Football and Cheer!

Garrett Plays for the Lakewood Cougar's Pee Wee Football team and Aspen is a Pee Wee Cheerleader.

Today was the first game. They did great. And they looked cute too!

Garrett plays mostly Defensive Tackle. He says he loves to tackle people. He also played quite a bit of Offense today though. With winning 20-0 you can see why there would be so much more offense to play!

They both were exhausted when it was over. Today it was over 90 Degrees outside. Which is unusually warm for our climate. They did great though, and had fun too.

Here's to an undefeated season!

GO COUGARS!!!

LIFE...Is Busy!

So right now I am not going to get into everything that has been happening over the past few months. I just thought I would take the few minutes that I do have right now, and post what is happening now.

Garrett got back from Summer Camp on Tuesday. He was able to go to Camp Orkila on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands. He was gone 8 days, and he says he had too much fun to miss me. After seeing these video's I can see why. I would have had too much fun too. I am happy for him. He was able to try a lot of new things and he cant stop talking about all the different things that they did. Some of his favorites included; archery, gun range (BB), Get Dirty Get Wet (they were 8 year old boys, of course they love that!), Canoing, Dock Jumping and swimming! I personally loved the stories about the "Dork Dance" you will see featured in the video. Garrett wore one of his counselors hunting "Bush" costumes and ducked in a corner of the Dance hall and scared people. It sounds hilarious.

Aspen also just finished a week of Horsemanship Camp. Hers was a day camp, so she was able to come home at night, but her days were filled with riding and taking care of her horse, Gilligan. Today we attended her Rodeo and Graduation. She was awarded the "Camp Cheerleader" award. She had a great time. She was really proud of the fact that she had learned to put the bows in 'His' hair. I'm sure he didn't mind, Right!

YMCA Camp Orkila: Session 7 Slide Show Part 2

YMCA Camp Orkila: Session 7 Slide Show part 1

Happy 1st Birthday to you, and you and you!!

Sunday we celebrated Tilden's 1st Birthday! Along with 2 of his friends who have birthdays within a few weeks of each other. With all their dad's deployed, we decided to make it one big party. It was crazy and fun all together. Between diving into the pile of presents together, or smashing cake into their faces, it was a great time. Though Tilden technically doesn't turn 1 till next week. I still cant believe our last baby is growing up so quickly. The time is going by so fast.

Tilden Loved Opening all his presents. I think the wrapping paper was the best part!

Tilden, Lydia(it wasn't her birthday but she didn't know the difference!), Anthony , and Olivia all had a blast diving through the presents.

Try getting 3 babies too look at a camera with a party hat on their heads at the same time. I would love to see a picture if anyone could!

Tilden loved the cake. As you can see, he doesn't miss many meals. He even ended up stealing part of Olivia's when she wasn't looking.

Take a look at Ian...

I just wanted to let everyone know they could see a picture of Ian at work on his ship's website. Here is the website:

http://www.cvn72.navy.mil

Then click on Photo Gallery on the left side. He is picture 8 right now. It looks like he is talking into something, and wearing a camouflage vest. Picture 7 is of a CIWS mount. That is the system he works on. It is an anti missile defense system. So he has to make sure that it is up an working.

It was exciting, this morning, I got an email from a friend telling me to check out the picture of him. So I though I would share with all you.

Hopefully I will post more soon, there is always something going on around here.

Congratulations FC1 Ian Warner!

So, we found out this week that Ian has advanced to a First Class Petty Officer. It was very exciting, and we are so proud of him. It took a lot of work, but thanks to a good friend on his ship that he is currently on, they found a mistake in his service record, that showed he had earned it last year. But of course the military cant make things simple, so after months of waiting. We finally were told that it is official and he advanced. I am so excited for Ian, he has been trying to not get his hopes up too much, but it has been really hard to know that he had earned it, but there is always the unknown. I love you Ian, and appreciate all the hard work you do for our family!