A visit from Goyke

John's life-long friend, John Goyke (Goyke), came to visit....in a 31 ft motorhome, which he is currently living in. I have decided that this is also what I want to live in when my children have left the house, then I can drive around the country bugging all my friends and family.
Goyke got board after awhile, and luckily, he cured his bordem by fixing the broken part of our sprinkler system...which I was quite happy about :) He also had to show John up on his grading abilities (picture below), as we were leveling an area in our backyard. Goyke and John happen to always end up with a random adventure or two, and when they went to see the windmills they somehow drove 2 hours longer into the middle of Oregon, were first responders to an accident, pulled an almost all-nighter, and had endless arguments about nothing.

Last day of school

Here's Chloe and her friend at the "End of the Year" school party. On to the 1st grade :)

Pirates and the end of the school year.

Today was Luke's last day of preschool Chloe's will be on Wednesday. Today they celebrated thier ocean unit by dressing as pirates. John thought we should make them modern pirates, by making them look Somalian and equiping them with AK-47s, but we decided to stick to the older pirate dress. Chloe was a 'pink pirate" (how fitting) and Joel, of course, had to dress up too :)

Outprocessing Hawaii

I realize you can't write much beneath those slide show pics, but even though some words are cut off, I'm sure you'll get the idea. John the kids and I flew back to Hawaii space A out of Travis AFB CA. It was a 16 hr road trip down and then a flight over on a C-5 (military's biggest plane). For those of you who don't know...space A is usally a cargo plane, but free :) It was a last minute decision to go and I'm so glad we did. It was, of course, random. Staying different, and weird places, and we waited alot for John to get outprocessing done, in the van our good friend, Theresa, loaned us (thank goodness). But, we had alot of fun times and were able to stay in an Army beach cabin on Wiania Army Rec. and downtown Waikiki, which was awesome! We took a military contract commercial flight back. Which was by far the nicest flight I have ever had, and there were only 12 of us! We then pulled an all-nighter driving back, and I only freaked out on John once, for missing a Starbucks early morning, while he was smoking a cigar, watching the sunrise. Ya, we're kind-of weird, but we sure have good times! Increadible and a very blessed trip!

What has John been up to these days?

Well, my computer is having serious issues and John still has his in Hawaii, but basically this post is supposed to show some of what John has been up to for the past couple months, while he's been here with us. Unfortuantly, most of the pictures refused to load :(

Starting fires...........

"investing" in a new chain saw.....and begining what I call the Chainsaw Massacure of the backyard trees.

Being an awesome daddy and special sleeping buddy to little Zach.

Oops, has it been a month:( !

OK, I guess I didn't realize how much I posted for John while he was deployed, since now that he's back, I'm doing horribly! Well, John is still in Hawaii getting outprocessed, but will be back permanetly next week! He was sad to have to turn in his military ID yesterday for a temp and was sworn into the reserves yesterday. It's all sort of weird and sad for us, but we know it's God's plan and therefore we are happy to be doing this.

Upcoming for us....a summer with LOTS of yard work, and John will be finding a new job, to accomplany his school work that will be starting in late Aug. A whole new chapter for us, but I think anything sounds great, as long as we're all together! For me, I'm looking forward to family and friends this summer! Can't wait to have alot of BBQ's in the sun and many more adventures. I also have about 20-25 more lbs of baby weight to get rid of....run, run, run! I gained a total of 60 this pregnancy...yikes!, but 40 of it is already gone, so that's a good start!

That's the skinny on us. Hopefully I will be keeping you better informed :)