Wyatt's birthday celebration

In my marathon blogging tonight, I missed an important event.  Last week, Wyatt's class celebrated his birthday. No, you didn't miss it--his birthday is in July.  His class is slowly celebrating all of the summer birthdays. Anyway, he loved being the center of attention and loved that I brought a special snack for him to share with his friends. Rea got to join in on the fun too...

One more...

Just one more of our fun afternoon in the sprinklers...

Play time

Since Daddy has been home we've been doing a lot of family bonding and a whole lot of playing...

Rea

Just wanted to share one more picture of Rea at the goat dairy.  After we played with the baby goats, the trip was downhill for little miss. Her boredom then reached it peak and she plopped down on a pallet of hay...thankfully I had my camera.

Raven's Goat Dairy

Just when you think Wyatt couldn't possibly have any more field trips, his class headed to Raven's Goat Dairy on May 1st.  Oh yes...a goat dairy.  It was very enlightening and a lot of fun.  The kids spent the better part of an hour playing with and bottle feeding baby goats. And by baby, I mean like one month old little goats. They were precious!  We also spent some time with the larger goats, but the babies definitely stole the show!  We also learned about goat's milk and how great the demand is for it these days...most of the milk at Raven's goes to make cheese.

HE'S HOME!!!

On April 25th, Josh finally came home!  We were waiting in great anticipation of this homecoming because this one marked the end of this tour (with two very long deployments) and the beginning of what is supposed to be a long stretch of family time for us.  The USS Carl Vinson pulled into Perth, Australia where Josh boarded a commercial flight headed for home. After 28 hours of travel, we were able to greet him at the Fresno Airport. 

We are so proud of his service to this country and his commitment to "get the bad guys", as Wyatt will excitedly tell you.  Welcome home honey!