Update on Adam at OCS

Adam has been at OCS for 3 1/2 weeks now. I still haven't been able to talk to him on the phone. Only letters. He says that OCS has been a lot harder then Basic was. He says that there is a lot of stress put on them and that there is no second chances. If you fail a challenge you are sent home the next day. He also said that they are running on about 2-5 hours of sleep each night and that his knee is killing him, which adds to the stress. His letters are pretty depressing, but he is doing amazing on all the tasks.

He passed Phase 1 which was mainly land navigation. Now he is on to phase 2. He said that this phase is 8 hours a day of lecture along with all their physical tests.

I did get a phone call the other night from one of his friends at OCS who did end up getting sent home. He told me that Adam was doing an amazing job and was making all the other candidates look bad. He said it was as if Adam was born for this stuff. He told me how great of a guy he thought Adam was and how helpful Adam was to everyone. He told me so many great things about Adam's character that I already knew, but it was great to hear others were noticing it to. He's a really great guy.

We really miss Adam but I'm really grateful that he's there and sticking this out so we can move on to the next phase. Please keep him in your prayers and pray that he will be able to fight through whatever pain his knee is giving him. He loves letters so if you have time to write him, please do. His address is:

2nd BN 200th Regiment (OCS)
B Co, 2 PLT 4 Squad
OC D'Agostini, Adam
P.O. Box 5280
Fort McClellan, AL 36205

Park Day!

The weather has been absolutely perfect here. Californians are soooo spoiled. We had a couple of days this week in the 70's, so glad we are here instead of Utah, right now. So, with the weather so nice we had to go to the park. Austin looked too cool in his shades not to take a picture.

No More Baby Food!

Austin has sworn off baby food! He used to eat it, but now he makes the face below everytime I try to give him any. The last week or so I have just been mashing up table food and he likes that a lot better. When Elaina was a baby she would take whatever you put in her mouth. Austin has decided he doesn't like baby food, binkies or bottles. Oh, well. He's still growing great.

Cute Kids

Adam called us for the first time since he's been in Alabama today... and I missed the phone call! It's been a rough day. Adam's letters have all been pretty depressing so I thought he needed some cheering up, so I took pictures of the kids today to send to him. This is the winner. They're such cuties.

Park Day!

The weather was so nice today so we took the kids to the park. Elaina loved chasing the other kids and Austin loved the swings. It was pretty funny though because Elaina was playing with this little boy and he was about to run past Austin and I and stopped quickly and looked up at Austin and said, "You're a red nose kid, too." And then ran off. My poor kids get bright red noses in the cold. Oh well, it's cute.

Family Pictures

We took Twitchell Family pictures today. Of course, I could pass up an opportunity to get pictures of my own family taken, so here they are. It was a little chili outside but the kids were great. Here are some of my favorites of our family.

Christmas 2010

Wow, Christmas came and went so quickly this year!! I think this was the latest we ever got up for Christmas, which was at about 6:30a.m. In fact, we ended up waking the kids up because everyone else was so anxious to get started. Santa came! Elaina was so excited and opened her presents and everyone else's super fast. Sadly I couldn't find my camera so wasn't able to take any pictures but here are some of later in the day.
Elaina got a tinkerbell blanket from Grandma, which she loves!!!
Everyone was playing Rock Band. Elaina was the vocalist. Elaina got really into it.
Austin had his own microphone.
My cute little rock stars.