Time Sure Does Fly By

I want to personally thank Steve for kicking me in the butt to update this page, Thanks Steve!

What's happened in 6 months... I was preparing to deploy again but ended up falling down the stairs on the jet from the cockpit down to the cargo compartment. A maintenance dude left a voltmeter on one of the steps, I didn't see it and fell down the remaining 8 steps giving me 3 hairline fractures.

It looks a lot worse than it was. They treated it as a severe aprain, so no cast! I did have crutches and a walking cast for a couple of weeks though. Anyway, due to this injury, I didn't get to deploy. This only kept me out of the game for about 6 weeks.

Since I was supposed to be gone for a few months, Carolyn made travel plans with her mom to go to the San Juan Islands, Calgary and Banff. (Note, do not adjust your screens, Carolyn's hair really is brown. She died it for a couple of months because, afterall, girls just want to have fun. She currently has her blonde hair again).

They stayed at the world famous Banff Springs hotel, which is featured in many famous paintings and movies. They took this pic of the hotel while kyaking...

They had a great time!

What else, oh, I got to go to Cambridge and London! I wasn't there very long but was able to walk all over the towns and see the big sites; Big Ben, The eye of London (ferris wheel), Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace. Here's a couple pics;

I liked this one of a bookstore at Cambridge... I thought the books were going to be way more advanced.

This last shot I took because Carolyn works for Colliers International and I saw one of their signs. I thought it was pretty cool!

The Tacoma Oprea invited Carolyn back for both the fall and spring shows. She will be in Le Comte Ory in the begining of Nov, and Faust in the begining of Mach. She is extremely busy with all of here rehersals as he show is only 3 weeks away!! We never posted any pics of her last 2 operas, so here they are, Carmen and Orpheus in the Underworld (she's on the right) repectivly...

I started my Master's degree at the University of Oklahoma. Obviously it's an online program and much more touchy-feely than I'm used to. It's a Masters in Liberal Studies with a focus on Administrative Leadership. There are multiple advantages to this course but none as great as the fact that it won't cost me a dime! OU charges $550/credit hour for non-residents and the AF pays up to $250/credit hour. OU realizes this and only charges military the 250 rate! It will take me 2 years to complete, and from the looks of it, a long 2 years as I've already had to write 5 papers in the first 2.5 months... GROSS!!!! Anyway, go Sooners. The good part is that I will have a college team actually win sometimes!

I also got to go to Venice!! Carolyn was a little upset because she wasn't there with me, but she's been before so it wasn't too big of a deal. Here's some pics...

The Italian Job happened right before my eyes! This is actually a safe they're moving.

As Always... GO BRONCOS

I bought Carolyn a jersey so she can get into the games a little easier, and it worked! I caouldn't tear her away from a Bronco game if I tried. Here's us and our nephew Calvin...

Golf Pros & Tennis Hoes

A few days before the wedding a bunch of us got together for a combined Bach & Bachlorette party. We wanted to include as many people as possible, especially for those who didn't get to go to Tim's Bach party in Vegas or Carolyn's showers.
Misty and David coordinated a van to drive (Thanks Dan!) us up to Seattle and party at 5 different bars/clubs. Carolyn and I were in competition all night and had to complete certain tasks to get points. Whoever had the most points won. I forget who actually won but remember it was a close competition.
Here's some pics from that night...

Wedding Pics

After a long, long, long wait, here are some wedding pics. Actually, these are a few of the page layouts that will be in our wedding album...

It's Been A Long Time...

Let's see... 5 months ago (my bad) we left off telling you about the honeymoon. Cinque Terra was beautiful, pretty packed though. Here's a picture of one of the "towns" as they all looked very similar.

We spent 3 days in the Terra, hiking all over the place and by the pic above you can imagine how many steps there were. It was an awesome view of wine vineyards on the cliffs overlooking the ocean.
Next, we took a train to Florence but took an unplanned stop in Pisa to see the tower. I always knew that the tower leaned but had no idea it was this drastic...

We got a cab to the tower but had to walk a couple miles back to the train station as every taxi we came upon worked for a different section of the city, very weird. We made our train time by 5 minutes and were off to Florence.

