Our Elizabeth River Cruise

Every Year they take the residents on The American Rover for a sunset criuse. It was an amazing experience. The ship itself is beautiful and the kids loved every minute of it.

Waiting to set sail.

The Sails go up...

The Crab on the dock post. It's the tan circle blow the water line on the post. I know hard to see with the fuzzy pic.

We watched the sunset, the helicopters pass, saw the construction of a navy boat, watched a paddle river boat go by and even saw a raft carrying navy? divers (forgot what their called- sorry didn't get a picture). It was just like out of a mission impossible movie.

We even got caught in a rain storm, and had to put the sails down and sit in the water for the storm to pass. This picture just doesn't do justice. And when everyone else heades below for cover...

Ian stood out in the rain, while Brad Ainsley and I tried to stay dry under the canopy; we might as well been out with Ian.

And here is one of the many mermaids that dot our city. Ainsley loves spotting them calling 'mermay' 'mermay' when we are driver around town.

Package from Grandma!

Kisses from Ian

Thanks thanks For the fun chairs! We miss you Both so much!

beach fun

We are just loving the Beach. We go about once a week. The bay is only 1.5 miles from our home and the ocean is about 3o minutes. The last two saturdays we've gone to the ocean and Ian is determined we get our own boogie board. I want to try surfing now!

No I'm not pregnant.

Bush Gardens

Bush Gardens! 6-17
We had a blast. It was so hot and we had only been in our home a week so hadn't climatized yet.

This was an awesome tree house? Ian wan't a tree house- that was one of his requirements when looking for our home. Think Brad can deliver? you know with all his spare time!

Ian L_O_V_E_D this roller coaster. He went a couple of times in a row. I wish I had a scanner to show you his face their camera caught.

Our Happy Kids!

I taught Ian to put his hands up on a ride. With this kid it only takes once.

Mile Stones

Ian turns 4!

We say Good-bye to the village. and move to our First home.

BrAd GRadUatEs! Yes!

the Home Hunt

In 4 days, seeing 5-6 houses a day, and looking through many more online this is the house we put an offer in on. It was Saturday night at 11pm when we finished signing papers. We flew out the next morning at 7am. It was a quick trip. We are undercontract and just had our inspection today. So things are moving along.

March 24th-Norfolk, Virginia

Just 4 days after my race, and 1 day after Brad got home from training in Texas, We ventured out to Norfolk Virginia to look for places to live.
Since we couldn't spend every minute looking at houses- It's exausting- we did a little sight seeing. Norfolk has Mermaids all over the city; kind of like a City Mascot. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of one so the dolphin on the beach front will have to suffice. As well as the huge sculpture of Neptune- the Roman God of the Ocean.

There are 4 Naval Bases in Norfolk and Nautica is a naval musem which featured the USS Wisconsin and A traveling exhibit called "REAL PIRATES." We toured Both seeing the massive battleship.

Check out the massive chain- the two black lines running the length of the ship.

The Pirate exhibit showed real pirate treasure recovered from a sunken pirate ship, tales of women pirates, and the youngest known pirate who was estimated to be eight based upon his recoverd remains.

13.1 Miles of Moab

My first Half Marathon was the Moab Canyonlands.

My Good Friend Kath made me sign up. Since it was a lottery I figured I would most likely not get in but in December I recieved a comformation that I was in. My thought was Crap... Now I have to start running. Now I've always thought runners where crazy, especially runners who run outside in the winter. Well I've now become one of those crazy people. I trained for 3 months doing a run/walk system by Jeff Galloway. And have to admit I've fallen in love with running. My goal was a 10 minute mile through out the race and I finished the Race in 02:05:44. It was awesome.

Race Day! Brooke Peacock, Me, and Kath Nilsen

The Race shirt and My Bib Number

Match Day!

On March 18th 20210 Me and Ian went to Red Butte Gardens;

We took the bus up,

After some short speaches,

At 12:00pm We recieved our letters,

and paused for the momentus occasion,

We shared the excitement with out good friends the McCunes.

And Wished Bradley could have been here for the excitement.

And We'll be spending the next three years in.....

VIRGINIA