Touch a Truck

9/22-  This morning we took the family out to Touch A Truck.  It was a chilly morning, but we still had a blast!  The boys really liked this bouncy house-- it was a maze/slide/jumpy all in one.

I couldn't ever get a good picture of Cainan.  He was too fast!  He really enjoyed tackling all the maze things.

Myka wanted to go inside so badly!  Maybe next year...

After we tried the bouncy houses, we went and started inspecting all the vehicles they had on display.  The firetruck was the first...  here the boys were making really loud siren noises.

The fireman helped Cainan get into the front seat

Yep- Cainan wore his boots again today.

Boaz sat in the back of the fire truck.  Hey, Buddy!

Then we moved on to the police gator thing...

The boys were super excited about the race car.  Apparently Myka was, too!  :)   I tried to get the boys to go down the line of cars in some sort of order.  Order is good in my world.  But they were too excited to go back and forth across the event to the next one that looked cool.  It was funny.

Myka takes the drivers seat...

Then Myka takes the steering wheel.  

Up, up, up in the lift truck!

Cainan wasn't so sure about this one....  the man had to help him turn around to look at me.

In the SWAT car!

And a police car with a dog in the back!

The boys recently watched a show about monster trucks that showed how they were made.  So seeing a monster truck here made their day!

Woah- look how huge this is!

Next they took turns in the brand new snow plow.  Here's Boaz...

And Cainan.

We took a break to go watch The Dean of Juggling.

Dean was a professor of mine in college.  His daughter also worked for Luke back in the day.  He's super funny and a really great juggler.  Here he is juggling fire.

All three kids were intrigued by the show.

Myka got restless after a bit, so she walked around with her dad.

Boaz got to be part of the show!!  He was supposed to throw the ball to Dean and he'd start juggling it.  He tried overhand and didn't quite get the aim right.

Then he tried underhand and got it!

Dean even juggled on a unicycle for us.  And one of the craziest things... one of his other volunteers was named Kezia!!

Boaz in the back of the school bus.  He'd never been in one before and was amazed at how many seats there were.

Cainan hopped right up in all the big trucks.

Boaz was a little more tentative.... but still had a blast!

Checking out the dune buggy.

Vroom- vroom!

Miss Myka just looked cute today. These jeans and boots were the talk of many people we saw this morning.  Such a stylish little sweetie-- thanks to some great hand-me-downs!  It's definitely fun to dress a girl!

A great morning at a great event....