Touch A Truck and Pumpkin Chucking

This is the third year we've attended this touch a truck event in Richmond, and we finally got nice weather.  The kids were highly amused by the pumpkin chucking portion, which were catapults competing to see which could shoot a pumpkin the farthest.  The kids really liked when the pumpkins exploded on the ground.  The second picture is Jakob with his friend from school, Charlie Brown.  I asked him if he was cold, seeing as it was about 45 degrees out, and he looked around and said "I don't know why all these people are wearing jackets and pants.  I'm totally fine!"  Apparently that's how he rolls during all seasons...funny kid.













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