Freaky-weird pictures of me with the AMAZING youth of BFGC

About to step out the door, on his way to the high school homecoming dance.

The whole family, together at Hunstanton, England

TiAhnna with her friend Tereska

Mom and Tia

Dad and Christian

Tim, Tom and Jasmine

First day of school for The Boys!

TiAhnna's baptism

Christian's baptism

The boys warming up after a water "fight" in the back yard

Tia and Aiden climbing a spider web at Bewilderwood on Noah's birthday. The Birthday Boy is on the other side of TiAhnna.

Noah's 4th Birthday: a Power Rangers watch!

Aiden and Noah in their make-believe rocket. They have great imaginations! I call Aiden the Mastermind and Noah the Funny Man!

Aiden modeling one of his favorite summer looks: the undies and tennis shoes trend!

TiAhnna was supposed to be Stuart Little for a school event but forgot her ears so she decided she looked more like Snow Bell! Cute, huh?!

Christian being all adult and serious.

Noah, Christian and I went to London yesterday with our friend Tom (from Germany) and his coworker. They are here TDY for a week. You all know how much I love London and I had a great time, as usual. Here are 2 pics, both of the boys:

Here is one of Tom with the boys, right outside Buckingham Palace:

I just watched Christian walk out the door, on his way to the first day of high school. Sure makes me feel old and sad and proud and nostalgic. For the first time, I'm not taking him to school and snapping pictures before we walk in. He wouldn't have it this year; of all the nerve! LOL! So, we took pictures on Saturday.


He had his first JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp) meeting on Saturday. Imagine how I felt to walk up and find my baby in AF formation. (He's the one with the mop hair in the front row. He's had a regulation hair cut since then and looks much nicer.)

Here they are about march away to change into their civilian clothes:

He will be issued Blues and be required to wear them once a week for inspection. Besides PE in school he will have PT (physical training) for JROTC, and they have various other community service projects they are required to participate in. They meet every other school day for classes and they will learn all sorts of things about the history of the military, air travel, etc. When a JROTC student needs tutoring, they get it from upper classmen cadets. It's a rather small group and they seem to take good care of each other. This will also provide Christian with opportunities to apply for college scholarships, possibly even the AF Academy, if he decides to pursue that.

He almost dropped the class when told he'd have to crop his hair off, but I said there was no way I was letting him drop a class over hair. Give me a good, valid reason and we'll consider it, but never hair! He was inundated with compliments at church over his new, shorter hair (our worship leader even gave him his spare can of hair wax!) so I think he's convinced that he looks better now.

His best friend Carlos (our neighbor) decided to add JROTC to his schedule, so not Christian is happy as a clam.

The beach at Hunstanton, England.

Pictures from the beach, July 13, 2008.