Summer Fun!

We have had a lot of fun these past couple of months (hence, no blog postings!) Doug is still waiting to see if he can get pushed through to start flight school. He put in a waiver July 10th and they said it should take at least a month, so we are waiting until at least August 10th! I have been working on my application to Troy University for their Family Nurse Practitioners program. I will turn it in soon and will also hope for good news!

In June we made a trip to Idaho for a family reunion. We had a great time. We were surprised when about half of the family got food poisoning at the reunion. I got it first, Doug didn't get it at all! We still haven't discovered what it was. Aside from that, we had a lot of fun spending time with family and friends. Sadly, I only took one picture, this is at Bear Lake.

July 18th I ran a 5k with my good friend Lorie Stockton. It was called a Critter Run in Dothan, AL. We were proud that we finished it without walking!

I also made a trip to Birmingham to go to the Temple. We traveled about 3.5 hours to find out that the temple was not open! There just so happened to be a temple worker there that was kind enough to give us a personal tour of the small temple. That made it worth the trip.

Doug & I also made a trip to Valdosta, GA where we met up with his brother and his family. We went to a theme park called Wild Adventures that had a lot of "regular" rides like roller coasters and also a water park. It was a lot of fun and we were very happy to spend time with family! By the way, I cannot upload these pictures upright for the life of me!

And last but not least, this wouldn't be the Foote's blog if we didn't post something about Doug's recent creature encounters. This is a picture of a spider he found in our backyard forest.

Squirrels, possums..and the beach!

Ok so we didn't see any squirrels or possums at the beach, but we have seen quite a bit of wildlife in our backyard. This may be due to the fact that Doug provides them with large amounts of delicious food!

He bought our backyard squirrels special corn for them to eat. He has even named his favorite squirrel Hector. Here he is:

As for the possums, yes we have them too. Dougs ultimate goal is to catch an armadillo, but possums will do for now. We have a trap that he stole from the neighbors, and so far he has caught two possums. He lets them go a couple miles from our house, hope they don't find their way back!

We also made it to the beach this past weekend. We went to Panama City, Florida with a few friends. The water was so warm! Much different than the water in Utah, although it was much saltier. We had a good time and hope to be able to return soon.

Hey ya'll, welcome to Fort Rucker Alabama!

Well I've caved and decided to start a blog! I promised some friends that I would start one when I had something interesting to blog about (i.e. kids, moving, etc.) so I'll stick with moving as a reason for now to keep friends and family updated as we live so far away.

We've been living in Fort Rucker for a couple of weeks now and have had a great time so far. Everyone has been very nice. We are living in a home on post and have been doing a lot of unpacking and fixing up the place.

We somewhat felt like we were living in a state hospital when we first moved in (white walls!) so we decided to paint. It looks a lot better and we had a lot of fun!

Finished living room after painting

The bugs and animals have also been very warm and made themselves welcome to our home! I wish I would have taken some good pictures of the milipede infestation we had. I was too grossed out to pull out the camera I suppose. They took over our backyard and at one point covered the hole wall so that it looked black. Everywhere we went they were following us around like little pets! Ugh. We still find about 10-15 a day crawling around on our floor, but the numbers decrease everyday. Our neighbors seem to have the same problem, except their young baby will pick them up and eat them! We have stocked up with Raid and had pest control come and spray around our house. Hope it works!

Well hope you enjoy the little update of our lives here in the good ol' south. I will hopefully figure out how to work this blog a little bit better in the future. Happy Mother's Day!

Katie has a blog!!!