Spring Recap & May's Remaining Line-up

Alyssa continues to grow and change on a daily basis. She is crawling all over everywhere, cruising (walking with the assistance of furniture or people), standing independently, showing off all 6 of her teeth, and eating "adult" meals with us most nights depending on the entrée. It is hard to believe how fast she is changing. She is 10.5 months old now, not much longer 'til her first birthday! Here are some recent pictures of Alyssa. I will also see if LeMar can upload some to Picassa soon, so look for a new link to your right in the coming weeks.

Playing peek-a-boo








With our Sunday school classmate's children, as you can see, these four are all about the same age


Easter egg "hunt"



Easter Dress




I'm finishing up this hellacious spring semester this week. I took three courses, and it just about killed me. Poor LeMar was probably worse off for having to put up with me. He has been a tremendous help taking care of Alyssa and keeping up around the house while I've been holed up in the office slaving away in front of the computer or a tower of textbooks. After Thursday, I will have about 2.5 weeks off until my one summer class starts up. With the semester finishing up this week, I have quite a few weekend plans: hair cut, Target trip, beach outing, PCS/bon voyage party, and a shopping trip, most of which with a baby in tow!

LeMar is on midnights now. He works 8 pm to 7 am, which is a pretty rough shift as you can imagine. There are only two good things about this shift: we still see each other in passing around dinner time every day, and LeMar is working at coolest part of the day during the hottest time of the year.

Next week LeMar and I celebrate our two year anniversary. It is hard to believe that so much time has already past. In honor of our anniversary and the end of my semester, we are taking a five day trip around Florida! Highlights of the trip are: lunch at Chipotle (closest one to our house is 4 hrs away), Seaworld (free thanks to the "Here's to the Heros" program), and Everglades National Park.

As soon as we get back from our trip, my cousin Chris who is in the vicinity for summer AIRBORNE training, will be coming down for Memorial day weekend. We are all excited about it especially because he is Alyssa's Godfather but the two have never met. I'm predicting another trip to the beach!

On Friday the 29th, I'm scheduled for an F-15 incentive flight! It is sure to be amazing, and I'm sure that I will puke. Who cares!?!?! I'm super excited. I also promote that weekend (woohoo), and there are actually half-a-dozen of us all promoting at the same time, so we are throwing a huge party on the 30th. This too should be amazing.

After that, it's time to buckle down again, the summer semester starts on June first. TTFN!