fuel '09

northridge church had a glow in he dark event called "fuel" for the k/1 and their families. dave had already made plans with a group of people to go see the watchmen movie so i was on my own with the two boys.
we got to the church where they had a pizza dinner and then the kids were able to make little "puppets" where they would color them, put stickers and glue other things on them that would glow in the dark for the main event. hayden did an ok job eating his pizza...only so he could eat his brownie. and talan only ate the pepperoni, carrots and brownie.
we ran into our friend leon and his daughter noelle, so that was nice to be able to hang with someone we actually knew.
after the kids made their puppets, we headed upstairs for glow in the dark tattoos and then we were seated for the glow in the dark puppet show.
i was told at the beginning of the evening that they wanted me to park my stroller upstairs as it was so crowded. that only lasted through dinner and then i finally had to go get it. talan is just not a kid that will stick near you. and i could never be a single parent to these two!!!
the puppet show was a little long and hayden was getting kind of restless, but we made it through and then headed home. i asked hayden what his favorite part of the evening was and he said "the brownie!"
i guess the past several years about 60-70 families have gone to this event. this year, there were over 150. they said there were over 600 people there! we had a good time and it's nice to be getting a little more involved at the church. hayden seems to really enjoy it and was even stopped by several of his teachers whom he gave hugs to.
on our way home, i stopped off at 7-11 to pick up some slurpees as we were all really thirsty. hayden had fallen asleep in the car but quickly woke up to drink his "frozen drink." then unfortunately, hayden ended up getting sick early saturday morning and he's been down and out ever since. poor kid!
here are a few pictures of our evening. not too many as i had my hands a bit full with tray's of food and a busy talan!

making their glow in the dark stick puppets:

the finished products:

noelle and hayden:
leon, noelle, hayden and talan waiting for the puppet show:
maybe i should have realized earlier that he was getting sick...:

talan loved my slurpee: