Timothy holding Elijah

Elijah David Hendrix joined us on October 8th, 2008 at 10:11pm at 8 pounds, 9 ounces and 21 inches long. He gave us a little bit of a scare by running a high temperature, but now all is fine. The hospital kept him a few days in NICU while they ran tests but they all came back negative and he got to leave the hospital Sunday. He’s an incredibly handsome little guy (yes, I’m biased!) and Grandma is totally in her element helping Anna with Elijah. Below is a link for more pictures of Elijah.

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Thomas and Anna

The wedding day has come and gone. Thomas and Anna are now married and enjoying some time off together here in Tennessee. Thomas is stationed in Fort Myer, Virginia in The Old Guard as a Combat Medic. The wedding went wonderfully. We held it at Fairview Community Church in Fairview, TN. I had the honor of officiating. We actually filled the church and had to bring up more chairs. It really was nice to see everyone come. We had the reception at the bride’s mother’s home in Franklin. The bride and groom relaxed and stuffed cake in each other’s mouth and then opened the presents and cards. It was a full day.

The pictures from the wedding can be seen here.

I was honored to be at my son’s graduation today from Airborne jump school. He completed his 5 jumps and is now airborne qualified. I was even more honored to pin on his wings at the graduation ceremony. We’re here enjoying a weekend with him before he starts RIP (Ranger Indoctrination Program). That will be a 4 week course that will get him into a ranger regiment and then eventually ranger school. He will also be attending, after RIP, Special Operations medic training at Fort Bragg, NC, which is above and beyond his basic medic training he’s already received at Fort Sam Houston, TX. He’s been busy and still got a lot more to do. All this and he’s still a teenager at 19 years old. For more pictures, go here.

Thomas didn’t get to jump today — the plane had to be repaired. I guess that’s a good thing. He’s thinking they might do all of the last 3 jumps tomorrow but he’s not sure. I’ll update here as soon as I know.

Here we are at Fort Sill and our son Thomas has graduated from Basic Combat Training. He’s been here 9 weeks and is glad to see us. We’ve left the army post and he’s got two pay checks to spend and the first place we went was a mall and a WAL-MART. Now we are leaving the hotel to have pizza and then bowling. It’ll be a full day. Mom and I are very, very, very proud of this young man. Please keep him in your prayers as he leaves for Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas where he gets his Medic training for the next 16 weeks.

Go here for more images from Fort Sill from my flickr.com account.