A visit to the Monticello Fire Department!

Alaric is having a Firefighter Birthday party this year in March! Each year, in leiu of gifts, we do a service project that goes along with the theme. This year, we wanted to collect funds for our local volunteer fire station. THANK GOD I LIVE IN A SMALL TOWN!! Last night, Brian called the volunteer fire chief at HOME. He asked if we could collect money for their department-of course the answer was YES!!! He asked if we could come over with the kids on March 20th to deliver our money in person and look at the trucks- YES!!!! Then, he asked if we could stop by today to meet him and hopefully take some pics of Alaric on the trucks for his birthday invites-YES, YES, YES!!!!!

Last night we made a few dozen chocolate chip cookies to bring with us and Alaric has been going CRAZY!!! We put him in his Halloween costume and even dressed up his stuffed dog in Amara's dalmation costume. Mara too needed to have her firehat on!
Cheif Dubson came over on his day off to meet us, and more importantly field questions from his number one fan, Alaric!

While the men quickly talked about plans for March, I ran around the station with Al taking tons of pics- so we would have atleast one we could use on the invitation. We got tons of them! None of these are the one- you'll have to wait til the invites come out but there are so many cute ones!

Even Mara got excited to be at the firestation!

Even though the birthday party is two months away, the time will fly and since it seems to be the only thing we've talked about for the past 6 months, I expect nothing less for the next two.

Thanks to Cheif Dubson and the Monticello Fire Department for making Alaric's Firefighter dreams come true!