Touch-a-Truck

Last Sunday (July 17th), we went to the second annual Touch-a-Truck event. Noah enjoyed it WAY more this year than he did last year! Last year, I think it was just too overwhelming for him and he just wanted to sit and look at books. This year, the event was in a little bigger area and they had a bounce house and slide, so of course, Noah had to do that about a million times! Faith was just happy walking around looking at everything. There were also some goats there, so she enjoyed watching them.

There was a photographer that was doing some vintage photos with an old firetruck…for free!!! So we attempted the picture! Faith was getting pretty hungry, so we weren’t sure how it was going to turn out…but I think it looks pretty good!

There was a pretty big line to sit in the combine and we didn’t make it half way through the line before Noah got too bored and wanted to move on. The combine was probably the biggest hit – at least compared to the line!

There was a pink tractor that you could sit on…we thought Faith should sit on it and of course, Noah wanted to also!

There was also an ambulance that you could go in and look at. The kids seemed to like that, but I’m hoping that will be the only time are in one (well, until next year at this event again)!!!

There were many more trucks there too, so we had a pretty good day. It was so hot outside, so it was nice to be indoors for this event!!!!

3rd Birthday Party

Noah got to celebrate his 3rd birthday a little early with the family. We got together at my Mom’s house on Sunday to have a little party for the soon-to-be 3 year old! The boys, of course, loved digging in mom’s back yard and jumping in the bounce house.

It was time to open presents and Noah got lots of great gifts! A Cars scooter, Moon Dough, water gun, truck, tractor and wagon, sidewalk chalk and bubbles, money, a Cars 2 car and some clothes! Thank you to everyone!!!!

Then it was time to eat the train cake!!!

Weber Week

Last week was spent in Iowa at my sister’s house!!! They were actually down in southern Iowa for the weekend, so we met up on Sunday and the kids and I rode back with them. We had a great time, but I think the week went WAY to fast!!! There was a lot of…

Driving/Chasing

Climbing

Digging

Chick Watching

Eating

But there wasn’t enough down time…these boys had so much to do in such a short amount of time!!!! We went to the park one day to have a picnic and play. The next day we went to the beach to swim. Renae and I need to remember to put sunscreen on ourselves!! But at least the kids were fine…I think Renae got burnt the worst!

I think my kids are still re-cooperating…they’ve been sleeping until about 9 am since we’ve been back!!!!

Thanks again for having us stay at your house Webers!!! We had such a great time!!!

Happy Father’s Day 2011

If you are friends with my on Facebook..you’ve already seen this, but here it is again! Happy Father’s Day to my Dad in Heaven who taught me to be very resourceful! (Notice his duct-taped shoe!!) Love you and miss you Dad!!!!

And a Happy Father’s Day to Rick!!! He’s gone for work right now, so we can’t celebrate with him, but we wish you a very Happy Father’s Day and we’ll do something special when you get back!!! Here’s a couple of pictures of the kids…these are things they HAD to have learned from you!!!

Kansas Speedway

The Arends clan come down for the weekend and we decided to take the kids to the Kansas Speedway to show them what it was all about. It was a HOT one, but the kids all did great!!!

Rick and Brian tried their hand at being a pitman! Rick actually did pretty well!!! I was impressed!

On Sunday, Brian & Pam headed out to the track…armed with sunscreen, drinks, sunscreen, hats, and did I mention sunscreen? It was another hot one for them, but they didn’t look too pink when they came back after the race, so that sunscreen must have worked!!! While they were gone, the rest of us went down to the pool to cool off!!!

Here’s the clan before they had to leave…