This is what almost killed me...

Last week I was sitting on the runway with my flight instructor in our helicopter, we had just landed making our call, "Helicopter 38Golf final runway 17" we went in and landed and looked and we were clear. So then my instructor wanted me to try and do a take off with low power. So we tilted the rotor blades forward and started sliding on our skids down the runway to get some speed to lift off, when just as soon as we were in the air we looked up to see an image like below coming at us!!! 

There were four lights and a cloud of snow dust...at first I thought it was a snow plow but then we realized it was a leer jet heading straight for us taking off as we were taking off. We called on the radio but no reply from the jet so we hurried and lifted off and luckly we were in a helicopter and we just went off to the right and hovered there as the huge jet went screaming by. We called again on the radio but again no reply. The dumb pilot must not have had his radio on the right frequency. 

What a game!

My brother in law had to let his wife put make-up on him to win the game. Go Geoff! The game was "Would you rather..."

You want him to do WHAT?!...

So Saturday I chose to go watch Brett fly. It was so cold!! But the sunrise was amazing!! But while I was watching him perform his traffic patterns above the airport, all of the sudden he landed the helicopter and his instructor got out and started walking towards me while Brett flew off!! His instructor Ken told me that he was letting Brett perform his solo flight, FOR THE FIRST TIME! He felt he was ready, and capable of flying by himself! It was nerve-racking, but amazing to see. The first pictures are of Brett preflighting the helicopter, and of the new blue chopper that the school just got in. They are now running patriotic... RED, WHITE and BLUE.

 

What a day!

This morning I took an awesome flight...two actually. It started at 7am when I hopped in 7530D with my flight instructor Ken.

We flew some patterns around the airport, I was a little rusty after not flying for about a week and a half. Then we headed south over hyrum dam my instructor threw some emergency procedures at me I had to react to. When then flew back towards the Logan airport and just happened to fly over my house. Ken asked if Tiara was home and I said yes so we flew some low circles over the house and out popped tiara to wave at us!

We then flew back to the airport and landed and my instructor asked me what I wanted to do next and I told him it would be fun to do an off airport landing in the field next to my grandpa Gilbert's house in Lewiston. He said ok! So we headed north at 80 knots and did two circles around grandpas house and then landed just outside their window. Grandma and grandpa came out and took some pictures of me hovering 5ft off the ground. We landed then waved and then took off back to the airport. What a fun flight.

My next flight I was scheduled in 4138G with our chief flight instructor Ed. He was going to check my flying skills to see if I was ready to solo yet.

He drilled me! It was hard and I was nervous cause I wanted to impress him. At the end he complimented me and said I did a great job and that I was ready for my solo flight! So in the next week I should get to solo!! Wahoo!!!

I then went home exhausted after flying for 4 hours! (my total flight hrs are 30.3!) ...on my doorstep I found my new headset I ordered. What a nice gift to come home to. It is the Zulu Lightspeed! I am so excited to fly with it! Below is a picture of me chillin at home with my headset. It has Bluetooth and adapters so I can hook it up to my cell phone and my mp3 player. It has such good sound!

indoor anyone?...

So its been too long since I have played soccer. Ever since I started playing at the age of 4 its been that if I had a week off of practice and games I would come back rusty...but 8 months?! Thats going against everything I stand for!! And now that my knee is fully healed and I am scorekeeping indoor games for some extra cash... all I think about is playing! Some wouldn't dare admit what really goes on in their dreams at night, but in mine I'm chasing my life... a ball. So if any of you play, want to play, or are even just looking for something to do, let me know. Because I'm trying to put an indoor team together for spring session. Games start the first week of January.

The 5am madness

I should be in bed! Tiara her sister and I went to the 5am sale in walmart! I thought I would feel out of place but there are as many men as almost as women.

*Cookie Monster*

So when I was in college I used to hide Dr. Pepper under my bed so that my roommates couldn't steel them (I had my own room that NOBODY was allowed in unless I was in it, I like my space and privacy). Well I thought that now that I was married and have shared my bedroom and all my stuff with Brett, that I didn't need to worry about hiding my goodies, unless its that time of the month and I am overwhelmed with the disease of the munchies. But this week I was a victim of treat secrecy. 

