Bring your family (or friends) to work day
Our good friend, Robin flies Blackhawk helicopters and she's been the commander of a MEDEVAC company for the past couple of months. (That's her, above, with Caleb.) She put together a "Bring your family to work day" for her battalion. She and her husband David don't have kids of their own yet, but they are Joshua's Godparents. She invited us to the event as her family. She did a great job bringing out all kinds of big equipment and even opening it up for the kids to climb in and on. There were several helicopters, including a couple of Blackhawks, a new Chinook, a fueling truck, a Humvee, a fire truck, some fun tools and some other things we didn't even get to before I pooped out.
I'm not sure what was the boys' favorite, but my favorite part was how few people there were. I mean, it was great turn out for her battalion, but at similar post-wide events, there are hundreds of kids crawling in and out of each piece of equipment and a line to get in the pilot's seat of a helicopter. Not here. The boys got almost free reign of the place with lots of helpful and friendly Soldiers there to help them. Kevin was able to come with us, too, which was a great help for me and so sweet for me to see, especially scenes like the one below.
That is so cool. Elliott would die if he got the chance to "drive" a helicopter.
What a great day! My boys (all three probably) would love a day like that. Yay for Robin for doing it all.
I think my girls would love that, too. And, oddly enough, I sort of miss those events now that we're living psuedo-civilian life.
Oh, and as always, great photos!
What a fun day for you, Kevin and the boys! The pictures are so good of the boys and they look like they are having a blast especially having lots of time on the helicopters! Wow!
so fun!
that last picture says it all, i think. josh's face looks so happy. good job Robin! it makes me miss my FTCKY family...