Skating!

Our Neighbors and friends the Kuehne’s invited us to meet them for skating and to eat pizza after. We had never been skating, I was a bit nervous but game for anything fun.  Well, I was SURPRISED by my children. They loved to skate. We are still beginners but gee whiz they are getting good. I see skating as a new hobby.

Friends

We had a great time at the squadron hail and farewell on Friday night. Madeline was having so much fun with you friends she didn’t want to leave. Morgan our neighbor offered to bring her home when she came home. Well, after I left Madeline’s big toe got a boo boo from the door. Her amazing friends wrapped it up with paper towels, got ice, and rushed her home. Then they made her cards and delivered them. What neat girl friends. Friends are a BLESSING!

 

First Day of Busy Bees

Today was Williams’ first day of Nursery School. He will attend (unless he gets kicked out) T, W, Th, from 12:30 until 4:00pm. It is the cutest nursery school! You have to check out their website. William is in the Robin classroom. William is not a great picture poser. It had just stopped raining and we ran out to get a few pictures.

He ran right into his classroom and I was thrilled to see all the numbers and letters. After I filled out a few more papers in the office I checked back in and he was sitting on the floor talking to his teacher. At pick up he was happily putting his letters in order. He actually threw a huge fit and didn’t want to leave. His teachers said he had a few meltdowns and didn’t want to join circle time. He finally came to circle time when they let him hold the number 21. The day then got a little crazy… I guess I hit a curb pulling into busy bees and my tire came off the rim and had a HUGE hole in it. Of course my car comes with an air pump and not a spare or tire changing kit. After a tearful call to my friend Morgan she called the squadron and a few of the Air Force finest came out to save the day. It took 4 people and a the local Mildenhall tire man to get my tire off. My car is spending the night at Busy Bees and my fabulous friend Jenn drove us all home. Wow what a crazy night! I do have to say that the people here are wonderful. Morgan called with a dinner invite and Jenn is taking me to my car tomorrow. What a great team.  Hey…only 48 more days until Nick is home.

Week 1

I’m back at it again!

Return Trip

William was grumpy. He screamed the whole time we waited for our delayed flight at the airport. It was so bad that strangers who didn’t even speak English were asking if they could help!  But God answered Madeline and my prayer- said while sitting on the floor of the Seville airport. Please let Will sleep the WHOLE flight. That prayer was quickly answered. He slept from takeoff to landing. We finally arrived at Stanstead airport around 2am. After loading the car- my friend Brooke and her 3 kids went with us – we hit the road. Half way home we saw flashing lights and Brooke said I was getting pulled over. Yep, at 2:35 in the morning this happened…

He said I was swerving a bit. Sure I was, I was driving a stick shift on the opposite side of the road with 5 crazy kids and 2 tired moms. He also asked my age and I said 27.. then I started laughing so hard and had to make that a 37.. then I said no I think I am only 36. No wonder I had to do the test. It of course came back zero and he wished us a safe trip to Mildenhall. I thought my friend Brooke was going to die laughing. What a wild and crazy few weeks. I think we are going to stay in Mildenhall for awhile. I am all adventured out!

Final Day

Our final day we went into Seville and rode the double decker red tour bus. I had been wanting to do it all week!  I was so excited. It was super fun. 

I didn’t take many pictures just relaxed and enjoyed spending time as a family. The kids and I flew back to cold England late that night…. the next blog post is a must read…

Granada

The restaurant was the highlight of our day. The best meal we had the entire trip. Yummy pizza, Chicken Caesar Salad, and Olives to die for! The best part we were the ONLY people in the back room. It was so relaxing.

Built in the 11th century, and carefully restored, this is one of the oldest public baths in Spain, and one of the best preserved examples of an Arabic Bath.