Fall Break.

Austin had a little fall break from school and also had some time off of work (which is a miracle to get both at the same time) so we decided to take a small trip to California. We stopped along the way in Vegas and stayed at the Luxor- bomb diggity! We had lots of fun exploring the strip and climbing on stuff to take some sweet pics!

Pharaohs Lap 

Goats in Egypt?

New York ,New York

Paris

Mandalay Bay

Lions at MGM- so cool! except they were taking a nap
so this is the best pic i could get--
the underside of them sleeping

We experienced the most delicious buffet at the Paris Hotel! 

It was seriously so incredible we ate for like over an hour- seriously. 

The desserts were obviously our favorite part. 

After all this goodness we then continued on to the lovely state of California and visited with my family for a couple of days. We got to spend a lot of time together and had so much fun just hanging out and going to soccer games! 

One of the highlights was going to the legendary Lombardi Ranch! I've been going to Lombardi Ranch during Halloween season since I was a little kid and was so excited to relive my childhood with Austin- as for his excitement to do this, not so much- but we had a great time!

Austin, Janessa, JT

Jail!

Happy Halloween!

Our Life As of Late.

Austin represented his ROTC program at the Ranger Challenge competition at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. The two day competition is comprised of various physical and skill-based events testing university teams against one another, so they basically send the best of the best from their programs. Check out these sweet pics:

Austin was picked to be the team captain this year- so exciting! Thats him in the front!

This is Austin going across a 'rope bridge' as one of the events

Austin throwing a grenade

Grenade in the snow!

Hard Core

Their team took 3rd out of 15 universities competing--so awesome! As you can tell Austin is pretty hard core and amazing at what he does; don't worry if you can't recognize him in some of these pics its probably due to the mole-stache he grew out for the competition.

While Austin was in Colorado, I did a 5 miler with my sister as apart of the October Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We ran in support of our mom who has been diagnosed with three types of breast cancer at a stage 2 and will start chemo treatments soon. 

We love you mom!