Mountain Madness 2014

Once I heard that the air show was going to be in town I wanted to take the kids, and it turned out that papa Will wanted to go to so he came along. I remember going to airshows when I was a kid and I loved them. Of course living on an air force base made it a little easier.

 

There was bouncy houses and some obstacles courses that were done up for the kids, so I got Brianna a wrist band so she could just get off one and go for the another, it was so crowded that I had a hard time keeping track of her. We went and got some food and then went to start seeing the planes fly. Brianna and Preston eventually did get bored just standing around. Preston ended up falling asleep for about 20-30 minutes before the thunderbirds finally woke him up.

 

Of course there were a couple of planes were we able to look at. There were more but we never ventured to that side of the airshow.

 

Standing next to the Air Guard Cargo plane

The front of the cargo plane

 

Where we stood while it rained

Brianna go to be lifted up to see the inside of this fighter

Demonstrating a search and rescue

One tired little boy

Thunderbirds finally make it out

I can't remember what the commentator said this move was but it is their most famous.

I was able to get three of the six planes in this shot. I even had my eyes closed because it was move where they all met in the middle and being a spectator you just see a big explosion coming

Thunderbirds getting put away. Fun Fact: the pilot of #6 is from Kalispell and has been flying with the thunderbirds for two years.

more play time before we hike to the car.

 

I got a couple videos of some of the flights, but can't figure out how to post so I do apologize about that. Just want to give a thanks to ALL of our service men and women!!

On the boat

To add to our last couple days of summer, the day after we go to the waterslides we went out on the boat. If Clayton wasn't burned enough. We mainly drove it around whitefish lake and looked at the fish finder and tried catching some. Brianna really wanted to jump out so Clayton jumped first. He came up freezing. So the furthest Bri got was her legs wet, and Preston dipped his feet in. Later when we were more in the center of the lake where I knew it would be warmer I jumped in. It was cold but not that cold.

 

The kids also got one try at driving the boat :)

 



2 and growing

So we finally got around to celebrating this little boys birthday. Grandma and grandpa Davis got to celebrate with him on his actual birthday while mommy and daddy took a weekend in Spokane. But since daddy was back from work and bri was home we sang happy birthday with chocolate covered camp cupcakes!! Nothing to big just spending the day with the family. And also celebrating on Clayton's birthday. I made him creme brûlée sense he's not a cake fan. 

Happy birthday my big boy!!! Well both my big boys :)

Kindergarten BBQ

We are all set for Brianna's first day of school. But first we meet the teacher and find out how things role. Its so crazy to be on the parent side of things. The letting go has finally begun, mommy's girl is going to have to start learning how to really do things on her own.

 

Playing before we head inside to go to her classroom

Getting her first assignment done. She's put what she was told to put in her desk and she begins.

Brianna took a crayon, wrote her name, and then drew her favorite things, a butterfly and mommy. She will introduce herself to her class using this picture.



Water Park FUN

So since Brianna is starting school here soon and any family activities are going to be designated to the weekends, also since she's been gone all summer, I wanted us to have a last busy couple days starting with going to Big Sky Waterslide. We initially wanted to go to Silverwood but things change and time flies so fast that it didn't get planned out so Big Sky was the next best place to go.

Only sucky part was that I couldn't go on really any of the slides. Gotta say being pregnant has some down falls sometimes. But I got Preston in the 3 foot pool and splashed around there with him. Clayton took Brianna up the first couple of slides just to see how she did. She did amazing and finally talked her into going down the one slide she had to go down by herself by herself. She ended up just going rounds on that slide, especially after Clayton took her down one of the bigger ones and she hit her head.

Once Papa and Grandma got there, Clayton took Preston down one of the smaller slides and I knew as soon as he did that that Preston was going to want go again and again, but he only went down a couple more times. He went down a big one with Clayton and that pretty much ended his sliding cause Clayton got sucked under and held onto Preston. Preston wasn't happy about that.

All in all it was an awesome day.

 

He was not happy about putting his life jacket on

First time all by herself she had daddy at the bottom just to make sure

Should have cropped this photo for it to be closer but she had tons of fun

Grandma and Preston

Papa coming down Geronimo

Clayton getting ready while papa gets off the slide

Clayton coming down Geronimo

Brianna on one slide and Clayton about to take Preston down the other

They made it down!!

This is right before Clayton gets sucked under and takes Preston with him. I think he would have came out with a smile if he had not have had to deal with water in his face.

Enjoying some pool time before its time to go

She said she wasn't taking her life vest off just yet cause she wanted one more run down a slide but first she gets in a tube.

 

One day of fun in the sun, while seeing a preview of the upcoming air show on occasion. Next up though is kindergarten BBQ time.