Balloon Fest

This weekend Arthur and I volunteered at the balloon fest with our church. We manned the children's inflatable area. Since we were helping the kids got to enjoy all the rides, which they loved for about and hour and half, and were then ready to move on to something else. Once our shift was over we headed out to enjoy the rest of the festival.

Samantha had remember from last year that you could ride up in a hot air balloon for $5.00. So, she gathered every penny she had in anticipation of balloon fest. The pictures didn't turn out so great, but she and I did get to go up in the balloon at 25 feet for maybe a minute. She was very excited about it. Kase calmed down about the whole thing once we made it clear he did not have to get into the balloon.

Busy Week

This week I took on a temporary 4 day job to make a little extra Christmas money. I organized all the childcare for Summit. ACU provides childcare for free so that families can attend Summit classes, which I think is really great of them. I did have some prep work leading up to Summit, but the majority of the work was this week. I left the house every morning at 7:30 a.m. and left Summit about 8:30 p.m. The day time childcare was located in Hillcrest and the evening was over on the ACU campus, so all the childcare supplies had to be transported back and forth. It has been a really crazy week, but a good one. Everyone that I worked with and for were just really great. ACU was great to work for, because they really wanted to have good childcare. All of the people that worked childcare were great as well as the parents that had their kids in the childcare. I will say I've eaten in the bean more this week than I have since I was a sophomore in college.

Kase takes his first field trip!

Today Kase had his very first School field trip.
It was to the fire station. He has been talking about it for a week. Of course one of the most exciting parts is that they get to ride the school bus. ACS has an extra pre-k class, so I didn't get to ride with Kase, but I met him at the station. They got to see where the firefighter live, work, and eat. The best part was of course the trucks. They even got to see the ladder lift way up into the air.

Football Time

This weekend Abilene Christian Schools had their first home football game. The kids had really been looking forward to it all week. Right before it was time to go it starting raining. We loaded up anyway and headed out to support our team. Twenty minutes after we got their they called everyone off the field. Soaking wet we headed home. The did finish the game, but we didn't go back.

Saturday we made it to the ACU game, and it was the first of the three football games we've been to this year that it didn't rain. Kase was sure it was going to rain because we were going to a football game.