AJ's Plane and Other Weekend Stuff

I know I've been horrible at posting lately, so this one's gonna be big!

Lately we've really been enjoying the warm weather. AJ bought an electric RC plane (am I the best wife or what) and every time the weather's nice we've been taking it out. There's a baseball field just a block away that's perfect for flying, except that we tend to get followed most of the time. By who else? The kids next door. If they were my kids this is what I would tell them : (1) Put some shoes on and stop running in the street in your socks (2) It's 7pm and you're still in your pajamas-what's wrong with you (3) Quit following strangers. They could be dangerous, and the next time we'd see you it could be on a milk carton (4) I never gave you permission to wander 2 blocks away. I could go on...

I have to mention the pajamas thing because you can see them on the kid closest to the camera. And yes, they're running to see if they can catch the plane. AJ and I were cracking up the whole time..."oh! you almost got it that time!" "just a little higher!" You get the idea.






I has to post this photo of him from a couple days ago. Doesn't he look like a cute little 8 yr old boy? Hehe. I think he's trying.



Today we drove out to Newton where there's a small dam, and on the back side there's a huge ravine where AJ could fly his plane low. He could do a lot more crazy things out there, which also meant the plane got super close to crashing a couple times! It was such a pretty day and we had a lot of fun. The first couple videos are at a different place on our way out of town. We spooked the cows a little :) I dunno what's up with the pink lens.



Changing the battery. Notice the mullhawk is gone. We shaved it off this morning so he'd look more profesh for his trip this week (I'll write about that more later).








Here AJ's throwing the plane. He didn't have much of a runway, and this looked cooler anyway.



That's the plane footage. Yesterday was really fun too. Our friends Richie and Lori came up from Salt Lake to go camping with us Friday night. We went to Bear Lake, but unfortunately none of us knew where to go exactly and it was getting pretty late so we had to settle for a KOA. It was fine, except for the fact that it cost us $40 to stay there! We could have paid for a hotel room (not that we would have). Saturday we went back to our place, showered, and met up with some of Richie's friends. They drove a jeep and we took AJ's 4-Runner up Providence canyon to go wheelin. It was soooo beautiful! I'm loving this weather. However, now I have my right arm a darker shade of pink that my left. Oh well.

After AJs hair started growing out, I trimmed it this last week, and here's a pic to show you how nice it looked. I was pretty much in love with it and sad to see it go this morning.



I'm trying to show our extreme angle driving up a pile of rocks compared to the mountains...didn't turn out that extreme in the picture.


This is at a rock quarry where lots of off-roading happens (hence the trails back there). It's pretty huge. In the distance the haze under the mountain is Logan.

And this is where we turned around. Slushy snow is only fun to a certain point. The guy on the left is Richie's friend Jake (and that's his Jeep stuck ahead of us) and the two guys in the middle are random strangers that also drove their Jeeps up that day (They were behind us). AJ's on the right. They stood around and talked about the trail before backing out of there. Fun. I stayed in the car.



During Memorial Day weekend (a week ago) we went down to the Provo area to help Matt and Andrea paint their new house. It was pretty fun. AJ and I were happy to paint because we've been itchin' to buy a house and paint it and fix it up and everything. It was good practice :) I had to post these pictures of AJ and Zoie painting her room pink. AJ's main job that day was the pink room. Hehe. What a good team we all were! Didn't Zoie do a great job taking the picture of AJ and I?




Oh yeah and I went to Ikea which was amazing. I didn't spend TOO much :)

SO we've been having fun!

AJ's leaving tomorrow morning to go to Pittsburgh! His company is putting together a project out there and there were some engineering issues, and since AJ's the best, they needed him to fly out. He'll be 65-ish feet in the air in a harness and basket welding away until Thursday. It will be tough being without him. I'm still at the stage when if we go out to dinner and they seat us across from each other, it feels too far away and weird. Haha! So let's hope everything goes well and that he won't get sunburned too bad. I'm curious to find out if I'll still cook dinner when it's just me...

Also in recent news, I've signed up for a biathlon. Not a tri. I'm not much of a swimmer. A guy at work convinced me to do it, and I think I just need the motivation of being committed to something to get my butt in shape. It's only 2 weeks away and I'll do what I can until then. Fortunately it's only a 5 mile run and a 17 mile bike ride, but I haven't done either one in quite some time. Wish me luck! I'll be on my mountain bike, but I'll survive.

That's us for now. If you've made it to the end of this post I applaud you.