Viva Valdez

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Winter Recap 2011

Artistic little girls - Ellie graffiti's the majority of our house with her crayons. Thank Goodness for Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser.

Piggy Banking - Ava has informed me she is spending all her money on shoes.

Biker Babe

The Bob was back for the winter

Not a fan of Clifford at Story time. She thought he was rabid and this was the closest she would get to him.

Went to the Aquarium lots

Ava graduated to cooking sauces with GiGi on the stove

Valentine's Day

Venturing to the park on the warm days

always a circus

Ava is serious about being a chef

She'll even do the dishes as a "reward"- lets see how long we can milk this.

Filling out her Valentines for the first time. Yes, they had to be princess ones.

Min is quite the King Pin

I weeze from laughing at this picture every time I see it.

Babies come with us everywhere now

Still big daddy's girls

Mini's hair started growing!

Fashionista in the rain

Vacuum buddies

So Spring and Summer have passed without a blog update. Shame on Bec. The main reason for this is because I was taking the second half of Anatomy and Physiology in Spring and Microbiology in the summer. Happily, I passed both classes with an A. Sadly, it resulted in me spending almost every free moment in the evening studying. I have now been sent death threats from our best friends who moved cross country to start updating our blog again since I am not taking a class this Fall.

Our big news for our family is that Greg got TOP GUN! Woooot! Unfortunately, it's not like the movie and set in Miramar, California anymore. It is in Fallon, Nevada. Greg is going to start class the first week in January and we are going to go to his graduation in March. Following Top Gun, Greg will be instructing at the Weapons School on the West Coast in Lemoore, California. Yup, you got it we are moving. Boo. We are excited for the adventure and the opportunity but it is going to be heart breaking moving from our beloved family and great friends in Virginia Beach. The tour is for 2 and a half years so hopefully we will make our way back here next tour.

Things are a bit wild here. We are preparing for the move, contemplating selling or renting our house, Ellie is starting school one day a week, Ava is doing PreK 3 days a week, and we are trying to see as much family and friends as we can on the weekends. I have decided not to take a class this Fall so that our weekends will be free to roadtrip and socialize before the big move. I only have a Chemistry class as a prerequisite for nursing left so I will continue my education in California. I will try to fill you all in our past Spring and Summer with "Best of" pictures. The girls definitely keep each day fun and lively. They are kind, hilarious, and smart babes. Stay tuned for some great video. Thanks for having patience with us during our hiatus.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Winter Recap

Gasp- I'm a horrible blogger. Here a quick recap of the Valdez winter:

In January my college roommates and I took our annual girls trip to Atlantic City, NJ. We celebrated Christine's birthday and laughed until it hurt.

Oh Behave....

To Celebrate Greg coming home, Justin, Jess, Greg and I took a once in a lifetime 9 day vacation to Hawaii. We went to Oahu and Maui. Greg and I took the gamble to beat the system and take Space A (space available Military flights) to Hawaii and failed miserably. We took the hit on our savings and bought tickets the day of to Hawaii. Well worth the money but we won't be gambling like that anymore! Here are some of our favorites:

Road to Hanna day trip

Luau Ladies

My first Luau!

Bucket List item- We all went swimming in the waterfall

A spot in Maui where Jurassic Park was filmed

Boo Ya

Justin was attacked by wild peacocks because he had Cheetos. They followed him all around the park!

Feeding Mutant Ducks

Happy New Year!

We shouldn't be allowed to have children but we do!

Amazing restaurant in Oahu

We were able to catch up and see Sami's family 2 days we were there

Twinsies

Vacation High!

We watched the sunrise on the beach two mornings in Oahu

Mutant Fish attacking at our resort in Maui

Jess and I loved using our new mack daddy cameras on the trip

that day we spent about 8 hours on the beach- GLORIOUS

Best of Christmas:

By far the best part of our Christmas was having Greg home from deployment. The Marusas came and stayed with Mom too during Christmas so it was a very joyous week!