Commercial Helicopter pilot!!!

Today I passed my helicopter checkride! Thanks to Tiara and all of her love and support. I am lucky to have her.

"Rooster one day, feather duster the next"...

These little beasts are what lurk in the bushes and on fence posts waiting for my blue car to come by. Why I have had such luck in the past 6 months hitting these random species, no one knows.

Bambi twins

We just moved into our new house we rent and we have new friends that are here everyday. They are little babies and they still have all there little spots! We live just off the first hole of the birch creek golf course. Too bad I don't golf.

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

2007 Chevy Cobalt LT

So this isn't our exact car but it is its twin until I can get our cars beautiful face up. But we are selling our car to help pay for our school loans. Its a 2007 Chevy Cobalt LT. 36,000 miles 30 to 40 mpg. Power windows and locks, a/c and heat, cd and MP3 auxillary input, like new interior. And we just put new tires on it last month and got its oil changed. Its a great car and we hate to sell it but sacrifices are a part of life. So if anyone is or knows someone who is looking for a great economical car give us a call.

Summertime...

Brett had to study all weekend so we decided to go for a picnic up the canyon. So we took some lunch, our hammock and his books. We had a nice relaxing time by the river... I slept and got sunburned and he studied. Love It!

and the golden gates will ring... HEEERRREEESSS...... Ed... and Farrah....and Michael.

I cant believe that MJ is gone! You wouldnt guess by this picture but I actually love michael jackson for his music and his dancing. He was so talented, crazy, but talented. But I came across this pic in high school and about peed my pants in laughter.

Farrah was just beautiful! I watched a primetime on her battle with cancer just a couple weeks ago and it was very sad.

And late night shows will never have another ed.

Hollywood will never be the same.

Mackley Designer Portraiture...

I know its been a long time since we have blogged about our life....

Well since March I have been working part time at Mackley Designer Portraiture here in Logan on Main street, and fortunately I was recently given the opportunity to work there Full-Time. I LOVE MY JOB!!! Seriously, I have always had an itch for photography. I started out my journey with Photoshop and other amazing programs about a year and a half ago and along the way I have learned so much and gone leaps and bounds. I have taken classes but mostly just learned by first hand experience. I am so privileged to be working for and along side the KING of photography! He is amazing and I'm grateful that he found the trust in me to let me work for him. He seriously is the best photographer I have ever seen! In his 19 year career he has been awarded 9 photographer of the year awards! THANKS STEVE!!

Check out our website at www.mackleyphoto.com

from there you can see some of our work and also click on the visit blog link to see more.

Boating

First day of the year at Newton reservoir. Sun was out for most of the time. We are so excited for the summer! Woot Woot

Remember that song...

Isn't she beautiful, isn't she lovely, isn't she wonderful, the song goes something like that!

uh you know Kevin

Tiara and I were just thinking of Brian Regan tonight and just thought of our favorite quote from him.

"One of our activities was making bike ramps out in the street. Cuz that’s where all the cars are. Put a cement block out in the middle of the road and you angle a piece of wood up to it, and the object was for one kid to get on his bike, and ride as fast as he could and see how high he could go. And that’s as far as we planned. It wasn’t until the first kid was like flipping in the air, “What happens now?! We don’t know!”

He hit a mailbox. We had a bunch of nine-year-old paramedics running up–we didn’t know what to do. Get up there “Aaahhhrraaaah! Get some leaves!” (You do what you can.)

Hey that was the easy part. THe hard part was being the kid that got sent in first to calm mom down before you dragged in the actual banged up brother.

You’d have to be the point man, ya know, “Go tell mom.”
“Uh-Uh-no-no.”
“It’s your turn.”
“Uh”

So you’d have to run in, “Hey, hey mom, uh OK, uh, uh, everthing’s fine.”

Ya know she bought that–yeah.

“Everything’s fine, I just wanted run in, at full speed. And uh, ya know, say hi, and uh, and uh, OK, so . . . Oh! You know Kevin? Uh OK, of course, OK. Well ya know like how his right arm, usually, usually, it bends, usually it would bend like that? OK, it’s now bendin’ like that right now. And it’s no big deal cuz we already looked at it but we were thinkin’ since you said that you had to go get milk later, anyway. So we were thinkin since you had to go anyway, ANYWAY, then we were all thinkin’ if when you go, if you just might wanna take him to the hospital.”

“And if you get peanut butter, get SMOOTH!”"

Us cute farm kids

Just enjoying the Reeder ranch!

Mothers day cake

My wife made this cute cake and I just had to take a picture and show off her talent! I love my wife and she is so amazing!

Sweet heli

Yesterday we had our open house at the heli school I work at. Tiara and I organized the event and worked our butts off and was rewarded with an awesome turn out. This is a picture of our heli that won the race against the motorcycle. What an awesome day. And I am so thankful for all my wifes support and help!

Family Photos for Mothers Day!!!

We took these pictures for Bretts mom for Mothers Day. I just wish I had a nice camera so that they weren't so low quality. 

6 weeks of missing church...doesn't that put us on the inactive list?!

So We did our usual Sunday routine: slept in, relaxed, started getting ready for our 1:30 church time at 1:00, left at 1:26... but when we pulled into view the parking lot was EMPTY! Apparently it was stake conference today, and we were not aware of it. The last few weeks have been spent with families... the week before conference I don't remember why we missed but we did, then General Conference, Easter, My little brothers farewell, his farewell in our home ward in Hooper... and now this week. And next week is Mothers Day. I think people have started to think that we have moved because they have stopped trying to contact us. ;)

50 dollar dinner!

But we only paid probally a couple of bucks! We love steak! And grilling!

For rent!

Anyone looking for a nice place to rent we have it! Our upstairs neighbors are moving out and we want some good people to move in above us. It has two car garage, three bedroom huge nice back yard and it is a newer home. We will share internet and cable with anyone.
Let us know if you are interested. My phone is 4357646623

Called to Serve...

My little brother Landon had his Farewell yesterday. He will be serving in the New York, New York North Mission Spanish Speaking Mission. We are so excited and proud of him! He is the first of my siblings to serve a mission and I know that He will be an amazing Instrument in the Lords Hands.
This is the first time that all my siblings have been all together since August!
My family is not the affectionate type so I enjoy making my little brother squirm by hugging him!
Brett and my brother-in-law think they are men in black.
My nephew loves the camera!

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!!