Saturday Madness

This weekend, we started off at a run and just didn't stop. Of course, it started with Halloween and the next morning we got up and I sent the kids off with their dad to the Scout-o-Rama. Our friend Debbie from Oregon came and stayed with us this weekend so that she could attend her sons graduation from his motorcycle mechanics program. It was nice to get to visit with her so much while she was here. She works for the Boy Scouts in Oregon and since her son was still sleeping that morning she went with the kids and Mike to see the HUGE Scout-o-Rama until he woke up. The kids loved having our "guest" as Christian called her for awhile and both wanted to ride in her car to the event. They had a blast.

There are a ton of things to do there. Here are just a few. Shooting rubber band guns. Look at the concentration on those faces.

Another taste, launching watered sponges...to hit the...

....cows. What cute cows.

Launched rockets. (paper rocket he made there)

There was a ton more things. I mean, they probably only saw 1/3 of what was there in 3 1/2 hours that they were there. They loved it. We should have just stayed there all day. After I came and joined them the kids and I left to go support the Fall Festival at our school, so off we went...

The beauty of the Fall Festival this year was that the kids are old enough to take off on their own and I just stayed in a central location in the shade (I already had a sunburn from the hour I was at the Scout-o-Rama) that they could come and check in with me. I got to watch them run all over the place playing games, bouncing, and trying to dunk the teachers.

Now, the day after Halloween, we just hadn't had enough sugar, so we had to get cotton candy.

Christian is addicted to anything bounce house-ish. He burned off a lot of energy.

Katie went and got her face painted at one point. Amazingly the line wasn't too horrendous this year, because I wasn't sure where she was for a little while and then all the sudden she showed up painted.

She really misses the rock wall at the gym, so she was lucky and was one of the very last kids on. We had a lot of fun and after another 3 hours of fun were ready to go home and relax for a little while.