ETHAN DRIVING A TANK

ETHAN USING THE NIGHT VISION ON AN MRAP

ETHAN'S DEPLOYMENT

THE AQUARIUM

I took the kids to the aquarium. They had so much fun. Chase loved all the fish. His favorites were the sea horses, the "Nemo fish," and the sharks. He pulled my hand the whole way through. It was a lot of fun. I think that Chase really needed a day where something was all about him.

First Picture: Chase standing in front of one of the tanks. He was pointing to them right before I took the picture.

Second Picture: Madison just happy to be out and about.

Third Picture: Chase and our friend Carrie in front of the biggest tank.

Fourth Picture: After the last picture they told me my flash would blind the fish, so I had to turn it off. This is a picture of Madison coloring. She has really been into that lately.

Fifth Picture: Chase and Madison coloring.

Sixth Picture: Madison and Chase were playing peek-a-boo through the hole in the chair. It was so cute Maddi was laughing so hard. I love watching them play together.

Seventh Picture: We bought Chase a pirate outfit. He loves it. He has been really into it lately. He is really excited about his pirate

Eighth Picture: Madison eating her lunch

Ninth and Tenth Pictures: Both kids so tired after a really fun day.

MAYBE IT IS MY NEW CAMERA

So, The whole words by the pictures things might be something from the past. It might have to wait until I am in the states to get fixed. I don't know. We will have to see. Until then, I will be posting like I did my last post.

First picture: I love this picture of Chase. I hardly ever see him really smile in pictures. I am glad that I got a good one.

Second Picture: Chase is showing off his pillow case. One of our friends made it for him for Christmas. He is so happy that he gets to sleep on his tractors. He counts them before going to bed. The first night he got it, he was petting it. That just goes to show how much Chase takes after Ethan. They both love their tractors.

Third Picture: I just wanted to take a picture of them in their church clothes for Ethan. It turned out really good. I swear my daughter has a normal smile, but every time I pull out the camera it goes away and gets replaced by the huge cheeser grin she has in ALL her pictures

Fourth Picture: The first week after Ethan left, Chase and I had a rough week. He was getting into everything. This is just one of those things. He decided he wanted to "make a snowman in my house." He just happened to try and make that snowman out of my sugar. Later that week, he dumped out my coco powder, the new shampoo I bought for him and Madison, the folded clothes, and many other things that I just don't even care to remember. He was throwing a lot of extra tantrums. It was really tiring. Thankfully things seem to have calmed down (knock on wood).

Fifth Picture: Madison is at the stage where she wants to put everything around her neck. She will try with anything she gets her hands on. The other day she was trying to put my car keys around her neck. It is funny when she gets crazy things around her neck. She tried a lot of times, and eventually succeeded in getting the Mr. Potato head glasses on just like they are in this picture. I thought it was funny.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy and that it isn't too much of a pain to read the explanations in a different spot from the pictures

Okay, so I am computer dumb. I don't know how to fix my blog. It is a little frusterating, but oh well. I am just going to have to tell you what the pictures are about on a seperate post.

The first picture is obvious. I love my Chase.

The second picture: My sister LaShauna got Madison a purse for Christmas. She wasn't too into it when she got it, but now she loves it. She walks around wearing it on her arm. The reason her hand is so blurry is because she was waving.

The third picture: No Chase isn't choking Madison. He was trying to keep her standing up. I had taken so many pictures by this point, Madison was done and moving on to other things. Whenever I pull out my camera both kids really want to be involved, and Chase didn't notice I had my camera out until a little late, and I wanted a picture of both of them together

The fourth picture: Madison learned how to climb into the laundry baskit. She was so proud of herself. It was super cute.

The fifth picture: I got the camera out, so of course Chase wanted to get in the baskit too. They love playing together so much.