Morehead City, NC

Tom's house

Kenan and Ethan sleeping

Sydney

Ethan

Kenan is ready for the pool

Kenan holding baby Annsley

All the cousins

Sladen sporting his new life jacket

Annsley sporting her new life jacket

GW, Sarah, and Annsley

Me and Goldie

The Yacht controls

Me and Kenan hanging out

Sarah and Sydney

Me and Goldie

Goldie getting some Annsley time

One of the three bedrooms on the boat

Sarah and me

All the girls

Goldie and GW

The fighting chair

GW imagining the catch

Just enjoying the ride

The boat that we went to dinner in

The back of the boat

The whole family

Ethan and Sydney

The second weekend in August we went down to NC to see GW and Sarah and the kids. One of Goldie's Tigers on the Tiger Cruise owns a house in Morehead City and offered to let us use it any time. Well, come to find out it is only about 45 miles from where GW and Sarah live. Se we took Tom up on his offer. GW and Sarah met us there. We had such a great time getting to hang out. The kids all played really well together and enjoyed swimming in the pool. The last day Tom asked if we would want to take the "boat" out to dinner. Most people would call his "boat" a "yacht". He had his captain take us to a little restaurant in Beaufort. On the way back the sun was setting and was very picturesque. We had such a great time.

It was awesome to see how the Lord had blessed Tom materially and how he gave all the credit to God. It was also cool to see how Tom blessed us with the things that he had been blessed with. It was a great weekend!

Our Beach Photo Shoot

Kenan loves the beach and being covered in sand. He is so cute!!

Our beautiful family

My mom posing with the light house

One evening before my mom left to go home we went to eat at Lynnhaven Fish House to thank her for all of her help while Goldie was deployed. It was, also, Goldie's first time to eat there because he had been gone every other time we had eaten there. Since we were already almost to the beach we decided to go out to Cape Henry. It is a beautiful photo spot. When we pulled up we noticed that there was also a wedding going on. We actually took a lot more pictures but had a camera malfunction and lost quite a few of them. It was a fun evening. Kenan loved playing and was drenched by the time we left. Sladen on the other hand did not like the sand or the water and wanted to be held. We saw about ten dolphins swimming just off the shore. It was so cool!

Goldie Shooting and His Boot Shoot

Goldie is yellow and getting ready for the green light to shoot. That is an F-18 SuperHornet in the background.

Master Chief over by the SH-60

Setting the CSV (Capacity Selector Valve)

Waiting on the "hook" signal

"Hook him up"

Military Power - run up the engines

Shoot 'em

Goldie taking off his boots for the boot shoot

Goldie walking the length of the catapult before his boot shoot

Walking back along the catapult - apparently it was really hot in just socks

The boot shoot spectators

All smiles

Retracting the shuttle

The boots are being attached to the catapult

All Set

Getting congratulations

The pictures at the top are of Goldie during his last shooting period upon the carrier. He loved being a shooter but didn't like being on the boat. Nor did he enjoy the amount of time that they were gone to sea.

The later pictures are of Goldie's "boot shoot"! The boot shoot is a tradition that shooters have whenever they shoot their last time then they shoot their boots off the boat. It is pretty cool!

My Last Visit to the Boat

Gus had duty the night I went to the boat so he was who greeted us on the bow!

"Gus" was wishing I had brought him some Hardee's!

Goldie's office as V-0 Division Officer or DIVO

Boss is right! Ha, ha!

Up in the tower!

Goldie pretending to drive the boat

The flight deck

A little smoochy