Air Force Museum at WPAFB

We spent Columbus Day at the Air Force Museum here in Dayton. It is the biggest Air Force Museum in the world and is basically three huge hangars attached together. It was really cool and we had a lot of fun. Below is the F-22, the current most advanced fighter in the world.
This plane is a "Curtiss" plane!

One of the first manned planes built by the wright brothers.

The picture below Curtis believes was the plane that Grandpa Merrill flew in WWII. The picture below this is the replica of the Fat Man and Little Boy atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan during WWII.

B-2 Spirit. These fly over our house sometimes and make lots of noise!

Princess got to sit in a real cockpit! She thought it was very interesting.

Tired after an hour and a half at the museum! But had lots of fun!

Pumpkin Festival

During General Conference weekend we took a quick trip to Yellow Springs Ohio for the Jersey Dairy Pumpkin festival. It was raining but we still had some fun. We saw some farm animals, Princess got to pick out a pumpkin, and we got some delicious pumpkin donut holes and the famous ice cream there which was DELICIOUS!
Princess was SO excited when she picked out her pumpkin. She still carries it and plays around with it at home.

She was interested in the chickens.....
...............but she did not like the Cows.

Princess at the Princess show

On a last minute whim we decided to go see the Disney Princess Clasics on Ice at the Wright State University Nutter Center. We were a few minutes late but ended up having great seats. I loved the show! And so did Princess. For the first half of the show, which lasted about 45 minutes she didn't blink or move. She was completely mesmerized.

They had all of the Disney princesses, Snow White, Jasmine, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Mulan, and they had Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and Tinkerbell.

Princess loves The Little Mermaid and Cinderella. It was so cute to watch her react when they came out!

And of course we went out to eat at a yummy place called Steak N Shakes. Princess got a hat and ate lots of french fries with ketchup. Silly girl!

Family and Football

The first Saturday that we were here in September the Walker family came down to drop off some things for us and spend a few hours together. We went to the park and to the Annual Popcorn Festival in Beavercreek. The kid'lets had a fun time playing at the park and we enjoyed the short visit with them.

On September 4 we went to the first BYU Football game of the season. It was so nice to spend some one on one time together in our last day in Utah. C really enjoyed seeing all of the All-American Quarterbacks during half-time. And best of all, the Cougars won the game!