Saturday, November 8, 2008

Aviation Nation 08














Ok, so every year we attend Aviation Nation at Nellis Air Force Base.  It is one of our highlights of every year.  Micah has gone ever since he was a kid and it has become a yearly tradition for us since we got married.  Basically there are planes on display and they do flight demonstrations.  It's awesome.  I never thought it would be something that i would get into but i love it just as much as Micah.  Gareth is a huge fan of airplanes, he loves to look for them everytime we are outside so we knew he would go crazy for the airshow.  My only concern was that the noise would hurt his ears due to previous ear problems b/c it is wayyyyy loud, but they never bothered him.  He never once tried to cover his ears or anything.  Part of what i love about the show is the sound of the fighter planes.  Every year they have different demonstrations and different planes.  This year they had most of my favorites the F-15(My ultimate fav), F-16, F-18, F-22 and they also had the C-17 and a few others but the F-15 & F-22 are the most fun to watch.  They also had the Air Force Reserve Jet Car, it was an actual "jet car."  It was pretty cool, they had it racing another plane (I believe it was the Red Bull Mig 17) and the jet car actually won the race.  It was pretty cool to watch.  Gareth had a blast and he loved the noise, he would laugh every time one would fly by that was loud.  When we would start to walk away to look at more planes he'd get upset b/c he would think we were leaving.  He would just zone out and watch the planes.  It was so much fun and they had so many planes on display this year.  It is such a joy to watch Gareth share an interest in something that Micah loves.  I love watching them together.  We can't wait for next year!!!  ( www.aviationnation.org)

Saturday, November 1, 2008

halloween






Ok, where do I start.  It looks like Micah is going to have to wait another year before testing with the fire department.  Nobody is hiring this coming year and i'm assuming that is b/c of the economy.  He just going to do his EMT-I and then go ahead and go to paramedic school.  In the mean time while he's doing all of that he is going to try and take a test to become an elevator technician.  A guy he works with is doing it and is a trainee and he is making $50/hr so we'll see if that goes anywhere in the mean time.  Gareth found his shadow this past week....haha  It was pretty funny.  We were outside saying bye to Micah one night for work and he saw his shadow on the wall.  It was sooo funny, he kept walking back and forth and stopping and then he'd yell at it.  We were cracking up.  He's finally starting to talk more and mimic what we are saying.  He does it better for Micah, but we are still waiting on a call back from the early intervention department here to get him evaluated and see what they suggest we do to work with him so that he starts communicating with us better.  He was Yoda for halloween last night.  It was Micah's idea for him to be Yoda and it was a huge hit.  We had strangers stopping us and asking if they could take a picture of him.  He got the swing of things really well, he would walk up get his candy and off to the next house.  He had a blast!!!  Not much else is going on just gearing up for the holidays and trying to make plans.  We are exciting about going up to Salt Lake for Christmas, Gareth will have such a blast spending it with Nanna and Pappa and Uncle Wes and Aunt Amanda.

4th of July Parade

4th of July Parade


Otter Pops

Otter Pops