First Flight

We are heading out to Wisconsin for a week to visit Elisa's sister Emily and Anders. This was Cooper's first flight and he's at that age where you don't know what's going to happen. We gave him some "allergy medicine" in case he was allergic to planes (and to sedate him) and sure enough it knocked him out good but not before he screeched a little on takeoff.


Kiefer was great on the plane and had a great time, he just seems like such a big boy.

Cooper slept about 2 out of the 3 hour flight and was happy when he woke up, but then we had to circle an extra hour in the air because we couldn't land due to wind, so then it was pushing Cooper over the edge and he got a little cranky toward the end. For a little bit we watched movies on the iPhone with Snoopy holding it :)

He was happy to land and on the drive home Kiefer finally fell asleep, he sure can sleep at a funny angle.

We were greeted at the Helquist's with a fantastic raspberry pie!

Flight of the Conchords

Before our trip out to the Midwest, we went down to Tempe and had a nice double date with Aaron and Kiley to Flight of the Conchords. It started with Sushi and then we rode the new light rail into downtown Phoenix for the show. It was a great time and exciting to use Phoenix public transportation for the first time.

We looked like tourists taking pictures of our train experience :)

I'd never been to the Dodge Theater and it was pretty big.

Bike and Planes

Today Elisa went garage sale hunting and scored this awesome bike for Kiefer! He is just starting to get the hang of pedaling and it's amazing to see him riding on a bike!

Later in the day Kiefer and I went to "Aviation Day" at the airport and got to see all kinds of planes and helicopters. I think he liked the "helicopter ambulance" the best.




While we were there, we ran into Sam and Evan so Kiefer had a great time looking at the planes with them.

The airport fire truck was pretty huge!



The airport snow plow was also massive, they said it goes 60 mph while it's plowing and the blade was easy for Kiefer to walk under!

This plane is more Kiefer's size.

Lava Tubes

We made a trip out to the lava river cave outside Flagstaff with JT and he took some family photos of us after we hiked around the cave. Here are some of the fun ones or if you are a grandparent you can check out the whole gallery.

Awesome Mom!

A Happy Mother's Day to Elisa, a wonderful mom to our two cute little boys. We let her sleep in a little and the picture below is when the boys woke her up. We went to church in the morning and lunch downtown at the Mountain Oasis. We all took great naps in the afternoon and then let Elisa relax while I took the boys out for some shopping and to pick up pizza to bring home for dinner.

Notice Kiefer's nice band aid, he fell in the backyard last night and his head landed on a rock. I ran out to get him and brought him in while he was curled up and crying and said, "OK, let me see what happened". He pulled his hands away and his face was covered in blood like a horror movie. It turned out to be a pretty tiny cut that was just gushing and we cleaned it out and it stopped bleeding and he hasn't complained about it since.

JT joined us in the evening and will be visiting for a few days, the boys were so excited to see him and loved having him read them a story.

Toddler Fashion

Cooper is definitely making his own fashion statements, he's going to be a trend setter. Enjoy!



They sure are cute boys

Full Table

Hannah is a student at NAU and a friend of ours through Joel and Jen Schuler at Hume (cousin of Joel) and we have become friends over the past two years while she's been here in Flagstaff. She's going to be staying at our house this summer and her parents and family came out for a visit and to bring her back to Bakersfield for the first week of her summer break. We had a BBQ with their family which made for quite a full table, but this is still minus the two oldest behind Hannah that didn't come on the trip. They have a total of nine kids, the youngest are twins, and we had a great time as their family is such a joy to be around.

Easter

We had a good Easter that started in Tempe with Elisa's family and then we went down to Tucson with my family.


We made easter cookies that you leave overnight in the oven and when they are done in the morning they were hollow on the inside to represent the empty tomb.


Our little Gremlin:

Flying SB

Matt and I made a trip to Santa Barbara to meet with the Showit team and discuss plans and direction. Matt got to do his longest flight in a Cessna 172 and it was quite the adventure, you can tell he was pretty excited :)

April Showers

uploaded from my iPhone

Yikes!

Spa

Well, the dream finally became a reality (and a little early on the agreement but I'm still finishing it off) on the last hour of the home show, got a great deal on a new Bullfrog Spa. From there it was a whirlwind with Matt and Joe helping to level an area, put in rock, and run the electricity. All is working well and the kids love it! We've been in the spa almost every day since we got it :)