Gary Sinise & The Lt. Dan Band

The USO does many wonderful things for the U.S. Military including bringing us concerts. RAF Mildenhall was the first stop of the Gary Sinise & Lt. Dan Band Tour. Gary Sinise has always been a huge supporter of the U.S. Military doing about 70 shows on various Military bases around the world. The concert was really good and they played for about 2 hours or so. Jay and I were able to meet him after the show! He was extremely nice and down to earth.

Raytheon Trophy Celebration

This weekend was the Celebration of Jay's squadron, the 493rd, for winning the 2007 Raytheon Trophy. The award is presented to the best air-to-air squadron in the Air Force, Guard, and Reserves. The Raytheon corporation flies out, throws a whole lot of money towards some events for the squadron, and then a huge formal dinner in which they present the trophy (a Stanley Cup - sized Silver thing..). On Thursday, we had a golf tournament in the morning, followed by a BBQ at the Duxford Imperial War Museum near Cambridge, where the entire American section was cordoned off for just our squadron, with personalized tours, and a just-for-us flying demo involving a Spitfire and a P-51.

The American Air Museum at Duxford.

Friday afternoon, we drove up to Norwich (about an hour north), for the formal celebration held at Dunston Hall.

Jay and I at the dinner

Heather Roberts & I on the balcony of the Reception Hall

Jay & I with Heather & John (Jay and John where roommates when they first got to England and the two couples started dating about 6 months apart. John was one of Jay's groomsmens & in February John proposed to Heather! Their wedding is set for October 12th in San Diego!)

Keith Young, Jay & John. We missed Emily (Keith's wife) at the party becuase of their new 2 week old beautiful baby girl Grace who wasn't quite ready to be away from mom.

The 493rd Fighter Squadron!

Dunstan Hall, where the Celebration Dinner was held...it is really nice hotel just outside of Norwich, so we stayed the night last night and walked around the grounds this morning. It was a beautiful sight with an amazing golf course...I know Jay will have to come back and play the course!
It was a great time and ended up being a beautiful day today and we had a great time walking around the grounds with Heather and John.

Signature

Katie has a signature!

Bury House

Well we finally have the house set up...for the most part. The rest of my furniture finally came in a couple weeks ago and were able to really decorate once we were able to see everything we were dealing with. I didn't take picture of the middle floor because those are all kind of "junk" rooms at the moment. But we have 2 guest bedrooms w/ ensuite bathrooms, another full bath, & office on the middle floor. Plenty of room for guests!!!

The kitchen, not exactly at it's neatest point (taken from the door).

The kitchen (taken from the sink)

The Dining Room...this room still needs some work but it is getting there.

The Living Room, yes the fire place actually puts out a real flame!

Living Room part 2...mainly of the couch and coffe table from HaGa!

Our bedroom (taken from the bathroom)

Our bedroom (taken from the Door)

Testing

So we are very new to the blogging thing but thought it would be a good way for family and friends to stay updated with what is going on with us. So a HUGE thank-you to Kelley for helping the Blog look so amazing and hopefully I can keep it up!

The Talberts

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