About Me and My Loves

About Me and My Loves
Howdy Y'all and Welcome! I have been married to my studly hubby for almost 5 years now; who is an energetic, outgoing, handyman helicopter pilot. We recently made our first big move cross country from Utah to Texas with our now 20mo. old "Rae of Sunshine" Azure. We love experiencing anything and everything and holding nothing back. We love dreaming and creating things of all kinds together. I hope that this blog will help our families back home keep up with our busy life, and maybe inspire some along the way...from family to home, money to food, holidays, travel, photography and crafts. this... this is my life!.... Enjoy.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

My 4th of July as a Pilots Wife...

So For the 4th Brett and I were in charge of the Float for the Hyrum parade for Mountain Ridge Helicopters (Brett's work and school). I of course was in charge of the decorations, and it turned out pretty cute. But unfortunately the pictures don't do it any justice.
This is a picture of the smoke ball that Mark lit so that we in the helicopter could tell which way the wind was blowing...great idea mark!


This is us making a flyover to inspect that nothing is in our way of landing.

No one would believe that we landed the helicopter on this tiny 16foot trailer but we did!


Brett and Trevor were the amazing pilots that made the awesome touch down. And it only took two tries! I thought it was going to be more. That is me in the back, I was videoing our land onto the trailer. It was intense!! It was also my first time flying with the doors off and it was so awesome!!! I would recommend it to anyone!!



Mark was guiding us onto the trailer and making sure that we were straight and in the middle so that when we touched down the trailer didn't tip. If you look close you will notice that we are in a hover above the trailer about a foot off of it while we are chatting away with mark! I FREAKIN LOVE HELICOPTERS!!



And...WE DID IT!!




We had to wait forever in the parking lot for the parade to start, but we turned alot of heads and made people interested.







The Crew that helped us decorate! Thanks everyone.




We were the grand finally of the parade!









You see the cute decorations, we used quilting stuffing to make cute puffy clouds as if the heli was flying thru them.












We could not believe how many people there were at this small town parade!







Ya we ran out of candy pretty quickly











Here is the booth that we had at the park afterwards.











And here we are taking off to go home. All in all it was a great day.









Once I get a chance I will post more pictures and the video of Landing on the trailer. But in the meantime checkout the schools website... mountainridgeheli.com





















2 comments:

Joey and Michelle Chandler Family said...

Hey Brett! It's been a while. My parents said they had a blast in on the helicopter ride you gave them! That's cool you can fly one of those things. It sounds like a lot of fun. By the way, your wife is adorable. Glad you're so happy!:)

April and Michael Maughan said...

Hey, I don't know how often Brett looks at this, but I went to High School with him. I married an Air Force pilot, but he doesn't fly helicopters. I did get to ride in one, though. While we we living in Japan I got to fly over Tokyo. Very cool. You two are so cute. We had Santa fly in for Christmas in the helicopter too. Very cool. Get a Santa suit Brett.
April (Robinson) Maughan