Lowell's Helo Dunking Experience

For those of you who don't know what that means or entails I will explain a little, there will be a video of it at the end. The guys get dressed in full uniform, flak and kevlar too and sit in a simulated helicopter, buckled in and all, over a pool of water. They are then dunked into the water and then it gets flipped upside down and they have to get out as quickly and safely as possible. They also have to hold their breath for one go through and the other 2 they get breathing apparatises with limited air supply. They had to do this about 3 or 4 times and they also did it blind folded once or twice. Lowell sayed he was scared out of his mind until he did it and then it wasn't so bad. This whole thing took 3 days to do. The 1st day he learned how to do everything and the other 2 days he had to actually do it with 6 or so other marines there as well. Here are some pictures of him and the equipment. Also a video of others that have done it. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a video of what it looks like in action go to the website and watch it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikn3_xsbSc.

Bug play

The other day in our back yard we were playing and Danika put her hand on a bug but didn't kill it. It ran real fast to get away, and she didn't even know she had touched it. later in the playing at a different part of the yard she found the bug again. She then proceeded to put her hand on it and squirsh it until it was no longer moving. Here are some pics for you to see the happening. Bugs beware of the DANIKA!!!!

Outside in our backyard

Danika finally has a back yard to play in that I don't have to follow her to make sure she doesn't go into a street or steal some other persons toys out of thier yard etc. We have a cute little back yard and she loves to play in it. She is such a tom boy just like her mom. I at least had some help becoming a tom-boy with 3 older brothers to show me how to do it, I don't know why she is one. Anyway some times we take our Dora table and chairs out with us so we can play on them and maybe have snack time as well. we love to play with the rock area and the plastic cars, airplanes, and tractor to move the rocks around. Here are some pics, enjoy!!!

Bedtime on our borrowed furniture

It is definately hard to move to a new place, but when you get furniture that looks like my grandmas linai furniture it just makes you laugh. We got a double bed with plastic on it that we could not take off or else. Even with sheets and a cieling fan we could not stop sweating. We were given a tip to stop the sweating, but I didn't have enough towels to support the thoery. We got a table for four, which was great and Danika loved sitting like a big kid at the table. We also got three chairs and a couch made of bamboo and whatever else it was. So our bedtime routine was on the bamboo couch watching our little portable dvd player every night. Thank goodness we have our stuff now.

Halloween Fun

We did a trunk or treat this year at the church and it was a lot of fun for Danika and us too. We decorated our car and dressed Danika up too. She was a little red devil with a bow tie, tail, horns, and pitch fork too. She only kept on the bow tie and tail. The horns were too big and the pitch fork was too dangerous for her in the dark. She wouldn't stand still for a picture so you get what you get. No one came to our house for Halloween because we don't have across the street neighbors to go the other way with. We had a great Halloween and we hope all of you did as well.