Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Daryl's First Christmas Gift of the Season

For his birthday, Daryl got a RC airplane and his dad got the engine and all the innards needed for actual flight. Well, they flew it on Thanksgiving, and if you can remember from the post, it only lasted about 6 seconds. I heard flying a higher end RC helicopter may actually help learn how to work the controls and stuff....soooooo I may have won wife of the year with this gift. He opened it on Sunday night after Mia went to bed....I couldn't help it. I'd bought it Saturday. So, I did wait an actual 24 hrs :)

I LOVE how happy he looks in these pictures. He actually RTFM'd! He flew it around...Niles was mildly concerned, but Daryl was having the time of his life! Then he let me have a try. It was fun, but I felt out of control and insane. There's a LOT to think about while flying. All was good until I managed to make it fly toward ME! That just freaked me out! I dropped the control box and fell to the floor!
















9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh those are SO MUCH FUN!

We got my oldest one for his bday & it wasn't outside 5 minutes before it was in a tree....

sigh :)

LA said...

I love the pics, especially the one of you flying the thing into your face...(I would sooo do that)!
-LA

Joanna said...

What playful shots! How fun. I LOVE the one with the tree all bokeh'd in the background. So cool!

Anonymous said...

Love the shot of you with the helicopter coming towards you. The look on your face is priceless. LOL!

Christina said...

Yep, I'd say you won wife of the year for that! How awesome. It looks like fun! Love your expression in the last one, and all that fun Christmas bokeh!

jw said...

WHAT A FREAKING RIOT! Looks like fun!

Jennifer Hoech said...

the look of your face in the last picture. HAAAAHAAAA!

Andrea said...

you're so sweet for getting your hunny his toy!

Lora said...

Awesome! He'll have so much fun with that and he'll be able to fly it anywhere.

I love the shots Daryl got of you flying it.