Thursday, July 5, 2007

every 11 years



we went to an air show a couple of weekends ago. the blue angels were the last exhibition for the day. the last time we had seen them was when we lived in seattle and had no kids at home yet (i was pregnant). i seem to relate that year and a half when pat and i had no children to our "single" time. marriage changes life, but kids really mix it up! anyway, pat and i joked that we need to see the blue angels every 11 years. don't know where we'll be in 2018, but i'll guess we'll be seeking out an air show. hopefully it will be another beautiful, clear day like this one was. we just had a fabulous time (minus the traffic - it took us 2 hours to go the last 10 miles - i exaggerate NOT!!) as usual, the blue angels were amazing. i didn't capture it on film, but i especially loved when they would fly right at each other from opposing directions and then flip to the side right when they intersected. (hopefully that made sense).


lily and evan crashed right before the blue angels performed. evan loved looking at the planes as well as lily and grace. jake would cry when a really loud engine roared by. we tried to cover his ears, but that didn't do much. next time, we'll have to remember ear plugs for him.


here i am holding jake in his new jogging stroller. the stroller is so big that it holds up to 200 lbs.

1 comment:

laina kay said...

Hey... we were at the airshow,too! I wonder why we didn't see you. Were you in the Commander's Tent? It was a perfect day for it! I'd never been to an airshow before and was very impressed. The Raptor rocked and the Blue Angels were... wow and that truck with the jet engines... whoa! Who knew I would like all that stuff as much as I did?

quotables

"is that lily holding baby lily?" -lily's response when i showed her a picture of gracie holding her when lily was a baby.

"drama class is actually a lot of fun." -gracie (this is only humorous in that grace seemed surprised by how much she likes drama class. this from my child who we refer to as "a drama queen" when she is not around.)

"mom, you can go with my teacher and i'll stay home with japie and evan. daddy can go to work, and i'll be the mommy" -lily, in response to learning that she would be going to preschool next year instead of this year.

"mom, if you don't get rid of that smell soon, you're going to have to buy a new car." -gracie when it took me a couple of days to clean out my car after returning from a road trip.

"mommy, they have dress-ups for you!" -lily while walking by the prom dress section at macy's.

"i said the prayer "last"-erday." -lily's replacement word for "yesterday."