umm does someone have a thing for firefighters?

tyler's class took a field trip to fire station #1 and of course I had to chaperone! i mean c'mon, who doesn't think firefighters are real life superheroes?  not to mention kindergartners are the cutest little people ever!   

gettin' holy

aidan completed his two years of faith formation! in the olden days we called it CCD, or catechism. whatev - he got his first holy communion! finally.

 

 the boy cleans up pretty well

 everything is more fun when you're with your best friend

 or two

 proud lola

congratulations!

Get your bowl on!

we had a little bowling party for my big 6 year old! a fun and easy party is exactly MY kind of party!

 the handsome and BEST big brother

 loves of my life

 sillies

  happy 6th birthday my love

embrace the camera - 5.5.11

remember last week when we went to the fire station? well, G made me put on all of his fire gear on! i think he thought it would be funny to make me put on his too big, too heavy, kind of dirty, really smoky smelling, stuff. and man, it was heavy! like 30 pounds heavy! i can't imagine wearing all of that, running into burning buildings, carrying people, etc, etc. 

ok, ok - i have a new respect for you mr. fire fighter! 

 

now get your embrace on! here's the deets!

fiiiii-yaaahhh

we took a trip to my MBFF's (Male Best Friend Forever) fire station today as a spring break field trip.

i am always on the look out for no cost activities, sure, the park is always a hit, but we needed some change of scenery. so we hopped in the car, and headed to richmond where we were treated to a personalized tour of the fire station and engines.  we opened every door to every compartment, tried on the super heavy fire gear, and even slid down the pole.  yes! the pole.  this station has the old school pole to get from the sleeping quarters to the engine lickety-split!  aidan went down, of course! but tyler and i just looked on in awe - looked a little too tall from our view!

 

we took a quick drive around the block, blared the siren and talked over the radio (we made pretty good rookie firefighters i'd say).  at one point aidan even took a relaxing seat on the lazy-boy lounger and really got into firefighter mode.

such a fun day! maybe one day these handsomes will be real firefighters hanging on their engine.