Updating the blog frequently has sadly not been on my “Top Priority” list and every month that passes, I thump myself for at least not updating it once a month. So the next couple of blogs will try and catch us up to the most recent times…or at least what I can remember since then.

In January, Aaron’s dad Mike was able to come to Arizona for 2 weeks while Aaron finally took some time off from work as he was gone for 318 days over the past year. You “make hay while it’s warm” and the work load this year was plentiful between the Hurricane Relief efforts in Puerto Rico and firefighting in Australia.

Mike is pretty easy to entertain and basically just wanted to soak up some of the warmer weather, but we did get in a few fun things while he was here. The Piper Cherokee Six, which we purchased in June of 2017 finally got out of the Avionics Shop over at Falcon Field as it had lived over there for 6 months…so it was a good time to hop in it and see how the old girl flew and go and grab a $100 dollar hamburger somewhere new. So off the 3 of us went to Kingman, Arizona Airport Cafe! Luckily the fine folks there whipped us up a salad as we arrived at 2:20 PM and the Cafe closed at 2. Nothing like flying over an hour….just to take a picture of the sign….poor planning on our part. That will be my job from now on to always check the closing times lol! Anyway, a fun quick trip in the plane is always better than no trip at all!

One of Mike’s bucket list items while in town was to go to the the Phoenix Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show. My oh my…I think he was in heaven. Much like a Helicopter Convention (HAI) where there is everything you could possibly imagine in the aviation world….well, this is where you come when you want to know what’s happening in the cattle industry and more. Another score for us was to catch the local Buckeye Air Show and the Buckeye Senior Pro Rodeo and parade.

Time always goes too quickly when we are all together, but everyone has to get back to their lives and jobs at some point in time…and that’s just what we all did!