Monster Trucks!

We borrowed the Robins' idea of camping in the backyard this weekend!  Except this time we set up the small tent and tossed the older three out to sleep there by themselves!

  Mike and I had great visions of a good night's sleep in our own bed, but instead were up all night with Bridget who had croup.  So it worked well that the kids weren't kept up by her coughing.  In the morning we found them up with the sun reading books together.  A truly rewarding moment.

After happily getting Bridget some meds at the doctor, Saturday evening we headed down to the Gladstone showgrounds to see a Monster Truck show!!  It was awesome!  We found a good spot to watch and even though we didn't stay for the whole thing we saw some awesome stuff!  This pink monster truck leapt over piles of cars.

The big crane in the back lifted a car way up high and dropped it!  The crowd went wild as it smashed!  It was so cool!  It still makes me giggle how much fun we had!

We were grateful for the kid ear muffs our friends lent us.  Evelyn wore them part of the time, but Bridget surprisingly kept hers on the whole time and she did well.  Stashing a bunch of McDonald's hamburgers and cucumbers in my bag kept the peace as well.  Far better than standing in line for carnival food. 

No pictures of the BMX bikes, but that was probably the coolest event.  Stunt riding off a ramp, doing flips and crazy poses on their bikes mid-air!  Happy we got our thrill fix and were home in time for bed! What fun!