MONSTER TRUCKS

Me -Richie and Aaron at the Monsters!


There they are!

This was a good weekend for the most part. Friday night after work (kids day), you can imagine I was exhauseted so I spent a very nice, quiet night at home with candles and a movie. Aaron went out to dinner with a friend so it was just me for the evening, and as much as I missed having him home-I didn't complain to just chill and have a quiet night to myself. I hate being along so it's rare when I can enjoy a evening like that. Saturday, we had Aaron's company picnic at his parents house. It was of course the HOTTEST day of the weekend! It was nice but seriously to hot for us. Aaron and I are truly a great pair...we both love cool weather. :) We won't complain when it's sunny and we have a chance to drive the cobra though ;) . We visited with the work people, ate some YUMMY food, and played some water balloon games. We didn't win sadly! Aaron and I hid out in the house for a bit out of the sun and watched some olympics. We then headed to the Monster Trucks-for the last event of the evening with the company. We decided we would bring Richie, my nephew. He is 6 years old and ALL BOY! Loves anything that involves dirt, cars, trucks, sports...you get the drift. We picked him up in the mustang and met up with the fam. When we got there it was SO LOUD! Thankfully greg, had thought ahead and purchased ear plugs for everyone. I NEVER thought I'd need them but oh my goodness was I wrong. So if it hurt my ears you can imagine how much it hurt Richie's being only 6 yrs. I got his earplugs in and He could still hear and It scared him...so my ALL BOY got some big tears in his eyes....OH NO I thought to myself...trying to make this a FUN night for him and he isn't going to like it. We added another ear plug and taught him to put his whole palm of his hand over his ears also. He then was ok and got the feel for how it was going to be. He got a little scared seeing the BIG MONSTER Trucks thinking how they could possibly make it up to the nose bleeds to get to us..I assured him that would not happen. After the first half he was much better and once he knew what to expect was just super! He really enjoyed it and was in AWE of the big trucks. He is such a sweet, sensative boy and I couln't love him more. It's so funny how he talks so big like he is such a tough boy..but inside there is still a sensative little one! It melted my heart to see those big tears. I was glad i was there to comfort him and help him through the night. We were determined to make this a "awesome" night for him. He LOVED it in the end but for us all in all...the monster trucks were a little boring if you ask me. Everett Events Center, I think is to small for something like that..it just wasn't really to exciting. You know I would have rather been at the PreSeason Hawks game..but I was more than happy to support my husband and attend the company outing. We made the best of it and I can say the whole day was very enjoyable. I probably won't attend the monster trucks anytime soon and as much fun as richie had...I prob woulndn't recomend it for little kids..it really is loud and I felt HORRIBLE for some of the little little kids who didn't even have earplugs in. Makes me crazy mad at those parents. Poor kido's! Well...enough about that. Here are a few photos to recap the day.