And Now His Commitment Begins...

Oh Seth, where do I begin when it comes to bragging talking about him and his career? He never ceases to amaze me with his accomplishments. First let me begin by saying he just finished training. Yeah, JUST finished, as in less than two weeks ago. As in, it's been like three years. As in, we have our Captain's Board in two months and he's just now beginning his commitment. Just now going to a Permanent Duty Station. Just now finishing the chaos that is training and being a student. Crazy town, no?

His mom, sister, and hunk of a nephew flew into town to celebrate the big day with him and I can't even begin to express how happy it made me that they could make it. 

He's my overachiever, perfectionist, literal genius of a boyfriend and they got to see how great of a student and WSO he is. Everyone who knows Seth knows that he's a smart guy but c'mon, who do you know that has gotten DG in every training he's been in since he's came on active duty? Him. From ASBC to WSO training to the B course, my man walked away with DG. And at his most recent and final graduation, the B course, he walked away with all four awards possible for a WSO to obtain. Talk about proud moment. To hear his name called over and over and over and over was insane yet not surprising, because that's just who he is; Top Gun. One award (River Rats) was subjective, the instructors voted who they would take to combat with them, they chose Sethy Poo. The other three awards were based on test scores, look out Einstein.  ;)

Owen slept through the majority of the graduation but stayed up long enough for some photo ops.

 

In between dinner and the awards Ariana kept herself busy with things like making a mustache out of her hair.

Whereas E was a cooperative angel as always...

We spent the weekend with graduation as the focus. But we also made time to hang out and be a family. We even went around the boyfriend's squadron the morning of graduation and got into some shenanigans. At the end of it all we got some much needed family time before leaving the U.S.of.A. Holler.

12-03

That's Seth's class number. Class 12-03 officially graduated on Friday. They got their wings. I'm super proud of my boyfriend.

Just a few weeks ago they had their drop night, that's when Seth found out he got his first pick - F15s 

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And that he's heading to Seymour-Johnson for training.

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Me in all my dorky crafty glory gave him this on drop night: 

And yes, I already had the silhouette of the 15 in the frame because I was that confident that he was going to get his top choice. Some call it cockiness, I call it confidence.

But unlike their laid back, beer drinking, cat-callin', flight suit wearin,' ridiculous picture takin' drop night... 

...friday was the more serious event (though they still somehow managed to squeeze beer into the ceremony), the official graduation where they got their wings. I pinned on Seth's wings, and they had a photographer present so I wasn't my usually snap-happy self, besides, I'm not skilled enough to take the photograph and be on stage. Fear not, when we get the pictures from the photographer I'll post them. Although now that I think about it I totally put my back to the audience (unintentionally) as I was pinning on his wings so I guess we won't truly have a picture of me in action. And then I was told by a few of his classmates that he didn't even smile in the picture we took immediately following his pinning. It's like, when he puts his uniform on, he doesn't smile in pictures, as if he's not allowed. I guess it's just a habit from the training he's been through. Doesn't stop me from giving him crap about it though.

We did, however, have the above picture snapped as we were leaving the ceremony. It'll have to work for now. And if you look closely you can see that I too have my habits I need to break (I'm disappointed in myself). All my military peeps will know what I'm referring to, but in case you're not in the service, I'll tell ya; check out my right hand. I totally look like I'm at attention! And even Love looks as if he's in the midst of doing the same to his left hand. Shame on us. I didn't even realize I was guilty of this terrible travesty until I was going through my camera the next day. I guess I won't be giving Seth grief for not smiling in his pictures from now on. 

And my Love also kept his streak of being "completely awesome" (as I call it) alive; he got DG! 

Again, for those nonmilitary folks, 'DG' stands for 'Distinguished Graduate.' It's an award given in training when you finish at the top of your class. So far he's received DG at every training he's been to while on active duty. Such an overachiever, that guy. But seriously, I'm beyond proud of him. Not simply because he's DG, I mean, I've known plenty of DG's that are "DG Chasers" as they're referred to, or as I like to call them, 'douche canoes.' But Seth truly is always one of the best at what he does and it just comes so naturally to him. He doesn't have to block everything else out, he doesn't have to step on people, he doesn't have to neglect his family, and most importantly - he doesn't have to be a douche canoe. He's just naturally a leader, naturally a people person, naturally a thinker, charismatic, charming, funny, smart, brilliant. He's just naturally the best at everything he does. And I respect that more than he'll ever know. 

Congrats class 12-03. And good luck.


Xo,


Lor