TAFB Air Show 2014

Well hello. It's been a little bit since we posted some fun stuff on here. This weekend was a little bit of a crazy one! We had an unexpected car disaster that started on Wednesday and threw a wrench into every single plan we had for the entire weekend. Of course. My sweet minivan is in the shop and getting a little TLC. Its pretty awesome that it decided on this weekend because I feel like I had a lot going on but really it couldn't have been better and everything worked out just fine. After of course, a few meltdowns by me which my sweet sweet man reassured me were normal and that everything would be fine. While I am sure he was really thinking 'Its a car, suck it up!'. Either way he let me use his shoulder as a snot rag, still pretended to like me at the end of every day and even got me an Éclair from a yummy shop in Vacaville. Yep. That's love.

So Thursday I ended up taking off from work, took my car to the shop, got the run around, ended up getting a service done that not only didn't fix my car but also took more dollars than I would have liked from my bank account. OH well. Nothing I can do now. We ended up not even hearing from them until Friday (Boo to Napa Meineke...I shall yelp later) and so Friday we told them we were bringing it home and instead we drove it in a low gear all the way to my normal shop. Needless to say its in safe hands and should be home to momma soon. I do have to admit. I am SUPER reliant on my car. I feel so lost when I don't have my own to just hop into at a moments notice. Ugh.

So Friday was also shot but we had big plans for Saturday. We were going to head to a game early in the morning for some friends son's t-ball games (my cute little twin 'nephews') and then head off to the air show in dual cars with the Luoma clan. Well. Game ended up not being till 2:30, Middle Luoma had a carnival at school, Daddy Luoma had to tend to some grown up business, my oldest was on a time limit for a leadership function for school and needless to say our plans quickly fell apart. The good news is that everything got taken care of and Rian even ended up with an impromptu night alone with Jared and I. Pretty cute. He felt like a 'King for the night' and well...we let him. Not every night that we only have one kid to spoil!!!

Honestly, could N & A get any cuter in their little tiny T-Ball outfits. So cute and soo talented already! 

 

 

 Rian in his King thrown eating his dinner of choice...Spaghetti!

 

 

 The Luoma Trio killing some time at the park...precious!

 

 

Sunday we ended up with just me and my littles which doesnt happen to often and after a 'fun' mommy and teenager show down we headed to the air show. I have been to a few air shows and every time, whether you are a member of the military or not its always soo much better when its held on an Air Force base. Even better this year because the place it was held is my hunnies place of work. Yep. He is stationed at Travis Air Force base and I could not be more proud! Anywho, we got on base pretty quickly and the kids were already anxious (mostly Rian and Neya) and we walked to the very beginning (or end if you ask Jared) and we saw all the planes. Of course the littles didn't want to stop and look at EVERY plane and I wasn't even too engulfed in taking pics, more involved with enjoying their little faces and we had a good time. Of course, given our fun car issues I didn't get to go all out and grub down on hot dogs, sodas and beers and such but it was still fun, much to the kids (and my) dismay. We got to walk onto a few planes, including the C-5, which is what Jared works on and take a few pics, watch a few planes and jets take off and well, lots of usual Air Show type of fun stuff.

 

The best part of the show however was not even part of the show! My sweet guy took the kids and I on a sweet private tour of his plane. Now to him, I am sure this is boring, even to his own kids this might be boring because I am sure they have all done it before, but for us, this was a first! We had a blast! Just neat to see what he is on all day, up and down ladders, in and out of planes, how absolutely gigantic they are and I guess just to see a little piece of his world. He picked us up in the truck he drives around all day and that was also kinda neat. I had one image in my head and what he showed up in made it a totally different one, because I surely didn't expect him to show up in a breadbox. I don't really know WHAT I expected. Still kinda neat. It was a great time for us and we of course, took pics and acted like major newbies to all of this. I have to say that moments like this make me appreciate my Airman and what he does and although I can give him a hard time about the hours he works or whatever, he still serves our country and that makes me beyond proud. I love him each day a little more and introducing us into this piece of his life just made that grow a little extra that day!

The days this weekend were great, but I also wanted to take a minute to say that while we were at the air show there was a pilot who lost his life, Eddie Andreini. There was an accident and although it is not my place to share his story or delve into all the stories that are online I do want to acknowledge that it occurred and say that our hearts and thoughts go out to his family. A life lost is never easy but as Carina stated, he passed away doing what he loved and for that I am sure his family can smile, even if only for a brief moment.