Today my work had a Family Fun Day. We went to the Tempe Sports Complex where the company had arranged for bounce houses, games, prizes, meals, drinks, face painting, relays... We stayed for about three hours. The kids had a good time. Ashton and I ran the three-legged race three times. The first time our band broke. The second time we came in second place, and the third time we won! (it got a little hot running in the sun, but it was fun) Along with our medals, for first place we each received a large bag of kettle corn and the honor of running in the final race against the other winners. We didn't do so well the last race, but we still had a lot of fun. I love the look on Ashtons' face here. I think he had a good time.
Selfie practice after one of the races.
The kids spent most of the time on the bounce houses. They love these things. I think there were five different ones set up. They had fun in each of them, but I think this one is their favorite.
Another bounce house set up was the velcro jump. Ashton did this one a few times and got better with each jump. It was great to see all the kids hanging on the wall... I wonder if I can do that at home?
Brookie is the first picture. Ashton is the second. Cailee is the third. Cailee didn't last long because she said the suit was hot. I don't blame her... they smelled funny too. So many hot bodies in these things...eww.
Big Red from the Arizona Cardinals came too. The girls wouldn't go near him. Ashton was kind of excited. We were in line for pictures with Big Red when they stopped us because he needed a water break. I don't know how these mascots do their job so well. I would be dying of heat if I had to be in that suite.
There were a couple of these things where you hit very hard and try to get the thingy to hit the bell at the top. The name escapes me right now. But we each took a turn. The one on the left was easy. But the one on the right was not so easy. I tried both and really stunk it up on the second one. The kids each did well, though. You just had to stay out of their way because they got a little crazy with the mallets.
After the work fun day, BrookLynn went to a friend's birthday party. Cailee and Ashton went home with me and Nick and I made everyone lay down for a rest. Ashton didn't sleep, but Cailee and I sure did. We each slept for nearly 3 hours. When Brookie got home from her party, Nick had hear lay down, and she was out for about 90 minutes. Much needed sleep for two cranky girls. Three, if you count me.
Our ward had our Trunk or Treat party tonight. The kids were pretty excited to finally get to wear their costumes. Cailee is Claudine Wolf (from Monster High). Brookie was Anna from Frozen (complete w/ vampire teeth). And Ashton is a ninja (He was this ninja already a previous year. I love that he is not picky about his costumes).
Nick loves the self-portraits. Especially when the pictures turn out so great and dark. He and I were sitting in the back of our vehicle handing out candy together. This is the first year we let our kids just go around to the cars alone. It was actually a good feeling. I won't let them go alone on Halloween Night yet, but the parking lot seemed safe enough.
Two similar pictures. I actually like the one that is dark better because the girls don't look quite to zombie-like. They were a little tired of walking around and wanted to sit and help hand out candy. Ashton was there for awhile too, but got bored.
It was a very busy, but very fun day. The kids all had to read before bed, but after they got into bed, they were out pretty quickly. They were very worn out. I love that we had the day together. Sometimes I don't think we have enough of these experiences.
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