Setting a good example...

I want to be on Amy's "good list" so here are our upcoming events:

June 11- "Family Day". Family members of the pilots get to go to the airfield and watch their pilot fly, take pictures, look inside the cockpit, etc.

June 19- Kristen is competing in a triathlon

Aug 11- until ?undetermined? Kristen and the kids are flying to Utah for the Guymon-Johnson Reunion & her brother's wedding. Return date depends on whether I stay for my brothers open house in Monticello the week after the wedding.

Sept 16- Tel graduates from Primaries...next he will be in a bubble for about 5 months then he will start the apache course.

June 2011- We estimate Tel will graduate flight school next June (note this is a tentative date)





(I just like pictures so I threw some in from a Family Fun Run we did. Joselyn ran the entire mile!)

Did someone record Jessica's speech?

Or the track meet? Or any of the 50 other events that those of us living outside the sanctuary of Emery County missed?

Come on GUYS! You are supposed to also post dates for upcoming activities - I'd probably not be able to make it, but at least I'd like the option.

Whoah. This post sounds like Grandma.

Why yes, my husband is an apache helicopter pilot!

Ever since Tel came home with this, he hasn't taken it off! Okay, he has taken the helmet off, but not the smile (in the picture he is trying hard not to smile, but he can't help it). It cracks me up how randomly I will look over and Tel will have a big cheeser grin on his face & I will ask what he is thinking about...the response "I get to fly helicopters!...And they pay me for it!" The guys in his class even give him a hard time about being so excited! Even though he has to learn all of this information in a few months, he is still smiling. Even though this whole week he had to wake up at 3 am he is still smiling. It's GREAT! So if you can't tell, we are happy to be here and have this great experience!

Negative ghost rider the pattern is full

So, I got to fly a helicopter the last two days in a row. In a word I will steal from Mom; Phenomenal. This has got to be the greatest week of my life. I tell you what, clear the blades, push on the starter, listen to the turbine spool up and pop the throttle open while the rotor blades start turning = major adrenaline rush! Still can't believe the army paying me to fly.
Sure beats living in van down by the river eating raw bacon and making squirel tail bookmarks...