Parade Time!

We recently had our Pony Express Day's Parade. Hailey was able to be in it for her little dance studio she goes to. She was very excited to ride in the parade and throw candy. Brayden was very excited to watch the parade and eat candy.



Lindsey liked all the horses but was so not excited about all the sirens from the fire trucks. We were not surrounded by a lot of kids so Brayden really capitalized on the candy. They almost always threw out a handful every time to just Brayden. He was busy between each entry gathering his goods. He had quite a pile going on. He handed me a couple and said these are for Hailey. At least he was thinking about his sister to some degree.



I am not sure when bag pipers became the big thing, but there were several groups from surrounding schools. I really began to wonder how they recruit entries for our little parade. For being just a small little town I expect a 45 min parade with several ward floats consisting of hundreds of primary children, but we saw no ward entries but about anything and everything else. The Schwann man and his truck honked as he drove by, the phone company waved and said prices may be going up, we had every royalty from surrounding high school some from too far away to really want to be in our parade. Hailey was entry number 15 so was near the front. We watched the parade for over an hour and thought the end must be coming up soon. They had passed out a paper earlier that I began to look at after the fifth bag pipe group went by and found a list of all the entries. I was surprised to find that it was double columned, single spaced, and double sided. There was like 180 entries and we were only on 45. What in the world! We decided to take off because Hailey would be sitting down at the end for a couple of hours at this rate. So unfortunately I can not share with you what the other 140 entries consisted of and can hardly even imagine what they must have been, but every business with in 100 miles of Eagle Mountain must have been in it. Good times in Eagle Mountain.