Yesterday was the last day of our city’s summer festival and what’s a festival without a parade! I LOVE parades! I don’t know why but I just always have since I was a kid. I loved going as a family to watch the big 4th of July parade in Provo and look forward to going to that for the first time this year with my little family. This was both of the kids first experience with a parade and I think they both had a BLAST!! They both loved picking up the candy they would throw and we ended up with a BIG bowl of candy. They got more yesterday than they did at Halloween!

Lindsay loved the floats with the princesses on them from different cities and the cheerleaders. Logan LOVED the cars and trucks, especially this firetruck. He saw it coming from down the street and couldn’t wait for it to be in front of us! And it was YELLOW!

He’s waving to the firetruck.

They are pretty cool.
We all just had so much fun being together and watching the parade.


The kids got all kinds of candy including some warheads. If you’ve ever eaten one of those you know how SOUR they are! Logan asked to have one and the mean mom that I am let him try it. Here’s the video:

Just a little bit later, a karate company came by and they had kids volunteering to break boards so Lindsay volunteered and she did it!

As a side note, earlier that morning, I ran in a 5K and was able to run the entire thing in 32:05. I had been sick ALL week and didn’t think I was even going to be able to run so running the whole thing was pretty neat. I felt great for the first two and the last one was hard but I had already run two so what was one more, right? I don’t have any pictures of me running, but you don’t want to see me all sweaty anyway. I enjoyed it and look forward to the next one.