Standardization

Tyler is on day 12 of standardization training here at MAF in Nampa.  It's hard to believe that 3 weeks ago we were driving down here with all our belongings in a moving van, unloading it all at Tyler's parents, and moving into our apartment at headquarters.  We are thankful for a relatively smooth transition and the AWESOME community of 3 other families here to do standardization also.  We have all moved out of our homes, are in the process of or have already packed our stuff for our assigned countries, and are trying to figure out how to do this with little kids!  If you can believe it, there are 9 kids here between our 4 families and Caleb, who is 4, is the oldest!  We are all pretty busy mommas, re-learning to do daily life without our husbands as they are at training, but enjoying the help and encouragement that living in community provides.

As for Tyler...I can't really tell you all the details of what they are learning right now, but so far it is a lot of classroom lectures to go over procedures and everything else they need to know before they jump into the maintenance and flight portion.  Tyler will first spend a couple of weeks doing maintenance, and then switch to flying.  He is definitely looking forward to getting back in an airplane!  If you want more information about that, you'll have to ask Tyler!

A little of what life in community looks like:

 

 Headquarters (will post more pictures of the grounds

and our apartment later)

Tyler's classmates and instructor looking for an ELT (Emergency Location Transmitter) signal
or looking for ET...one of the two

 The MAF hangar

 Sitting in classes

 Doing "story/craft" time for the no-nappers in the 

afternoon.  we made friendship necklaces and trail mix

 The kids made friendship necklaces to exchange and

gave one to their buddy Ethan, who they play with 

pretty much non-stop every day

 Aaron, Ethan, and Caleb; Ethan leaves tomorrow to go back

to Indonesia...they will miss him like crazy!

Soon I will try to post some more pictures of the MAF buildings and our apartments here.  The kids have adjusted pretty well to being here, helped a lot by having many other kids to play with!  Thanks for your prayers for our family. We are thankful for each of you.

Tyler, Renae, Caleb, Aaron, Jocelyn