"It was a graveyard SMASH!"

We all went to the Monster Truck Rally at The Joliet track the other day. We were surprised at how much fun we had! It was a great day for the seven of us. Alyson had so much fun and screamed and cheered so loud she actually, if you can believe this...just about has no voice left. If you ask me, I think she had the most fun out of all us. She is still talking about it today.
I know it is hard to see that Andrew had a good time, but he did. Poor Auntie Kelly just wanted her picture taken with him, but I guess he is "too cool" for that now.

Matthew is just as hard to get a picture of so when I saw Andrew carrying him I had to try and sneek a shot. I know I said Matthew was hard to get pictures of, but I guess when it is with mom it is okay!The kids got all kinds of goodies, including tattoos. Alyson had to show off her new look and boy did she wear it proudly. Kyle did too, except he had to be different.......

Can someone please tell me how you can go from this....

to this....at a MONSTER TRUCK RALLY!?!? Only Matthew could fall asleep with all this noise.

I have never been to one of these events nor had I ever seen them on tv. All I know is that Rob made sure to tell me to take pictures of the displays they had all over the track. This one inpaticular....

This is all that is left after you give these drivers free reign over the track...Who says girls can't drive trucks? Alyson thought it was "cool" that there was a girl racing these trucks. She cheered and cheered for Lil' Miss Dangerous.
This one was Auntie Kelly's favorite. She liked the color of the truck...(shhh, that is the same reason I liked the one I liked...gosh, we are such girls! LOL!) Here is another shot of Alyson's favorite...
The boys liked this one...
Here is my favorite, I told you I liked the color! I was surprised at how good my pictures turned out. I got some really great shots of these monsters spinning, destroying and jumping in mid air. I wanted to put up all of them, but then this would be a novel. Leave it to me to take 151 pictures...go figure!

All in all, we had a really fun time. The kids got to do something different, the weather was nice, we had a great bbq lunch and most importantly...we got to spend it together! The only thing missing is pictures of me, but then again I am used to it. You would think with 2 cameras, someone could have at least gotten one shot of me.