Oct 14-18

Since I last wrote we had a fire muster and a fire ball! It was a fun weekend but at the same time I’m glad it’s over. Planning a ball is hard work! It turned out really well and I think that everyone who attended had lots of fun. 

Me and Laura and Baby Smart :)

Bubba and Brandon

The fire muster was a challenge. We had a team of Fire Wives and we did AWESOME! We came in 4^th out of 5 teams, which means we beat a bunch of guys, GO US! We started out having to do a bunker drill, where we had to get off cots, run and put the bunker gear on (with everything buttoned correctly), and then runt to a finish line. We then did Hose Bowling, where we had to throw and unravel a hose to knock down bowling pins. Let me first say this is harder than it looks and secondly it’s very dangerous. (well at least for me it was). We then had to do a dummy drag and carry. We drug the dummy 50 ft and then put the dummy on a cot. At that point two of us carried the dummy on the cot 100ft. The next person drug the dummy 50 ft and we carried it 100ft again. Then the next 2 people in your team went. THIS WAS THE HARDEST EVENT OF THE DAY!!!! The next event consisted of unrolling the hose, joining two hoses, running back to the start, undo the hoses and then roll them back up so the next two people on your team could go. We then did the Kaiser Sled. And the last event was a bucket brigade. We had lots of fun and were able to do some of the drills our husbands do at work.

Bunker Drill

Kaiser Sled

Dummy Carry

Our Team :)

On Monday, Bubba, Colin and I went to Dover to the Castle. I love England, and the fact that we have so many different historical sights, but once you’ve seen one castle, you’ve pretty much seen them all. The one good thing about Dover is they have the secret war tunnels from WWII that you can go in. Had it not been so late in the day we would have gone, but we will go back and see those. We drove down to the ferry docks and took a few pictures of the white cliffs. I’m sure there may be a better way to see them, but that was all we could do that day.

Looking out on the top of Dover Castle... if you look REALLY close you might be able to see France LOL

Colin and Bubba on the top of Dover Caslte

White Cliffs of Dover

Running around the castle grounds

Little man :)

The ferry docks

FALL is Here :)

Fall is definitely here in England. The leaves are changing color and the weather is cool :) Even if 45 degrees is a little too cool for me, I'm loving the season.

Yesterday, we decided to take Colin to the Pumpkin Patch in Beck Row. We braved the elements (45 degrees and raining) and found us 3 pumpkins to take home. We are going to carve one, paint one and I'm going to make my own pumpkin puree with one. We will see how it turns out :) With all this cold weather, comes soup season in our house! It's about the only time that I can get Bubba to eat soup. So the other day I made an AMAZING Chicken Chili. You can find the recipe at Annie's Eats. It was delicious!

The month of October is going to be a VERY busy month for the West household. This week is Fire Prevention Week and Bubba is going to be super busy with different programs that the fire department is putting on. At the end of this week, Bubba and I are going to the Firefighters Ball. We have been on the planning committee and are very ready to see the end result. I can't wait to have fun with our friends and be kid free for a night :) I will definitely post pictures of the events and the ball.

Since this week has been fun, cold and whatever else, and this post has been all over the place. I will leave you with a couple of pictures of Colin from the pumpkin patch, and one of my favorite pictures from a photo shoot I did today. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by :)

Colin picking a pumpkin

Photo shoot today :)