Harleton VFD Open House

 

Saturday was a splendid day because I got to go out with this handsome man and the boys to Harleton’s VFD open house. There fire station recently got a face lift and they invited the community to celebrate.  And celebrate we did with a ribbon cutting, fish fry, a gator bouncy house, and even snow cones!

The night before I completely used this outing as bribery for them to go to bed and it worked like a charm.

 

 

Entering the belly of the beast.

 

-Coming out the other end-  :p

 

After playing in the gator for a while it started to get pretty hot.

  

 

But with a snow cone and a giant fan we were cool as cucumbers in no time!

Touch-A-Truck

 

After the parade we headed over to one of our favorite community sponsored events, Touch-A-Truck.

  

We all had so much fun together until are fingers were almost frozen and even then it was a bit of a challenge to get my kiddos in the car to head home!

Western Days Parade

Brandon got to be apart of the Western Days parade festivities this year so the boys and I tagged along to see the fun for ourselves.

It was a bit chilly but they didn’t seem to mind to much.

First Day of Fall

 

(cute pic courtesy of pinterest couldn't find the original source though)

 

It’s officially fall! And what did we do on the momentous occasion you may ask? Well we did what many other Texans did on this sunny 90 deg. day and darned our swimsuits, headed to the local splash pad and celebrated a friends 3rd birthday. We had a pretty good time together. My favorite part would have to be catching this rare moment on camera.

“Poor bruder you didn’t get a lolly pop from the pinyada, here have a yick of mine!” If that’s not love, I don’t know what is!

Wishing you and yours a lovely Autumn season and maybe just maybe we can will the cooler weather our way.

First for Everything

 

This weekend our family got four free tickets to our first ever…

I was a little reluctant about going in the beginning. My boys do NOT do loud sounds very well and crowds can be a little overwhelming. In the end we decided to just give it a try and see how it went. I am so glad we did!

The boys really enjoyed being able to go right down in the pit crew, meet the drivers and see the trucks close up.

They became quite hypnotized by watching some crazy fun RC Cars do all kinds of tricks. I think they would have been quite content to watch them the whole time.

Of course Donaven wanted one of his very own. We were not quite committed to the $500 RC Cars and opted for a nice plastic Monster Truck toy instead. He was none the less elated and has been playing with it none stop!

The moment we had been waiting for arrived when they announced over the loud speakers for the drivers to start their engines.

 

With our protective gear in place we cheered on each driver as they revved their engines.

We watched several stunts and the boys lasted quite a bit longer than we thought they would. In a few years we may even be able to stay for the whole thing. We were very grateful to Brandon’s co-worker for the tickets. Lesson learned to try new things with the boys because they may surprise you with a quite enjoyable evening in the end!

I hope you had a lovely weekend full of family time. I am so loving this cooler weather! As I type this I have the windows wide open, listening to the rain, enjoying a cool breeze and feeling blessed.

Until next time friends,

xoxoxo –Felicia