Blue Angels Time Machine

Don't you ever wish you could go back in time? With all the knowledge you have now? Because let me tell you, I would not have carried those bulky (yet fabulously comfortable) Cabela's lawn chairs the mile from our car to the Blue Angel's show in Idaho Falls. I would instead have lugged in a cooler filled with ice water and delicious food. We were out there on that bare landing strip in the desert--yes, the desert--in July, and the only food and water available required waiting in a line for a couple of hours. All of that whining aside, we had a fabulous time at the air show. Here is a picture of the kids with Jonathan in a Pave Hawk Helicopter:


The Blue Angels were phenomenal--such amazing precision. Michael loved the pirate plane with the wing walker and the sword fighting. Samantha spent a lot of time with her hands covering her ears. By the end of the day we were sunburned and ready to cry, but we had a great time and are probably dumb enough to do it all over again.



Samantha started school a couple of weeks ago. She is in afternoon Kindergarten and is loving it. She is picking things up really fast in class, now that she has someone besides her parents teaching her--someone that she will actually listen to. Here she is with her brother on her very first day:

Grandma Holderness bought her back-to-school outfit, and Grammy Tilton sent us some new shoes, so Sam was decked out. Here are a couple more pictures of the kids that were just too cute not to post:

I am having so much fun spending time with Michael every day. We actually have conversations! He goes for at least three hours every day without getting into a fist fight with someone! He misses Sam, though, and races out to the car when it's time to pick up his sister. He's also graduated from the naked-all-the-time potty training stage to the one-accident-in-his-skivvies-a-day stage. We're getting somewhere!