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-I met at a playground a lovely young woman who turns out to be a military christian wife. She invited me to a military wives bible study and I fell in love with it. I've been busy with the bible study, a possible facilitator for a bible study, a brunch and had friends over for dinner. Hence no pics or updates. Today is a day of play with the kids and for myself so I actually won't be posting pics just yet or writing too much. If you ever want the fun details you can always call :). The Lord is moving and it is always good to see/be apart of that movement.
-Brandon is in his 3rd week of Primary. Doing great but itching to fly. He may not fly the T-34 (naval propellar airplane) until a few more weeks, although it may be sooner than that.
-Arielle has been sick but a trooper. She's had it for a week and at the end of kicking it. She is such a sweet girl and has not been giving me that many issues. Hopefully the "terrible 2's" won't really be visiting in our house. Although we may have had an early version of that a few months ago when she was testing EVERYTHING. . I'm glad to be past that.
-Ellia is wonderful albeit a very shy baby. She was terribly upset when we first went to the bible study since there are a TON of women there. I thought it might just be the noise level. It wasn't. I went the next time and at that point there were only 4 people or so and she still acted overwhelmed. I had to work to get 'her eyes back on me' to see that all was ok. Get this, though: We had a couple and their young child over for dinner the other night. She was sleeping when they arrived. I nursed her when she woke up and came back to the table. She was facing away from our guests. I turned her around to sit in my lap and she SCREAMED as if I hurt her somehow. I quickly turned her to look at me and to see where the blood from my nail scratching her was. . . found nothing. odd. I turned her around and she HOLLERED. . .wow. that's all I have to say. You would think in her own home, held my mommy, daddy on one side and Arielle on the other would make her not so bothered by the new people but you would be wrong.

-Brandon is still enjoying Primary and simulation work. He'll fly sometime in the next few weeks.

-I recently found out that I will be able to taxi one of the aircraft sometime in September. THAT will be interesting. I should also be able to watch him perform his acrobatic solo in a few months. I am SUPER excited to see that.

-The girls are well. Growing bigger every day. You'll see in the video how strong Ellia is getting.

-I am going to try out a Military Wives bible study tomorrow. . .we'll see how that goes.

Enjoy the video - it's a short one.

-Brandon started Primary this week. Very exciting and he can hardly wait to get up in the air in a few weeks. No more cessna flying for his training! They warned him the ground school and flights are all gruelling. In fact, they warned him that they will tear apart your flying skills in a debrief for over an hour , nonstop, after your first flight.
-With Brandon at work we are blissfully normal and in a schedule again. I am starting to "school" Arielle. I still need to sit down and create a log of what we do and set out "lesson plans/ideas". Arielle has LOVED it so far. Some things she's not so interested in and we don't push it.
-Elly is grand. Starting to coo and blossom into a smile when she sees you looking at her. Is starting to sleep through the night (10 - 6:30 or so). I'm keeping the mid-night feeding, however, for a little while later.
-I am doing fabulous. Feeling great with the schedule and accomplishing/staying on top of so much.
-Sorry no video. For reference, it took me almost 2 HOURS to upload, compile, sift through, and paste pictures on Picasaweb. Naptime is too precious to do that too often. Makes my eyes watery looking at the screen so long and my legs tighten up from sitting that long. Not used to it! Since I have some video already uploaded, I'll attempt to make a video soon. As it is I only have an hour left of nap to do my personal mommy things.
-I haven't seen or talked to Christine or Crystal since I last wrote. I hope to catch up with Christine tomorrow or so.

Love you all!

-Brandon indeed starts Primary Flight School on Monday. We're excited and keep us in your prayers regarding balance.
-Keep our horseback riding neighbor in your prayers. She had a 30+ minute long conversation with Brandon regarding our faith. She apparently had friends who believed like us with some differences. Those differences made her walk away from the 'church' and basically decide if that's the way it is she doesn't want to believe. Long story. She made the comment the other day, however, that she feels God put me/us in her life for a reason. She finds it interesting that she walks away from the beliefs of her friends, moves here (for other reasons obviously) and ends up befriending those of the same/similar beliefs. Her name is Christine.
-Another woman my age named Crystal (another horsewoman I met on a ride) is, by her own admission, a baby Christian and is in some ways still searching. She invited me to her kids birthday party today and we're hoping to go. I had to get back home so Brandon could go to Synagogue and since we were on horses I couldn't get the info. Hopefully I can get ahold of her.
-My tooth feels infected and we don't have dental coverage. PLEASE keep us in your prayers. Hopefully between the many prayers, tooth brushing, nixing sugars, mouth swishing, and garlic eating we can get it under control.