Trucks, Tractors, And More!

This is a little boy’s dream!  We’ve been meaning to go see all the big equipment at Caleb’s work.  Now that he has resigned, we figured we’d better do it quick, so to Lake City we went!

This is the machine Caleb runs at the big forest fires.  Sorry the picture is bad, but I was looking up as it was loaded on his truck which we got to get in here below.

“Honk! Honk!”  I about jumped out of my skin the first time they did this with the siren and I was walking in front of the truck!  And just so you know, Jacob is standing on a step a my waist level.  Big trucks are little boys’ dreams!

Fire hose!Don’t my boys have great men in their lives?  In addition to others, both my brothers just love them!

Elijah’s turn!  He wasn’t that into it.

Wow!  We were going to drive this brand new huge machine, but the key was left on and the battery was dead.  Bummer

So Caleb took Josiah on a drive in this smaller one instead.  Still not too shabby!

He was excited to drive this forklift, too.

And what little boy wouldn’t love a fire truck?And last but not least, they got to take a ride in this chopper! 

(Not really, but wouldn’t that have been great?  It was just flying over, but it added to the fun!)

 

And while I don’t have pictures, I have to add that we had dinner afterwards and thanks to a great deal, 3 adults and 3 kids got to eat for $20!  Just had to say that.

Zoo Playdate!

In February, we went to a playdate at the Sante Fe Zoo put on by the children’s ministry in our church.  We had a great time!

Can you believe all these kids stood in one place at one time?

Josiah and Ana doing the gator chomp!  (see the gator?)

These two tend to get themselves in trouble together in sunday school.

Park

In late January, we went with Mom, Bill, and Savannah to our favorite little country park with where we usually have the whole place to ourselves.

We played a little “baseball”.

I’m not sure if she missed or was trying to hit it the wrong direction :)

But never fear.  Jacob got her straightened out.  Such a loving uncle!

The baseball lover!  I grew up watching (or ignoring) her baseball games on t.v.

It cracks me up that he insists on using the handle of the bat!  But he hit it!

He’s putting a lot of force into it and even had the lip thing going.

It’s no fair that grown ups used the tee, too.

Daring Savannah to leave 3rd base.

Then we played a little “soccer”.

These boys just don’t play fair!

“The Blur”

Elijah still moves slowly enough that I can get some clear pictures and he hams it up, so here’s a bunch of them:

Then we played some hide n’ seek.

Josiah decided to hide on the other side of the tree from Savannah counting.  I tried to get him to move, but it turned out to be a great spot because it took Savannah awhile to find him :)

Then we played on the playground.

Elijah loves to swing with me.  He goes completely limp and we lay back together.  He’d do it forever if my arms and neck could take it.  So sweet.

What a complete cutie through and through!