Fuller's Festival

The last activity (that I haven't posted on) from last weekend (that I actually took pictures at) was Fuller's Festival. Fuller Goldsmith is a little boy Emma Claire's age who has been fighting (so far succesfully) Leukemia for the last 2 years. This was a way for his family to give back and raise money to support Children's Hospital of Alabama. It was a BLAST - there were lots of jumpy things, carnival RIDES - the pirate ship, twist and shout and a carousel. Emma Claire rode all 3 and Wilson and I rode Twist and Shout - spins around and around and around. I thought he was going to throw up - it lasted about 5 times longer than a normal ride - I just kept telling him to look down - not to look at the world spinning around him. I have never been more glad to get off a ride than I was then - being covered in puke was not my idea of a good time.

There were sack races, games, bubbles, food, entertainment - everything you can imagine. I've heard it was a huge success!!!! WE sure had a great time!

Oh! and Emma Claire still wears her glasses everyday, we just temporarily LOST them that morning, but she found them that afternoon in her cup holder in my car!

The prizes they gave out at the games were Croc charms - that you put in the holes of our Crocs - Emma Claire was thrilled when she finally realized what they were - she must have won 20 of them. Their Crocs will NEVER be the same again!

Emma Claire got on the ship with about 10 teenaged girls - she was soaking up the attention!

Henderson and Stanton - sweet cousins chillin' on Henderson's Birthday!

I had a TON more pictures to share (of course) but my computer decided to keep going offline everytime I tried to upload pictures, so that's all for now!

T-Town Block Party

Last weekend was a frenzy of activities. In addition to Henderson's 1st Birthday, and Fuller's Festival (coming soon) and a Crawfish Boil and Parent's Night Out, we had a block party sponsored by our church Sunday morning. There were many jump castles, a petting zoo, a live band, free hotdogs, hamburgers and pies and Rick Burgess (from Rick and Bubba) was the speaker.

Now, if you live anywhere in the southern US you know that we have recently had about 73 days of rain over the last 3 months. Sunday was no exception. Prayers for no rain abounded, but God has His ways. The rain held off for awhile. The children had plenty of time to enjoy the zoo and jumpy things. At the same time that they called for people to eat, the rain started. People ran and grabbed their boxed lunch and headed straight inside to the fellowship hall and gym.

Had the rain begun 30 minutes later, during the middle of Rick's testimony - it would have been chaotic and people would have run for their cars instead of running inside the church. The message was moved inside to the Sanctuary and telecasted in the fellowship hall and gym also, in order to hold the over 2000 people in attendance. Now, b/c of this, my SIL and several other friends took our brood of many small children and went to the indoor playground, as not to cause any distractions to those who needed to hear the powerful Gospel message about to be shared. many lives were changed, no doubt.

Enjoy the pictures (in reverse order that they happened, of course - thanks Blogger, but too many to drag around)

Wilson liked getting others to push him around.

At one point, Mills and Patton were pushing Wilson very fast and they came upon a gymnastics mat, well, as soon as the "bus" hit the mat, it stopped and Wilson flew over the front and landed face down on the floor with the bus on top of him. He got up laughing - it was a sight to see to that little guy being thrown through the air like a football!

These 2 - Sarah Davis and Wilson, are sweet on each other - have been since she was about 6 months old - they are truly drawn to each other like I have never seen, even though she's actually closer in age to Henderson. It'll be fun to watch their friendship grow throughout the years!

Henderson is a fiesty little thing - he gets what he wants - I wonder where he gets that from? uummmpphhh, Wilson!!!!!

My SIL started out reading books, but you can imagine that that didn't last long.

On the floor in the fellowship hall enjoying lunch, out of the rain!

The birthday boy got lots of attention from his grandmothers!!!

She can strike a pose, even while sliding down a slide!!!!

Is there something called Swine Flu going around????

We used Lots of hand sanitizer!!!!!

Once he realized it was a baby goat that was eating his fingers, he wasn't too happy!!!!

Of COURSE, you know WHO had to make an appearance - and Wilson actually touched him this time and laughed hysterically (I think that was what he doing to compensate for the fear). Wilson still LOVES

Big Al from a distance - laughing and calling out his name, but don't get him too close!!!!

Last night, on the way to church, Wilson kept saying "Jump, Jump - I want to Jump!" He didn't quite understand that all the jump castles would not be there again!!!