Falling in love with Monster Jam

When Matthew was one, his grandparents and I got free tickets and took him to see a small monster truck show. It was simple and muddy. It was love at first sight. He wanted a toy monster truck so bad but they were expensive there so we went to Wal-mart and let him pick out a truck. Boy were we shocked to see a grave digger truck! We had NO idea he was still around! Awesome! Since I saw grave digger when I was younger, I thought it was really cool that my son could get to know him too! We met a guy who drives a monster truck who told us about the SPEED channel (has now moved to Fox1 sports). We raced home, turned it on and Matthew did not move until the Monster Jam show ended. He immediately wanted to watch more. He was hooked, 120%.

Now here we are, 6 years later. Matthew has NEVER waivered. He is still 120% in love with Monster Jam, has over 30 shows saved on the DVR (he would have more but there is no room) he knows who drives what truck, he can tell you what trucks they used to drive and well.....he can tell you a whole lot of other information about these trucks, don't believe me? All you have to do is ask him, but here is your warning, once you start up a conversation with him about Monster Jam, he will talk your ear off with an excitement that you can not even imagine.

He has a Monster Jam room (as soon as we get our own place, it will be set back up cuz he really misses it!), he collects the smaller trucks and at last count he has 500 of that size (thank goodness for cheap prices and yard sales!) This year his picture made it into the Monster Jam Yearbook and yes, he thinks he is a celebrity now! LOL. He has talked about what his own monster truck will look like and was very upset when he recently found out you have to be 18 to drive for Monster Jam.

No matter what other people say or think, Matthew has stuck to his dreams. He will tell you that he WILL be a monster Jam driver. Not IF but WHEN he drives, what he plans to do. He follows the career of all the drivers, he has no favorite driver or truck. He loves them all and gets excited when the win and cries when they lose. Never a dull moment in this house.........