BLAST OFF!

"WE HAVE LIFT OFF!"

So Tate had been telling Alex that they needed to go shoot off rockets for a while now and Alex finally had a day off of school and work and firefighting and everything else. So the night before him and Tate went and bought a rocket kit and built them. The next day we all went out the Arizona strip to shoot them off.


On her maiden voyage "big blue" had a crash landing because Alex had forgotten to put the wading stuff in there and the parachute had melted before it could deploy. Oops!


Since mommy's can fix anything :) I was able to pull the parachute apart and other than a hole on the side we figured it would work. So we tried again and this time it worked great...and it had a better landing!


Allie was not as excited about it at all! She opted to sit in the car for most of it or she had to be held by grandma Sherry (especially since Mommy and Daddy were the ones pushing the ignition). Even Tate had forgotten how loud they hiss when they shoot up and he only pushed the button once, but he was our count down guy! He got a little anxious when we couldn't find where one of the rockets had landed and there was some tears from him too. So aside from a few screams from Allie and a couple tears form Tate it was a great family outing!