Nothing says Christmas like Egg Nog (or maybe Boiled Custard)
Monday, December 6
Sunday, December 5
Day 5 - Hodge Podge
My first hodge podge quilt attempt. My mom had gave me the pieces pre-cut so I haven't done this completely by myself. I'm not done yet, this is just the front side. I still have to do the back, batting, and re-do the bottom row (its really off in matching up with the rows above it.
Day 4 - Kick'em in the butt Big Blue!
Auburn is the new SEC Champions & is headed to the National Championship!
(Sorry for the flash glare on the tv)
Saturday, December 4
Thursday, December 2
Wednesday, December 1
Christmas Photo Countdown Calendar - Day 1
Note: I'm totally copying this idea, but the blogger suggested it so it must be ok. I got the idea from the blog Mila's Daydreams. If you haven't seen it you really should check it out. The pictures she creates with her daughter are just so dang cute. She makes me wish I had at least a single ounce of creativity, but unfortunately I don't so which is why I'm copying her.
I'm not normally one who is excited about Christmas. Yes, I like it, but its not my favorite holiday. I think it comes from all the years while I was growing up that everybody put Christmas decorations up before Thanksgiving. It gave me the impression that no one really cared about Thanksgiving. For most people its not really a big deal, but considering I was born on (the actual day of) Thanksgiving it really urked me. Although my birthday was a little different this year (I made it into a birthday week celebration even though Todd didn't agree with my decision) there were still many people that had decorations up. To try to enhance my holiday mood which might be hard pretty hard I'm going to try to do a photo countdown calendar to Christmas.
I have a couple of disclaimers I should make you aware of:
1. It might be unusually harder to get me in the Christmas spirit considering we are temporarily living in Little Rock, Arkansas. We have a very slim to none chance of getting any snow during the winter. For those of you who know me snow is one of my favorite things!
2. I may not get the post up on a daily basis, but my goal is to at least take one picture per day leading up to Christmas. Depending how it goes maybe I'll extend it to New Years .... but no promises.
3. Even though the intent of this is to put me in the holiday spirit some of my pictures may not have anything to do with Christmas (See Below).
Day 1: My two sweet boys taking a nap. Todd had a long day at work and Cowboy in general has a "hard" life.
USAF Newest Pilot
Last night I got to do something that I've never done before ... fly a C-130 (E model) Simulator. I had such a great time!!! I want to give a big THANK YOU to John Young for setting it up so Todd and I could do it together. I can't say enough times how much fun I had!! Last night I got to do something that I've never done before ... fly a C-130 (E model) Simulator. I had such a great time!!! I want to give a big
For those of you that don't quite know what a C-130 simulator is, its a giant pod that has the inside set up like the inside of a C-130. What should be the windows are actually screens that play a specific landscape. All the buttons, knobs, dials, switches, pedals, etc. still work as they would in a normal C-130. If you haven't figured it out yet the main purpose of this is to simulate flying. Lucky for me last night we were able to fly around the Little Rock area. I don't know the area very well yet, but I did see (or maybe they pointed out to me) the downtown area, Lake Maumelle, and Pinnacle Mountain just to name a few.
The guy that was in charge of our flight simulator, Jimmy, ended up being a guy that Todd had done many sims with during his 2 years of pilot training. I thought he was super nice for letting us do this. It was also great that he seems super excited about the whole thing in general. Todd made the comment that he had never seen anyone so excited about directing the simulator. In the short amount of time I got to fly Jimmy had me take off, fly in formation, perform an airdrop, fly underneath a bridge, perform a touch and go, and a final landing. Todd also got to do some illegal flying such as a barrel roll and a (back) loop. All of that in just an hour .... who knew you could do so much.I think I'm ready to become the Air Force's newest pilot!!!
A celebratory fist pump for no red screens.
It appears I'm in deep concentration on my final descent
Jimmy, me, and Todd
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