The Verdict Is.......

C-17 to McChord, WA!!!! Woo hoo, our first choice baby! Mari and Tyson here we come. We don't know when we're leaving yet we'll keep you updated.

Oklahoma City Zoo

On Monday, Ben and I both had work off so we went to Oklahoma City Zoo with some friends. We had a really good time. We thought this picture explained the zoo well though. This was the first animal we wanted to see and as you can see in the picture the sign says gone to Tulsa. A lot of the exhibits were closed or if the animals were there, they were so far away sleeping. But, all in all we had a great time.

Change of Plans

So these 2 weeks are not going to come quick enough. Friday night after Ben and I had been home for a little while, at about 7:30 all of the guys in the flight were called back to the squadron building to come in and sign something. Ben and I were on our way out the door for our weekly date night for dinner and a movie so I just went with him and waited in the car. 15 minutes later Ben came back out of the squadron building with a piece of paper. Guess what it was! Dream sheet number 2! Lol. The flight commander just kept thinking about our drop and he said he just wasn't happy with it knowing how upset all of the wives are going to be once they found out what their assignment was. (great) So the flight commander wanted all of the guys to fill out another dream sheet with every possible assignment on it that the air force has to offer and put those best to worst. He wants that list turned in on Tuesday and he is going to look through everyone's and try and request some additional assignments from the head honchos. Now he warned us that most likely nothing will change but this will make him feel much better that he gave it his all. Isn't he such a great guy. We know nothing will come of it because they only give what the military needs but it makes all of us feel much better. Besides guess what went up to number 1.......GERMANY, Yay! We'll keep you updated.

P.S. I know the picture doesn't have anything to do with it but I thought it was funny.

Final Product

This is our final order. The dream sheet was due this morning so we didn't have much time to think or pray about it. Their are 19 choices and we have to put everything down from best to worst:

1. C-17 McChord, WA
2. C-17 Elmendorf, AK
3. C-17 McGuire, NJ
4. C-17 Hickham, HI
5. C-17 Travis, CA

(can you tell we really want a C-17, lol)

6. K-10 Travis, CA

7. KC-135 Pease, NH <~~~~~ I wanted to put this number 2 because of the location but as you can see I lost that battle. That's okay, I'm not flying it.
8. KC-135 Scott, MO
9. KC-135 Birmingham, AL
10.KC-135 McConnell, KS

11. T-1 Vance, OK <~~~~ this is for the instructor position here for another 3 years

12. E-3 Tinker, OK <~~~~~ this has our name all over it. Papa Kearns flew this and KC-135

13. E-8 Robins, GA

14. MQ-1 Creech, NV <~~~ these are the planes that you fly from the ground only. Not the most popular option but with this assignment we could be living in Vegas with Ash and Mike which would be so fun!
15. MQ-4 Beale, CA
16. MQ-1 Cannon, NM

17. AC-130U Hurlburt, Fl
18. NSA Cannon, NM
19. MC-12 TBD

These last three are the only ones we really really do not want. All of them you still are flying but Ben would be away from home so much and he would be right there in the fight. It's just a rough family life. But all in all whatever we get we know we're supposed to be there and it will be the best option for us. Wish us luck! Less than 2 weeks to go......

Dream Sheet

Ben just brought home his air force dream sheet tonight. Which means, we got the list of the available assignments that we get to choose from. Unfortunately, there is no c-21 to Germany. :( that was our first choice. There is actually no drops for anything international. But that's okay because we still have a chance to go overseas later. Luckily our second choice is on there to McChord, AFB in Washington. Overall there isn't that many great choices but I'm sure whatever we get will be great. Cross your fingers for us. We're both writing our own list from best to worst and then we're going to compare and make the dream sheet together. I'll let you know what we put. :)

The end of pilot training

So we are at the very end of pilot training. Ben has about 4 more flights and he will be finished. We find out our assignment in 2 1/2 weeks and we can not wait! For any of you friends here in oklahoma, if you would like to come out that night we would love to have you! We're going to go party after :) If you're interested it is January 29th at around 5:30. And then Ben gets his wings February 13.