Corpus Christi IceRayz & Wedding dress pieces... :0)

So after washing and air-drying the two pieces of wedding dress I removed, I am left with two beautifully white pieces of satiny polyester... :0)

I'll keep the update going on these after I get to Little Rock this weekend.

We have been waiting all Summer long for Hockey season to start!! Saturday night, American Bank Center hosted the Corpus Christi Icerayz's first home game of the season! They played against the Shreveport Mudbugs! :0) They are a part of the Central Hockey League or CHL. The game was FANTASTIC! Over 5,000 people showed up and filled the place up! We had awesome seats just right of the net. Sadly, the Rayz lost by 1 in the last 18 seconds of the game. Very close game though... I miss hockey. :0(

On Saturday, Jeff and I hosted our second Corpus Christi garage sale.... The only thing we still need to get rid of is that couch... (See picture below) :0)

Here is a picture of our view from our awesome seats! Hockey might be one of the only sports that you might not want to be sitting center field/ice for... :0)

The movers are coming to pack up and move our stuff on Thursday. We have found a house that is 99% ours for the taking so that is very nice to look forward to. We learned from the last time we moved, that it's a smart idea to book a kennel before arriving at your new base! So when we pull in to town on Saturday morning, we'll take the dogs STRAIGHT to the kennel so that the poor mutts don't have to sit in the car freaking out at every one of our stops... I'll tell ya... Traveling with dogs is very annoying!

Anyhow, as usual, we'll keep y'all posted on what's happening... :0) Enjoy your weeks everyone!

Surfing USA!

Well, we finally went surfing! We've lived here for 6 weeks or so and we've been dying to get out to the water and catch some waves. We rented a couple of 8'6" boards from Outdoor Rec. on base at $10 for the entire day. We went with a couple of our friends, Marlena and Trey.

Off we go! We were both super excited to get in to the water... I was a bit nervous because it's been so long since I last surfed. The water was super choppy with waves only two seconds apart... But at 83 degrees... Who can complain??

Here is our neighbor's daughter, Naomi. I was babysitting her the other day and she took the leash off of her stuffed doggie, "Max", and insisted that Dax wear it... :0) So you can see here that Dax was being very sweet and patient as we was lead around the house! She was so sweet to him! I thought it was super cute.

Jeff started flying the T-44A this week. He absolutely loved it! He is really enjoying flying over the water... Very different from flying over the forests and swamps in Mississippi. We went to a "Fleet Night" at the base's Club. They gave all of the guys and the three wives that were there, the low down on all of the different types of aircrafts they can have dropped their way at 'assignment night'. It was really neat to learn about all of the missions out there in the big blue Air Force. The bottom line is that whatever airplane Jeff gets, we will be in an awesome community. That's always good to know.

Congratulations to Natalie and Matt as the tie the knot in Maui today! Wish we could be there! Our thoughts and prayers are with you guys! XOXO

So far...

Hola again,

Since the last update, we've packed up the guest room, pulled all of the hangings off of the walls, patched holes and boxed up the garage/storage, linen/hall closet, coat closet, and even some of our clothes... :0) 

We are getting ready to throw a nice coat of primer up on all of the walls that I've splashed with our own personality... It has finally settled in my heart that this is what we're doing.  The most important thing for me to do right now is to trust in God's plan for us and to be supportive of my husband.  My teachers at school are allowing me to take my Finals almost two weeks earlier than the rest of my classmates.  I am SO thankful for that.  It's one less thing I have to concern myself with.  As it is now, Jeff and I have been surfing the web trying to decide whether renting a house off base is a good idea at this assignment.  We're praying about it and hoping to have a blatant sign from God pointing us in the right direction.  Last night, we did a devotional and the topic was stress! WOW! That was exactly what we needed to talk about! God didn't create us to be storage bins of stress and drama.  I am so thankful for that.  He is so good!

We spent Easter with some of our dearest compadres.  It's so awesome to have such fantastic people in our lives.  Megan Riggs and Jason, her hubby, threw together a beautiful meal with Easter Ham and all of the wonderful fixings to go with it! I'm pretty sure I ate enough food to last me the week! :0)

Jeff's not been doing too much as far as work is related.  It's taking absolutely FOREVER to get his orders for the move and Corpus, etc. Hopefully he will have them by Friday so that we can get this ball rolling!  He has offered to take care of everything for us while I'm finishing up school. I am so blessed! He's been having fun reading tons of books and planning our move, cooking dinner and making lists. :0)

Today, to take a break from the house, we drove the dogs out to SAC lake.  It's an area on base here at the end of the runways that has a lake a picnic benches. It's so totally gorgeous out there. It makes you feel like you're at like a nature reserve or something of the sort.  I was worried that the dogs would book it, leaving us scratching our heads wondering what to do next... But they were awesome! They had such a blast!

They even went IN the water!! I was shocked! Here are some pictures from our day... Hope y'all enjoy them.  As usual, we miss all of you not here in the 'sip with us. Please continue to keep the Copelands in your prayers! XOXO