A Message from Max...

Here's what he typed today:

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Max is going a mile a minute.........

These days Max is busier than ever. He loves to play the piano but only if he can turn the pages of the music. He also loves to color but only with markers. Good thing marker washes off our government tile floors so easily.

Max is wearing his parents out.

Baby Boy Cousins

This is from June but I couldn't resist posting it.
Lyndy took this cute picture of Max, Joshua, Calvin, Alex, and Logan.

We can take pictures again!!!

We're so excited to have a new camera!!! Max will even pose and say "cheese" when we take his picture.

So, here's a random shot of a car at Wal-Mart. We see these kinds of cars EVERYWHERE. Apparently, its all the rage to spend thousands of dollars on huge wheels for really crappy old cars painted in loud colors. Anybody understand this? We don't.

Our House

Here are a few shots of our house (the downstairs at least since we need to clean upstairs). We also made a little video tour that you can look forward to seeing in a day or so.

Here's a shot from the outside of our townhouse.

Entryway

Living Room

Dining Room (notice the refinished table...I'm very proud of Ephraim's tile work!)

Kitchen/Laundry

Machine Guns!!!

Ephraim's company is in the field and today they invited all the wives to come visit the range and try firing the machine guns. Before today, I'd never fired any kind of gun so Ephraim thought this was a great way to break me in. In case you're wondering, this was live fire, not blanks. I'm not sure if I hit any targets but it was an adventure (wearing the body armor , eye protection, ear plugs and kevlar helmet was an adventure in and of itself!) It was fun to experience what work is like for Ephraim everyday. By the way, no new camera yet but our good friends the Powells took some great pictures for us. Thanks you guys!

Here's the rambo pose.

All I had to do was pull the trigger and stay out of the way of the burning brass!

Ephraim had to make sure my oversized helmet didn't fall off.

Not sure you can see the smoke really well but we had to 'cease-fire' for a while after this fire started nearby. Luckily, I didn't cause it.

Ephraim and his friend Steve posing as Infantrymen.

After over a month of not posting, we're happy to report that we're alive and well in our new home on Ft. Benning. Aside from the blazing inferno of humidity and occasional texas-sized roach, we are loving Georgia. We've been planning to post pictures of our house but our camera is on the fritz. Therefore, donations for a new camera are welcome. In the meantime, here are a few snapshots we captured before the death of the camera.

Here are my two favorite boys.

Ephraim's heavenly Publix cake.

Max posing in our new living room.

Here's Max in his room with his new IKEA rug.

Ode to Max's Backseat Companion

We could not have made it to Georgia without Grandma Lillie!!!! She is the queen of entertaining Max in the car and because of her, the cross-country drive was not too bad. We are so grateful for all of her help! We love you Mom! Here we are at our last hotel in Columbus. We were pretty happy to have the drive over with after 4 days in the car!

Farewell Utah

Here are a few snapshots of some of our favorite people in Utah. We already miss our Utah family and friends but we're excited for our Georgia adventure.

Max with Grandma and Grandpa.

Max with Great-Grandma and Grandpa Perkins.

Max with Aunt Jamie and Uncle Rich.

Heather with Shawn, Lyndy, and Joshua.

Max with Aunt Lindsay, Uncle Russell and cousin Cal.

Farwell Utah

Max with cousins Emily, Kelsey, Sam, Ethan, Jonah, Caleb and Joshua.

Max with cousins Jacob and Hannah.

Max with Aunt Hayley and Heather.

Max with cousin Joshua.

Heather with Max's cousins Logan and Alex.