Firefighter Scott

Yesterday was Scott's birthday party. It was so much fun! He loves firetrucks and wanted a "firetruck party". As I began to research this a month ago, I realized we had two options. One was to go to our neighboring county, Clarke County, and have a party at FireStation #1 in downtown Athens. The other was to have one of our own trucks (we have a volunteer fire department) come to the house. We chose the second option and it was a great success. Here are some pictures from the day:

Here is a picture of all the kids at the party. From left we have McCance (with his mom, Alisa), Andrew, Buckley Grace, Rachel, Scott, Bradford, Callie and JT. We sent invitations to seven families and five came. Sounds like a good number...Scott turned four, so he had five friends. But, when you add siblings, parents, grandparents, and godparents, it was quite a crowd. We loved hosting so many at our house. My philosophy is you clean and prepare for the same amount of time for 5 or 50, so the more the merrier.


There were many highlights of the morning, but one of the most special was spraying water from the hose. All of the kids got a chance to try it out. Here is Scott, with several looking on. Rachel and Callie also had fun on the other end of the water nozzle, splashing in the puddles.

Here is Scott trying on the heavy pants and steel toed boots. The firefighters brought hats for all the kids to wear.
These next two pictures were taken at the very end. After about 25 minutes all of the other kids had had enough and were already in the backyard playing in the sandbox, with sidewalk chalk and swinging. Scott was still in the cab of the truck asking questions and trying on equipment. He had a great time. It was quite fitting that the birthday boy was the one who was most excited. Here he is with the oxygen mask and below he is posing with the firefighters.