask why the younger two have to ride three blocks! It's just the way it works!

For now we will get settled in as our stuff is being delivered Monday! It is a small house, but we will make it work and look forward to getting a bigger one when Ryan turns 10 in a year!

At the Airport!

Our trip to NJ wasn't as smooth as we had hoped, but we made it! Our plane was coming from Aviano, Italy and was an hour late. Then when we finally boarded they had double booked seats so had to figure that out. Then becuase the plane had empty seats they went around and offered people the chance to spread out! Finally we took off and about died when the pilot announced we would be seeing 4 in flight movies!! Wow! And we would get a meal and two snacks! Wow again! The kids settled in. After about an our or so Cody asks "Are we still flying?" I responded "I sure hope so or it will be a long cold swim to NJ!"

Cody fell asleep, thank you tylenol with codene! Then there was a bit of commotion. We of course being on a military flight had many soldiers and airmen coming home from deployments. A flight attendant was going around asking if any were doctors and of course found. We had a sick passenger. A young army guy and he looked awful! So the doctor on board took care of him then had another sick passenger at the front of the plane! Gee you think you are home free and in for a relaxing trip home just to be put back to work! Once we landed we had to wait for the sick passengers to be taken care of first. They don't mess around! There was 8 people that boarded the plane to take the guy by us! And because of this British Airways debaorded first which meant a longer wait at customs!

After that we found the rental car and our traumatized dog and arrived at McGuire AFB 2am Friday Sept 25th! Zach and I had been awake going on 27 hours! Somehow we made the 2 hour drive safely!

Lucy and moving!

Lucy in TLF. She was very confused by all the moving around, but is settling in now.

Lucy loved the dog park by our TLF in Germany! She even played with another Beagle! This little dog is part beagle.


Lucy stayed by Cody's side and cuddled with him. It was very sweet.