ice cream social

hayden's school had an ice cream social on friday evening so we packed the family up and headed over.
besides the ice cream they also had a clown that made balloon animals for the kids and they had a raffle for a dog webkinz and a tiger webkinz. i decided we would get hayden 5 tickets which would make the webkinz half off if he actually won. when you purchased the tickets you got to pick if you wanted to try to win the dog or the tiger. i asked hayden if he wanted to split them up but he insisted he ONLY wanted the dog. so he put all 5 tickets into the bucket next to the dog.
we waited in line for our ice cream where we saw hayden's friend zachary from his preschool class 2 years ago. his mom actually works at the cake shop that did the cake for jessica's wedding. we also ended up seeing hayden's friend julianna from 2 years ago as well.
surprisingly, hayden moved pretty slow with eating his ice cream. even talan had only a few bites as he was VERY interested in watching the clown make the balloon animals.
at around 7:25 the announced that they were doing the webkinz drawing. hayden started pumping himself up telling us that he was going to win and how badly he wanted to win. i had to let him know that he might not win because there were a lot of people trying to win but only 1 person could get the dog. then they called his name. great for him, but not so great for future raffles when he thinks he always will be the winner!
he started jumping up and down, spinning in circles yelling "i won! woooohooo! i won the webkinz dog!"
on the way out to the car we asked what he was going to name this dog. he has two others and named them fetch and rayden (because it rhymes with hayden). he came up with them all on his own which we were quite impressed with since he doesn't have the greatest imagination with things like this. he told us he was going to name this one "little brown dog." dave had to explain to him that that was a description, not a name. so we went through several options and he eventually decided to name the dog percy, after percy the train.
i have been informed that the next webkinz he gets will be named thomas.

julianna, hayden and brendan:
balloon animals:


the dudes:
the winning ticket:


hayden shared his new dog with talan for a bit so he could go run: