Second Phase in Our First Anniversary

So this was the second part of our celebration...Friday we went to the Temple and then we headed up to Oakley to relax in the mountains and have some fun!! Don't ask but we did find some fun masks so of course we modeled them, oh and the dragon that is hanging on the wall was our good friend Mr. A...although we did cover him with a sheet in the middle of the night because we couldn't sleep with him starring at us. We also went snowmobiling. That was a BLAST!! But boy were we sore for a very long time!! And every night we challenged each other to a dual of scrabble! Brett won...I'm not good with big words. Maybe thats because I teach 3 YEAR OLDS!!
But everyone watch the video of Brett showing off on the sled!! Its great!

After our Oasis in the Mountains we headed to my sisters house for my birthday party!!

First Phase of our First Anniversary...

So we celebrated our First Anniversary on February 19th, and we had a BLAST!!! So it all started on the day of our Anniversary it was a Thursday. We drove down to Salt Lake where we stayed at my moms cousin's Bed and Breakfast (www.armstrongmanor.com). This is our room. It was called February Interlude. This whole place is antique and Victorian looking. And each room represents a month. Ours was the best because it had a spiral staircase leading up to a romantic loft with a jetted tub with a round vaulted roof. We enjoyed ourselves and relaxed.

Ride of a Lifetime...

So we are not good at this blogging lately... But here it is. So ever since Brett and I started on the journey of Helicopters, I told him that I was to be the first one he gets to take up in the air! So for my Valentines Day Gift Brett took me up in the R44 (the 4 seater helicopter). P.S. This was also the VERY FIRST TIME Brett flew the R44!

Happy 22 Tiara!

Its my special sweethearts birthday today!

Patrick this is for you!

I took a little flight to Soda Springs, ID and I got to fly over the lovely Barrington Dairy! 

Official pilot!

Today I flew this lovely banana... Uh I mean yellow helicopter in Caldwell, ID and I passed my test to get my privates license! My wife is an official pilots wife!

I will now start my instrument and commercial rating.

Ringing in the newyear...stuck in wash!

After visiting our good friends too wish them good luck on the long move and new adventure, we saw this inviting sign to stop and wash our car...so we did! We pulled in and let the auto wash do its job.

All the cycles were working fine untill the final airdry! The door would not open to the front nor the rear. We were trapped. We honked and honked but no one came. Tiara saw a button that said emergency door open. So I jumped out of the car and pushed the button...nothing happened! So I got back in the car and got on our good ole trusty GPS and found the gas station we were located at. It listed the phone number so I called them and told them we were stuck in their car wash. The guy came and pryed open the door and let us out! He did give us another car wash so we could finish the dry cycle. So two washes for the price of one! Luckly the second time the guy was standing by and pulled the door up when the dryers turned on. Happy 2009 almost spent stuck in a carwash!

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. 

Lazy day after Christmas!

Who is having the lazy day when the poor old husband is out shoveling the 89 inches of snow!!!

Christmas has come and gone...

Whoever said that Christmas was relaxing?! Well whomever it was never had a family like ours. Well our holiday started at 11am on christmas eve with when brett got off work. We drove to kaysville to my moms new house and had dinner, then went to my sisters house in hooper and played "would you rather" all night, of course until it was time to play Santa. Well Christmas starts at 5am in my family. So we watched our nieces and nephews bask in the glory of excitement of Santa. After about 3 hours of them opening presents (most of which were from my brother-in-laws crazy mom, trying to out do Santa, but failed miserably) We went back to my moms at 10am to eat breakfast. After stuffing ourselves with Christmas quiche and sausage we headed to Providence to be with brett's mom, stepdad and brother at noon. We opened gifts and then the gilbert family arrived at 2pm and we ate more food and opened more gifts. Then at 6pm we headed thru the storm to Preston to spend Christmas evening with the Reeders (where we found out that Brett's cousin and his wife are expecting and they are 6 months along!!! And no one told us!!) we opened more presents and ate more food!! We got home at about 11:30pm and crashed in our bed, thank heavens for the lazy day after Christmas!

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..."

SANTA!!!!!!!!! I Know Him....I Know Him!!

While I was watching Brett fly on Saturday, all of the sudden a huge chopper came in and landed right in front of me. I was kinda nervous as to what was going on because the Helicopter was a Utah High Patrol Chopper. As I was snapping some photos, Santa came out on the hanger with his briefcase and climbed into the helicopter and flew away! Santa's high Rollin, he traded in his reindeer for an AStar.

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.

 

Merry Christmas Charlie Brown...

So for family night on monday we went Christmas tree hunting. When we got to the tree farm, the farmer helped us by showing us some wonderful trees. But none of them were the tree! So he asked what we were looking for... so I told him that we dont have a lot of space for a tree so we need a small tree... still nothing. So I told him, I need a Charlie Brown tree! And voila...
It was perfect! And to let you know how small it is we were able to slip in into the back seat of the jeep with plenty of room to spare.