Best Birthday Present Ever

This is me and Karl after we landed! Isn't my hair awesome!

Getting ready to land

Right after the chute deployed!

Free fall, the best part!!!!!!!!!!!!

Getting on the plane

Me and Jeremy before we got on the plane!

Well if you know me at all you know one of the things I have ALWAYS wanted to do was to jump out of an airplane. I have never found anyone that was serious about going with me so I just figured it would be one of the things that you always wish you could have done but never did. Well when I met Jeremy and he told me that he used to be a Paratrooper and also did skydiving with the 82 Airborne division in North Carolina I told him how jealous I was and that I wanted to go so bad. He told me that he would take me on my 30th Birthday.

So Jeremy had been teasing me for a month saying that he had a surprise for my birthday present and wouldn't tell me what it was, I asked if we were going skydiving and he said "No, I told you I was doing that for your 30th Bday" so I just figured I would have to wait another year before I got to do it. Well my Birthday was on a Friday and after I got home from work he told me that he couldn't keep it a secret anymore and that we were going skydiving the next day, needless to say I was soooooo excited!!! We woke up the next morning and of course this is October so it was crappy rainy weather! We were both really disappointed but I knew we would get to go sometime, so we rescheduled for the next Saturday. The entire day I kept looking outside and asking if he thought it was clearing up enough, it wasn't and Jeremy told me I was like a kid that had candy in front of them but couldn't reach it! It was so true, I wanted to go so bad but the weather just wasn't cooperating.

Fast forward to the next week and the weather turned out to be good enough so we went out to Tooele to Skydive Utah and got to go! Jeremy kept asking me if I was nervous and I really wasn't I was so excited that I didn't have time to be nervous! We got a video done and a picture package so I can always remember my first jump!

The plane ride up was quick and stinky, the jet fuel is awful! Karl the guy I was jumping with was teasing me the entire time saying that this was his first tandem jump and just trying to freak me out! The plane doors opened at 13,800 feet and I watched 8 people go ahead of me and then it was my turn. We got to the edge I took a DEEP breath (it looks like I was scared on the video but really I just couldn't breath) Karl counted and we were out of the plane! The free fall feeling was amazing, we did a bunch of turns and after a minute or so he released the parachute and let me take control! The feeling of falling after the chute goes off is so peaceful I loved it. Before I knew it it was time to land, I was worried I would tank like a lot of people but I put my feet up and just let Karl do his job and we were done!

I can say that it was so worth the 29 year wait and I am going to do it again! I can't wait until I have enough jumps that I can go out by myself!!

I just want to tell my husband thank you! You are the best ever, and I am thankful that you went with me ( I know you did it just cause you love to do it too) but I know you loved that you got to see me do my first jump! You are amazing and surprise me everyday by how much you love me and all the ways you show me your love for me! I can't wait to have many more adventures together in our life! I love you Jeremy more than you know.