Family Date Night

We thought it would be fun to have a family outing in lieu of our regular date night, so we loaded up the kids and went to the motocross races out at Rocky Mountain Raceway.  Ryan found us a fantastic spot to sit up on a hill right next to the finish line.  The kids loved the first race.  Then Eric started having an asthma attack.  We tried everything we could think of from having him breathe through his shirt, to trying to get upwind of the dust and exhaust, but in the end decided I should just take the younger two boys home to get Eric some medicine and Ryan would stay with Caden.  As I was leaving with Eric the kids were starting their race and Caden was fascinated by the idea that someone close to his age would get to ride a motorcycle. 

I didn't make it out of the parking lot before Ryan was calling me to say Caden was sick.  So I went back to get them.  By the time we got to my parents house to pick up Ryan's car Caden had vomited all over himself and his carseat (but not in the hat we had told him to use, yes, finding ourselves lacking a bowl we encouraged our child to take the hat off his head and try to catch the vomit in that).  So I stayed in Murray to clean the mess up and ride out the reaction with Caden while Ryan took the younger two home to give Eric a breathing treatment and put Kyle in bed. 

This family outing gets mixed reviews.  Its a fail since we spent basically no time together as a family and I wasn't prepared with the medicine Eric needed.  But the kids loved every second of the races they saw, and it was such a fun atmosphere I think we just may be crazy enough to try another event at Rocky Mountain Raceway.