Beale Air Show

This past weekend we went to an air show at the Beale Air Force Base. I mostly thought it was cool just to be on a real military base, but the planes were neat too. The weirdest part was when we drove through the gate and the guard was holding an AK-47. Not something you see every day. We thought Jasper would just love it because he loves looking at planes in the sky and he pretends to fly around like a plane with his arms out, but he didn't seem to love it as much as we thought he would. The fact that it was one of the hottest days in 59 years might have had something to do with it. Poor Jon was sick the whole weekend, but he took medicine and just toughed it out. I also got one of the best sunburns I've ever had. They had all kinds of planes on display, and there were lots of aerial shows. Apparently they had a stealth plane fly by, but we didn't see it so I guess that whole stealth thing really works. I did my very mommy best to get pictures of Jasper, but he was not having it. All in all, it was pretty cool, and the best part was that it was free!

This was my favorite plane. I thought it was cool that the nose could open up like that. (yes, Jasper is on a leash, and yes, we felt weird about it. But as my mom said, better to look dorky than to be lost.)

This is the inside of that plane. It was like as long as a football field, or more.

This is one of those un-manned recon planes.

Jasper tried to climb into the cockpit of this helicopter and take off. Good thing he had that leash! By the way, the suits the Air Force guys have to wear are really unflattering.

Jas also tried to climb onto the wing of this plane.

This was Jon's favorite plane. It's called an A-10. He thinks it's cool because it has engines on it's wings that can do this reverse thrust thing and stop the plane in mid-air.

This is a C-17. It's a big cargo plane. I could not believe how big some of these planes were, and I will never understand how something that big and heavy can stay in the sky. Planes are amazing to me.

This was my other favorite. It's an F-16. It was so loud you could feel it vibrating in your chest. It was flying by at 650 miles per hour when I took this picture.

Easter 2009

This year Easter was a little more fun because Jasper is older and gets it a little more. We didn't do some typical Easter things, like going to see the Easter bunny, because I knew Jas would not sit on his lap. He has a good sense of stranger-danger and that especially goes for giant rabbits. We also didn't color eggs, because I'm not brave enough yet to let him have things that are not washable. I think we'll try that next year. All in all, we had a great day. I tried to just let it be a fun day and not be too much into the rules, and as a result of that, all Jasper ate that day was 4 pieces of garlic bread, 2 raspberries and 500 pieces of candy. He did, however, drink some milk so I felt okay about everything else. It was a really nice day just being a family, and we're already looking forward to our next holiday of 4th of July/Daddy's birthday!



Looking through Daddy's loot




Looking through his own loot




Hunting for eggs




Starting on the candy

Playing with new Play-Doh

After nap time, Jas wanted to paint. I guess he didn't get enough candy, because he had to taste the paint he was using. He informed us that it was "yucky."

Here You Go, Jerm

So far April has been a pretty slow month and I don't really have anything to post about, but my brother Jeremy has been bugging me to update, so this post is for you, Jerm. Love ya.

Jas loves to play in his tunnel. We got this for him for his 2nd birthday and he likes to put it right in front of his tent so he can crawl through it into the tent.

He also likes to sit in his tent and read. Sometimes I lay in there with him, but usually he likes to sit in there by himself and read books. You can usually hear him talking and basically reading to himself, which is so cute. I had to sneak this picture like I was taking a picture of a wild animal on a safari, or else he would have tried to hide from the camera.

I have a lot to say about this picture.

1: I do not like Legos. Most of them are smaller than my pinkie nail, they are sharp, and if you step on one it makes you want to say a bad word.

2: it takes FOREVER to clean them up, and even longer to convince Jasper to help. I have to get creative with clean-up ideas. This time I gave him a big mixing spoon and had him scoop the Legos into the box. That took double forever, because he can only scoop so many at a time. To be honest, sometimes they stay on the floor for days at a time because I don't feel like trying to get him to help clean them up.

3: all these Legos used to be Jon's and his brothers', which means they are dirty and honestly, kind of smelly. However, it is cool that Jasper sort of inherited them, because apparently those boys used to live on Legos.

4: I have no idea how to play Legos. I'm not good at building castles or whatever you're supposed to do with them.

5: as annoying as they may be, Jasper loves to play with them and he actually builds some pretty cool stuff sometimes. I'm sure it helps with his hand-eye coordination or something, and it does help him with his colors. And, I'll probably buy him some myself sometime, just because he loves them and I love him.


This is him eating the spoon after we made brownies one day. I realize that there is raw egg in brownie mix and raw egg can cause salmonella, but my kitchen is clean and I grew up eating batter spoons and I've never had salmonella in my life. Plus, what good is baking if you can't eat the spoon!