Ickatoad's Lily Pad: Skydiving!

Friday, October 3, 2008

Skydiving!

I was having a hard figuring out what the kids and I should get Robert for Christmas last year. But one night we were watching MythBusters and they were doing skydiving experiments and he made the comment, “that looks like it would be so much fun.” Bingo! SO for the next couple of weeks I saved up my hair money because if I used the check book he would know, and that would be bad. We are going to total shock here.
We decided to make it a little more fun and wrap the gift certificate in lots of boxes and some boxes had books in them, so he thought it was a “big gift”. About 6 boxes later he opened the one with the gift certificate in it and was totally surprised and stoked. With live being so busy, he finally got around to doing it yesterday! He had a blast and we really enjoyed watching him. Grandpa Morty was so nice to take a few pictures for us and Dan- Roberts Boss- came and took a little video of him landing. We also paid for them to video him on the way down, so you can look at that on Robert's blog and also here from his point of view.

10 who want to talk about it:

Katie: Wow That is awesome! What a cool gift.

I have missed alot of posts! I cant wait to catch up on your mother-in-training posts- I sure need the help and cant wait to read your thoughts.; October 3, 2008 at 9:09 AM
PrettyPenny: Robert, I am SO proud of you! I have often thought of doing something so exhilerating...bungee jumping was as far as it went.

Jess, kuddos to you for such a fun gift! Miss you guys!; October 3, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Kristy: So awesome! My sister did that and I was so jealous. I don't think I could ever jump out of the plane by myself, but I think I tandem ride would be awesome! How fun. I was also wondering if you had a pattern or suggestions for the super kids shirts. I think that they would make really awesome Christmas presents. I think that I over used the word awesome in this post!; October 3, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Kim Davis: Wow Rob, I'm impressed! I bought the flower headband off etsy (way better priced than from the boutiques). Love that your blogging about the parenting class. Makes me want to sign up for her next one.; October 3, 2008 at 9:06 PM
Natalie: Wait til the kids in Primary see what their song leader can do NOW!!! Britt already thinks Brother Mortenson is the coolest...this might make her little mind explode! Such an awesome gift! I can't wait to see the video!!; October 3, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Jill: wow! I can't believe Robert did it. My roommates and I went skydiving at BYU but I hated it. It was total peer pressure. way too scary. Kudos to Robert.; October 4, 2008 at 12:41 AM
alli: You are awesome. I can't wait to see the video!; October 5, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Dessa Mae: I am having a hard time catching up with all of your posts!!! I promise I will catch up!
I love you.; October 8, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Palmer family: Wow! Way to go Robert. I am not sure I could/would ever do that. My friend Kerri did it once and loved it though! Did he just love it?; October 15, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Anonymous: You didn't tell me he finally did it! That is SO awesome! He looks like he really enjoyed it!; October 16, 2008 at 10:33 AM