Happy Easter 2012

Hoppy Easter from Benjamin Bunny!!!

Ben and I took some Easter-themed photos at a local park a couple days ago. He was enthralled with the eggs, and I am excited to put them out in the yard tomorrow for him to "collect" (ie: pick up and throw). 

Ben was curious about the basket full of bunnies and crawled over to investigate.

He peered in and saw EGGS! Wow!

But they were all the way down in the bottom.

Ben really had to reach for the eggs.

Hurray!

And.... THROW! Did I mention Ben likes to throw things? He has a really good arm. Tim and I think he will be great at baseball someday.

Then I put a bunch of eggs out on the lawn as "practice". 

Ben knew just what to do!

And back to fishing eggs out of the basket again.

It was so cute to watch him...

Especially when he tipped the basket away from himself and got up on his knees. Not the most efficient way to reach the eggs, but he was on a mission! You can see the regard he had for Mr. Bunny. ;)

Then Ben decided to make a bee line for the duck pond. Silly boy!!!

Hope you enjoyed our Easter photos! Have a fabulous Easter and enjoy some good food for us! We're having a low key Easter this year. More on that later!

A Big Noggin

Ben has a big noggin. I picked up a size 24 month hat for him when he was 11 months and he got about 5 weeks use out of it before outgrowing it. So I decided to invest in a sunhat pattern on Etsy and make him a hat myself. It's nice because the pattern includes several sizes, so I can make bigger hats as he grows. For a couple dollars worth of fabric, little man can have all the hats he could ever need! The weather in Tucson is gorgeous right now, so I brought my sewing machine outside and worked while Ben played in the sandbox.

"What on earth? Mama, I look like a weirdo!"

"Oh, that's better now."

This one is a cute green giraffe/dinosaur/turtle (??) print with a solid khaki lining.

It's reversible, too.

I made him another hat with a tie underneath, but I decided to make this one without. He's good about keeping it on so far.

It's a jungle out there!

A Cool Opportunity

Ben and I had the opportunity to get our photo taken this past week. What was the occasion, you ask? Well, Micha of Westlight Photography is putting together a coffee table book for the birth center here in Tucson. She asked for birth center mamas/babies to volunteer, and of course we jumped at the opportunity.

We took our photos at a local park. The acacia tree was in full bloom, and I really like how this photo turned out.

Ben had just woken up from a five-minute cat nap and was feeling apprehensive about having his photo taken. Micha took a few photos and then let him look at them in hopes that he would warm up to the camera a bit.

It worked!
P.S. Ben now has five teeth, but the fifth isn't showing in photos just yet. It's still pretty high up there.

 

 

 

Micha is trying to get a variety of photos for the book, and we happily obliged with an in-car photo. Did you notice Ben's reflection in the window? Yah, she's good!

Mini Me

This week I got Ben's flight suit all done.  I got the kid-sized patches and his name tag embroidered with "Ace."  He's looking sharp.  Enjoy

Hello, Lindsey!

Hello, Lindsey and all my other blog fans! More pictures coming soon!! Can you believe I am almost ONE?

There were some photographers out on the range the other day.  I could actually see them snapping pictures of me flying around so I called the range and gave them my email address to send pictures to.

The next 4 shots are all a sequence of one of my strafe passes with the gun.  

In this first one you can actually see a bullet in flight:

Here we are at the Operations Group Annual Awards Banquet.  This was our first night out without Ben so these are the only pictures of us not checking our cell phones for missed calls from the babysitter.  Just kidding.  Everyone did fine.   

Here's Nicole, stunning as always

 

 This is my new commander, Facts

Here's Sonic, my new drinking buddy for Oktoberfest.  He's a German exchange officer who gets to fly the A-10 for three years while an American A-10 pilot flies the German GR-1 Tornado. 

Me and SWAG (...stands for Skinny Weird-Ass Guy), a good buddy from Korea.

Turns out I got the Operations Group "Instructor Pilot of the Quarter" Award