Category Archives: flight

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.

Reganism: about flying

Me: Regan go pee in the potty, and get ready for bed.

R: Just a minute. I'm doing my job. See my job is AWESOME. I flying!

Me: Uh, huh. Go pee.

R: Just a minute. I flying. See its my job!

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Kid wouldn't get off the flight simulator. It took an epic crash before he decided to listen. Good thing the kid is cute, and was being adorable about flying being the best job ever. He's been a bit spoiled having a pilot for an uncle. A brave/crazy one who lets three year old little boys take control of the plane and fly.

Moving day and a Kayleeism

So this is moving day. I woke up early to get last minute stuff done and make sure we got to the airport in time.

We were pretty lucky that Dwayne was able to fly us. I’m not gonna lie pulling up to the gate, walking to the plane and taking off is the ONLY way to fly. It was SO easy and SO much nicer than driving 7 hours with the children behind the moving van/Jon. (Actually because of weather it took him 11 hours.)

We were late. Give you one guess why….

“Mom Regan James Heaton opened your rojo lipstick. It’s o.k. I took it away from him and put it away. I the best helper huh Mama?!”

So that happened. Awesome huh? (It’s not easy to scrub red lip gloss off skin with baby wipes. Really needed a thick face towel with lots of soap which was all packed….)

The children were thrilled to see Jon. Here is where we (Dwayne) punched in the code to get to the plane.

There was a blizzard blowing in. Sooooo windy. Jon was trying to make a wind break for Regan

Getting into the plane.

She was so excited that she buckled herself in.

My boys. This was taken right before Jon left. And right before Regan realized that his daddy was not coming with him. He was not pleased. Not at all.

She quickly got over that fact that she needed to be in her car seat.

So we could hear/talk to Dwayne. Doesn’t she look cute in her headset?

Regan passed out about 10-15 minutes into the 2 hour flight. He would wake up and give me crusties whenever we hit turbulence. Lots at first due to the storm that was blowing in. He woke up as we were descending to land. He did great. SO awesome for his first flight.

Had to get a picture of our pilot/bro-in-law/Dwayne doing his thing.

All the turbulence was upsetting Kaylee’s (recently recovered from the stomach ick) tummy. She requested (but never actually used) a puke bag.

Dwayne came prepared with grocery bags for the kids. He said that the regular puke bags just wouldn’t work. The bag gave Kaylee much comfort.

She was pretty miserable for a while before she passed out.

But she too slept for most of the flight.

My view out the window was pretty amazing. We also flew OVER another small plane which was just neat.

Kids loaded into the truck ready to make the 5-10 minute drive to the Day house. Kaylee said flying was “AWESOME!” And that she was ready to do it again. Regan seemed indifferent when asked about it.

Dwayne just pushed the plane back into it’s hanger and then we headed home for lunch. Not a bad way to start a new adventure in a new state.

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