Busy September

Here are some pictures from our trip to Mammoth and the Balloon Races. This year, we had our trip to Mammoth planned during the weekend of the balloon races. We missed the dawn patrol and the glow show that is so amazing and worth every bit of getting up at 5 am for. But rather than missing it all, we got up early on Friday morning and watched the balloons. Then when Wayne got home from work, we loaded up the car and drove to Mammoth to visit his parents and Uncle Jack & Aunt Judy.

Here we are on our gondola ride, Jack's favorite part. He was SOOOOO excited!!!

So high we could almost touch the sky!

Jack is using his binoculars to see everything.

It was so incredibly windy on the top of the mountain!

Please pay no attention to our bed heads.

Jack, Chloe and Ben. Ben was soo stinkin cute. He just kept pointing at all of the balloons and saying 'wow' over and over and over again. He was in total amazement of it all.

Big Dig

Last weekend we were given tickets to a boy's paradise of sorts - The Big Dig. It was a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society where kids and their parents are allowed to operate heavy construction equipment. Jack, Ben and Wayne had a blast. I had a good time watching them and even got to operate a small backhoe with Jack.

Wayne was so cute....like a little boy on Christmas morning after he was finished driving the D9 bulldozer. It was HUGE! Wayne operated the accelerator and Jack did the steering.

Here we have the mud brothers. I think this was the highlight of the day for these boys.

Benjamin was covered in mud from head to toe when he was finished. We had to strip him down to his diaper just to put him in the car.

A big thank you to the Buhrmann family for the tickets, and another huge thank you to Dr. Ryan Gini for being a sponsor of this wonderful event!

Honey Bear

Jack has moved up to the 4 yr old preschool classroom, The Honey Bears. He's still having a bit of a rough time with the transition. Thankfully, he is in the same room with 3 of his best buddies and that has made things a little bit easier on him.

Doing okay so far.....(that's because he hasn't realized yet that he's going into the new classroom)

Jack is standing up in the upper right side of the photo, next to his buddy Griffin. He's not too sure about this new class, his new teachers and all the new faces. Several of the kids from the Teddy Bears were not in the Honey Bears class.

This is right about when things started going downhill......FAST!

And then the meltdown started.....

I'm such a mean Mommy, I quickly snapped the picture and then gave him hugs. The teachers told me that he only cried for a little bit after we left and he was a happy camper the rest of the day.