Friday, May 13, 2011

For all the doubting ones....

A few friends and coworkers have been questioning my Dr's declaration of this baby being a girl. I, however, am very confidant that baby Linn is, in fact, another little girl. I'm so sure of it, that this is her closet. Full of pink! I can't believe Elise ever fit into these things, and I'm so excited to put this new one in all of it and smell her baby skin, hold on to her tiny fingers, and sing her all the sweet baby songs when we're up together as the rest of my family sleeps. Only 7 more weeks to go!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Short Flight



Almost 6 months ago Bryan built a remote-control airplane for our brother-in-law, Paul, for Christmas. We've been waiting all spring for a good night for the inaugural flight. Tonight was the night!


***side note: Bryan actually built TWO planes. The first won crashed on a test flight that I insisted he do, so he had to quickly build another to give to Paul for Christmas. The given plane had not been flown at all****


After a great mother's day dinner orchestrated entirely by the boys/dads, the whole family drove out to Park Township Airport. Bryan, Paul, & my dad analyzed the plane and the controls for quite some time before actual take off.


Finally, Paul took the controls and initiated take-off. The first run tripped up in the grass and stopped on the nose of the plane. The next take-off got only about 5 feet in the air and took a sharp right turn directly into the ground. Inaugural flight over.


While it was exciting to be there for the flight, and while we all had fun with all the preparations and anticipation, the short-lived entertainment and cracked up plane was pretty disappointing. The guys have already set another date for a re-do: labor day. So, they have a few months to patch up the airplane and hopefully figure out what when wrong.


All in all, it was a great gift, made with love, that will hopefully fly again soon!