Airshow video clips

I have some other (older) pictures to post and I also have other pictures from the airshow but before we get too far away from Veteran's Day, I wanted to post this short video clip. Every year the Stuart airshow takes place on the weekend right around Veteran's Day. There are always a lot of feelings of patriotism because there are lots of old war planes, ground equipment, and of course many veterans and current military people at the airshow. There are two things they always do at the end of the airshow that we find particularly cool. After the F-15 and or F-16 demonstration (some of our military's most modern advanced and amazing technology) they then have what they call the heritage flight. This includes an old P-51 Mustang from the WWII era, the A-11, which is still one of the most powerful and useful planes in our air force, and the (this year) F-16. Of course the P-51 has very limited capabilities in comparison to the two more modern planes but they all pass by slowly as a tribute to the history of our airforce. This "tradition" was started at airshows back in 1997 in recognition of the U.S. Airforce's 50'th anniversary (at that time). The show ends with what is called the Missing Man Formation. In this video clip, you will see the Shell aerobatics team which consists of four planes. They do their other acts earlier in the show. The four planes fly together as Taps is being played then you see one plane fly off away from the other. It represents/is a tribute to all the men and women who have given their lives in the service. It's always good to see the much deserved appreciation and respect given to our veterans and even current military. Forgive the history lesson - I can't help myself - I love [American] history and flying. :)

I decided to add this one too. It is only a few seconds long. It is a clip of the Heritage flight that I mentioned up above. It is pretty amazing to see the F-16, which can fly approximately 1500 mph at it's top speed, flying next to the P-51, which was also a great plane but it's top speed was about 440 mph.

Fun stuff

Some recent snapshots for ya'll (all 5 of you who look at this blog) :)


So we found this 3D Christmas movie, complete with
the cool 3D glasses, in the $5 bin at Wal-mart. While
I probably can't be a fair critic of the movie since I
saw almost none of it, what I did see of it looked pretty
dumb. All I know is that there was a very sadistic Santa
Clause and his elves battling Snowmen with hairdryers -
in 3D of course. I know they all look excited to be
watching the 3D movie here but it didn't last long. John
and Kevin promptly got headaches from the cheap
glasses and quit watching. Kaelyn apparently had
all the "boringness" she could handle and eventually
stopped watching it as well. :)


I looked up just in time to see Buster grab one of Wyatt's
pacifiers and go running off with it. This picture doesn't
start to give the moment justice because when he first
grabbed it, he had it centered perfectly in his mouth
just like a pacifier goes in the mouth and it looked
hysterical. Dumb dog! He's gonna' drive me crazy!


The other day Kaelyn came walking into the
room I was in and this is how she looked.
She had Veteran's Day off and she was off
entertaining herself in another room while
I was working in the house. She found these
on my night stand and I thought she looked
so funny and scholarly that I had to get some
pictures.

I'm going to try to make a slideshow soon with a few

pumpkin patch and Halloween pictures.

Some pictures from other times and places that I never posted

Here are some pictures from a couple months ago that I never got around to posting:


Kevin is always the "boo-boo fixer" whenever
Kaelyn gets hurt. If he's not around than I
will do but as long as he's home, Kaelyn always
goes to him if she discovers she needs medical
attention. I think it's as cute as can be. It's
amazing that she has even come this far that
she'll let us put band-aids on her now.


Here she's getting antibiotic cream put on a scratch
on her face. I'm not sure what the expression was
about. :)


And now a band-aid goes on the scratch
on her arm. I don't remember what had
happened to her here but she did get
scraped up or scratched pretty good.


Most of the time the band-aid only stays on
for a short little bit but one time recently, we
put one on her cheek by her request. She had
a red mark from bumping her cheek on the
corner of the table but it really didn't need a
band-aid. We accommodated her and put
a band-aid on it anyway. For whatever reason,
she LOVED that particular band-aid and she
would NOT let us take it off of her. She went
around for DAYS with the crazy thing covering
one whole cheek. It was actually kind of
embarrassing but I figured it was a battle that
wasn't worth fighting in the whole scheme of
things in her life.


Only Kaelyn! I particularly like the shoestring
draped around her neck and the hat was her
doing also. She just came "riding" (or more like
scooting out since she doesn't know how to pedal)
like this and she just looked so comical we had
to get pictures.





She has to "scoot" around with her feet. We
have worked and worked with her on pedaling
but she just hasn't gotten it yet. More often
than not, she sits on it backwards and scoots
around like that. :)


If I remember correctly, they were watching a
movie together. It looks like Kaelyn just barely
beat Kevin to sleep. :)





These are from the day Wyatt was born. We
got there just a little bit before they whisked
him off to NICU. I thought I had lost these
pictures. I didn't have them copied to my
computer and I was afraid I had deleted them
from my camera. Thankfully I discovered I had
them either still on the camera or on the computer.

HIM (formerly FEA) held a "family fun days"

back in September. Kevin and Rod's business

were one of the many business sponsors for it

so they teamed up with Chick-fil-A for a booth.

This was the "cow" that was at their booth.

More pictures

Music from: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Cinderella"

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Happiest Little Girl In the World!

