More cars than...

...Larry H. Miller. Yes you read right. I bet I pick up a dozen or two cars every day. Lately, I've been sending HY down to the basement to play with his cars. It just gets a little overwhelming to me. The basement isn't finished, but he's got tons of room to leave a mess that never has to be seen. And it's about 10 degrees cooler in the basement. We've got a car dealership down there! A little boy's piece of heaven in the basement.

Saturday Car Show

Yesterday we headed up to the Car Show to see Uncle R-D & A-Kazoo sell a few prize possessions. And of course, to see things all the cool cool cars.


HY loved all the cars & he especially loved nursing that root beer that A-Kazoo gave him.

Uncle R-D has some cool things he was selling. We even bought a little wooden toy chest (a little something to "keep in the family"). Here's Uncle R-D doing some business.


Cute A-Kazoo was his assistant & of course she made the most money by selling sodas & water.



It was a beautiful day & I'm so glad that we headed out as a family for a few hours.
That's what Saturdays should be.

For the love of cars

Last night, between making dinner & doing yet another load of laundry, I completed this bad boy! The love that this little boy has for cars is unreal. Credits: {Shabby Princess Dinner Kit; Hearalds Tags; Scraprallye Template is by Tami}

This boy's love of trucks & cars is so great that I'd like to relate a little story---a little character building lesson from our trip to Colorado:

It's starts with this little Truck...HY found this truck almost immediately when we arrived at Lise's house. He fell in love with it for all the obvious reasons. Some of the other not so obvious reasons are that this car has parts that actually work (not a working motor)---doors, hood....etc. Well, due to some 2 year old tendancies, this truck had a few body problems. "Broken" as HY calls it. So, what's a parent to do? Lucky for us, there was a store name & city on the bed of the truck. So, we drove about an hour to track down it's twin. When we arrived this is what we found...
Tractors galore! Once again....this little boy is in heaven. Thankfully, he can't actually pick these up & throw them. Anyway--back to the story. Farmboy goes in & asks if they have another truck that we can purchase. The man reluctantly tells us that that particular "Limited Edition" was a gift to preferred customers about 8 years. BUT...he goes to check & see if there isn't ONE left....And here's what he found...

So there you have it! It pays to do the right thing. You may be asking how much this particular character building experience cost us... Well, the man gave it to us for free just because we drove all the way out there to replace one that our son had broken. I'm writing that company a nice letter of thanks.