Maya

Our puppy!

Before we went to Ohio, we got in contact with a family that was breeding their yellow lab with their relative's cinnamon colored golden retreiver. The puppies were born on July 8, and when they were 9 days old, Morgan picked out our puppy. She was a cute, cuddly, lazy, and non-whiny pup, but she's quickly changing all of that. We couldn't take her home until she was 6 weeks old, but luckily that was right after we got back from Ohio. Anyways, so after we got back and picked her up, we found the name Maya very cute and fitting. So we have our first new addition to the family--a little furrier and scratchier than most people's family additions, but a cute one nonetheless (and she's WAY more potty trained than all your babies)!

Here's a pic of her on the ride back home:

And after we got home:

Here's one from her first pool party--apparently the water seems pretty cold!

And this is one of our favorite pictures:

We'll make sure to continually take pics and everyone can watch how she grows!

Ohio

Engineers in the Air Force all go to training up in Ohio, and Jason was scheduled to go July 27. We decided to drive up (so Morgan could come along) and left on Saturday the 25th, stopped in Sweetwater, Tennessee for the night, then drove the rest of the way on the 26th. So we made it up here to Wright-Patterson AFB and are living in another hotel room for almost 3 weeks--woohoo. While Jason is in classes all day, Morgan has become addicted to reading. When she gets into her groove, she reads about 1 book per day! One weekend, we got to visit Morgan's relatives Katie and Gary, who live near Cleveland. We also had an awesome trip to Cedar Point Amusement Park. On the drive back, we had to visit Brandon & Stephanie and their kids. What a great family! We also visited Savannah, GA, and had some amazing pizza at Vinny Van Go-Go's! (Sorry, no pics on this post)

Alabama

Well, as we finally post again, we regretfully admit that it has been a while. Sorry. But we've gotta get our quarterly blog post up now! Actually we'll do it in sections--or states... So here goes. So Jason did graduate from ASBC training in Alabama, and his flight ended up winning the Icarus tournament. (Icarus is the "dodgeball on steroids" game invented just for ASBC...it's crazy!) The flight had a great support from the cheerleaders/spouses. Here are some pictures of the Icarus fun Jason had at ASBC. (The academic part wasn't nearly as fun.)

One weekend we went with another couple down to Gulf Shores and Fort Morgan. It was great weather and lots of fun! Our gorgeous beach sunset:

And cool mini crabs that could outrun us and were almost invisible!

The day Jason graduated from ASBC, we drove up to Birmingham and watched the new Transformers movie on the IMAX screen at the McWane Science Center. That was pretty sweet! We did make it to Warner-Robins, GA, and after living in TLF (Temporary Living Facilities--on base) for about 10 days, we got moved into a rental house. It should be a great home for us as soon as we can actually unpack.