It's part of the job...

One of the fun aspects of Kev's job is the fact that he gets to jump out of an airplane. The kids and I have been eager to watch him jump ever since he got back from jump school in February. This last Thursday was that day. We got to watch from the perfect spot and the kids loved it. Honestly though, it makes me nervous as heck that he is jumping out of a perfectly good airplane (knowing of all the serious injuries that have happened doesn't help either). So here are a slew of pictures so you can see what Kev's day job is like. This jump was just practice for their night jump, which was today. I'll keep my fingers crossed that all goes well.

This was the first of 12 planes

Kev was the 5th one out on the right of the plane

If you look close you can see 3 planes dropping all at once

They had just got to the ground when the next 3 planes of soldiers starting coming to the ground

The kids kept yelling, "Look at all the jellyfish!"

They only jumped 6 of the 12 planes because the winds got really bad and soldiers were landing in the trees.  We didn't get to meet up with Kev after (the kids really wanted to see him in all his get-up) because they weren't letting civilians in to watch the jump.  So I just pulled off the road, stopped on top of the drop zone, under the trees and let the kids watch.  Don't worry there were four other wives right there with me.  It really was fun to know Kev was up there jumping and I'm sure he was loving every minute of it.