Open House and Skylar's New Toy

Last Saturday I took the kids to the Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport (or whatever its called now) Open House. We went a couple years ago, but this year there were many more things to look at. Skylar wasn't able to join us, but my Dad, brothers, and Kayci's family came along. The kids loved it although it was blazing hot!

Smokey the Bear! My kids were terrified of him. Poor guy must have been so hot! After Smokey walked away, Slade said, "Daddy is gonna shoot that bear with him's arrows?" Haha!

I personally love airplanes and helicopters and these airplanes were fun to watch. They would fly by really close and then do some fun stuff in the air as they flew away.

Slade and Daisy in the Airport Firetruck! We ended up knowing the Engineer of this truck so we held up the line while he told us a few stories of putting out airplane fires. Sorry to those who were behind us :)

The Gilbert Firefighters gave Slade this awesome tattoo that he shows off to everyone. I think this is his first tattoo ever, he was so thrilled. He has yet to let me scrub it off, although you can no longer tell what it is. He will shield it in the tub.

Sitting in a huge helicopter. Not sure what kind it was, but it looked like an Army one :)

Slade and I flying an airplane! He told me that he wants to fly airplanes when he gets big. He also said he wants to fly helicopters, drive firetrucks and be a police guy. I guess that's every little boy's dream.


Skylar's New Toy

Skylar did a side job at a golf car place and was able to score this golf car! He treats it like his baby, which isn't surprising, and he has spent many hours working on it out in the garage while I have had to try to keep the kids out of his way.

THE BEFORE

THE AFTER

Excuse the stuff in the garage. It is so fun to drive this thing around. Don't worry...there are seatbelts!! It's also licensed so we are LEGAL! We have fun taking rides as a family around the fields by our house and my husband has found some fun dirt mountains (as Slade calls them) to play on. Skylar plans on taking it on hunting trips because the back seat folds down to a flat bed which will come in handy when packing out an animal. He says he got it for me and the kids to use while camping for something to do because he is often out scouting for Elk or deer and we don't see him until after dark. Now all we need is a small trailer to hual it on :) Anyone have one they are wanting to sell?