Welcome to our Home!

If you come in the front door, we have a small foyer: To the right of the foyer, we have our office/game room set up. Here Malissa takes a break from playing on the computer.If you walk through the door from the foyer and turn right, you will enter the living room and you can see our new flat screen High Definition TV. Not too impressive as we only get 4 HD channels here on Guam. And they don't even have TiVo, so we have several DVD players/recorders set up to record (just like the old VCRs). Such a pain, but at least we don't have to watch commercials when we watch those shows.
Turn to the left and you see our dining room and this is where we have another office set up for Mom so she can do work from home. We do have wireless internet in the house so that we can all get on the internet from our own computers. WE just have to watch those kids don't get on MySpace.
This is the Master bed room, sorry, I didn't make the bed. That big TV on top of the bureau is the one that used to be in the living room, it is big. We have to make a claim for the movers because if you could see my dresser, you would see the big gouge the put in it when they moved it and the bottom of Curt's dresser is broken as well. This is about the only nice furniture and they messed it up.

Here is Malissa's room and she did tidy up a bit before I took this picture.
Here is Justin's room. He has been good about keeping it clean.

If you turn around and look back down the hallway, you see the kitchen in the foreground and the laundry room in the far ground.

Well that is it for the tour. Hope you all can come by and visit sometime. We have plenty of room!

Our House Guest

I told you of our friend and neighbor Doc Martin passing away, we are helping out the family by dog-sitting his dog Brutus. Brutus comes down to stay with us when there are too many people at the house. He is about 6 months old and acts just like a puppy, but he is so big he doesn't know how big he is. He will jump on you like he is a little guy, but as you can see he is a big dude. He has been a lot of fun as we are awaiting our puppy, Hunter to arrive soon. Right now Brutus is with his family, but usually he will come sleep over with us. We enjoy having him!! He is looking forward to meeting Hunter!

Guam Photos

Here is a picture of the beach from the road. To get to the beach we had to drive down the road that curves down the mountain. It was pretty cool.
At the bottom of the hill we saw this sign. Curtis got a kick out of the sign that was pretty explicit and warned folks to be careful. After the sign we went down this dirt road and pulled into a little alcove and found this view:

As we walked down toward the water, we looked to the right and this is what we saw. It is beautiful here. We went snorkeling last weekend and we have pictures that we took that we are getting developed. -- can't wait to show you all.

Take care and talk to you all soon!!

Change of Command pictures

Well this blog is a little out of order, but I finally got some pictures from my change of command. Here is a picture of me accepting the MDOS (Medical Operations Squadron) flag from my boss Col Walter Cayce.

Here I am receiving my first salute from my squadron. The gentleman standing in the middle there is Maj Dennis O'Sullivan he is my Aerospace Medicine Flight Commander. Across the room next to Curt is Col Cayce's wife Karen and next to Justin is Robin's good friend Chuck.

Here Curt and the kids are given a tea leaf lei that is a Guam tradition that is for good luck.

End of a Long Sad Week

Well Friday is finally here and this week was a long sad one. The B-52 went down while waiting to do a fly over for Guam's liberation day (the day America helped liberate Guam from Japanese control). We will probably never know how or why the plane went down.


Today we had a touching memorial service today. We payed tribute to the 6 Airman we lost on Monday--5 from Barksdale and Doc Martin.

Doc Martin was a very special man. I only knew him about a month, but he was always there to help or provide support. He was always smiling and had a hardy laugh. He will be missed by all. Please keep his wife Ursula (who is 8 months pregnant with their first son) and his daughter Gemni in your thoughts and prayers.

Here's the water slide Curt broke his rib on.

The view from our hotel room (35th floor) in Tumon Beach

Meg & Curt at 2 Lovers point

The view from our back yard

Our Bonnie Car

Crash of B52 in Guam

Well we have been about a month and we had some sad news this week. One of our flight docs was riding along in the B52 that crashed into the Pacific on Monday. They were doing a fly-by for the liberation day celebration (that is like Guam's 4th of July party). Below is the link to the story on Fox news.
Doc Martin met us at the airport when we arrived at Guam. The Medical Group is in shock. They are still searching, but things are not optimistic. The other 5 crewmembers were deployed here from Barksdale AFB in LA.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,387923,00.html

Hello everyone,
We finally got our blog up and running so you can drop us a line if you would like. We will try to post our excursions and updates often.
Well our stuff arrived last week and we are almost unpacked. We only have about 5 boxes left and most of that is my books that don't fit at work. Speaking of work, it is kind of like being fed through a firehose. Lots of info and an inspection less than 60 days away. We're having fun now. The people here have been great and I am getting lots of support.
Curt and the kids are keeping busy. We got new snorkel equipment and are planning a trip out on a boat this weekend to try the stuff out. Hopefully we will have lots of pictures of that trip. The scuba lessons will hopefully scheduled soon for them, I am going to wait until after the inspection. I want the kids to do it before school heads back.
The kids are having a good time and have met several teens. They have been hanging at the gym and bowling alley.
Hunter is still at Aunt Rita's being spoiled on a daily basis, but we miss him terribly and can't wait for him to get here. There are lots of friends awaiting his arrival.
Well just wanted to say hi and that we are on the web. Please feel free to drop us an line and let us know whats up with you. I know it is hard to call sometimes. Everytime I think about it, its like early morning.

Take care and we miss you all,

Meg, Curt, Malissa and Justin