Tobin and Erin

I know, a teapot doesn’t have anything to do with anything.  But this is our first teapot…isn’t it cute?  Got a good deal on Memorial Day.

New haircut, new hair (it’s much straighter now that I’m pregnant, weird), and first maternity shirt!

Ok, on to the relevant stuff.  Tobin selected on June 4th.  Here he is after he opened his envelope.  B-52 for us!  (sorry it’s blurry)

Shaking the CO’s hand.  Unfortunately, I had no idea (nor did Tobin) that the CO was about to replace his name tag with an official WINGED name tag!  If I had known, I would have done a video instead.  Apparently, the tradition is to replace the name tag and punch the new one, sometimes pretty darn hard.  By the time we got out of there, Tobin’s chest was sore.  :)

Freshly winged!

Both of us after the winging:

For those of you who wanted to come down for Tobin’s winging, you didn’t actually miss it.  This was a surprise, and what they call a “soft winging”.  His actual ceremony will be later on, and we should have some advance notice.  It will probably be at the end of June, but we will let you know.

So, we have the B-52, with base options at: Minot AFB, North Dakota or Barksdale AFB in Shreveport, Louisiana.  Although it’s not the aircraft we were going for, the needs of the Air Force trump our little plans.  We’re excited nevertheless, and Tobin doesn’t have to wait for the T-39 to come back up, which is an answer to prayer.

Hope some of you can make it down for the winging!  Tobin also promotes to first lieutenant in July.

(there are two more new posts before this one…I know, THREE posts in one day…crazy!)

We’re pretty well into summer, but during April I took a bunch of pictures of spring blooming all around our neighborhood.  I was so excited!  We were tired of the cold.  It was an unusually cold winter for us down here.

Couple of trees in a neighbor’s yard.  The pink flowers looked just like tulips.

I assume these are daffodils?  They had yellow and white.

Here’s  a white one!

Flower boxes in a neighbor’s yard.  I loved the colors!

These are goooorgeous!

Same flowers, but shown on the bush.  Aren’t they beautiful??  I have no idea what they are, but there was an entire neighborhood that was full of these bushes…it was the best part of my drive to work, seeing all of these flowers everywhere.  :)  I’ve never seen a bush so completely covered with flowers until I experienced spring down here.

A dogwood tree.  This tree was absolutely stunning, but the picture doesn’t do it justice.  It was such a bright white, it glowed in the sunlight!  The neighbor was in his yard when I took this, and that’s how I found out it was a dogwood.  I’m not so good with plant names!