Kaelyn has a new buddy. She says he is "like a new best friend" (not sure where she came up with that but I thought it was cute). They totally love each other. He is as ugly as can be but sweeter than about any dog I've ever seen and seems to be the perfect pet for her given some of her special needs. So here is the happiest little girl you've ever seen.

He's perfectly content to sit with her when she watches

movies or plays. He follows her pretty much every time

she walks somewhere in the house. He lets her carry

him all over the place even when she's got him all

flopped over in weird ways. He doesn't seem bothered

that she wants to "smother" him and he doesn't seem

to find her extreme affection overbearing as most other

animals do.

He can't stand it when she is up on something

or in somewhere where he can't get to her.

When I give her a bath, he has to be right in

the bathroom and he will climb up like this

off and on until I get her out.

I'm 30 *sigh*

I've already posted pictures from the surprise get together in Orlando with my family and of course on my actual b.day we were at the parks. The day after my b.day, my mom and Joy were flying back home so on the way to the airport they, along with Rach and John, stopped by for a while and they had brought a cake and balloons. We weren't really that shocked when we got the cake out when Kevin got home from work and Kaelyn ran and found the princess toppers. So of course I had my turn of getting a princess cake - well fitting for a princess such as myself. (You can stop laughing now - I know that the last thing I seem to be is "princessly" unfortunately).


The cake didn't make it to the surprise meal because
of an unforseen lack of a crucial ingredient. The
baker - that would be my mom - didn't realize there
were no eggs when she started the cake and since
Rach and John don't exactly live down the street
from a grocery store or chickens, the cake effort had
to be ditched temporarily.


That actually turned out being fine since many of us
had stuffed ourselves full of Cici's desert pizza and
cinnamon rolls already. (I don't think any of us had
six cinnamon rolls per person like the large people
sitting at the table next to us but that's another story-
and I'm NOT exaggerating by the way!)


The princess cake.


Happy Birthday to me.

Here are some more pictures. Since we don't have our pic. CD from Disney photopass yet these are all from our camera. Most of them are snapshots and places where we took pictures where there was not a photographer (non-character greetings etc.) The first ones are the three of us on Cinderella's carousel. Thankfully, we can usually get by with riding that only once now instead of every time we go near it like we used to have to do when we were there. There are a lot more things now Kaelyn remembers and likes to do so that makes it nice. The next 4 are a lunchtime photo shoot - sort of. :) We had gone up front by the lockers to eat our lunch. Kaelyn had fallen asleep in her stroller and Kevin and I were sitting on a bench finishing our lunch while we rested in the shade and watched all sorts of interesting people come and go. I decided to do a self-portrait of the two of us. After the first picture, I said, "Okay, let's do one more because I always look like I just saw a ghost when I try to do a self-portrait." We were kind of laughing as we did the second one. Then Kevin said, "Take another one." Unbeknowns to me, he was staring with bug eyes when I took the picture so when I saw it I laughed and laughed. Then we did one more and he crossed his eyes that time. Normally I'm the one goofing off not him so I was really tickled 'cause I knew at some point they would be great blackmail pictures and he would regret his momentary lapse into silliness. We actually sat there for more than an hour because it was so hot out and it felt nice just to sit and relax in the shade - and besides, you would be surprised at all the interesting people you see wanting to rent wheel chairs and strollers.


Gotta' love the Tigger backpack! (We picked it up
for a few bucks at a souvenir shop the night before
we went to the parks and she LOVED it and got
lots of comments about it.)









Still not sure why I stare when I am doing the whole
self portrait thing.


Take two.


Me smiling innocently for the picture while Kevin
decides to get cute. :)


These will re-appear someday you can be sure! :)


Kaelyn fell asleep holding her park map and
she slept the whole time we ate lunch and
waited for the parade. She got a nice, long
2 hour nap.

Getting a spot for the parade.

I'm back!

So I know that I said that I was going to try to post a few new pictures from my b.day trip every couple days. Some of you probably fell for it and believed me didn't you? Ha,ha. Just kidding - I really was serious about that. I think things have slowed down for us at least a little bit so I am going to be trying to post some more pictures. The past few weeks have been so crazy busy but we have had so much fun with everything going on. I'll try to keep the explanations brief.




These two rather scary looking pictures were taken in
one of the shows at Magic Kingdom called Mickey's
Philharmagic. It is a 3D show that combines music
and scenes from a lot of classic Disney movies into
one story featuring Donald Duck. Kaelyn absolutely
LOVES it and will sing along, reach out to touch the
the images, etc. This was the first thing she asked to
do when we got to the park Saturday. (Okay forget
what I said above about the comments being brief.)


Kevin and Kay in front of "Small World" - another
favorite ride for one of us. I won't say who but it's
not me or Kevin


Okay, so it is a classic and all 3 of us kinda' like it.


The Peter Pan ride - another great ride. These rides
are all in one area in Fantasy Land so we usually
have our little ritual of having to ride them all right
together since Kaelyn knows them all now and
knows which ride comes next.


Kay and I outside of Mickey's Philharmagic.

In front of Cinderella's carousel in Fantasy

Land.