Parade Booty

We got a ton of stuff from the parade but when I saw Karlise's post, I thought to myself "there is no way I'm counting all those beads", lol. However, today I was bored so I did count them. Here's what we got:

98 bead necklaces
4 mini Frisbees
1 spider ring
1 Navy pencil
2 Navy can koozie's
2 packages of flower seeds
2 mini maracas
1 mini beach ball
1 foam light bulb that Joshua bit the end off of
1 foam progressive insurance car
2 bracelets
2 Chick-fil-A coupons for a free kids size icedream
2 American flags
2 Dixie flags
6 bottles of water (thank you God since I forgot our cooler!)
1 ton of candy (even though we were constantly telling them we didn't want it)
1 newspaper
1 ton of advertisements
1 comic book (Don said it wasn't really an appropriate comic book for kids)

I think that's it. I'm pretty sure we still have stuff in the basket of our double camping chair but I think its mostly the advertisements.

Happy B-day U.S.A.!!!

We are making the 4th of July parade a tradition. The kids were excited to go but Shawn acted bored the whole time. He did say he had a good time after we left though.

We were rushing around this morning and ended up leaving later than we wanted. I packed us a cooler with drinks and snacks and left it on the kitchen counter. Even worse than that, we weren't thinking (because we were in a hurry) and went down Lumsden instead of Rt. 60. Of course the road was closed off at Parsons so we ended up parking at Westminster and walking. That's both kids, a canopy tent, a double seated camping chair, 2 single camping chairs, and the diaper bag. We made it all the way up to All Persons Specialty Care and found us a spot. We noticed as we were walking up Parsons that there were cars driving on the opposite side of the street and we could have kicked ourselves. Oh well, lesson learned for next year, lol.

We did have one minor incident before the parade started...Joshua got attacked by some fire ants :( Luckily, it happened right before the parade started so the parade took his mind off the ant bites. Here are a few pictures of the parade: