What have we gotten ourselves into...

Becky came to visit this weekend. We had a blast. We went shopping and found this adorable dress that Becky bought Aubrey to wear for Ben's graduation. It's a little big, but I think in 6 weeks it will be perfect!

Aubrey was sitting on the table and couldn't stop staring at her feet. She finally looked up a little when she heard daddy's voice.

Here is the fishy dress Scott bought her. It is so cute! She wore it all day today (so far).

Here is our new news. We have a new family member!! We just adopted a sweet 8 month old boxer named Maggie. Her and Sadie have so much fun together. Sometimes I wonder what we're getting ourselves into, but you only live once!

They finally calmed down enough to sit and get their picture taken...kind of...

Ben's T-38 Cross Country

Ben just got back last night from his four day cross country. He went to Dallas/Fort Worth and had a blast. Most of the flights he did were night flights. This first picture is of him with his jet.

Here is Ben with his IP, Col. Benyshek.

Ben doesn't seem to be taking the "stern talking to" seriously.

I don't know if this is taking off or landing, but my guess is this is the final flare before he lands. In this picture Ben is in the back seat under the "hood" since he is doing an instrument flight. His IP is in the front.

Like I said, Ben was mostly doing night flights so this is right before he taxied off for one of them.

Aubrey's Favorite Dress

Here's a "new" family picture of us. It was hard to get Aubrey to look the right direction. This was the best we could do. :)

Mommy and Aubrey were napping, and Daddy caught us as I was waking up. She is so beautiful I can't help but stare.

I had been waiting for Aubrey to be big enough to wear this dress, but when I tried it on her it was almost too small! My goal is for her to wear each outfit at least once. Wish me luck!

Aubrey's Shopping Trip and more...

Even though Aubrey has plenty of clothes to get her through the months ahead, Ben and I decided to take her on a little shopping trip and pick out a few things ourselves. We had so much fun looking through the outfits! Ben came with to help keep me from going overboard. There's just something about buying things for your little girl that makes it easy to lose track of what you are spending. We got her quite a few things and I took a few pictures of her in my favorite outfit. She has little jean shorts and flowered babydoll top. I think she looks adorable. She also got new "duckie" pjs.

Daddy loves her "duckies". He was studying, but he got a little distracted being a dad.

The next morning Aubrey decided she wanted to come snuggle with mom and dad. We had the whole family in bed with us...even Sadie joined us. It doesn't happen very often, but every now and then she will take her morning nap with mom.

Being in sunny Mississippi we thought she would need a hat. We were just getting ready to go bowling and we couldn't pass up the photo op.

We have some modified tummy time. She doesn't like to be on her tummy for too long, but she doesn't mind being propped up on her boppy.

"Whew...it takes a lot of effort to hold my head up..."

She is learning to love her baths more and more. She especially loves the big girl towel she got from Great-Great Aunt Judy.

She must be dreaming of something good.

Aubrey loves to stick her tongue out and lick her lips. She's pretty impressed with herself.

Sadie loves to be near Aubrey and takes every opportunity she can to give her kisses.

Ben's T-38 Solo

So...we have been a little behind on the pictures for Ben's solo in the T-38.  I am not allowed on the flight line so we had to wait for one of his buddies to be able to go out and take pictures.  These are just two of the pictures we got.  He has around 15 solos in this jet.  Some of them are just him and others are formation solos where he flies against another jet.  This was his third or fourth time out on his own, but we thought you would enjoy the pics!

Space Shuttle Landing

Today was a big day at Columbus AFB.  The space shuttle piggy-backed a 747 and landed here on its way back to Florida.  We were able to go out to the perimeter road and watch it come in.  Here are a few pics and a video of it landing.

Ben and our neighbor Dave were crammed in the back trying to stay cool.  Would you believe we got the door to shut?

Here's something you don't see every day.

Grammy's Visit

So...I know it's a few weeks old, but these pictures were so cute I couldn't resist putting them up.  Grandma Kim and Grandpa Ken came to visit a few weeks ago and these are some of the pictures they took.  The last one is my favorite:)