A little too much excitement!

So we sit down to dinner and I open the blinds on the back door and realize that I must be deaf because I missed the excitement of sirens in our neighborhood. I didn't think much about it at first because I just saw 2 firetrucks on the road that runs just north of our neighborhood. I pointed out the firetrucks to Grant who was very excited. After dinner was over I thought I better look out in the front yard to see what is going on and sure enough there were about 25 people standing in front of our house! Curious I go outside with the kids and find our next door neighbor. She informed me that while working on one of the lots up by the main road the workers hit the gas line!!!! (Remember when that happened in Fishers about a year or two ago??? a few houses blew up!!!) So anyway they evacuated a few houses that were right by the site but told us we would be ok staying in ours.. we weren't real concerned when our neighbor (a fireman) went back home and started grilling in his driveway. So we decided that we would get our cameras out and take pics of the "action"

So anyway they are still out there and have the road blocked but I am pretty sure that we will be ok! Hope my night calms down a little... Grant was so excited from everything he came in and fell asleep on the couch in his fireman pj's of course!

Photos from the fair

I forgot to download the photos so here are a few highlights of the fun the kids had....

Busy days of summer

Ok so I know it's been a couple of weeks so I thought I would just write one big note about the last couple of weeks. We have been trying to pack a lot of activities into the last few weeks before the craziness begins in September. The week of Labor Day Rileigh will start preschool, soccer, and ballet/tap all in the same week! This will be her 2nd year of dance but her first year of soccer and preschool (teary eyed just thinking about it). Anyway a couple of weeks ago I took the kids to the museum on a Saturday afternoon while daddy was at work. We had fun riding the carousel (always a must) and looking at the super hero exhibit. There is so much to do we didn't see everything but hit all the things we wanted to see. Here are some pics in the dinosphere pretending to be dinosaurs with their eggs. Rileigh on the carousel, and Grant playing in the little ice cream shop. Also they got to dress up as super heros that was probably the best part if you ask them!

Then last weekend we went to the Indiana State Fair. We got to see the pigs, cows, goats, and sheep. The horses were unloading that day so we didn't get to see those, maybe next year. Rileigh and Grant rode a roller coaster and then Rileigh rode a spinning berry ride that made her dizzy! We ate lots of fried food and had great weather.