3rd of July Firemans Ball

After our couch disaster we headed out to the annual Firemans Ball dinner at City Hall in Willard

Me, Mom, Chris and Kennedy enjoyed our pulled pork dinner and waited for the auction to start

Dad was at work this year and didnt run the auction

Michelle Mund ran most of it

Chris loves auctions
He gets all excited 

He ended up buying a new vacuum and a new dresser for me

Mom made some coasters and stepped up to sell them

Towards the end of the auction Todd and Jana showed up

She had knee surgery early that morning and still made it!

We set out our lawn chairs and waited for the band to start

Kennedy and Parker took turns wearing Grandpa Todd out

Kennedy so badly wanted to dance with Grandpa

She talked him into it

Todd acutally loves dancing

So they headed to the dance floor

Grandpa dance with me turned into Grandpa watch me dance and twirl and spin all over

Then Todd came back..

and made me dance with him

Hes lucky I agreed

I HATE dancing

Something about as soon as you say the word DANCE makes my feet and hips suddenly stop coordinating completely, ridiculously and clumsily

Its a train wreck to watch

He took me out and attempted to two step and swing lol

No small children were injured and he didnt run off the floor screaming please help me.. so it wasnt too bad

Phil came and joined us

Hes pretty much adopted by our families

His family doesnt live around here and hes divorced so why not!

Mom, Chico and Phil

I wanted a picture with miss sassy.. you can see how that turned out!

The hubby and I

Hes so cute :) 

He ate dinner and then went up to my parents house

He had some pods put on his duck boat and couldnt wait to start working on it fixing other things

So he bailed on the dance and went to work on the boat

I told him Id come pick him up when he was done and wanted to come back down

He was there for an hour or two and walked back down to surprise me

Our family circle

Dad got an award for 30 years of service

They gave all the members who had been there a while this nice certificate and recognized the wives for putting up with it for so long and gave them a bouquet of flowers too

Mom accepted Dads for him since he was working

They did the annual raffle

Chris, Todd, Jana and I made a pretty good haul

Mom read the tickets

Then it was time for the little bit of fireworks they do so we all flipped our chairs around to the baseball field behind us

Happy 3rd of July!

Thank you to Willard Fire for another great year!