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Massachusetts Part 2

by Heather | 3 Comments

My dad made the rank of Colonel in the Air Force! It’s quite the accomplishment and we’re very proud of him. We attended his pinning ceremony while in Massachusetts.

Before the ceremony we had breakfast at my dad’s new office. Chris enjoyed sitting in the big man’s chair.

Ben kept himself occupied by giving bear rides in the stroller.

After breakfast my dad headed out to get ready and the rest of the family were bussed to the base’s hangar where the ceremony would be. We did kind of make goofs of ourselves when we first entered because we walked right past our military escorts and entered talking really loudly. When we rounded the corner and saw hundreds of airmen in attendance we quieted down and found our seats. *hangs head in shame*

My dad taking the rank of Colonel.

Leslie putting on my dad’s pins. Full bird baby!

Us kids got to participate too!

Speech, speech!

Ben was a really good little boy during the whole ceremony. I kept giving him suckers to help with the being quiet ;-)

After the ceremony, everyone wanted to shake my dad’s hand and talk to the family. Danielle and Gabby sung the National Anthem, I didn’t get any pictures though because I would have felt really awkward stepping out to interrupt things. They received several compliments though, their duet was beautiful!

There were military police cars and fire trucks on display for the ceremony too.

Ben was fascinated with the fire trucks. Gabby overheard one of the military police officers muttering “Kids always like the fire trucks better.” Haha.

Ben got to sit in the tunner which loads pallets and equipment onto planes.

The family also got a tour of a C-5.

The cargo plane is huge!

Learning about the plane’s cockpit and controls.

Graffiti in the cockpit.

Bathroom facilities on board. Sleeping arrangements weren’t much better with bays where men were basically stacked on top of each other.

My dad and Ben. Love.

Silly boy.

My dad and Leslie.

We actually managed to get a halfway decent family picture too!

Colonel MSG Commander. So proud of you dad!

It’s a good thing he’s cute

by Heather | 1 Comment

We went hiking this weekend and Ben wanted nothing to do with it. Normally he’s happy to sit in the baby backpack, but not this time. He was so ornery and whined and complained the whole time. When you let him down, he wanted to get back up. He just didn’t want to be there. Andy tried ditching him over the edge of a cliff at one point.

Ben retaliated by trying to steal Andy’s hat and put leaves down Andy’s shirt.

Andy tried his best to ignore the little bugger, so he switched tactics. Once he gets hold of a word, Ben repeats it again and again and again and again. This proved effective at annoying daddy.

Success! I have made the hiking trip miserable for mommy and daddy.

I shoot myself in the foot by posting these pictures because you’ll all croon over him and then nobody believes me that it was a miserable hiking trip. Seriously, no fun this time. At least there were really pretty views.

And yes, he’s really cute! It’s a good thing, or he may have gotten left on the trail to be raised by wolves. Kidding. Mostly ;-)

Play Money

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Andy pulled out some of his old play money and let Ben mess around with the cash register today. Ben seemed less interested in the money and more interested in shoving his matchbox cars in the money drawer. The boys had fun with the buttons, beeping and slide out drawer though.

Andy also found some of the money his elementary school had used with students. They were called Dodge Dollars.

He still has a stack of them, 20 years later. Dork!

Andy also admitted he used to iron the wrinkles out of his play money when he was a kid…yeah…he’s definitely my dork :)

Little helper

by Heather | 1 Comment

Whatcha doin’ dad?

Ooh!

Can I help?

Daddy’s so awesome.

I figure this post deserves somewhat of an explanation :) Besides the fact that Andy is, Andy, lol. He has several remote control helicopters and one of them is a fairly expensive one he doesn’t let anyone else play with. He found this case at a garage sale and it seemed a perfect fit for storing all the helicopter parts and remotes. So he cut out some foam blocks to enclose all his parts inside the case. Ben wanted to help :)

Then Andy posed with my sunglasses and the helicopter case handcuffed to his wrist like he was some super cool secret spy. Which of course, he is ;-)