Aloha Grandma J

We just got back from dropping Grandma J off at the airport after a wonderful 10 day! We had lots of adventures around the island, and Noah loved having someone else to play trains with :-) It's great having visitors (especially grandparents who come to spoil and love on Noah ;) and it gives us a chance to play tourist on our island.

It has been a very busy time here for about the last month, which is why the blogging has slowed down, but hopefully I will be able to do some catching up before the holiday rush starts!

Here are just a few pictures of Grandma J's visit. Once I have some time to get on the computer, I will be able to finish putting up pictures from Papa and Grandma Anita's visit, along with the photos from Grandma J's visit, the Navy Ball, and Halloween!

Giddy-up Daddy

My boys having fun "horsing" around ;-)

"Da-ee helmet"

I'm a bit behind in getting pictures up on our blog because things have been pretty busy around here, but don't worry, I have lots of pictures to share when I get some time!

Here are a few from tonight. Noah was having a great time walking around the house in Daddy's motorcycle helmet (thankfully we no longer own the motorcycle that goes with the helmet! Haha)

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Daddy in a plane!

One of the coolest things about living on base is that we sometimes get the pleasure of seeing Ely "at work". Base housing is right off the end of the runway so we see planes take off and land all the time. Noah always gets really excited when he sees an airplane, and he usually
assumes it's Ely and waves and says "hi" to Daddy :-)

The other morning when we were playing outside we got a real treat because Ely was doing a few touch and goes so he literally flew right over us 3 times!

The runway is off in the distance on the right. I thought when I took this picture you could see Ely's plane going in for a landing, but now when I look at it I can't find it...lol

Here's a picture from the berm looking down on the playground and the big field next to our house. You can see the roof of our house in the upper middle/left of this picture (its the grey one to the left of the brown/tan roof in the middle).  Ely was flying over us while we were on the berm and then heading in for a landing. 

Can you spot the plane?

Not quite as beastly as the Mighty P-3 ;-)

Pure Joy

There is nothing like the simple joy of spending the morning swinging at the playground :-)

Shopping Buddy

He may not make shopping the easiest activity in the world, but he always makes it entertaining ;-)

All Aboard