Monday, August 18, 2008

Name Game

We have been making a list of boy names trying to decide what we want to name our son in December. So far we have just added to the list and and haven't really narrowed it down. So now it is your turn. You can do one of two things or both. List your top three picks, and/or list them in order from your favorite to least favorite. Right now they are listed in no particular order.

Coenn
Quinn
Ian
Liam
James
Christopher
Ethan
Jake
Jack
Dylan
Philip
Eric
Gavin
Grant
Graham

So good luck and have fun. We are interested to see what you all think. Also as mentioned in Marni's blog, feel free to add to this list with your own suggestions.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Sneak Peak

So everyone is posting pictures and I got jealous and decided I should too! Actually I wanted to start blogging again, and fill everyone in on my exciting summer. But rather than go into all the details right now, which some people may find boring, I figured I would post some pictures, which some people may find boring.
These were taken during tech school and will give a a sneak peak into some of what I was training to do for the Air Force.

The first one is our Air Transportation class in Blues, and the next one is not in blues posing with the hummer and the C-130 used for training.

Here we are getting cargo ready to ship, inspecting the cargo, and then after we have loaded on the pallet and tied it down with nets.

Were were sitting around waiting for our turn to load pallets on the C-130. We were trying to look serious, not mad I promise. Then the second one is me inspecting the pallet just before pushing in onto the plane.
I make a good supervisor don't you think. I was actually watching to make sure we stopped the hummer in the right place to tie it down. The blue thing is a pretend C-141 because they could not get an actual C-141 for training.
Spotting the hummer on to the "C-141"
Since Lackland is a training base, people come form all branches of service and from all over the world for training. Yeah the Air Force is that good. Here I am explaining to the Navy how we do things the right way, the Air Force way. At least that is my story.
Riding in the hummer as my instructor backs in onto the "C-141"

Ridding in the gunner seat. Too bad they didn't have any weapons installed on this hummer.

We were having a little race with another class to see who could chain down the hummer the fastest. I don't mean to brag, but we were lots faster.

More chaining. I am faster than I look!

As you can tell we are the cool guys of the class. The hummer and C-130 help a little.


Posing as a class. The rest of the class wanted to be cool too. :)

I have a couple pictures that were taken of us in Basic Training too. I may try to post some of them before doing all the word explanation posts.