Sunday, October 16, 2011

The Right Stuff

Since NASA has decommissioned the space shuttles, we thought that they might be looking for replacement crews.

Crew Member: Bryn
Age: 2 years 11 months
Specialties: giggles, princess wrangling, soft and slightly damp kisses
Award: Miss Congeniality

Crew Member: Grant
Age: 5 years 7 months
Specialties: counting (up and down), launch control
Award: Highest Counting (900+)

Crew Member: Cole
Age: 5 years 7 months
Specialties: rocket retrieval, launch preparation
Award: Fastest Retrieval

Now a few pictures of our crew under launch day conditions:

Prepping rockets for launch.

Keeping everyone's spirits up.

We have liftoff!

Scanning the range for signs of re-entry.

The retrieval team in action.

The cheer squad in action.

We wish you a fond farewell as we blast off into the sunset.
Crew wardrobe provided by oakiwear brand outdoor clothing.

2 comments:

Ramona Zabriskie said...

Command Central (you are "Houston", Evan, right?) should get some kind of commendation (or scolding) for proceeding with lift-off under obviously adverse weather conditions. Thank goodness for those titanium Oakie rainsuits, huh? (Do they work on the moon?) OH, and what day WAS this event? I felt my windows rattle last week -- which I assume was the sonic boom on re-entry.

Jennifer said...

how cute! We shot off rockets this past weekend too. It was a blast!
I just found your blog, and the boys bickering in the first post sucked me in. My youngest 2 have similar conversations..haha