Viva Valdez

Take your family to work day

At the end of November, Greg's squadron offered a really neat experience for the aviator's family members to come in and watch them brief and do "touch and go's" on the runways. A touch and go is when you touch down on the runway for a brief moment and then take off again. The family members were able to radio in the planes to the runways. Unfortunately it was too cold and windy for Ava to be outside for an extended period of time so we were not able to see Greg do the touch and go but we were able to attend the brief with him. It was really neat to see him in his everyday work atmosphere. We are looking forward to the next time his squadron gives this opportunity so that Ava can radio him in!

Greg's Super Hornet Class

Everyone out dancing to celebrate a successful day

Touch and Go!

Posing with the Rhino (The super hornet nickname is Rhino)

Ready to brief with Dada

Jon and Nicole Morris

Zach and Amy Butala

Tim, Sam, and Eric

Ava hanging out with Cari and Patsy

Checking out Daddy's paperwork

I was not kidding when I said it was FREEZING that day!

NOVA Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 2008

This year was our first year being married and attending Thanksgiving in Northern Virginia. Our previous two years we have spent it in Marietta, Georgia with my extended family. We definitely missed the Georgia Crew and hope to see them in the near future. We had two huge dinners at the Valdez and Warme house. The Valdez family had TWO yummy turkeys and the Warme house mixed it up with grilled pork. We definitely stuffed our faces, shopped our tails off on Black Friday, and played lots of card games of "Oh Hell". We wished our visit could have been extended. We are really looking forward to Christmas with the families.

getting restless on our SIX hour drive from VA Beach to Nova (this usually takes 3 hours)

"Are we there?"

Justin's orthopedic shoes....no words can express this fashion atrocity.

Time for some Oh Hell....

Ha Jess' poker face...

Justin plotting how he is going to cheat

The other cheater

Intense card game

Ava and Paige hanging out

Mom V's Turkey

Dad V's Turkey

Delicious....

We were hungry....

Mashed Potatoes are my favorite....

Mini Thanksgiving for Miss Ava (she already ate the turkey)

Big Fun Family

wrestling Uncle Justin

Talk about a big assortment of Dessert!

Warme Thanksgiving- Yum Yum

Hi Big Girl

She is getting SO big

Mom and Bob

Mom's delicious homemade pie

Reda Thanksgiving

The Reda Thanksgiving!

Laurie and Mike Reda hosted an intimate Thanksgiving gathering for their friends. Laurie has been taking cooking classes which was evident in the turkey she cooked- deliciously flavorful. No doubt she has an A in that class. After dinner we played pool and Cranium (surprise surprise). We have gotten to the point where we need to buy new cards because we know too many of the answers. We had an awesome time and can't wait to see the gang again.