Kristin & Jake are back from Disney Land. They had a great time with her family. Jake did not want to go back to school last Friday after spending the whole week at Disney Land with his cousins. This weekend was pretty slow since in rained the whole time. At least it didn’t rain last weekend.

We took the boys up to Disney Land and met Grandma Gretchen, Uncle Pete, Aunt Kelly and the cousins there. Tyler and I came back Sunday evening. Kristin and Jake are staying till Thursday. Jake is having a blast, mostly because he is with his cousin’s.



Jake was not a big fan of “Mr. Toads Wild Ride”! He stuck pretty close to me as you can see.


Uncle Pete drew the short straw and had to ride in the monkey cage with all the Monkeys.

Tyler loved playing the piano in Goofy’s house.

Awesome weekend. The weather was great. We did the Home Depot work shop Saturday morning. Took the boys to a park so Jake could ride his motorcycle ALL BY HIMSELF. He did pretty well. He is still learning the concept of STOPPING, and that he doesn’t need to be FULL THROTTLE the whole time. I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree on that one.

I got up early to go mountain biking Sunday morning. Got dressed and went back in our room to give Kristin a kiss good-bye, and another fellow had already crawled into my place in the bed!

I finally finished resurfacing the boys P-51. The rain had gotten to it and messed up the paint and plywood pretty bad. After 2 coats of sanding sealer, 2 coats of bondo, 3 coats of primer, 3 coats of paint, and 4 coats of polycrylic… it should be able to withstand anything… well except for maybe two little boys. I also did up the one side for Tyler.

I start my new job tomorrow. It’s going to be weird not putting on a flight suit and driving to North Island.

The side letters are their initials and the tail numbers are their birthdays.

Jake has been a good boy and got enough stickers to go flying with me today.

They can grow up to be whatever they want… they can be fighter pilots, they can be airline pilots, they can be bush pilots, they can be fly crop duster or news helicopters… whatever they want : )

Ty took advantage of Jake being wrapped up like a burrito.

Still enjoying my time off between jobs. I start at Northrop Grumman doing Unmanned systems product training next Monday. I’ve been using this time off to work on my multi-engine pilot rating.
Took Jake to Supercross last weekend. He loved it. Tyler bumped his face at the playground today and now has a fat lip. Of course it had to happen on “Daddy's watch”.

Fell asleep eating

 
“Bruiser”  

Well looks like I have a job at Northrop Grumman as a Product Trainer. Pretty good job for my first one in the civil sector. I start end of Feb. It’s nice to have a few more weeks off. Been busy catching up on projects around the house and playing with the boys.

Bath time!


Jake showing Ty how to play the Wii

Jake made a jewelry box for Mommy