Health & Safety Faire

Today Holly and I took Hattie and the boys to the Placer County Health & Safety Faire in Loomis. When we got there we realized right away that this event was WAY bigger and more crowded than we had anticipated. In fact, we had to take the very last two parking spots alongside a fence in an overflow parking area quite a bit away from the festivities. It was hot outside, and the kids were anxious to get there, but once we walked up to all the booths and tents, we saw that it was also a lot more FUN than we thought it was going to be! I had imagined that there would be a few emergency and rescue vehicles for the kids to tour, but in reality there was SO much more to do. We:

• Had healthy snacks from the free snack area (they had big bags of apples, carrots, string cheese, yogurts, mini water bottles and more) while dancing to “B-I-N-G-O” in the live music area for a few minutes.

• “Shopped” at the farmer’s market: the kids each got a paper bag and some play money to exchange for a real piece of fruit and some stickers from the market cashier.

• Made a whole bunch of craft projects: sand art necklaces, beaded bracelets, fall wreaths, car and star collages, and our own mini books with stamped covers. I had no idea there would be so many projects for the kids to do - it was great!

• Got to check out up close: two different fire engines, an ambulance, and a police car. The boys checked out the inside of the ambulance, but we skipped the interior tour of the fire engine since the line was super long (not to mention that we just went inside the fire engine at the fair a couple of weeks ago). We also got to get up close and personal with a police horse, who promptly sneezed all over the kids and freaked Sutton out!

• Met and took pictures with Smokey the Bear and the Firehouse Mouse. We also got to see two guide dogs and a bunch of baby chicks.

• Spun the kids’ prize wheel and won a pair of star shaped sunglasses and a smiley face pen-on-a-necklace. They also got “Slow For the Cone Zone” tattoos, a couple of rhyme books, a toothbrush/paste/floss set, a couple of coloring books with crayons and stickers galore! By the time we left I had five big bags stuffed full of goodies!

There was actually a lot more that we could have done if the boys and I hadn’t been too hot and impatient to wait in line (including free train rides and a couple more craft stations), but I’d say we got our fill of the Safety Faire anyway. Holly took most of the pictures today since my hands were full with two boys running in different directions and all those above mentioned bags of crap fun goodies, so I’ll post more pictures later if she has any good ones :)









Sawyer was actually having fun (I promise!), but here he was busy complaining about how hot it was outside and how he wanted to sit and drink his water bottle instead of taking another picture of him in a fireman hat LOL








Awww, baby chicks are so cute!