Monday, May 23, 2011

A Picture Story of May 1st - May 22nd... Add Words of Your Own!

I apologize for the long lack of updates.... and also for not going through and editing many of these pictures out.  But, I saw this as the only way of catching up quickly.  Enjoy!  Hopefully I'll get an update on here at least weekly from here on out.

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Georgia Acrobatics!

















Yay!  Daddy can stay with us, finally!






OC Frank and his wife, Kristen, come over for a meal.  








The last Easter egg hunt in GA!






Therese photo shoot:










Enjoying our last days:













Therese photo shoot #2:


Gotta love pots and pans!







OPAH!



Workout with Dad




















Presents from Oma!










Wow!  The Honda Place has a Sweet Playroom!









Joe's Graduation Formal









Misc. Fun Times!









Packing the Car for Missouri!







Joe's Graduation Ceremony: 





























Taking the Oath:










3rd in his Class!









The first salute!



Congrats, Second Lieutenant Librandi!

























































Bye-Bye Opah!














Good-bye to Lieutenant Frank















Mom puts his Lieutenant bar on his beret for the first time.













Our last Georgia meal:  A Celebration at Olive Garden!










All packed up and heading out in the wee hours of the morning!




Sights along the way... beautiful morning fog. 








The MIGHTY Mississippi!







We arrive in Missouri safely (and tired)! 







A couple days of trying to track down housing and how life will work at Fort Leonard Wood:



A Mother's Day evening getting out of the hotel... mom LOVES walks!






The Kids' special hotel room beds:








We found a (town)Home!













When you don't have nothing... everyday things become SO COOL!










We purchase furniture... top of the line!







We check out the local library:



And settle down in style... keeping our regular Sunday traditions of special treats and a movie.



Dad got 13 days of Permissive TDY... so LOTS of play time ensued!









We have wildlife outside our window (turtle).



And we have furnished our apartment enough to pull together some simple meals.





Hello, Lieutenants Librandi!



It has been very rainy, and muddy - but our front and back patios have given us some space for outdoor fun.








A bit of diaper-training fun!

































Cutie-pies in our house's "thrown"



And one cutie-pie on a different kind of thrown!


The Kids' luxurious bed set!





The kids have a morning with dad while mom does errands:









Life is good!