What's been going on since Corpus . . . .

In February we moved to Arkansas. Dustin will be training to fly the C-130 until September/October, then he will join his Squadron (the 61st) for the next 3 or so years. We live in a small town north of the base called Vilonia. It feels safe and quiet, which we like, but it it's a good 15 miles from the bigger cities that have all the shopping, theaters, and restaraunts. Alice loves that we have a view of a horse pasture in our backyard and can see horses any time she wants.

Our home--Alice's fourth house in 2 years

We're so grateful to have a grassy backyard. Corpus was entirely gravel and sticker weeds.

In May Alice turned 2, we made her a 'horsey' cake.

We've spent most our free time exploring the outdoors here. The was the Pinnacle Mountain hike.

Float down the Buffalo River---June 2008

Andy, one of our friends, invited us to join him and some other friends to stay in a cabin and float down Arkansas' Buffalo River. It was really fun and the most 'outdoorsy' thing I felt we had done since living in Utah. At times, the river was low in spots and we would get grounded. To this day when we talk about trip, Alice says "We got stuck."

Here's the cabin we got to stay in. . . .

Breakfast Time!

The views were beautiful. We also managed to not flip the canoe--a big feat when we hit a few rapids.

Taking a break, and checking out a nasty huge spider ewwww.

Playing in the water (she hated that life vest!)

At the end of the day we were tuckered out :)