Our good deed

We have done a good deed. I had just started going for a walk and I saw a little baby bird that had probably fallen out of a tree. I went back and got Mike to look at it and the poor thing had sap and junk all tangled around it's beak. So we got our tweezers and got it all off and gave it water in a dropper. Mike has a tender heart for helpless animals I guess because I said "Okay let's let it go" but he made me take it down to animal reserve where they have a bird specialist (is there such a thing?) He says he found a kitten once that was nearly dead and nursed it back to health...ohhh ;)

So today on a walk in our next door neighbors yard Isaiah spots a bird hoping in the grass with a hurt wing and insists we stop and get it. I on the other hand insist we get to where we were going that now we were late for. Then we made a deal that if we help the bird we can't walk where we were going we have to drive (that in itself is a big thing) Deal! So we helped the bird and took it also to the reserve. It must be that we are destined to resuce birds. What a life calling!

Hill Airforce Base Air Show

We have family that works at the base and told us about the air show a few months ago. Mike's dad worked there while Mike was growing up and so he often got to go see these mammoth of airplanes regularly. He hasn't been since he was a kid and was totally stoked to go and show the boys his childhood memories...ohhh so sweet ;)



You know how nothing from a picture does anything this huge justice. I think I might blow this picture up because only then will it maybe be as realistic as in person.



They let us go inside and even sit in the cockpit...the boys were lovin it.


Isaiah got to meet and talk to the pilot of the Thunderbirds. He shook his hand and then Mike told him that this is the guy that flys THAT plane (pointing to the F16) His eyes got huge and he looked at the pilot and said "I'm going to be a jet pilot when I grow up." You know when something makes such an impact on your kids that you think it will really sway their decision when it comes time to decide what career to choose...this is one I am sure will be that moment for him. Only time will tell.
Notice the airplane in the background of the picture above. Mike insisted the boys get a souvenier and when Isaiah spotted the model of the Thunderbird it was a must. He hasn't let go of the thing once since he got it. He sleeps with it eats with it and even bathes with it. I'm going to blow up the picture of him with Kirby the pilot and frame it right by his model airplane. Here's the proud owner.


This is the Thunderbirds in action. Nothing can describe the emotions that come when these fly overhead. I was feeling a little pathetic with tears welling up in my eyes but there is something about it for me. Knowing that those men are somebodies sons...it gets me all teary eyed.