Our hotel was AMAZING!!! We stayed right on the Arno river overlooking the famous bridge Ponte Vecchio. Here's the view from our room balcony...

We saw pretty much all there is to see in Florence as we were there for 4 days. We went to Il Giardino Antico Da Babilonia A Roma (A big garden with old statues, flowers and a great view of the city). The next site of note was The David, no not Feth, but the huge stone man. Here's a pic that I was yelled at for taking so it's a little blury. Finally, we climbed the 500+ step dome of the cathedral. It was very impresive inside and the paintings on the ceiling were awesome. It showed the contrast between heaven and hell. They actually showed demons poking and slicing humans! It was hard work getting to the top but well worth it once we saw the view. While in Florence we took a day trip to Sienna. It was an awesome city with huge walls and prideful people of each sect... we got to see one of the sects march through town playing drums an throwing flags.
We finished up our honeymoon in Rome for 4 days. Our hotel room was the penthouse over looking the Spanish Steps! Quite Incredible!

We did a lot in Rome and there's no way I could say enough about it. It was an incredible experience. We saw the Pantheon, Colloseum, Neptune Fountain, Roman Forum, Vatican, Sistine Chapel, and St Peter's Basillica. Again, I can't say enough or post all of the pics so heres just a few...

Catching Up

Wow, it's been quite busy since the last post in March. We didn't post anything new because we wanted everyone to see the wedding info right away when they visited our site. Now that we're hitched, it's time to give an update of everything that's been going on, heck, I'll even include some pics!! This will be hard to do however because I'm trying to remember what happened 7 months ago, which is way over my thresh hold of 24 hours ago, but I'll do my best.

March - We moved into our newly built house. You might not believe it, but we don't have a pic of it. That's OK since most of you have seen it anyway! That's about it for March actually.

April - I got to fly the president's helicopter around for a few days.

May -

June - I had my Bachelor party in Vegas... I'm sure no one wants to see any pics of that so I won't post any.

July -

August - The big month! We started off the events with some of our family coming into town a week before the wedding. It was great to have all the extra help! The events began with Carolyn's Bridal shower. She had it at a "cute" little tea house in WA. They had lunch, tea and played some games. You should have seen the answers from the game "What the bride is going to say on her wedding night," hysterical... for example Carolyn said, "It looks like a little sailor!"

Next we had a combined Bachelor/ette party entitled "Golf Pros and Tennis Ho's." It was a great night up in Seattle. Hans won the best costume as you can see why. Special shout out to Dan who drove all us not sober people around.

It was finally time for the big day. The weather was perfect, Carolyn looked incredible, everything went off without a hitch... what? Our DJ didn't show up? True, but Mikey quickly filled in as the DJ unitl another DJ (friend of the photographer) showed up. To make a long story short, our DJ was embezzeling money by deleting his clients out of the computer/registry at his headquarters. He would show up to his weddings, take a check, keep it and never give it to the company he worked for. He was doing great until he literally forgot about our wedding. Anyway, we got our money back and he got in a ton of trouble!

Even with that little hickup, Weddingville 2007 went extremely well, especially due to everyone who heped out... Thanks!

We then went on our Honeymoon in Italy! You might say that 19 days is too long, but you'd be wrong. We started the trip in Milan, which was pretty much closed (yes, the city of Milan was closed) due to a national holiday during the time we were in the city. We made the best of it! We held some pigeons...

Here's a pic of the church where we DIDN'T see the Last Supper. It's not a regular museum where you wait in an extremely long line, pay an exorbinent amount of money, look at waht you came to see and leave, appearantly you need to make reservations at least 3 weeks in advance and can do so no the web. If you ever go there, please heed this advice.

Overall we liked Milan but were happy we styaed only 2 days. It would be nice to go back during opera season and catch one and lso see the Last Supper now that we know the rules.

We left Milan for Lake Como, more specifically Bellagio. We absolutely loved it! You had to get there by boat taxis and once you got there you saw the quint essential streets...

Our hotel room was amazing. It was on the top floor and had 2 balconies overlooking the lake. Here's my better half with the view.

After Bellagio we took a train to the Cinque Terra. It was a region on the West coast that includes 5 little towns built up on the cliffs. There were a lot of steps.

We left Cinque Terra .