More Pictures of Elden's BMT Graduation (but not THAT many since I suck at taking pictures!)

I'm terrible at taking pictures!!!! The whole time at Elden's graduation I was trying to take a picture and see him at the same time since they were so far away and hardly ever standing still-so not many of my pictures turned out and NONE of my videos turned out. Luckily I took so many pictures that a few were ok. 

He's behind the tall guy in the front

This one-if you zoom in-you can see him towards the left side.

Mom & Dad Warner at the Alamo

Elden & I at the Alamo (I may regret posting this picture since i look like a cow-but it's a good one of Elden-I not only can't take pictures, I'm not very photogenic either!! UGH!)

Elden's BMT Graduation

I'm not going to lie....my husband is such a stud!(when I get home I'll post more pictures) Elden graduated from Air Force Basic Training this week. AND he graduated with honors! I'm so proud of him!

Elden's parents and I flew to San Antonio on Wednesday morning and the graduation events started Thursday.  They did the Airmans 1 1/2 mile run, then the Honor Graduate ceremony (that's what this picture is of-i didn't take very good pictures), after that, the coin ceremony, and then he was given base liberty so we could hang out on base until 8.  It was REALLY hot and all of the graduation events were outside.  I always felt bad for him knowing how hot it was because he was in his uniform all the time, but holy cow! It was terrible!! He has lost quite a bit of weight! Our first stop on base was for an extremly large pizza (Elden loves his pizza!), and then we went and shopped a bit and walked around the BX, and then went and saw Harry Potter (I slept through most of it however).

Today we went to the Graduation Parade, and then we went to the squadrons to see where he's been living the past 8 1/2 weeks, and then we were able to leave base.  He gets off base tomorrow also, and then because his flight got warrior flight AND because he got honor grad he's able to get off base Sunday instead of base liberty whch is awesome since we ran out of things to do on Thursday after about an hour.

I've met a lot of the guys in his flight, they all call him Papa Warner or something like that because he was the oldest in the flight.  When we were in the squadron someone passed by us and pointed at Elden, and said to his family "this is Papa Warner-this is who we come to for all our financial advice." It was funny.  He said one night several of them came to him with pens and their notebooks, some with the top labeled "Papa Warner's financial advice". Apparently after their financial planning class they took and the comments he made, they all realized he may be older, but he's smart... :)  They also said that he "won" BMT because he got 4 ribbons, and that's the most you can get here (the two extra he got were for Honor Grad and Expert Marksman).  I think there were only 4 guys in his flight that did.  Once again-I'm so proud of him!!

On Tuesday, he found out he is leaving for Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi on Monday for tech school for 70 days :(   Luckily I can talk to him more and go visit periodically, but the military life will definately take some getting used to! I sure do miss him when he's gone! But i'm excited to see where we'll end up for our first adventure!

Did I Mention?

No, we're not having a baby! (everyone asks me that whenever I say "guess what" or if I don't feel well, or if they haven't asked me in a few weeks)

Elden enlisted in the Air Force!

He met with a recruiter last August and has been waiting for one of the jobs he chose to open up, but it's definately official now.  He's leaving for basic training July 5th-for 8 1/2 weeks.  Then he has his technical school for a few months (we'll find out how long he has to do that once he gets to basic) and then we'll move to who knows where.  So if anyone wants to come keep me company while he's gone, I would love it!   

I've had mixed emotions about him joining-but mostly I'm excited-and he is too... I'm looking at it as an adventure. 

Funny Kid!!!

I'm in Oregon right now visiting my sister Penny.  I came to watch the kids while Penny & Todd went to the Bahamas. Since I was going to have to come back a week after I went home, for my nephew Carson's birthday/baptism-I decided to stay for a few weeks and just work from here.  Plus, I love spending time with my sister!!!  

I may be the only one who thinks this is funny....but today-I was on the phone after the kids came back from School and Penny said to Carson that I was on the phone and that he needed to go upstairs and play...his response was "it's ok mom, i'm just going to be here in my box"  (the pictures are a little bad-it was on my phone and kind of far away)

I love this kid!! He has quite the sense of humor!!!! While I was taking care of them last week, as I drove him to school he was trying to persuade me to take him out of school early because at 1 o'clock he had computers and then reading, and that he knows how to use a computer and he knows how to read.....I couldn't argue with that logic! So I got him out of school....I had to maintain my favorite Aunt status :)

Elden's new "toy"

I think I did really good this year picking a Christmas gift for Elden!!! (of course-Elden's brother-in-law & Sister Julia are the ones that told me which one to buy-Thanks guys!)

He thought he wasn't getting anything else since he had already gotten an Xbox a few weeks before and so I told him THAT was his present-but really I have wanted him to have a gun for a while.  He was pretty excited!!!!! (Though-in this picture-he's trying to act cool) :)