from our hearts to yours, a thousand miles away

Our Family

We’ve been growing and changing since our first move to Pensacola in 2008.  We’re now a 3 person household, unless you count the dogs…then it’s 5.  We love traveling to new places, visiting family who we don’t see nearly enough, and experiencing adventures that come with being active duty in the USAF.

Navigator, outdoorsman, and handy man, this guy is ready to be done with school and working in his “real” job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That brings us to the resident scaredy-cat, experimental cook, and buyer of shoes.  She’s loving her new role as a mama while making plans to someday re-enter the workforce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bristol BoltonAnd here’s the prettiest piece of the puzzle, a lovely little lady who enjoys a good raspberry, jumping incessantly up and down, and babbling.  Sometimes she’ll throw in a good screech, too.

 

 

 

In the military corner, to date the following sets of training are complete:
  1. IFS (Initial Flight Screening) in Pueblo, Colorado (about 5 weeks)
  2. ASBC (Air and Space Basic Course) in Montgomery, Alabama (6 weeks)
  3. API (Aviation Preflight Indoctrination – aka ground school) in Pensacola, FL (6 weeks)
  4. Primary in Pensacola, FL (5/26/09-9/2/09)
  5. Intermediate in Pensacola, FL (9/8/09-11/1/09)
  6. Advanced in Pensacola, FL (12/7/09-6/4/10)
  7. SERE and parachute training at Fairchild AFB in Spokane, WA (09/16/10-10/09/10)
  8. Water survival in Pensacola, FL
  9. B-52 initial qualification training, dual nav/radar nav (4/1/11-12/22/11)

In progress:
B-52 mission qualifying training, with the projected deployment date of early April.

Currently awaiting:

  1. A house on base in Minot so our family can be together again! (hoping for that to happen before Tobin deploys)

 

Thanks for checking out our site!  To all our family and friends, we love having visitors to fill our home, thanks for taking the time to drive or fly all the way down to see us!  We hope to see each of you soon.