The Davenport's First Visit to the ER

Kaitlyn was playing at the school behind our house and fell onto the well padded playground floor. That was enough to give her a clean break in her ulna and bowed and fractured her radius. Four other Kindergartners at her school have broken their arms at the playground. Luckily, this was at a different school. She had to wear a sling for five days, let the swelling go down, and then she picked a pink, waterproof cast. Doesn't come of until November sometime.

Refueling F-15s in a KC-135 with the Young Men

Well the title says it all. We took a refueling flight on a KC-135 with the young men, which were only two. The other guys missed out. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity where if there's a conflict of schedule, you drop everything else. It was that cool. A high school friend of mine, Lt Col Jeremy Morrison, flew the plane. We headed up from Salt Lake International and went to Twin Falls, ID and refueled F-15s at night (no pics of that since it was dark and we couldn't use flashes). It was cool. They let us go to the back and watch the boom operator work with the fighter pilot to refuel. They also had us sit in the cockpit. Our two young men sat up in the jump seats for landing, after a touch-and-go the first try. Good times.

New Mascot for the Soccer Team

We told Ashley to get ready for her soccer team and to leash up the dog to take with us. This is the result of our instructions. Ashley talked the rest of the team into being called the "Huskies". So it's only fitting that Kam wears a soccer jersey.

Bear World

I was going to include this clip in our Yellowstone post, but the video wasn't ready yet. So here it is. Tara's sister and brother-in-law had this experience at Bear World after we had already gone through. Here's a short clip of their upclose encounter.