food, crochet, merriment
As the sun goes down on our parade day, the crowd thins out a bit and the truly stalwart settle in to wait for the…
amazing fireworks…
AND the glow-in-the-dark gypsy-man that only comes out on warm summer nights. Ooooh…
and more breathtaking fireworks…
and sweet babies who can’t figure out why the sky is exploding. Poor Baby Chomp.
All in all…it was a lovely, fabulous, beautiful night…
for fireworks…
all kinds of fireworks…
HAAA!
Sorry…couldn’t help myself! :}
If sitting on the grass for hours on end waiting for a parade to start isn’t YOUR idea of fun–then you, my dear, are totally hanging out with the wrong people…
and you apparently didn’t bring your LoveSak!
I mean seriously, we even have a guy with a trumpet. Beat that if you can.
At last the parade finally, finally was ready to start–with the siren blaring police motorcycle squad. They didn’t seem to realize that nobody, NOBODY likes to hear a police siren…ever.
Then, of course, up on our feet for the military flag procession.
Next came the beauty queens who were wearing really pretty gowns THUS proving that they don’t have to be half-dressed to win pageants. Yeah ladies!
Oh, now wait. The sign on the jeep says that this gal is “Mother of the Year.” I thought that was MY title. Wowww. How did this happen?
These little Swiss Misses made me thirsty for Hot Chocolate…in June!
And this Big Foot Wookie dude scared the heck out of some of the kids. He had a really loud motorcycle that tried to make me deaf too.
Purple is a great color for a band. There was a lady running along squirting water into their mouths and darting up and down the rows. Pretty sure SHE had the hard job!
This float had children holding signs that said, “Thank you, Military,” in a bunch of different languages.
A guy from the Missionary Mall Float came by tossing out neckties to the crowd. Lyndi just stuck her little hand up in the air and Poof! she caught one!
One of the best things in the parade are the gorgeous horses…
and the beautiful bagpipers. Someday maybe my two boys will be in the parade…playing those pipes…and wearing those kilts. They’re Scotsmen, after all!
I’m working on it.
A fireman tossed Lily a nice red fire hat, while her brother practiced his sword swallowing skills. Go Beckham!
Once the parade was over, everybody dog-piled on the LoveSak and gobbled down pizza and sat back to wait for the evening to begin.
To be continued…
Heh, heh, heh.
is coming.
Yep, the signs are positively everywhere…
Roustabouts putting up there rides…
then testing them out.
Bleachers being set up to get a better view of the parade…
or watching those who are perfectly happy to watch everything from the ground level set up “camp.”
One the best signs that our favorite event–Summerfest– is coming soon is..
the official “claiming of a half city block” in the name of two sisters, 1 brother and all their kids.
I know, I know…it starts on Saturday and we have our blankets down on Thursday morning. It may seem early to you, but we do what we must to make sure nobody…I mean nobody–takes our special spot.
So if you go out on Saturday, and you see us, be sure to say hi. I promise, rain, sleet, snow or sunshine…
we’ll be there–so stay tuned!
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I’m…
hoping that Miss Jiff is finally learning who her real friends are…before we have her de-clawed. I mean it.
planning a few new Harry Potter-ish things for my depleted little Etsy shop. Go Gryffindor!
still giggling over a bumper sticker we saw last week.
squinting at the tiniest little stamped tag I’ve ever seen. How do they DO that?
getting ready to laugh my guts out with the nutty bunch of clips called “Kid History.” Check them out!
amazed that the old time bad guy from Mario Party has started to feel like a friend. Wait, maybe that’s bad.
considering hiding in the closet to eat these incredible, light as a feather scones…from Barry’s. Fine. I’ll share.
wondering how those teeny tiny babies got to be so big…so fast…
when I wasn’t looking!
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“All of us, single or married, are eternally part of some family—someway, somewhere, somehow—and much of our joy in life comes as we correctly recognize and properly develop those family relationships. We come to this earth charged with a mission: to learn to love and serve one another. To best help us accomplish this, God has placed us in families, for he knows that is where we can best learn to overcome selfishness and pride and to sacrifice for others and to make happiness and helpfulness and humility and love the very essence of our character.”
John H. Groberg
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