all smiles

yesterday we decided to take some pictures before church since the girls were all smiley. grace was very excited about saying the scripture in primary and raegan was ever-ready for the nursery.

can i get a number one?

ok, so, last night we were driving to a campsite to have a bonfire with the strupp and jones families. as we are driving, bryan rolls down the window when we get close the campground to enjoy the nice weather. out of nowhere, raegan says... 'can i have a number one?' um, yeah... so, bryan and i look at each other and are like... what is she talking about. is she really talking about going through the drive thru window? less than a minute later she says... 'can i get chocolate milk?' oh yeah... she is definitely pretending to go through the drive thru window (we always get chocolate milk with the kids meal). nice. then bryan proceeded to ask her if she wanted apple dippers or fries... at least she chose apple dippers. raegan is in a crazy copycat mode these days. she just listens... and then repeats... at the oddest times. we actually don't go through the drive thru window very often, let alone get value meals... she must have been storing this one up for while.

welcome to lawton, oklahoma

the view from our backyard

bubbles...

i probably could be a cowboy... if i didn't have to listen to country music

as i mentioned before, the rodeo came to town. apparently, it is a big deal. so, we made plans with the dahlkes and greg furdek (another dental guy doing the aegd program) to attend the rodeo on family night. it was great fun. i was quite surprised how interesting it was. we stayed as long as we could and left during the bull riding... really the attraction most people come to see, but it was already around 10 pm and grace fell asleep while she was sitting on my lap. here are some pictures of us enjoying the show.

we made it!

after over a month of no posting, i suppose i should let everyone know that we made it to oklahoma safe and sound. we left jeff city on 03 august and drove to lawton, oklahoma. we arrived late that night, checked into our nasty hotel, and slept. on monday, bryan had to report to fort sill and get checked in and while he did that, we ate a yummy waffle breakfast and made plans to change hotels. the hotel we were in was so gross... i found a beetle in my bed on monday morning and i had a mysterious bite on the bottom of my foot that itched like crazy. hmmmm.... the shower was disgusting as well, so i told bryan we had to switch. the problem was, there was... the rodeo was in town and most of the hotels were booked... also, a unit was getting ready to deploy, so lots of family members were in town... also, lots of new soldiers were coming into fort sill... so... after lots of work, we got a new hotel that was clean and nice. we spent monday looking for a place to live and found one and started the paperwork. by tuesday afternoon, they told us we were approved to live there and we started getting our utilities set up. we called the army moving company and they told us that they could deliver our household goods on 13 august (yes, 8 days after the day we got our house). so, we settled in with an air mattress we borrowed from the dahlke family (fellow yucaipans station here with us) and got ready to live with nothing.

once we got our things, we got unpacked fairly quickly... it only took about 2 weeks... and now we are pretty much settled. we really like lawton (considering the lack of things to do) and have made some great friends. the ward is great and the people are really nice. i think this will be a fun place to live for a bit.