Happy Father's Day!

You Are My Sunshine

Sophie loves singing "You Are My Sunshine" and sings it all the time! She leaves out quite a few words from each phrase, but the melody is right on. She sings, "Only my sunshine, only my sunshine, make me happy, sky gray, know dear, loves you, take, my sun, away."

Memorial Day in Garden Valley

We had an awesome weekend in Garden Valley with Josh, Summer, Navy & Ryder. Its always interesting with small kids, but we made it work. We rented a little cabin in town and managed to do everything we wanted to: fishing, shopping, exploring, swimming at Silver Creek Plunge, and even a little relaxing. Sophie and Navy both caught a fish!

Phil is Back from Tech School!

Phil is back and all is right again in the Mason household. He shouldn't have to leave again now unless he goes on a voluntary short deployment somewhere or unless he gets a full time position out at the base doing a different job.

Tech school is not as hard core as boot camp. He actually had quite a bit of free time and he filled it up by becoming an airman leader. This means he was an assistant to his leaders and was given power over the others in his flight. Phil had to pass a series of tests and drills in order to move up and wore a yellow rope on his uniform to signify he was a leader. His schedule was pretty packed with meetings, briefings and drill evaluations. He of course thought it was pretty cool he could "get other guys in trouble".

Phil's job in the Air Force is in munitions. This means he builds missiles, bombs, small arms ammunitions, chaff and flare. He maintains and stores it and then delivers it to the flight line when it's ready to be loaded onto jets.

Now he'll be working for the next month and a half or so doing on the job training here at Gowen Field.

Sophie is so happy to have her daddy back. She was also very happy to get the new pink "cow boots" he brought her back from Texas. She ran to him at the airport and just looked and looked at his face for a long time. It was so sweet.

Thank you to those friends and family who really stepped up for Sophie and I while Phil was gone. You know who you are!

Now we look forward to the summer. We're looking for a bigger place to rent and hope to find something in the next couple of months. I really don't want to leave our home, but we are growing out of it.

Here are some pictures from tech school:

Becca's Visit

Becca came to stay with me for a week to help the time pass. She makes me happy. It was fun to go out for Cinco de Mayo (even though I ended up getting sick). Thanks for keeping me company!

Swimming Lessons

Sophie and Navy are taking swimming lessons together twice a week this month and are both loving it. Sophie gets distracted easily but Navy just eats it up.

Kiwanis Spring Tour

Friday we toured all day and then had the Music Week Concert that night. The boys did well and had a lot of fun. Jed was awesome enough to come and take some sweet pictures for us. This was our schedule:

Spring Tour Schedule, Fri. April 30th:

8:00 am Meet at Boise High

8:00-9:00 Rehearsal/Exchange with Boise High

9:30-10:00 Exchange with Shadow Hills

10:15-11:00 Summerwind Retirement Home

11:15-12:00 Lunch: Idaho Pizza

12:30-1:00 Kiwanis Club Luncheon

1:15-1:45 St. Luke’s Performance

2:00-2:45 Clinic with Matt Swenson

3:00-5:00 YMCA

5:30-6:30 Dinner/Awards Ceremony Boise High

7:30 Music Week Concert at Capital High

Needless to say, I was a VERY tired pregnant lady by the end of the night!