Our Saturday Adventure

Yesterday we had quite a fun day! First, Saturday morning we headed over to the airport because one of our friends, Curt, has his pilots license and owns a little 4 seater airplane and he invited us to take a flight with him. Nate, Bradyn, and Austin went first. They were in the air for about 1/2 hour and then they landed and picked me up. They boys wanted to still fly so they went with us. It was so great to see St. George from the air!! We saw our house(s) and the temple! We missed Bradyns soccer game so we flew over the soccer field where they were playing. Curt let Nate and I fly the plane. It was great. Curt did this thing called "weightless" where he would drop the nose of the plane down and it was like we were "weightless" on a roller coaster. It was great. They boys wanted to do that over and over.



Nate getting into the plane. He was sooooooo excited!



The plane just taking off from the runway. Thanks Curt and Heather for the great morning!!



After our morning airplane ride, we came home and ate lunch and packed some goodies and set out on a fourwheeling trip in Nate's Jeep. The boys love the jeep. We went out toward the arizona strip. The boys and I hiked around a bit and Nate played with his Jeep trying to climb stuff (it's a guy thing). Nate wanted us to go see some cool rock formations so we all got back in the Jeep and as Nate backed up, we ran over a glass bottle and immediately the tire started to hiss. Nate said "Buckle Up Boys" and we drove back toward St. George as fast we could. It was a pretty bumpy ride! We had two prayers in our hearts, one that we would make back to cell service before the tire went completely flat, and two that the hole in the tire would be somewhere on the tread rather than the side wall. So we made it as far as we thought we could go and then called our bro-in-law, Matt, to come get us. While we were waiting for Matt, the boys went exploring and Nate made some phone calls to the local tire shops. None of the tire shops carried the size of tire we needed in stock. We said another prayer that the tire would be fixable. Matt took us home and Nate set off to Wal-Mart to see if he could get the tire fixed. He called me about 1/2 hour later and said "You are never going to believe this, we are SO blessed. The air was coming from the stem on the tire where you put the air in, the stem had popped." He kept saying "I don't know how in the world that would have happened". It was just one of those tender mercies of our Heavenly Father. So anyway, I didn't get a chance to take any pics on our fourwheeling trip so I took a picture of the boys hanging out in the Jeep this morning. Bradyn asked me if we could go fourwheeling like we did yesterday and I told his it wasn't an appropriate Sunday activity, so I guess the next best thing for him was to just take a box of Wheat Thins and hang out in the Jeep. I thought it was pretty funny.


So Ty was nearly naked but he did put his shoes on and head outside with his brothers. I am sure our neighbors think we are really great parents! He is such a funny kid. So independent!