Sorry, Kelly and Luke, that was a bright, sunny day!!! Everyone else looked so cute though, I had to post it!
So we found out the morning of that the Bountiful parade and fireworks were on the 23rd, not the 24th this year! Which I think they do a lot, but somehow I always forget. So we quickly adjusted our plans. We had been watching Mason Scott in the morning, and jobs weren't done yet anyway. But we had also had plans to go see Mega Mind at the free matinee at Kaysville Theater. It was nice that everything still went according to plan. I loved that Jack totally got into the movie :). He thought it was funny with me and we laughed together. I think the kids had a good time. We came home and Nate and I both took naps :) funnest parents ever, right? Then headed down to Bountiful for some pizza and parade. We have mastered the parade. We found the perfect shady spot to eat our dinner, on the library lawn, next to the driveway that we knew would eventually be blocked off and we could snag seats as they did. That went well, we had a really awesomely close parking spot so there wasn't a long walk from the car... it was just perfect! And we did have a nice spot once they blocked off the driveway. Unfortunately we were in the blazing sun the entire time. The only downside. We will have to remember to get the other side of that driveway next time, the shade from the trees reaches that spot towards the end of the parade. We were fine though! Nobody died of heat stroke. The kids loved the parade. We got a little worried as the first 10 minutes of the parade went by with no candy at all! But soon enough, there was candy. I don't think our kids would like parades as much if it wasn't like Halloween. There were some fun floats this year and we got to see our old stake's float again with the quails. Very cool. I love that theirs had so much meaning. Jack was super picky about which candy he would pick up :). No taffy. Made me laugh. And he had this tiny little purse of Kelly's to hold his candy in. So funny. He seemed to enjoy most of the parade, but did lose interest towards the end. Poor guy was hot and tired I think. Plus our water situation wasn't in line with his every whim. Erika was off getting candy the whole time. She got very excited about the cheerleaders and their free coupon and the giant sticky hand :). Noah was a busy little guy. Didn't get as much candy as Bradley apparently, but had a good time. Plus he was our water guy and would fill up the water bottle at the library frequently- that was nice. I loved his orange bandana the whole time :). Luke was the one I didn't really see the whole time. He didn't come back to show off his goods, I'm sure he worried about missing something if he did. He had fun. Who are we kidding, if there's candy he's happy. Bradley would hold out his bag, just like a trick or treat bag if you ask me, when people would walk by and they would just dump tons of candy in it! I couldn't believe it. I loved seeing him sharing with little kids around him though. Good boy. Kelly had a lot of fun. She was cheering really loud and making things exciting. She always shares a lot too. She caught a cool shirt from Pizza Pie Cafe! Charity danced and screamed and cheered the whole time. Even when she had a hole in her bag :). Luckily we had a back up. Nate and I enjoyed staring at the bumbs of the ADULTS who chose to stand directly in front of us. We only got a small window to look at each parade entry. Kind of annoying, but what's a parade without someone to be annoyed at. We did have fun making jokes about them and imagining throwing things at them. They sat down for part of it which was nice, I wish we'd had the courage to go stand in front of them, that would have been funny :). HAHA. It was fun to remember past parades and things we did. We realized after looking at the blog that we don't remember things as well as we think we do. Kinda funny. I kept thinking about next year and how we will have an almost one year old with us by then... kinda crazy to think that this big belly will be a fun little person in the short span of a year. It made me happy that I could think about this without feeling discouraged too. This is a fun tradition for our family though, I hope they keep passing out candy so we can keep it up :). We came home and crashed in front of the tv. 7-23-15
Someday I will make a collage of all of my fire truck in the parade pictures... someday.
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