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Bikes and flying

Regan wanted to fly his new indoor mini quadcoppter (Christmas gift from his Babushka) outside…. So we biked down to the park and he flew inside the racquet ball court. In our jammies, because we could.

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The kids like when Daddy flies it and lands it on their hands.IMG_3581 IMG_3582 IMG_3585 IMG_3586

Kaylee did some writing while the boys flew.IMG_3592

He crashed it hard. I told him the crash deserved a bow.IMG_3597 IMG_3600 IMG_3604 IMG_3608 IMG_3620 IMG_3621 IMG_3624

And since we were at the park playing happened too.IMG_3625 IMG_3626 IMG_3631 IMG_3641 IMG_3642Latter the Sister Missionaries stopped by and Sister Wood wanted to fly Regan’s coppter. It didn’t end well. 😉

I took a quick and kinda scary video of my boys flying together. Jon’s blades are death sharp and he was nervous about flying so close to Regan. But he humors me for cuteness.

Last day with five

Kaylee and Regan had our last Friday with the kids off school. So Jon took the day off and we had one last day of fun as a family of seven.
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Jon had been wanting to bike the kids over to the foot bridge for the last year. We thought it would make for a fun last adventure. Jon had three kids on his bike and I had two. I was SO excited about this bike ride. We used to pop Kaylee and Regan on our bike and zip around often before our placement. It was a bit trickier to load five onto two bike. We had to wait until Monkey girl was big enough, and buy a trailer.DSC00847

The kiddos thought that the foot bridge was pretty awesome. We stayed and watched cars drive under us for quite some time. Mostly because I felt like I was dying and needed to recover. I am SO SO SO out of shape! I haven’t really done any cardio in the last year….. DSC00849

My whole body was shaking by the time we got to the bridge. I’m planing on getting back to being fit. I want to be able to bike my kiddos places and not need hours to recover after. DSC00855

Halfway home I had to just get down and walk. My legs were shaking so bad I couldn’t peddle anymore. The girls hopped off the bikes to walk and Jon got this sweet picture of them. Apparently being walked while sitting on a bike is just not as fun.DSC00857

The boys stayed in the trailer the whole ride home. The three big kids did lots of seat swapping between bikes and places to ride. I did like getting to chat with each of them when they were on my bike. That was nice.DSC00858“Let’s go on a bike ride to the foot bridge. It will be fun.” Lies! Mostly because we didn’t realize just how out of shape I am. Things to work on.

Also we are going to miss these kiddos so freaking much! Saying goodbye was really hard. 🙁