Fair Parade

In Elko the county fair is always during the weekend of Labor day. And we always have a parade the Friday before the fair officially starts. Well at the last minute James and I decided to take the kids to the parade. Clay and Liz were excited to go. Clayton was so mad that we made him ride in the stroller though. Here is a picture of us all set up next to the road. This is another reminder to me why we haven't ever had family pictures taken. No one is looking at the camera.

Analyn had no idea what was going on. Especially while we just sat on the curb and nothing was happening. But she's a good baby and was content to just sit and take in all the different things that were going on around us.

Once the candy started flying Clay became a little more happy. It's great what a sucker will do for an upset child. He really just wants to be a big boy, but is a little too eager to try new things. We set up our stoop on Commercial Street around where the parade begins. It gets done much quicker and we got SO much candy.

Since this was Analyn's first parade I had James take some reaction shots. She really didn't know what to think about any of it. But I was impressed that she was so good especially since we had two marching bands walk pass us.

Me and my kiddos. I hardly ever get my picture taken with them, so I was touched that James was willing to take pictures so I could be more hands on with the kids. This is James' first parade with the kids. He had to work today but luckily it was late enough that we were able to have this little family outing.

Lizzie was pretty timid about grabbing candy. We gave her and Clay a stern talking to before the parade about where she could go and not to run into the street. Well she listened well because we had to coax her into the street to even get some of the candy.

Luckily we put the camera away before the firetrucks came by. We were sprayed with water from two different firetrucks. That's initially when Analyn lost her cool and would not calm down until James took her out of the car seat. The sirens didn't help either, that just made her a little more upset. Clayton liked the noises for sure. But by that point he had eaten so much candy he would have been fine with anything. After the parade we were heading back to our car and this elderly couple that was sitting on the other side of the street stopped us and offered Lizzie all their candy. They said she was so cute gathering up all the candy during the parade that they thought they would enjoy the candy that people had thrown to them. That made Lizzie's day for sure!