Hose Cart Races and Bucket Brigades

This was a MUST do on our to do list with the Kargs.  The hose cart races and bucket brigades are always so much fun...for everyone.  One thing is fore-sure, weather you are in the races or just a spectator you will have fun and you will get wet.  After a late night out of drinking it sure was hard to get up for the races.  Some of you may know that Sara is like Dan's second wife.  We both can remember on my wedding day me looking at Sara and saying "are you ready for this, because it's not just me marrying him, you are too" and it

has been true. so when we were one teammate short on our fire wives team, it was perfectly filled by Sara.  =)  She watches and cheers us on every year and this year she finally got to be a part of the action.  Let me tell you she was our good luck charm and now she is wrangled in for good, because this year we took both championships: The Hose Cart Races and The Bucket Brigades!!!  It was so awesome, we did it even with hangovers and 2 hours of sleep. lol  After the races we treated the kids to a treat before heading to the Fire Union picnic then home for naps.  Enjoy the pictures!

 They always have a kid Bucket Brigade too, they just love it and have so much fun!

 This was our championship race, we were running down hill, the carts are so heavy it feels like it is pushing us not us pulling it.  Needless to say it caught up with and ran my shoulder over, if you look at the next few pictures you can see the blood.  =}

 SO even with me getting run over, and loosing the end of the hose we still had water before the other team, as you see at the end it became a close race.  In the picture below you can see how we got their cone down and ours is still standing.  

 Thank goodness the street was lined with fireman to help clean up my battle wound.  It's pretty cool, I do have a nice scar, but I don't have to see it everyday and it sure is a cool story to tell.  =)

 2012

Hose Cart Races AND Bucket Brigade 

CHAMPIONS

Gayle, Melissa, Stephanie, Sara and Jodie

4th of July Parade

So I got a little ahead of myself, let me back up for a second.  Ok so since the girls and I got back from visiting the Kargs' in Texas we have not been able to stop thinking about, planning and counting down the days till they came here to visit us. The time finally came and like I said in the Girls Night post we had a list of 101 possible things to do while they were here.  Let me tell you we did hem all, plus some, lol.  I know I am sure your thinking "wow how many pictures did they take this visit?", well actually we didn't take as many as we usually do.  We had such a great visit with Sara and the kids and can't wait till the next time we are all together.  This post, actually should have been the 1st post of the series.  So here we go...

As you all know Fourth of July here in Prescott is a BIG to do, there are so many festivities and things going on, it will keep you busy for days.  Just a fun time of year to celebrate our country, with family and friends.  =)  This years 4th of July parade was held on Saturday, June 30th. But to get seats for this thing, well good seats in the shade you have to go the night before, so we did.  =)  We left Dan home with the kids while Sara and I paraded out of the house at 1:30 am in our PJ's to go set up our seats for the parade.  It was hilarious because we got down there as all the bars were closing.  We were getting quite the stairs, walking on whiskey row in our PJ's, it was so fun.  After setting up our seats we headed back to the house to get a little shut eye before we needed to head back into town for the parade.  Sara and all the kids rode on top of the fire truck in the parade, Sara was the Parade Princess =}.  Marti, Reece and my Mom all got to ride too.  Dan and I sat in the perfect shady seats and watched.  It was such a great day!

After the parade we all headed out to get some lunch, it was long after that that Allison passed out.   

Nana and Tata came up too

Even my sister made it to the parade

I told you we didn't take a ton of pictures, but you'll have to keep coming back, cuz I still have a lot to catch up on.  =)

GIRLS NIGHT OUT!!

Sara and the kids came in to town on June 29th.  We had been compiling a list of possible things to do all year long, one of the things we wanted to be sure to do when she came this year was go dancing and boy did we dance.  We had such a great time out with the girls at Hooligans on Whiskey Row.

The Jack Daniels girls were there and giving FREE shots...not a good thing.  =}

My sister and Lynn came out too, this was the first time since my sister and I have been of legal drinking age that we went out together, isn't that crazy!

Showing off our new stickers...told ya the shots were a bad idea, this is only like a half hour into our night.  

Jessica had forgotten her wedding ring at home, so I let her wear mine so we could be married and not have anyone mess with us, lol.

This was the yummest drink, I think its my new favorite.  =)

Yeah you know we had too much to drink when we start taking bathroom pictures.  =}

We had such a great night out, it was so fun and on our list to do again next year.  We did have a little too much to drink and had to hang out till 4am and some had to sleep in their car, next year we will have a DD.  =/

My sister found this cartoon the day after we went out, it was so us, we all died laughing.  =)