The countdown is on!!

So obviously I'm behind...again! There were several weeks of us not knowing when we would be coming home, if Jason would be coming home with us or after us, and we are still trying to figure out how all of our stuff is coming home. BUT, we are headed home next week!  We are excited to get back to our house (I'm especially excited to get back to MY appliances!), but at the same time we are sad that our adventure is ending.  It's been like a vacation for me and the kids so getting back into the reality of life may be a little hard.

Knowing that the end is nearing for our time here, we have been spending every weekend doing something fun.  We spent 2 weekends in a row in Pensacola. We were able to spend time with Pop-Pop and Debbie, and even Aunt Lean and Brenden one weekend so we all enjoyed that.

Aunt Lean and Brenden actually
got Jake it the pool without screaming!

Sibling love in front of the new house (before it was painted)

Last week we had a visit from Uncle Neil and Izaiah.  We spent time at the pool, beach and on the 2nd celebrated adoption day (the day Jakob's adoption was finalized 5 years ago) with a beach fire.  We were also able to go to New Orleans one more time before we head back home and I finally got to go on my ghost tour.  We actually all went on the ghost tour and the kids did much better than I expected.  Luckily it was the early tour so that really helped and it was still daylight so Jake didn't get scared. I didn't realize how much attention he was paying to the tourguide until a few days later we was talking to his Granny and was giving her details about yellow fever and the vampires "in the top of the building." We also got some authentic New Orleans masks so now I've told Jason someone needs to host a Masquerade Ball so that we can have a reason to wear them :) Somehow I didn't get a picture of the hurricanes we got from Pat O'Brien's, but we do have the glasses to prove we went there!

Sheila saw my camera during the ghost
 tour and started saying "cheese!" so,
I had to take a picture of her.

Jake and Z showing off their
New Orleans masks

The 4th of July holiday was crazy!  We went to the beach to an event that Keesler AFB was hosting and there were fireworks being set off everywhere! I've never seen so many fireworks being set off at once and they were everywhere you turned.  The kids were more interested in playing in the sand for most of it, but Sheila is definitely a Campbell as she "ooo'd and awe'd" with me when the firework show started.

I'm truly convinced that I will
never get a good picture of
all 3 of us at the same time!  

Just some of the fireworks being set off
on the beach

This weekend is our last weekend here is Mississippi and our 11th anniversary.  Some of our friends here are going to watch the kids and we are actually going to try to have a dinner where there is no asking to play games on phones and I don't have to cut anyone's food!  I may have withdrawal and start trying to feed Jason like a child...I'll let you know how that turns out if I do.  We are also going to take the kids fishing and possibly take a tour of the lighthouse here before we leave.  I'll try to update again before we leave, BUT...it'll probably be when we get back and settled before I get a chance to get on the computer again.

Pensacola weekend

So our adventures this weekend took us to Pensacola with Steve and Debbie.  We were there to have fun, they were there to look for a winter home.  On Saturday the four of us went to the National Aviation Museum and spent several hours walking around and looking (and in some cases climbing in) at hundreds of old military aircraft. Here are just a few of the 150+ pictures I took while we were there.

Showing us just how big the propeller is.

She doesn't just look like her mommy...throwing a fit just like
I used to and I'm taking a picture just like my parents did!

Aunt Tammy...they were close enough to
reach out and touch ;)

My little fighter pilots

Daddy had a good time teaching Jakob
about all of the different weapons

I feel the need, the need for speed!

Seriously...can they get any cuter?!

They really liked sitting in the engine

There is a working lighthouse on the Naval Station too. We were able to walk close to it, but the kids aren't tall enough to climb to the top, so the best we got was a picture.

The day finished with a trip to the beach.  I didn't have my camera with me (didn't want sand all over it) so the only picture I got was of Jason & Jakob getting his big kite ready.  He had more fun flying his kite with daddy (it went much higher!) and Sheila liked playing in the sand.

Before we came back to Mississippi we went for a Mother's Day round of putt-putt.  Again, I only had my phone camera, but I think you can see how much fun the kids had while we were there!