Brett came home with some Oreos the other night but when I didn't dive right into them he hid them! But I couldn't find them! Then on Saturday I found them, but only ate one. That BTW made one of my fillings fall out, so I didnt eat anymore. So he hid them again! Well sundays are my favorite days to munch so when I asked if he would get me two oreo's while I didnt look where they were. So he gave me two, a second later he gave me the package and told me that I could finish them off... I opened up the package with my mouth watering, to find an empty package!!

Out of the entire box...I ate 3! Somebody needs to work out, and it aint me!

I love you, but I have to blow you up...

Nothing says I love you more than hearing your Husband saying, "Honey, I dont want to be married to you anymore, so im going to strap a bomb to your chest because that is the only way to get rid of you". Thank you Brett, I Love you too and Thank Heavens it was just a nightmare!

...but I still Love technology...Always and Forever!

As a lot of you know, my daddy was killed 3 years ago. So sadly Brett and I were not able to have him at our wedding. But I have been practising with photoshop and was able to make my dad Present at our wedding physically instead of just spiritually.

Seussland!

Its been a longtime since I have blogged, and I have been meaning to put these pictures of my classroom up. So welcome to Miss Tiara's 3yr old reading class! My school is decorated so creatively; each room, each hallway, every inch of wall is painted in characters, bugs, animals, scenery, fairytales, gameboards, disney...You name it, you'll see it. But of course my room is the coolest! I freaking love Dr. Seuss!

Demo Derby

Ah the sound of crashing metal and popping tires oh, and NACHOS, nothing beats a derby! I have always wanted to drive in one. That is still one of my dreams, call me redneck but I'm a Country Girl!

We had fun together and loved that we could walk there because we live closer than most people could park!

Our new sign

We found this sign and I want to buy it but Tiara won't let me! What do you think should we have bought it?

Preschool Science Teacher is M.I.A....

So this week was the first week of school. I am the 3 year old Reading teacher, and I love it!!!
So the past two weeks I have been preparing my classroom for school working hard at making it perfect, along with all the other teachers. Well the 3yr old science teacher who was a new hire and well she showed up for one day to sign paperwork, came the next day for five minutes to show her sister the classroom...and never showed again. Not for Back to school night, and definitely NOT for the first day of school!! Who forgets about the first day of school?! Oh and she didn't show for the 2ND day either. So ya, that was weird. So she is no longer a teacher. That's my life, oh and I have an awesome Dr. Seuss Room!

The big move!

First started off packing the Kamas house! We cleaned and had the elders Quorum come over and help us pack our trailer. We filled every inch of that trailer and then put a free sign on the rest of the stuff that didn't fit and put it on the side of the road. Some lady with no teeth stopped and picked it up within the five minutes we had it on the side of the road! Unfortunately as I was loading our glass table into her truck I bumped it on something and the glass shattered...but oh well she was getting it for free... :(


















This is right before we closed the trailer door. You can see how high quality of trailer we had. We borrowed it from my ranch and we had used many years. It was packed full full of all of our junk that we are slowly getting rid of every time we move!
















We had to stay two weeks in Logan before we could move into our apartment so we hid our trailer in my mom's house she is selling. It had a third garage that the trailer fit perfectly in. Luckly for us we didn't have to worry about weather or wandering hands getting at our junk...uh i meant stuff we had in our trailer.



















This is the trailer that we stayed in for the two weeks. It was kind of fun camping out but we were glad to get to all of our stuff packed away.

I feel like im moving to college all over again. The small car ready to explode from overloading with clothes, racing other crammed cars up sardine canyon going 30 mph!

This was my view for the 3 hour drive to logan today. Thank my lucky stars that arch on top didnt come loose and slide right into my front seat! PS this is Brett driving and also Brett's idea to tie the arch on top of the over filled trailer...But we did manage to get everything we own packed in that trailer!

Puff Puff

Oh puff... How you give me such a high!

The little things that you just have to take a picture of!

Jeepy hit the 100,000 mile mark this week traveling to logan to find housing!

Tidal

The hubby and i on the tidal wave with my brothers and niece.

Swinging in action

My all grown up nieces ariana and miriah!