Welcome Home

Tobin is finally home from Colorado. I picked him up at the airport at about 7 PM on Wednesday night. He's already finished his paperwork and found out that the next training date (for API) is February 23rd. So he has a nice, long break! He'll probably have to get a stash job, but that's a good thing, since it will help to keep him busy for those few months.

On Friday night, Tobin and I headed to Skopelo's, a nice restaurant right on the edge of the bay. I wore the dress he bought for me in Italy - it was the first time I'd had an occasion to wear it! You can see the pictures of us below. Doesn't he look good in his new clothes? Thanks, Em and Dan! I was glad to have your help picking those out.

The next two pictures are of the gifts Tobin got for me in Colorado. Aren't they ADORABLE?? I love tiny shoes.

And, last but not least, we spent Sunday evening carving our pumpkins. Tobin's way better at this than I am...sadly, our pumpkins are already dying and it's not even Halloween yet! Enjoy the pictures...isn't Tobin's pumpkin SWEET?!

Oh, and this weekend, Jesse and Melissa from Rose are coming to visit us, YAY! We're excited to have them for the holiday weekend.

He Passed!!!!!!

Tobin is officially DONE!!!! He completed IFS today by passing his check ride, and he's planning to head to Colorado Springs tomorrow to fly back. He's almost home!

Thanks, everybody, for all your support over the past five weeks. :) (that doesn't mean you can just forget about us now, haha!)

Rumley side, can't wait to see you for Thanksgiving!

Foiled Again

The weather decided not to cooperate once again. All flights were canceled for today. T's check ride is rescheduled for tomorrow. I'll let you know how that goes. Please keep him in your prayers!

Check Ride

Friday's flight went well, so on Monday, Tobin has his final check ride and he is DONE!!!! We are slightly concerned about the weather; the forecast calls for a slight chance of rain that day. I really hope that isn't the case. He's almost home!

My green belt training week is over (the first one), and I won't have the second for a couple more months, as we get going on our assigned projects. I should be an official green belt in about eight months!

This weekend should be fun. We have our Corporate Cup Games, a YMCA sponsored event where local businesses compete against each other in games and races. I'll be piloting a raft or something like that....I didn't sign up for it, kinda got roped in, but it'll be a good time. And on Sunday, another military wife and I are meeting to make a dessert for a dinner the captain's wife is putting together for us pre-API/API couples. (API is Tobin's next training assignment) I'm excited to see Ashley again, since she headed off to IFS with her husband about 3 weeks before Tobin left, and I haven't seen her since she left.

How's everybody else doing? Sorry the weather's so cold up north. Are all the pretty fall leaves out yet? That's one thing I miss; not sure when any of the trees turn colors down here. About the only thing my trees are losing is their branches. They're a tad on the rotten side.

I hope to have good news for you all on Monday!

Good News!

I had no idea, but Tobin double-turned again today! :) He also had a quiz. If he doesn't need any extra practice flying, he will just have two flights left, the 605 on Friday and the check ride on Monday! I am SO excited! I wasn't expecting to hear that he had flown twice today, but I am so glad he did.

Work is going well, and I am staying busy. This weekend, I was dragged into filling in for someone at our company games, so I will be at least piloting a raft on Saturday. I was also supposed to swim for the lady who can't be there, but I told them I would drown, so hopefully I don't have to do that.

Our company has both 6Sigma green belts and black belts, and I am going throught the green belt training. It's manufacturing lean stuff, not office lean stuff, in my case. I am manufacturing support, so for my project I will be working on reducing scrap (we manufacture membrane, so the rolls produce a lot of scrap...it's my job to figure out how to reduce that scrap for a specific belt/process).

How's that weather up north? Are you still getting summer-warm temps? We're definitely in the 80's still, but occasionally it cools down to the 50's at night. Hoepfully, T and I will still have a few visits to the beach left when he gets back. Later!

Another Solo!

Tobin did fly twice today. The second flight was another solo! He did well on both flights. We think he just has one flight tomorrow...but that means just five flights left in all, including the check ride. I'm hoping for at least one more double-turn, so that he gets done by Tuesday of next week. The weather looks ok out there, as long as the wind stays down. Another group came in a couple of days ago, so hopefully that will be good for expediting T's group's flights.

As for me, I'm in 6Sigma green belt training all week for work, trying to fit in my other projects around that training. It's interesting, and I'm glad to be staying busy.

There's your quick update! Let me know how you all are doing.

28 days and counting

Up, anyway. I don't really have a countdown going anywhere, since I don't know when Tobin will be coming back. But it's officially been four weeks now...working on day #29. I'm ready for it to be over.

We got some disappointing news today. The weather decided to act up; Tobin was scheduled for a double-turn, but both his flights were cancelled. Everyone's were, for the entire day. The guys have had a four-day weekend so far, and not of their own choice. But, tomorrow Tobin is scheduled to double-turn again, which is great! He has seven flights left. Please keep him in your prayers!

Family Weekend

This past weekend, Mom, Zach, Elyse, and Emily came to visit me! They drove down on Thursday and left Monday morning. It was so great to see them all! Emily had never seen my house before, so I got to show her around where we live now. :) It was a surprise to me that Emily was even there; Mom kept it a secret from me until she rang the doorbell of my house. Isn't she wonderful???!!

Anyway, we spent a few days together, and the pictures below are from those few days.

#1: Emily and I at the park, sporting our shades. (Sorry, you northerners, it still gets in the mid 80's during the day...we even hit the beach!)
#2: A cool action shot of Zilla catching the football. If you click on the picture, you can see the ball in the air still. He was playing catch with another kid from the park.
#3: Mom and I finished up the puzzle T and I have been working on forever. Guess we needed her help or we never would have finished it!
#4: What we saw at park #2 that we visited. Yes, those are two guys dressed up like knights, fighting each other. One was using a road sign as a shield. Hmm.
#5: A MOVIE of two guys dressed up as knights fighting each other. Doesn't get better than this, folks.

Thanks for coming to see me, fam! I missed you, DadDanLukeLaceyGraceCalebAvaBetsey! Hope to see you for Thanksgiving.